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On 19-Jan-09 18:38, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Already seen it. (Why do you think I picked that example?) I'm still
>> wondering just how large a typical vocabulary is. I'm guessing tens of
>> thousands of words, roughly.
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> Probably.
>
> An easier measure is "how many different words show up in a large
> newspaper over the course of a year". The answer there, I've heard, is
> around 8000-10000 words.
That will give you the number of words an IQ of 90 is supposed to have.
So it may give a lower bound your actual number could be a much higher.
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> Counting words in a dictionary seems the wrong way to go.
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