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| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - General Chat - So... How many words are there? |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 3664/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Just wondering, mainly for an essay... Does anyone know about how many words there are in the English language? | |||
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Kyoufu Kawa I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. Level: 70  Posts: 1329/2481 EXP: 3008456 For next: 7355 Since: 03-19-04 From: Catgirl Central Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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| Can there be an actual answer to that? | |||
Bella Ludwig Von Koopa You're Gonna Love Me Level: 76  Posts: 1408/2962 EXP: 3891483 For next: 114577 Since: 03-29-04 From: Groovy Way Since last post: 8 min. Last activity: 6 min. |
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I don't think there's an answer..that would take awhile to tally up  ..if you could do that. |
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Kyoufu Kawa I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. Level: 70 Posts: 1330/2481 EXP: 3008456 For next: 7355 Since: 03-19-04 From: Catgirl Central Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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| And then there's dialects and shit. Do those count? | |||
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 1545/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I don't know, but I would check a dictionary and see how many they have. They are unlikely to include (as already mentioned) dialects and regional slang, but it is all I can suggest. Of course, your average dictionary won't include medical terminology and things like that, I know that you can buy whole medical dictionaries and stuff too... But it's a start.  |
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Darth Coby Vire Dacht je nou echt dat het over was? Dacht je nou echt dat ik gebroken was? Nee toch? Nou kijk eens goed op uit je ogen gast. zonder clic heb je geen kloten tjap... bitch Level: 55  Posts: 1133/1371 EXP: 1240774 For next: 73415 Since: 03-15-04 From: Belgium Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 9 hours |
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| I wouldn't count all the words in a dictionary even if my life depended on it. Let's come to the conclusion that there are a whole lot of words. | |||
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Kyoufu Kawa I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. Level: 70 Posts: 1331/2481 EXP: 3008456 For next: 7355 Since: 03-19-04 From: Catgirl Central Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 1546/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Er, to clarify, I didn't for a second mean that you should **count** the words in a dictionary. Especially when we live in the modern age of online and computer based dictionaries.... Of course, I don't know if places like Dictionary.com have anywhere on their site how many words they have in their database.... |
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Darth Coby Vire Dacht je nou echt dat het over was? Dacht je nou echt dat ik gebroken was? Nee toch? Nou kijk eens goed op uit je ogen gast. zonder clic heb je geen kloten tjap... bitch Level: 55 Posts: 1134/1371 EXP: 1240774 For next: 73415 Since: 03-15-04 From: Belgium Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 9 hours |
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Oh, well it looked like that's what you meant anyway.  But I don't think that dictionary.com has ALL English words though. |
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62  Posts: 1288/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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| I read somewhere that English is the most extensive language in the world, with about 1,000,000 words. German is the next most comprehensive, at about 500,000 words. I'm not suprised that German follows, seeing as modern English is mostly derrived from earlier forms of the German langauge I've also read that English is the hardest language in the world to learn. We have the most grammar and syntax rules, and for every rule there is at least one exception  Fortunately, things are made easier by the fact that our language is not based on social or sexual status, like French or Japanese. (edited by Kasumi-Astra on 03-13-05 07:00 AM) (edited by Kasumi-Astra on 03-13-05 07:03 AM) |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 8476/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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And there is hardly slang words with it, I hardly think that thoose offical dictionaries have the word Yiff, and yet it's a popular term amongst furries.Originally posted by Kasumi-Astra...so that's why I have more trouble with English even if I actually had more training with English than Swedish.  |
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Banedon Giant Red Paratroopa Level: 55 Posts: 1089/1408 EXP: 1291380 For next: 22809 Since: 03-15-04 From: Michigan Since last post: 101 days Last activity: 90 days |
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| I always thought the concept of assigning genders to inanimate objects in languages was rather absurd... Who knows, maybe English's popularity is caused by its relative "simplicity," in the sense of not having zillions of endings on words...I heard that in languages like Latin, just about every word has some kind of suffix to indicate whether it is the subject, object, etc. Also, English only uses the twenty-six letters, no accented characters...which is important in this age of computers, because you can type English from almost any keyboard that uses its alphabet. |
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DarkSlaya POOOOOOOOOOOORN! Level: 88 Posts: 3491/4249 EXP: 6409254 For next: 241410 Since: 05-16-04 From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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Originally posted by Kasumi-Astra You'd have fun with French... there are only exceptions. You learn some rule, and then you gotta learn 5374255 exceptions for it. |
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Kyoufu Kawa I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. Level: 70 Posts: 1332/2481 EXP: 3008456 For next: 7355 Since: 03-19-04 From: Catgirl Central Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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Originally posted by Kawa-oneechan *Kawa-oneechan copies and pastes the important bit... This all being said, I now unequivocally state that as of 11:42 am (Pacific) on 28th day of November of the year 2004, there were approximately 823,481 words in the English Language, plus or minus a handful. Choose well among them. |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 8178/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Kyoufu Kawa I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. Level: 70 Posts: 1334/2481 EXP: 3008456 For next: 7355 Since: 03-19-04 From: Catgirl Central Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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| It's not quite a dictionary, but here ya go. | |||
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Reno Level: 13 Posts: 29/48 EXP: 8122 For next: 2145 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ireland Since last post: 9 days Last activity: 9 days |
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| I recently read that excluding scientific terms and such, the OED contains about 450,000 words to date, but that figure increases with every new edition. | |||
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 8183/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Originally posted by Kawa-oneechan I thought you linked to urbandictionary.com. And I |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 2639/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| the number of english words in use is probably 1 million or more. However, the number of "official" english words is the number of words found in the oxford dictionary | |||
Ranko Ranko Saotome When the evil of darkness approaches, I appear out of nowhere! Level: 19  Posts: 71/133 EXP: 30920 For next: 4857 Since: 09-22-04 From: Nerima District - Tokyo, Japan Since last post: 72 days Last activity: 72 days |
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| "There are four-hundred thousand words in the English language, and there are seven of which you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. Three-hundred and ninety-nine-thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-three......to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous...to be seperated from a group that large. All of you over here...you seven.....baaaad woooords." Points if people know where that's from. I don't think I'll have to go into the 'seven' but that was back a few decades ago. |
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