Il 15/11/2010 14:06, Gorio ha scritto:

> English just added it's one millionth word. I don't know what it is; but
> you can bet it's some chemical.
>
> By comparison, Italian has 250-350,000, Mandarin Chinese, 500,000. We
> got a lot of syntax to figure out.

True, but one ha salso to check which words are used and which aren't.
The Oxford English Dictionary lists circa 1 million words, but the
Random House Current English Dictionary lists about 350,000.
I'd like to have the same figures for italian, though.
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