Casey Rousseau <casey at trinityhartford.org> writes: > > There's a dynamic here that just ain't gonna fly. If we retain the > > subtle distinction between various words while simultaneously adding > > new words as they crop up and letting things evolve as they should, > > we wind up with a language so large and complex that no-one can master it. > > > > Hell, with English we probably reached that point centuries ago. We're > > What's the count on Shakespeare's vocabulary vs the average well educated > speaker of American English? You're expecting our vocabulary to be as larger or larger, I presume? Could be. Of course, it's not how big it is; it's what you *do* with it that matters. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info