Dragaera

OT: Subjectivity vs. Objectivity (was: bois...)

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Sat Aug 17 12:02:44 PDT 2002

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. 
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