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Old 09-Nov-2006, 05:27
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Default Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary

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Originally Posted by Harry Smith View Post
Anyway I am not sure that a simple american uses more than 1500 unique words during a day. He doesn't do all the above mentioned activities in one day, does he?
When did this get confined to single day? Is a vocabulary the sum total of words used in 24 hours? The average person has dozens of different conversations every day -- unless he lives in a cave.
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