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Old 09-Nov-2006, 08:30
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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?
Someone may only use 1500 words in one day, but every day would have different items, as well as the main core that are repeated endlessly, so measuring vocabulary over 24 hours would not give a clear sense of that person's knowledge, IMO.
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