vocabulary

I'm with Stephen Fry on this one:"There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary.

So how do you counter their arguments regarding syntax and core vocabulary?

But I think just as big an issue is things people don't say because they literally can't say them - the vocabulary and ideas don't exist.

About 7 years ago one of my graduate students \nwas browsing 20 publications from ACS to create a vocabulary.

If you limit yourself to the first 64k words, you have a much larger vocabulary, still limited, and still fitting within two bytes per word.

Someone with a bit of education and an expanded vocabulary.

I went through a number of interpreters before I picked my regular interpreter, and trained her on the vocabulary.

Users lack the insight and vocabulary to even identify which world a particular device or ecosystem belongs to.

They claim this is not quite 95th percentile, which I am a tad skeptical accurately represents my vocabulary-size percentile relative to the general population.

I similarly guess that participants in online surveys of vocabulary size are likely to have larger vocabularies than average people in the general public because most people I meet find discussions of word meanings boring.

No, the plot of Inception really is very complicated for many people, but probably not if you're a computer programmer in which case you literally have years of formal education in the structures that this plot is built on, and even a formal vocabulary to describe it with.

From Wikipedia:Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer[citation needed], the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.