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Nik Krasno | 19854 comments Wikipedia, referring to some researches, claims that for a native English speaker it might vary between 10 to 50K : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabul.... Can such a huge range be possible?
Once, I attributed my vocabulary growth to reading books, but the modern tendency seems to always use more common words over rare ones. I remember editors meticulously rooting out any rare word in my stuff and replacing it with simpler analogue..
Maybe indeed the words are passé and emojis are superior in description? What goes: rich or plain lingo?


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