CSPAN2 Book TV September 18, 2011
>> we have time for one last question. >> someone else is going to have to pick that person because i don't know how to do that. okay. >> i was curious about how is it that dialects have your words then as you were saying proper languages. >> what do you mean? >> i mean, wouldn't there be this same number roughly, or is that just, sort of, a general rule cumene? >> to human languages spoken by its smaller groups would have a small vocabulary than bite -- then like english? >> as opposed. >> i think what you are referring to is let's say english as 170,000 words. you are not supposed ...