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To: E who wrote (73988)	2/3/2000 5:58:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I didn't know you were off fighting the good fight. I just thought you'd got the hell out of Dodge. MyMyMy 14 year old just told me today that he's getting an A in Biology, Algebra II, English, Computer Science and maybe German, and a B in World Geography. He doesn't know what he's getting in gym, but he doesn't really care, either. Do you know, I have absolutely no idea how many words are in my own working vocabulary. How can one know?

To: E who wrote (73988)	2/3/2000 7:08:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There are about 200K English words in common use according to Bill Bryson, though the OED has about 615K entries. French has only about 100K and German 184K in use. 10K certainly sounds very limited. Especially given the amount of talking teens do with each other. When you listen to them, it's sort of alarming. They say You know, like, and Dude repetitively, almost hypnotically, before every phrase. I think it's so adults space out and stop listening to them. Ammo did it for a while and we didn't know whether to treat it like a stutter and not call attention to it or tape his mouth shut. Then we noticed that he had two vocabularies, one for adults, one for his friends. Now that I think about it, he really has improved a lot. So I guess it's a developmental phase.