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[Walter Bright]

janderson wrote:
> I guess, once a word is added to the English language it doesn't go away 
>  easily.  English reached the 1-million mark last year.  I've heard that 
> most people stick to around 2000 world in their everyday speak.  I think 
> languages will slowly converge into one universal language being made up 
> primarily of English (although its name may change).

What I read about English:

1,000,000 total number of words
30,000 vocabulary of college graduate
10,000 vocabulary of high school graduate
2,000 vocabulary of TV shows

What this tells me is one could become reasonably fluent in a language 
by learning just 2,000 words.