. . . and none of them can describe the awesomicity of this video. Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
That's all the words there are? We need to invent more!
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
I think there's some debate as to the number of words in the English language, especially when you get into the realms of medical and technical terms. Some people estimate that the English language has a grand total of 2 million words in it, more than twice the lexicon of the language that comes in second.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
That has to be a trick of some sort. Like the Lebron James commercial where he makes all the full court shots. That's insane.
And whatever happened to the 1984 Orwellian killing of words. Streamline the English dictionary, don't expand it.
I really can't imagine there's only that few many words. Americans talk so much, we have to of made up more than that.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
"Fake" is the one word I'd use to describe it.
But someone obviously put a lot of work into it, and it looked cool.
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
Okay, after doing a little research, it looks like 615,500 is the number of words included in the OED, which probably is a pretty good estimate of how many words actually exist. There are also an estimated 500,000 technical terms, so my 2 million was a bit (understatement) high.
However, that's still a huge number when you consider that suspected second-place German only has about 185,000 words and that French has fewer than 100,000, even including English borrowings!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Wow. I could have sworn there were more!
Posted by Brian J. Hill (Member # 5346) on :
I asked Jeeves, and he told me that the Oxford English Dictionary, which is the largest one which includes the standard, non-technical lexicon, has approx. 290,000 entries and aprox. 615,500 word forms (e.g. mouse, mice, mousiness, mousy, awesomicity ). I'm too lazy to re-look-up the link to verify me, but if anyone cares to, have at it.
Edit: apparently, Brinestone already has.
[ April 08, 2005, 12:18 AM: Message edited by: Brian J. Hill ]
Posted by ACD (Member # 7763) on :
The The Global Language Monitor web site estimates there is 859,096 words in the English language as of Thursday, April 7, 2005 9:21 PM.
Check out the "The English Language WordClock".
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
France is the only country that I know of that has a Government sponsored body to protect the integrity of their language.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
We're still letting the French BORROW words? Isn't it about time we started CHARGING them?
Oh, sure, we have a lot of formerly French words, but THEY INVADED ENGLAND and FORCED their feelthy words on our linguistic forebears. They just BORROW ours - and don't give them back, you can be sure.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I like this Uncle Orson guy. We should keep him around.
[ April 08, 2005, 12:04 PM: Message edited by: Jon Boy ]
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
I'm pretty sure that "awesomicity" is not a word in English.
Posted by imenimok (Member # 7679) on :
It should be.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Supposably.
Posted by imenimok (Member # 7679) on :
Ooh, I hate that. And I'm not a grammar nazi.
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
Yes, but what about that last shot? Was the Chihuahua going through the net?
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I'm not so sure it was faked.
But I AM sure that each shot took more than one Take =)
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
oh, really, I could do that too, if I wanted to.
Posted by Brian J. Hill (Member # 5346) on :
quote: I'm pretty sure that "awesomicity" is not a word in English.
Right. It was, like, a joke. You know, because none of the words in the English language could describe this video, so I made up a totally new word, kinda like William Shakesp . . . never mind.
No one gets my unique brand of humor! No one understands me! [/angst]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Brian, I got it .
Posted by Portabello (Member # 7710) on :
That has to be fake.
Doesn't it? Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I think it's fake. I'm not sure you could hit a basketball with a skateboard with that much force, let alone accuracy.
Posted by Audeo (Member # 5130) on :
I think its real, and that those guys need to find another hobby, or a job, or something to occupy themselves, because it would take a lot of time to 'learn' how to make each of those shots, though I couldn't tell if it was the same guy everytime.
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