How many words does does the average person know?
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An estimate of how many  English language words does the average person know/use is typically in the realm of 12,000 - 20,000 words, varying with the level of education achieved.  Some say college/university graduates use upwards of 20-25,000 words.  These estimates apply to natives of the English language.\n\nShakespeare actively used more than 30,000 words in his written works, and his entire vocabularly has been estimated at approximately 66,000 words.\n\nSome accounts tally the English language consists of more than 600,000 words (source:  The Unabridged Oxford English Dictionary), and this includes root words and derivatives.
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How many words are in this question?  None, those aren't words.
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How many times are you going to ask this question?  Learn the language.
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The average length of an english sentence is about 14 words per sentence.  A paragraph is roughly 5 sentences. first is the opening, the second is the fisrs main point, third is second main point forth is third main point fifth is the conclusioun
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how many lettered word? it could be "subject"
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Less than 10%. I am a law student and find that a few of my peers STILL can not write a complete sentence.
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i think it depends on what kind of questions you answer (like how many best answers and stuff). my guess is 200, but im not positive
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Active listening.  There's a statistic I came across in my speech class: People only LISTEN to 25% of what they HEAR.
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When you say rate, I automatically think of which is best. I can't answer that question nor do I think anyone else can. However, what I can tell you is the use of each language (at least approximations). Read on for more details and check the sources as it's a pretty interesting question to answer...\n\nThis question is a very interesting one that has a rather complicated answer.  Estimates of how many people speak a language are quite general and can vary considerably.  For example, English estimates vary from 275 to 450 million, Spanish from 150 to over 300 million, Hindi from 150 to 350 million, and Russian from 150 to 180 million.\n\nTo further complicate matters, the definition of “speaker” can be vague.  Some surveys of languages give information on native speakers only.  Others count both native speakers and secondary speakers (those who use the language regularly or primarily even though it is not their native language).\n\nLastly, it is important to consider not only the population (number) of language speakers, but also the geographic distribution of these languages.  Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers but are used almost exclusively in a few countries.  On the other hand, other languages have relatively small populations of native speakers but are used in many different countries as an official or national language.\n\n\nThe World's Most Widely Spoken Languages\n\nAvignon (France) Stop (Arabic) Batik (Thai) Narita Airport (Japan)\n\nClick here to see the full data from Comrie (1998), Weber (1997), and the Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) 1999 Ethnologue Survey as well as charts comparing the number of speakers of each language and the number of countries using each language.\n\nWhat are the world's most widely spoken languages?\n\nThis question is a very interesting one that has a rather complicated answer.  Estimates of how many people speak a language are quite general and can vary considerably.  For example, English estimates vary from 275 to 450 million, Spanish from 150 to over 300 million, Hindi from 150 to 350 million, and Russian from 150 to 180 million.\n\nTo further complicate matters, the definition of “speaker” can be vague.  Some surveys of languages give information on native speakers only.  Others count both native speakers and secondary speakers (those who use the language regularly or primarily even though it is not their native language).\n\nLastly, it is important to consider not only the population (number) of language speakers, but also the geographic distribution of these languages.  Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers but are used almost exclusively in a few countries.  On the other hand, other languages have relatively small populations of native speakers but are used in many different countries as an official or national language.\n\nThe Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:\n(number of native speakers in parentheses)\n\n   1. Chinese* (937,132,000)\n   2. Spanish (332,000,000)\n   3. English (322,000,000)\n   4. Bengali (189,000,000)\n   5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)\n   6. Arabic* (174,950,000)\n   7. Portuguese (170,000,000)\n   8. Russian (170,000,000)\n   9. Japanese (125,000,000)\n  10. German (98,000,000)\n  11. French* (79,572,000)\n\n* The totals given for Chinese, Arabic, and French include more than one SIL variety.\n\nThe following list is from Dr. Bernard Comrie’s article for the Encarta Encyclopedia (1998):\n(number of native speakers in parentheses)\n\n   1. Mandarin Chinese (836 million)\n   2. Hindi (333 million)\n   3. Spanish (332 million)\n   4. English (322 million)\n   5. Bengali (189 million)\n   6. Arabic (186 million)\n   7. Russian (170 million)\n   8. Portuguese (170 million)\n   9. Japanese (125 million)\n  10. German (98 million)\n  11. French (72 million)\n\nThe following list is from Geo
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the average iq is around 100
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Do you honestly think someone is going to give you 110 WORDS?!
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Deffinatly people and verbal skills.
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http://www.wordorigins.org/number.htm\n\n'All told, estimates of the total vocabulary of English start at around three million words and go up from there.'
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I have heard about 30,000 words
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I don't think this is something you can ever measure.  Awareness of what?  What "level" of awareness would one have to reach to be considered competently aware?  There are just too many things that cannot be quantified or qualified for data processing purposes.  \n\nAnother problem is that everybody thinks they know the truth.  If you talk to almost anybody (at least this is the way it is in the States, I'm not sure if it's like this elsewhere in the world) they think that they know the truth and what's right and everybody else is messed up.  The conservatives think they're aware of what's going on and they've got the answers and that the liberals are "out to lunch."  The liberals, of course, think just the opposite.  It's the same with individuals.\n\nHowever, as a very wise friend of mine pointed out, it depends on what the awareness is of.  For instance, awareness of hunger and suffering in the world is quite a bit different than being aware of traffic before you cross the street.\n\nHope this helps answer your question.\n\nFR
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it should be less than 20 words
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We have a poverty of imagination and vocabulary. In the 1960s, an average High School senior had a vocabulary of 25,000 words. In the 1990s, it was down to 10,000 -- a striking 60% decrease in just 30 years! No one knows why our vocabulary and language skills are diminishing, it's anyone's guess. Anything on TV?