[laughter] >> i am curious how dylex have fewer words and proper languages? >> what do you mean? >> wouldn't there be the same number roughly that. >> do you mean that languages spokane by small indigenous groups have a smaller vocabulary than english? >> >> what i think you are referring to is if english has 170,000 words and you are not supposed to say what the number is therein is a different word from was. i don't care but look at the oxford english dictionary, it is 170,000 words. it is true if you look at one of the isolated indigenous languages they do not have 170,000. how many is hard to say because you're not one of those people who compile the word list was probably a somebody from michigan. it is probably tens of thousands but the fact is that even within the tens of thousands of synonyms and shades of meaning and a lot are considered words and english are not. for example, we have the word ruth that means mercy. that is not a word is just in there because somebody put it there but that is not a word if you subtracted them the typical english speaking college graduate