David Kiersey

"If I do not want what you want, please do not try to tell that my want is wrong. Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view."

How Many Words are in English?

Another Stunning Discovery at alphaDictionary

Dr. Goodword (Robert Beard, PhD, Linguistics)

Words are Spoken.

The question, "How many words are there in English?" is based on a misunderstanding of language. It is based on the false assumptions that (1) words are objects that someone creates and (2) stores in a published dictionary. Neither assumption is true. Words that are simply spoken but never published do not enter dictionaries. That does not mean that they are not words, for language is a spoken medium, not a written one. Only about 2,400 of the world's roughly 7200 languages and dialects have writing systems, most of these created only for the translation of the Bible. If words were the things found in dictionaries, the majority of the world's languages would have no words!

In point of fact, all languages are equipped to produce however many words are necessary for communication either internally, by derivation rules (lawyer > lawyerly) and compounding (water + fall > waterfall), or externally, by borrowing from other languages. So, one answer to the question in the title is: the number of possible words in any language at any given moment is infinite, for there is no limit on the number of possible words in any human language. However, we may distinguish between possible and actual words, so how many actual words are there in English?

THANKYOU FRIGGIN JESUS SOMEONE FINALLY TOLD THE WORLD THIS!

Panda Puzzles

I have decided that is only human to want companionship. This fact alone sucks. We should all stop being human and needing other people. But we can't. This sucks as well.

I am personally upset that on my facebook my family said Wendell wasn't good enough for me. Mostly because they definitely only bothered to look skin deep. Assholes. Judgmental assholes.

BOOKCLUB!

So I asked a random person to suggest a book for our book club that is un-official as of yet.

Book being:

Psychomech by Brian Lumely

It will be due next Saturday at our first Book CLUB!!!

*Someone think of a name*

Meh

Country music makes me sad. I just remember being a little kid and laying in bed falling asleep to it. I feel like I should write a letter to me in the future, so that when(if) I become an adult. I can look back and understand that stage of life all over again.

Acid Help!

I need an acid that eats through vinyl, will only eat through the part I put it on, and could hopefully be used with a paintbrush.

Sam- I think I am inbetween an ESTP and an ISTP. I think I am outwardly an Extravert and inwardly an Introvert. To bad that didn't make mixes of the 16 types.

Why the word Sorry Sucks

Id like to point out Ashleigh Matthews/White has shown me I can follow people!

When you say sorry you are
1.) Rarely sorry
2.) Trying to get out something
3.) Saying it to be supportive
4.) Being polite.

There are more but the point is the word sorry sucks. If someone tells me they are sorry, I want to know why. Why are you saying sorry because I'm sure not saying it unless I'm being polite. We say all these things to make each other feel better when really what does it do? Takes care of the immediate problem? Not really. Stop covering up and just say what you have to say! I know that for most of us unsensitive people we dont want people crying around us because its uncomfortable. But just say to them, hey I know your in a bad place right now, but I'm your friend so if you need to talk I'm here. Dont say sorry or it'll be better tomorrow. Because that is BULL SHIT! It wont and probably wont for a while, so just let them know you care and love them. Thats it.