The typical adult gets by with about 3,000 words.

A vocabulary of 3,000 words, almost all of them learned by the time were 11 years old.

And here's the interesting question.

Do we need to know more words because we have interesting things to say or do we have

interesting things to say because we know more words?

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They say that the Inuit have dozens of words for snow.

But you don't have to go to the Great White North to discover that.

I grew up in Buffalo, New York. We have plenty of words for snow.

So does anybody who's ever done Nordic skate skiing or any kind of skiing.

We talk about blizzards. We talk about chop. We talk about corduroy.

What about flake or hail or ice or blue ice or man-made snow or pack powder or deep powder

or spring powder or rotten snow or slop or slush. You get the idea.

It turns out that once you know a lot of words for snow, you start to notice that there are a lot

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