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in thread How to count the vocabulary of an author?

> Ever tried saying it to an average English speaker?

Sure, that's how I normally greet my friend John from Buffalo! ;-) °

> The lack of grammar keeps related phrases closer to each other which helps parsing a lot.

It ain't necessarily so, try deciphering the headlines of newspapers like the Guardian ...

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) actually he is from Hamburg NY, but that's too confusing for the locals here ...

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