Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 00:15:26 -0500

From: SETH SKLAREY crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IPOF.FLA.NET

Subject: Re: Language and Intelligence



However, a historian may have a larger vocabulary than a linguist,

and both have larger vocabularies than a mathematician.



I'm not convinced this is true; in fact I'd be surprised if there were

any significant differences in vocabulary size by discipline. Has any

research been done on this?



Mary Bucholtz

Department of Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley



OK, start counting, who has a larger vocabulary, Jesse Sheidlower or Daniel

Boorstin?

Einstein or Plutarch?



SETH