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In response to "Although I've long noticed that we rarely use a wide range of vocabulary in everyday speech." by CovingtonCat

I forget the terms, but remember learning in high school that we have two different vocabularies.

Posted by ty97 Sep 18 '12, 05:13

One is the vocabularies of words we recognize and understand. The second, a subset of the first, is the words we actually know well enough to use in our writing/speech.

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That's a phallusy. I am completely cognizant in my vocabulary and I use every word i know unsparingly and sporadically. -- nm - Roger More Sep 18, 05:16 4
- Paging Dr Freud -- nm - ty97 Sep 18, 05:17 3
  - Admit it - you didn't read past phallusy. -- nm - Roger More Sep 18, 05:19 2
    - I did, but only to seem if there was a theme. -- nm - ty97 Sep 18, 05:20 1
      - I dong think I could put that many intercourses into a single sentence, even using backdoor methods. I'd try, but I'd probably blow it. -- nm - Roger More Sep 18, 05:26

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I forget the terms, but remember learning in high school that we have two different vocabularies.

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