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darkweasel (Prikaži profil) 04. oktober 2009 09:06:41
The number of roots keeps growing constantly as in any language, simply because whenever something new is invented, you need a new word for it
For example, I think I recently more-or-less invented the root BAŬNCER/ when on Esperanto IRC I needed to talk about IRC bouncers.You can never say to have learned all words in any given language.
horsto (Prikaži profil) 04. oktober 2009 11:11:05
darkweasel:There are 5258 official words, out of which 3071 are from the Fundamento. (According to the Akademia Vortaro)Official words is one thing, the number of really existing words is something else. The PIV from 1970 already had 15 200 headwords (kapvortoj), the Esperanto-Deutsch dictionary from Krause from 1999 has 80 000.
Oŝo-Jabe (Prikaži profil) 04. oktober 2009 20:21:24
horsto:Words existing is one thing, words that actually get used is something else. Aside from poetry and scientific jargon, I don't think that the vocabulary of Esperanto tends to be that bloated. I would say that the number of words commonly used is somewhere between the number of official words and the number of "existing" words.darkweasel:There are 5258 official words, out of which 3071 are from the Fundamento. (According to the Akademia Vortaro)Official words is one thing, the number of really existing words is something else. The PIV from 1970 already had 15 200 headwords (kapvortoj), the Esperanto-Deutsch dictionary from Krause from 1999 has 80 000.
horsto (Prikaži profil) 04. oktober 2009 23:10:01
Oŝo-Jabe:I'm not sure about that. Look at the words that became official in the year 2007. Words like agresi, areo, brito, ĉino, defii, drasta, etno, etoso, feki, ... have been used since decades.
Words existing is one thing, words that actually get used is something else. Aside from poetry and scientific jargon, I don't think that the vocabulary of Esperanto tends to be that bloated. I would say that the number of words commonly used is somewhere between the number of official words and the number of "existing" words.
darkweasel (Prikaži profil) 05. oktober 2009 15:56:40
horsto (Prikaži profil) 05. oktober 2009 20:18:35
darkweasel:Isn't that just what Oŝo-Jabe meant, or what do you mean?Of course "the number of words commonly used is somewhere between the number of official words and the number of existing words", I wanted to stress the big number of not official words which everyone uses, and that the process of making words official is incredibly slow.
Since 1909 there appeared only 9 lists with new official words, look here.