“How Many Words Does You Know?”

That, of course, is the ludicrous question Ali G once posed to Noam Chomsky, and it’s ludicrous precisely because it’s impossible to answer. Equally ludicrous, then, is Paul J.J. Payack’s untestable assertion that, just yesterday at 5:22 AM, English got its millionth word — Web 2.0 , which, as far as I’m concerned, isn’t even a word at all.

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