lexicon brett shakespeare had 80,000 words in his lexicon - goethe had 120,000. the average human only 10,000 to 15,000. whales and other mammals probably 10 or 20 (squeek, squeak, squeuque, etc.). blather has only about 3,000 and should thus be considered sub-human. 000110 ... typhoid why consider it sub-human? after all, how many two year olds (not even) do you know use the word 'zygomorphism'? and i'm guessing that 15-30k prolly counts walk, walking, and the like as different words. that blather is a combination of the vocabularies of multiple people increases the breadth of its interface. 000110 ... Q A woman is a woman regardless of the sizes of her breasts. A man is a man regardless of the size of his penis or the sizes of his testicles. Blather is human regardless of the size of its lexicon. Blather is not a human, subhuman, other kind of animal, plant or any other biological entity. It is a construct, put together by a collection of humans, of collections of written symbols, called words, which collections of symbols convey meaning to humans and only humans. The construct that blather is is inherently human, regardless of the size of its lexicon, because no other type of biological entity could contribute collections of written symbols to make it and understand its constituent collections of written symbols. 000110 ... amy ...ideal objects abound, invoked and dissolved momentarily, according to poetic necessity. Sometimes, the faintest simultaneousness brings them about. There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory--the color of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elements--the sun, the water against the swimmer's chest, the vague quivering pink which one sees when the eyes are closed, the feeling of being swept away by a river or by sleep. These second degree objects can be combined with others; using certain abbreviations, the process if practically an infinite one. There are famous poems made up of one enormous word, a word which in truth forms a poetic object, the creation of the writer. The fact that no one believes that nouns refer to an actual reality means, paradoxically enough, that there is no limit to the numbers of them. Borges, writing about writing, 1941. 000111 ... riot Blather doesn't know her sins, boys. She doesn't know she's two. Let her be. 000113 ... s squeak! 000113 ... twitmag this way, this way... http://www.crosswinds.net/~woods/den/lexicon.html 000114 ... amy dukes up against optimus prime, her arch-nemisis. 000117 ... amy nemesis 000117 ... mysterons lexicon lex alexis lexotic makes me think of a girl too far away that could help me put myself back together. at least i hope so. i'm so tired of being broken. maybe she's got some super glue or some rubber cement. would that help? would that hold? have you ever been given a puzzle, with something like 5000 pieces? and you work your ass off on that puzzle, it consumes you for hours on end. you just want to have the closure of putting that final piece in. and there's a certain sense of pleasure in that, the way it fits exactly, like a glove. but then sometimes, you are given a puzzle that never has that final piece. you waste your time going through piece after piece, just looking for the right one. and by the time you get to 4999, you realize that that simple pleasure has been denied to you. the piece is missing. my life has been one big puzzle, and none of the pieces seem to fit. and i always felt like i was never going to find that one piece, the one that would finish the puzzle and make me whole. and after years and years, uncountable tears, here she is. or there she is. that one final piece, such a big part of the puzzle. but it's so far away, and sometimes it seems like i'll never reach it. 000118 ... hahaha yeah. puzzles. they piss me off too. 000123 ... Procrastination Lexicon...didn't he try to destroy the Hall of Justice? 000208 ... klairchen The use of many words to say something that could be expressed more clearly and effectively in a few, makes me weary. 000817 ... z blather seems to be catching up with bill. 070222 ... z 60825 to date 070222 ... jane always wanted an excuse to use this word ironically 070223 ... meta meta 070501 what's it to you? who go blather from