The first item there is "Just 20 words make up a third of teenagers' everyday speech," a lame factoid which has been analyzed by the linguists at languagelog. They point out that teenagers are not alone there: 20 words probably make up about a third of your everyday speech, too. And about a third of the words the BBC uses.
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Date: 2007-01-01 12:54 am (UTC)