How much input do I need to not meet any new words any more?

*The Sadlers Wells Theatre itself, the home of English ballet, is situated in Rosebery Avenue, Finsbury, London EC1, not too far from Angel tube station which is on the Northern Line, Bank and City branch.

Thanks Damian for the information about the ballet. When I am in London next time, I would love to go to a theatre or to a ballet on one of the nights...

I do agree that it is impossible to know everything about the English vocabulary even if one is an English teacher. However, some of these publications would definitely do with a healthy dose of plain English. Unless of course their deliberate aim is to obfuscate their language as much as possible in order for their elitese jargon to be understandable just to the select elite (similarly to the crooks using their special lingo to be understood only in their circle).

<<Unless of course their deliberate aim is to obfuscate their language as much as possible in order for their elitese jargon to be understandable just to the select elite (similarly to the crooks using their special lingo to be understood only in their circle). >>


They don't necessarily do it intentionally. That's just how they're used to writing. Often they use it unthinkingly in the same way a crook uses his slang unthinkingly.

Even when intentional, what's wrong with it ?

Crooks, coppers, bishops, pimps, doctors, lawyers, linguists, bakers, specialists all---they are "using their special lingo" to define, quite concretely and minutely, their terms of art.

And why the Hell not ?

Vytenis, if you really had mastered the whole Russian vocabulary, then you would have known that Russian has the word "котерия", which is also borrowed from French and means exactly the same as "coterie" in English.

By the way, your complaining about being force-fed Russian in the Soviet Union and your statements that Russian vocabulary is poorer than English are absolutely ridiculous. French, English, Russian and other much more developed languages than Lithuanian have an enormous vocabulary, encompassing all spheres of life, which no native speaker can even hope to know completely.

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I can't stand this part of english. If you wanna use different words speak a another language. I mean I'd much rather learn 1000 words of a another language that are common, than 1000 words of englishs that aren't that useful. Don't be fooled although most of the words do have specific meanings, most are used to sound nice. Especially in anything that is formally written. In just writing a resume my school gave me a list of 2000 words to use because they look good on a cover pages.

I mean there are some good reasons for so many words when it comes to jargon. I mean when you study physics you learn that velocity and speed are completely different and need to be. Where as in another language you just say speed and refer to it has "speed in physics". It's area of knowledge that have to narrow down what a word means so there's no confusion.

I donno I could go back and fourth for the need of so many dam words. All I can say is it's on purpose.