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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by WalterBright on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:05AM (#11634271)
> 190.000 words

The average TV vocabulary is 2,000 words. High school graduates average a 10,000 word vocabulary, college graduates 30,000, and there are over a million words in the English language. Hence having 190,000 distinct words in a reddit thread seems implausible.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by valleyer on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:50AM (#11634426)
They needn't be distinct. Writing is random selection with replacement.
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