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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by maxnoe on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:52AM (#27180425)
German Goethe researchers claim 90.000 for Goethe im their dictionary of Goethe's work:

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe-W%C3%B6rterbuch

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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by cycomanic on Monday May 17, 2021 @02:37AM (#27180617)
Interesting, I wonder if this is due to a difference of counting compound words?
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