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Originally Posted by beppe
For the richness of vocabulary. Which is a fact: 4 times larger than English.
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Coke Zero 1 in my cup.
And I'll query that vocabulary figure. This discussion has recently happened in
another thread. It's very hard to make comparisons, because of the different ways of counting words.
The OED, the closest thing to an authority in English, reckons there are about 175,000 words in current use.
I beleive that in German Duden is the rough equivalent of the OED, and contains around 135,000 words.