stephen fry on the english language

I was just watching Stephen Fry on tv saying "English is certainly the richest language in its vocabulary". Now is that an absolutely true linguistic fact? hmmm... I think it depends on how you define vocabulary, right?

But he said something interesting about how language is changing with new generations adding to it all the time. He mentioned this new expression apparently famous among 12-year olds: "this is so book" to mean "this is so cool" which originally comes from when you iTap texts on mobiles and the first option you get for typing "cool" is actually "book" and of course not many 12-year olds have time to click on to the next option :) I tried it on my mobile, it works.. book :)

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