Analyses of large corpora (Nation, 1990; Nation & Waring, 1997) indicate that a person who knows the meanings of the 3000 most common words of English should be able to understand 95 percent of the words that occur in a typical English text. ... Other attempts to locate frequently occurring words resulted in lists consisting mostly of very common items: In our experiments with Dutch and German texts, we found that the set of items that occurred one time only in the texts was the most likely to contain unusual words that learners might not already know. ...

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However, we do have to note that lot of these gadgets are being combined into one, so that we don't have to carry dozen gadgets. ... After all, it is only 11 years away from the year Kurzweil wrote the book, which leaves us with somewhat dull common sense predictions. ...

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