And - of course - Randall has us covered here too: https://xkcd.com/1133/ https://xkcd.com/1133/ A 1000 word vocabulary is quite understandable, though a litt

And - of course - Randall has us covered here too: https://xkcd.com/1133/ https://xkcd.com/1133/ A 1000 word vocabulary is quite understandable, though a little awkward. A random word might be as few at 10 bits of entropy. If a person is picking them out of their head, I'd bet it's unlikely to be as many as 12 or 13 bits. Most of the words we "know" aren't ones that come to mind when we're "randomly choosing words"...