Would anyone consider themselves fluent in a set of texts?
Greetings all,
Would anyone here consider themselves fluent in a set of texts?
Some definitions of what I mean.
- Knows around 10-15K words or more. This is the rough vocabulary of 8-11-year-old English speakers.
- Understands every inflection.
- Understands every idiom, chiasmus, and rhetoric used.
Ancient Greek covers a long historical period, so I think not knowing the Greek of every historical period would disqualify someone as being fluent. E.G., I'm a fluent English speaker, but I wouldn't understand Shakespearean English the way an English classics major would.
Posted Jun 13, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC
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