There's been a lot in the news lately about the 'linguistic limitations', shall we say, of football manager, Fabio Capello. He freely admits that his vocabulary, which he estimates at around 100 words and growing, is sufficient to do his job well; despite the fact that he has received a lot of criticism about his limited vocabulary.
It reminds me of the time my son was going off to play football against another local prep school team; at the age of five or six. The team had not had a good season. They'd all followed the ball up the pitch and down again, but very few goals had resulted. On this particular occasion, though, as they were setting off on the coach; the tall, commanding headmistress, waved them off with the following exhortation: 'Play well boys. And remember, WIN!' And guess what? They did.
My linguist friend has written in much more depth about this subject on her blog, which you can easily find by googling 'Virtual Linguist'.
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