> There are only 580,000 words in the Oxford English dictionary. That's less
> than 2^20. Add in a few million in specialized vocabulary and call it
> 2^23
>
> Add in say, 2^4 for every possible tense and form
> Add in a "mode" bit for specialized, local vocabulary
> reserve 2^5 for concepts in other common languages that can't be
> represented by english equivalents...

Urk... this above partitioning only works if you have 33 bit words... but
you get the idea...