Nerve gas, Weapon of chemical warfare that affects the transmission of nerve impulses through the nervous system.
According to Ryan Compton's Infinite Jest by the Numbers, Wallace used a vocabulary of 20,584 unique words to write the 577,608-word Infinite Jest. 10. 11. n+1 has a neat story about where the name for Michael Pemulis, Hal's drug-dealing friend at Enfield Tennis Academy, came from.
If youâre writing chit-chat, many sentence will be one to five words long. If youâre discussing a serious topic, sentences may be fine at 50 or even 75 words. The problem with long sentences is that they need to be crafted to make sense. If they arenât, the length gets in the way of the meaning.