With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines

This ignores the fact that you can often figure out the meaning of the line from context even if you don't know the meaning of each word.

> kochira wa yakusoku no houshuu desu

You blurred yakusoku, everybody knows that, but houshuu is much rarer word, should have blurred that

That's higher than what I would've expected.

I spam Yare Yare to the extent that my friends had it on my birthday cake

> Coverage is the number most learning sites quote.

This person is visiting different learning sites then I do.

Also, I dont need to understand every word in sentence to understand it. Especially when coupled with visual show.

My first anime was NGE. I knew all the words and still understand nothing.

I watched Lain with the subtitles on and I still won't claim I understood all the lines.

I'm pretty sure many of the lines are _not understandable by intent_, even.

"Present day... present time... ahahaha!"