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- Stefn Piparskeggr Ullarskjaldberi
Dramedy occurs when serious and silly collide
mDNA H5 - yDNA E1b1b1c
97.9% European, 1.6% Mohawk, 0.4% Cree, 0.1% Malian
(also, 2.4 % Neanderthal and .6% Denisovan in there)
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Blame this place:Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
36,600 words
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I was honest and got 33, 600. Puts me just under 85% or summat.
There's a few I can't define, but do use, however! Bluffing is the secret to looking clever...
I hate the Latin thing, too. I would love to nativise my vocab, but am unsure how to do it. Passively, I'm fine, but producing a good English word in place of a straightforward Latinism is often difficult.
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- Stefn Piparskeggr Ullarskjaldberi
Dramedy occurs when serious and silly collide
mDNA H5 - yDNA E1b1b1c
97.9% European, 1.6% Mohawk, 0.4% Cree, 0.1% Malian
(also, 2.4 % Neanderthal and .6% Denisovan in there)
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Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 34,400 words
Thing is, so many of the uncommon ones on those lists are loan words from French and that's how I know what they mean... I didn't know they existed in English and probably wouldn't use them when speaking English (ie maladroit). Does that count?
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Thank you but I will decline. What I will point out, however, is the importance of articulating the words you do know and use regularly, as opposed to knowing a shitload of words which you would rarely, if ever, use in common terms. In other words, you have bugger all hope of articulating those sort of words unless you want to use some kind of jargon.
My first score was 23 600. Second score was 28 000. I was already mulling over the words used from another language before coming across this following quote:
A very insightful validation. Only people who speak a specific language apart from English would know these words. It is in my considered opinion that this test is a fallacy, especially given that my second score increased by nearly 5 000 points.
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34 words.
Me be fucking spic.
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