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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Draper View Post
    My estimated vocabulary size is 17 400 words. Not too great. I guess vocabulary has always been my weak spot when it comes to English. I believe it´s time to practice a little more. I got this bigass Webster´s Dictionary last summer just waiting to be devoured. Oh what fun! Or not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ikki View Post
    Thou shalt partake in your studies or a bugbear in tatterdemalion will defenstrate you!
    I prefer abacination as a punishment to defenestration, however, and particolor in my raiment.
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    Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
    36,600 words
    Blame this place:


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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Ullarskjaldberi View Post
    Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
    40,500 words...

    BTW, sparge - to wash boiled malt grains with hot water after one drains off the mashing water (aka wort) to gain any residual sugars for brewing beer or ale.
    My wife thought I scored low, she hates that I do crosswords in ink.

    Took it a second time...44,700 words...
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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Osweo View Post
    There's a few I can't define, but do use, however! Bluffing is the secret to looking clever...
    There were quite a few words on the test I know the meaning of, but have never used, at least in spoken language. In fact, quite a few of them I probably would not even know how to pronounce correctly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymaus View Post
    You're welcome to start a discussion thread about the quality of language. What was your score?
    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by Soten View Post
    They give you different words if you do it again....got 28,900 the second time.
    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:

    Quote Originally Posted by AcadianDriftwood View Post
    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?
    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.
    Last edited by Brynhild; 12-02-2010 at 04:18 AM.

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    34 words.

    Me be fucking spic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brynhild View Post
    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.
    Yeah, but half the English language comes from French, that puts francophones at an advantage.

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