37000... It's interesting how it makes you remember how you know some of the harder words
Isaac Send a noteboard - 23/08/2011 12:16:17 PM
What's interesting reading them, as I tried to recall what some of them meant and if I could put a reasonably firm definition to them, was that for the weirder ones I tended to remember why I knew them, and all most all summoned fairly amusing memories to mind like 'opsimath' which I remember encountering with polymath and being confused at the usage since it happened to be from someone who was a skilled mathematician and I'd looked both up kinda expect them to be something like trigonometry or calculus. Or oneiromancy, which I know strictly from once trying to compile every -mancy I could find for a game I was gonna run and I made an effort to commit them to memory. Pretty much all the words I had to stop and think about for a second and actually got came attached with some memory, which while I suppose it is not surprising, does leave me sort of wishing that for a lot of the really simple ones I could recall how I'd first heard and stored the word with definition.
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Help out these researchers: test your English vocabulary
21/08/2011 03:07:24 PM
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When I first read that I thought you meant "nitty-gritty" was one of the words they checked.
21/08/2011 03:26:28 PM
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Perhpas I misunderstood the instructions, because it told me my vocabulary is 1680 words. *NM*
21/08/2011 04:03:19 PM
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I tried to be very conservative
21/08/2011 04:55:08 PM
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That was my thought as well
21/08/2011 06:24:06 PM
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Indeed. If you read their explanation, however, there's a decent reason for that.
21/08/2011 06:27:34 PM
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I got 35700, but I was perhaps too generous in ticking boxes.
21/08/2011 07:49:24 PM
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The wife had the same reaction to "lots", "somewhat" and "not much".
21/08/2011 10:15:05 PM
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Yeah, she would.
21/08/2011 10:54:20 PM
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That makes sense.
22/08/2011 03:49:18 PM
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Neat link, It seems I'm around 25600. Made me want to get my dictinary out... *NM*
22/08/2011 03:43:24 PM
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I like the rice one from years ago. Still, I so kicked ass that I won't post...
23/08/2011 04:57:58 AM
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37000... It's interesting how it makes you remember how you know some of the harder words
23/08/2011 12:16:17 PM
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