Islander Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 This short quiz will give an approximation of the number of English words you know how to use. http://testyourvocab.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Interesting, and I'm a little embarrased to reveal my results... [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djk Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I think their estimate may be a bit high, I wonder how accurate is really is (although I fell inside their normal range). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I think their estimate may be a bit high, I wonder how accurate is really is (although I fell inside their normal range). I fell just outside their "normal" range, but I did rush through it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Remember, their normal range is normal for their sample, (not a random sample at all) which they identified as having SAT verbal scores of around 700. That is about two standard deviations above the general population of high school students intending to go to college, who scores centered around 500 on the verbal part of the SAT. THe group reponding is a rather elite bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I'm picking up my new Festus Hagan vocabulary---"I can forget to did what I didn't did". JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I wonder how accurate is really is (although I fell inside their normal range).Not very -- this survey is measuring using "old words" only, not new words, e.g., those that come from science and technologies, new culture, and newly adopted foreign language words. Go read Slashdot then see how many new words are represented in the preceding word survey - answer: 0 (zero). This is a major error... http://www.languagemonitor.com/no-of-words/ There is a reason why these old words are not being used today. I did like this quote, however: “Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.” —Evan Esar I still miss William F. Buckley, Jr. - he was very entertaining...and impressive when you consider that English was his third language. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHF63 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 GLM plays awful fast and loose with the word "word." LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Good case in point... GLM --This is the basic profit motive behind all free enterprise. You try to find the highest or best price someone will pay, for the least amount of content possible. This will assure maximum profit, and maximize your return on investment. Chris [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean5340 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 24,000 for me. I guess I should read more fiction. I hate fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark1101 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 The number of words I know are that of between an 11 and a 12 year old. This must be my mother's fault. I don't like that test, the words are too hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sputnik Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Just scored the exact average for my age on their graph. Middling, not salient. I'd do better on the math test. Maybe, this is where size doesn't matter as much as how you use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingman Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 It sure went from the very easiest to words I've never seen before. I didn't check too many on the last page. Landed at 28,500. I do read a fair bit, but alot of it is technical in nature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest " " Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 It varies depending who I am talking to. Educated people need things explained in simple terms vs smart people who can carry on a normal conversation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis About that big... Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenM Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Threeve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo33 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 This can't be right! I scored 64,900. Either their standard is too low or their engine is broken! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 36,200 for me. Now I have a lot of words to look up, but with a low chance of remembering them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 From A Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychological and Psychoanalytical Terms by English and English (very old, but the only halfway comprehensive one I've found): Adiadochokinesis Is a term that will bolster my thesis That it's idle to seek Such precision in Greek When confusion it only increases. Fittingly, the word has two meanings that are a little more nearly opposite than the same. I, too miss Buckley (even though I disagreed with about 70 to 80 percent of his positions). From one of the reviews of the new film Paul Goodman Changed My Life: "In this heady documentary, TV footage of left-wing social critic Paul Goodman being interviewed by conservative host William F. Buckley Jr. in 1966 makes one realize how low public discourse in America has sunk since then." - Andrea Gronvall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 38,800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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