Estimate the size of your vocabulary

Post by **aTOMiC** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:09 pm

24 known
26 familiar
140958 inferred

I'm off to a beautiful start. Perhaps I need some remedial English courses. No wonder I have such trouble writing stories. I have the vocabulary of a thimble.

Post by **balon!** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:10 pm

aTOMiC wrote:24 known
26 familiar
140958 inferred

I'm off to a beautiful start. Perhaps I need some remedial English courses. No wonder I have such trouble writing stories. I have the vocabulary of a thimble.

Are you telling me that most of that sentence was inferred?

Post by **aTOMiC** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:24 pm

Yeah you got me Balon. I freaking guess at most every word I write. Kind of like a monkey at the zoo copying your facial expressions I simply "ape" the words and hope I get them in the right order to complete a though that I certainly don't understand without help. Something that hadn't occurred to me previously was the fact that after all this time I may have indeed learned the meaning of more than the few words my alien parents taught me before they were abducted by still other aliens. Life is a mad mix of chemicals to be sure.

I kid of course. I kid because I enjoy the sound of laughter. My own especially. ;D

Post by **balon!** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:28 pm

Your the most articulate mokey i've EVER seen!

Simply amazing!

Post by **Elfgirl** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:19 am

I did this test twice - first time my vocab of 'understoods' was 105,370. Second time was 123,965.

Musta flipped more words that I knew up the second time...

I think it's a silly test because there were blatantly obvious slang, colloquialisms & historical entities that some people may or may not know, depending on their origins/country of birth.

Post by **Wyldewode** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:32 am

Scores (average of two)

119316 known
11621 familiar
14721 inferred

I don't know how accurate this test is. However, I will say that I won Vocabulary Champion at the regional competition (one of 2 champions in my state) my senior year of high school. I still have the trophy on my book case, and there is a very large trophy at my high school bearing my name as well. (Why the school got a trophy is beyond me. . . )

Anyway, you just about have to be a vocab person to read Donaldson without a dictionary nearby, n'est pas?

Post by **CovenantJr** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:10 pm

Wyldewode wrote:Anyway, you just about have to be a vocab person to read Donaldson without a dictionary nearby, n'est pas?

One of the words that came up for me was "puissant".

Post by **Wyldewode** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:16 am

Nice, Cov! I'm sure you got that one right.

Post by **Holsety** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:51 pm

By the way, a bunch of people seem to be doing understood, familiar, then familiar but not understood...the second category is a word you're not quite familiar with, and the third is one you've never seen but can infer the meaning of.
Understood: about 102009.
Familiar: about 4858.
Inferred about 11658.

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