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HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY

Started by Mando Pandango, February 16, 2013, 11:40:22 PM

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ncba93ivyase

25200

i understand a reasonable number of words but the number of those words i actually use is negligible

for some reason my brain is afraid to use big words goonish

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Samus Aran

Quote from: Pancake Persona on February 17, 2013, 04:05:09 PM
25200

i understand a reasonable number of words but the number of those words i actually use is negligible

for some reason my brain is afraid to use big words goonish


germanic > latinate

short words are more rhythmic and flow better, it's the natural way to speak english and even fiction sounds better this way imo

n_u

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Thyme

if it hadn't been for all those latinate words my score would have been much lower 5thgrade;

Hiro


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silvertone

if 45,000 is the max. then a lot of boyagers know at least half of all the words out there. cool

Nyerp

i only know 1 word: weedhellboner

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