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Title: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Mando Pandango on February 16, 2013, 11:40:22 PM
http://testyourvocab.com/

Mine's 23,200 words

http://testyourvocab.com/?r=2517037
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: bluaki on February 16, 2013, 11:47:13 PM
22,300
http://testyourvocab.com/?r=2517150

when I got to the right half of the second part, my reaction was pretty much "these are actually words?"
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Mando Pandango on February 16, 2013, 11:48:27 PM
Quote from: bluaki on February 16, 2013, 11:47:13 PM
22,300
http://testyourvocab.com/?r=2517150

when I got to the right half of the second part, my reaction was pretty much "these are actually words?"
srsly

Every once in a while I'd recognize one, which made me think they had to be. There were some fun ones in there though.
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: bluaki on February 16, 2013, 11:55:49 PM
am I really below average for my age? according to this site the average for 19-year-old people is 22908
it's not like I read fiction often or even ever, but still
maybe the selection bias is ridiculously significant

because judging by the people I see/meet near home, the average for even native speakers should be very much lower n_u
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: The Hand That Fisted Everyone on February 17, 2013, 12:17:35 AM
http://testyourvocab.com/?r=2517514

33600
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: me003 on February 17, 2013, 12:21:21 AM
16,800
notsid has twice the vocab, apparently.
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Mando Pandango on February 17, 2013, 12:23:27 AM
notsid has double the plethora of verbiage at his disposal, evidently

maps;
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: me003 on February 17, 2013, 12:44:06 AM
Quote from: Sir Popsicle the Sesquipedalian on February 17, 2013, 12:23:27 AM
notsid has double the plethora of verbiage at his disposal, evidently

maps;
I have no idea what that means.   n_u
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Travis on February 17, 2013, 10:56:39 AM
22600 :(
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: ME## on February 17, 2013, 11:08:19 AM
28,300
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Thyme on February 17, 2013, 11:46:23 AM
21,100 5thgrade;
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: silvertone on February 17, 2013, 12:18:14 PM
26
words
http://testyourvocab.com/?r=2524939
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: The Hand That Fisted Everyone on February 17, 2013, 12:19:10 PM
Quote from: silvertone on February 17, 2013, 12:18:14 PM
26
words
http://testyourvocab.com/?r=2524939
really its all you need to effectively communicate, anything more and it becomes confusing.
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: silvertone on February 17, 2013, 12:20:05 PM
Quote from: N o t S i d on February 17, 2013, 12:19:10 PM
really its all you need to effectively communicate, anything more and it becomes confusing.
i wanna be a caveman
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Samus Aran on February 17, 2013, 03:23:05 PM
36300

some of my favorite words were in there

but some of those last 15 or so were just ridiculous
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: ncba93ivyase 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
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Samus Aran on February 17, 2013, 04:41:31 PM
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
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Daddy on February 17, 2013, 04:43:27 PM
can i count french and chinese
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Thyme on February 17, 2013, 04:43:59 PM
if it hadn't been for all those latinate words my score would have been much lower 5thgrade;
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Hiro on February 18, 2013, 11:28:21 PM
22100  ._.
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: YPrrrr on February 19, 2013, 11:00:13 AM
45,000
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Travis on February 19, 2013, 04:09:27 PM
Quote from: YPR Classic on February 19, 2013, 11:00:13 AM
45,000
yeahhh right
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: YPrrrr on February 19, 2013, 09:21:20 PM
Quote from: Travis on February 19, 2013, 04:09:27 PM
yeahhh right
I just checked all the boxes n_u
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: silvertone on February 20, 2013, 06:33:28 AM
if 45,000 is the max. then a lot of boyagers know at least half of all the words out there. cool
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: Nyerp on February 20, 2013, 09:41:30 AM
i only know 1 word: weedhellboner
Title: Re: HOW BIG IS YOUR VOCABULARY
Post by: ikanaide on February 28, 2013, 12:14:09 PM
9200  akudood;