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How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by sandworm101 »

sd9 wrote: post #127
sandworm101 wrote: post #107

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100 is too many? Thats two or three minutes at most. I would suggest a bias in this test towards reading. More than a couple are words i know but rarely see in print. But maybe im too much a fan of british TV so i hear many of thier words without seeing them written down.

Did you actually do 100 words? It wasn't two or three minutes. With good UX, sure. But I wasn't getting through 1 word per second.

I did. Missed two. If you know a word there is no thinking time. Im on tablet so i was probably fast on the clicking, but not like korean gamer fast.

Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by RicoElectrico »

vova_hn2 wrote: post #161
RicoElectrico wrote: post #33

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It estimated 74k words for me, but I feel this might be inflated; much of the time when I didn't know the answer - I could vibe guess it just as you did it. The distractor answers weren't convincing enough. For starters, when an answer was based on deconstructing the word into common English words, that ruled it out. After all, if it was, then it wouldn't have been obscure. A tangent: writing distractors for multiple…

> A tangent: writing distractors for multiple choice questions is hard. In case of online quiz you can have a "competition" between distractors: 1. start by having much more distractors than needed and pick randomly 2. for each measure the probability of it getting clicked (clicks/times it's shown) 3. show the most frequently clicked distractors more often

Yeah, as I researched the topic of multiple choice exam design, seems the rule of thumb is to reject outright any distractors that are chosen by less than 5% of test takers.

Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by naishoya »

stavros wrote: post #144
walthamstow wrote: post #130

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Of course, the line is very blurry. I've used accoutrement(s) in English many times, but I've never considered myself to be speaking English when I use it. It's like joie de vivre or c'est la vie.

What about "rendezvous", or "etiquette", or "RSVP", cliche, nuance, etc? Do you consider those French or English? As you say, the line is very very blurry.

My favorite in the vicinity of etiquette and rendezvous is the "double entendre", very French sounding, but not French at all. That and something being not a person's "forte" which when correctly pronounced is just fort, but through confabulation with a musical term from Italian; forte: to play loudly, sounds more French to English speakers when mispronounced. C'est la vie.

Japanese loanwords really tickle my humour; バイト "Baito" : a casual, part-time, non-serious job. From the German "Arbeit" which is serious, macro-level employment or exertion.

Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by readthenotes1 »

alentred wrote: post #135
DC-3 wrote: post #118

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It also doesn't get hard enough. Also way too many of the words are just words about long words, or the tendency to be verbose.

> It also doesn't get hard enough Oh come on! Like you really knew what "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" is?

Based on only missing that one, it figured out. I knew 83,000 words. That seems unsupportable

Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by sd9 »

sandworm101 wrote: post #181
sd9 wrote: post #127

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Did you actually do 100 words? It wasn't two or three minutes. With good UX, sure. But I wasn't getting through 1 word per second.

I did. Missed two. If you know a word there is no thinking time. Im on tablet so i was probably fast on the clicking, but not like korean gamer fast.

I guess you just have a higher tolerance for inconvenience than me

Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by dtagames »

cubano wrote: post #45
slices wrote: post #28

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75k here but a few of the later ones were lucky guesses.

Yes...exactly the same here although the guesses often had some grounding in the root of the word.

Don't give away all our secrets, lol! Truth be told, I bet a lot of English speakers rely on this system to deal with uncommon words all the time.

Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by siegecraft »

vova_hn2 wrote: post #157

Got 59,800, Performance Breakdown: Core Basics 19/20 Intermediate 17/20 Advanced 19/20 Expert 14/20 Grandmaster 12/20 I guess, it's not too bad for a non-native speaker. Minor feedback: 1. The correct answer for "Lethargic" is "Affected by lethargy". I think, definitions should not use words that share common root with the defined word, because: a. it makes guessing too easy b. it basically becomes a circular definit…

I also felt the definition of lethargic was kind of silly, especially since I had already gotten lethargy as a word in tier 1.
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