Suggestion: Add an "I don't know" button. If I don't know a word, I can admit it - but if I have to guess, then I have a 1/4 chance of getting incorrect credit.
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?
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Lol. Yeah. Non native here but gave up at about 50 words. Too many words, too easy. And my English SUCKS
If you gave up at 50, that means you skipped the difficult words.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#213Suggestion: Add an "I don't know" button. If I don't know a word, I can admit it - but if I have to guess, then I have a 1/4 chance of getting incorrect credit.
The chances are actually often way better than 1/4. For the words I didn't know, I was almost always able to exclude one or two options. Sometimes even three, finding the solution by exclusion.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#214Interesting concept, but 100 words is really quite a lot to get through... It's tiresome trudging through the easy words at the start, and I never got to see the interesting words before getting bored. I've seen other systems like this calibrate far more quickly by assigning a sort of score and confidence behind the scenes. Confidence starts out low and increases over time - correct/incorrect answers rapidly adjust s…
> Also - too many clicks per word. It's low stakes, just let me click the definition once and I'll live if I misclick. This, and accept that people will have incorrect input and build it into the confidence. Even the smartest person in the world sometimes makes clerical errors, or has the wrong neuron fire at the wrong moment.
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Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#215It should be possible to respond "I don't know". When you really-really don't know, it's unfair to get a 1/4 chance at right anyway, or even better if you use routine multiple-choice tactics.
I got credit for a few that I would have happily just missed.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#216"77,250words "Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry in disguise?" I do concur that a refined collection of incorrect proposed responses which includes selections among terms with semantic proximity, conflated synonyms and plausible morphology could refine the accuracy of evaluations; and if the test was intended to bestow authentic assessments of lexicographical capability this would in all probability become an…
God, I loathee the use of "moreso" as a synonym for "more" (rather than as "having the previously-mentioned property to a greater degree"). I'm convinced it's a hypercorrection by people who want to sound educated without actually thinking about the meaning of the words they use.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/211458/more-so-o...
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
plenty of words and phrases originate from fiction quixotic, scrooge, shangri-la, Uncle Tom, gargantuan, kafkaesque, blurb, milquetoast and words like cyberspace were first used in fiction once real people use them, they stop being fictional words
The word was "Brobdingnagian", which apparently means "giant", from the book, Brobdingnag, published in the 1700s . I know all of the words you listed, even if I don't know t he books they came from, on the other hand, I've never heard anyone use "Brobdingnagian" and I've never heard of the book it came from either.
I don't know that one, but I do know gargantuan, and pantagruelian, which come from a 17th century novel by Rabelais as well as yahoo and Lilliputian, which come from a 1726 novel by Swift.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I thought that one was pretty well known. But then, I can also rattle off Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch at will.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#219My native language Spanish, it actually helps with words like tergiversate, got 55,900.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#220Interesting concept, but 100 words is really quite a lot to get through... It's tiresome trudging through the easy words at the start, and I never got to see the interesting words before getting bored. I've seen other systems like this calibrate far more quickly by assigning a sort of score and confidence behind the scenes. Confidence starts out low and increases over time - correct/incorrect answers rapidly adjust s…
+1 to all these points especially the first one. I dropped off after about 10 words and didn't have a clear path to move to the next level.