"It's a dead language!" they said, "It's a waste of time!" they said, "It's not like you can talk to dead Romans." they said. WHO IS LAUGHING NOW!?
Learning Latin vocabulary is pretty useful. Latin grammar, not so much.
How many of the 170k English words do you know?
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#442English being my language of choice, but not my first language, I got 75/100. Performance breakdown: 18/20, 18/20, 11/20, 18/20, 10/20.
(My first language is Russian.)
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#443"How much time would you be willing spend on a poll just for the ego boost of being told your vocabulary is large?"
... got 95. Can't believe there's a word for a neighbor whose house is on fire.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#444English being my language of choice, but not my first language, I got 75/100. Performance breakdown: 18/20, 18/20, 11/20, 18/20, 10/20. (My first language is Russian.)
84/100, also English as a second language. Language of choice in technical stuff, mother tongue in abstract and emotional
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#445Very easy for French speakers ahah
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#446Fascinating how many of the words I didn't know, but got correct from how they sound in my head which makes be believe this test is flawed.
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#447As others have pointed out, too many clicks per word. I am a sucker for a 'how many words do you know' quiz so I finished anyway. Overall I'm skeptical of the classifications. In broad strokes, the early words are easier and the latter words are more challenging, but the middle is pretty muddied. Some of the words chosen are rather absurd/inappropriate: breviary (which I got wrong but felt like a vaguely religious wo…
If you didn't already know what Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia was, it's very easy to guess from four options.
I agree there were too many clicks per word, I took me too long to finish. But I also found it too easy to guess the few words I did not know
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#448I think it was way too easy to guess corretly based on exluding obviously incorrect choises and then going with vibes.
There were many words I couldn't have explain the meaning of at all, if I wouldn't have had the options, but having the options made it easy. I wouldn't count those correct answers as a part of my vocabulary (even passive), even if I could answer with relative confidence.
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#450In addition to everything everyone else has said: their math is off by half (or 100%, depending on how you count), due to a structural error. (context: native English speaker, big reader, huge nerd, perfect SAT score) I got all 100 correct on the first try without looking anything up! Confusingly, that only resulted in a "SCIENTIFIC ESTIMATE" that I know 85,000/~170,000 words? Their "How is this calculated" page that…
I agree with the others
But the choice of "advanced words" seems a bit odd. Obscure, isnt that obscure.
Sure there are some speciality words, but most of these words are just the stuff you're gonna hear on radio4 in normal conversation