http://testyourvocab.com/ >Most Native English adult speakers who have taken the test fall in the range 20,000–35,000 words. >tfw 25500 ;_; So many words I recognised but couldn't place in context and hence didn't understand properly.

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http://testyourvocab.com/

>Most Native English adult speakers who have taken the test fall in the range 20,000–35,000 words.

>tfw 25500 ;_;

So many words I recognised but couldn't place in context and hence didn't understand properly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:11:42 2013 No.3470638 31,100 EAT IT

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:13:41 2013 No.3470644 File: 38 KB, 708x486, Screen Shot 2013-02-15 at 01.12.23.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Native-speaker. > pabulum > oneiromancy A Classical education really helps with some.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:16:41 2013 No.3470650 27,000 words. I expect it is actually slightly lower in real life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:22:41 2013 No.3470662 27,100 ok

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:24:41 2013 No.3470669 30,000. Should probably read more.

>>	None !Rrxa7zePwI Thu Feb 14 20:24:41 2013 No.3470672 Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 36,000 words dem GRE exercises from years ago

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:27:41 2013 No.3470685 >English is third language >11,100 words ;_;

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:32:41 2013 No.3470703 27,700 I read a lot less than I used to, but have started again recently. I imagine it will improve.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:44:41 2013 No.3470750 28,600. I was expecting my number to be a lot smaller, as I checked none of the words on the far right column in the narrow vocab section, and I only read a little and half of what I read is fantasy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:47:42 2013 No.3470759 >33,700 words 2nd language

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:50:42 2013 No.3470767 29,100 A lot of the latter ones were outdated bullshit words from the 16th century which I have never come acrosst

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:53:42 2013 No.3470780 38,300 words. Some of those I'd never heard of, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:54:42 2013 No.3470783 38700 Don't know what this is relative to but it sounds good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:55:41 2013 No.3470787 >>3470644 I knew oneiromancy was some kind of divination, but didn't know which kind, so I didn't check it. Just looked it up. Should have remembered.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:56:41 2013 No.3470789 There really doesn't seem to be enough of a middle ground. It goes from "like" and "I" to "inflagriflabasticibufication."

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:57:42 2013 No.3470794 I'm not clicking that many fucking check boxes jesus christ.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:57:42 2013 No.3470796 >>3470626 Is this some endurance test in clicking holy shit I gave up because I lack the sheer physical endurance thanks for the carpal tunnel

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:59:42 2013 No.3470800 >>3470794 >>3470796 macfags pls go

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 20:59:42 2013 No.3470801 >>3470796 >not using tab and space bar

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:01:41 2013 No.3470808 File: 20 KB, 394x400, 123637843055f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw artificially inflating score by knowing latin and greek

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:03:41 2013 No.3470811 26,200 words

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:07:41 2013 No.3470822 24400. Fuck you guys I don't believe you didn't cheat.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:17:42 2013 No.3470859 foreign fag (english is my third language) 24,600 words so i'm average, i guess

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:17:42 2013 No.3470862 >>3470859 >And for foreign learners of English, we've found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000 words. Click here for the full distribution (opens in new tab/window). or not

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:26:41 2013 No.3470883 39,100. I'd like to thank the two semesters of Latin I took in college.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:28:41 2013 No.3470889 >>3470859 I got beat by a minority?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:31:41 2013 No.3470898 It's actually a pretty bad measure of vocab as it quickly goes into the pointlessly obscure

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:33:41 2013 No.3470900 >21,300 >Got 800 on SAT Reading, 36 on ACT reading I don't even

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:33:41 2013 No.3470902 31,400 FUCK still average ;_;

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:50:17 2013 No.3470935 >>3470889 scary fact time: foreigners are the majority. kafka mode: no matter in which country you live

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:53:41 2013 No.3470939 'Don't check boxes for words you know you've seen before, but whose meaning you aren't exactly sure of.' The word is exactly here. We all wanna perform our best,

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 21:59:42 2013 No.3470954 >tfw 24,000 i thought i was smart too

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 22:04:42 2013 No.3470965 Non-Native 36,400 Thanks, Pinecone!

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 22:08:41 2013 No.3470975 32,000 words

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 14 22:09:41 2013 No.3470980 >>3470975 Forgot to say, non-native speaker. Spanish was my first language, but I'm most fluent in English.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 09:40:45 2013 No.3472003 >>3470787 ὀνειρ is Ancient Greek for 'dream'. Homer saved my ass there.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 09:58:41 2013 No.3472050 File: 18 KB, 182x716, makes me angry.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is making me angry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:09:42 2013 No.3472078 >>3472050 >fuliginous Thank you based Wolfe In fact, Gene Wolfe is probably one of the best authors to read to expand your vocabulary.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:10:42 2013 No.3472080 >>3472050 At least nine of those would be easy if you knew Latin.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:11:41 2013 No.3472084 >>3472078 I think the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of this word sounds better. One of my favourite English words.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:14:41 2013 No.3472088 >>3472080 Learning dead languages is an inexcusable waste of time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:14:41 2013 No.3472092 I hear Goethe knew more words than anyone, ever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:15:41 2013 No.3472097 >>3472088 I wouldn't call an expansive vocabulary a 'waste of time'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:18:41 2013 No.3472101 45,000. Better than I thought. I must be some sort of genious or something.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:19:41 2013 No.3472103 >>3472097 "Hardly anyone uses it" is the definition of "useless", mind.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:21:41 2013 No.3472105 >>3472103 No, that would be "no one uses it".

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:21:41 2013 No.3472106 >>3472088 > learning something currently not in use is worthless Why is there the discipline of history then?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:22:41 2013 No.3472109 39,600. Why are there so many euphemisms for 'fat chick'?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:24:41 2013 No.3472114 >>3472097 Name one application for the highly above average vocabulary.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:25:41 2013 No.3472116 >>3472114 bein good @ writin m8

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:25:41 2013 No.3472119 12900 non-native

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:27:42 2013 No.3472124 >>3472116 Using the words hardly anyone understands is the opposite of being a good writer.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:31:42 2013 No.3472130

>>3472103
Definition. From the latin finis, meaning end, meaning to say where X ends, that is, what marks it off or sets it apart from other things. Abstract nouns are very vague, but their Latin components illustrate their meaning in a metaphorical form.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:32:42 2013 No.3472131 >>3472124 u r avin a laff m8

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 10:34:41 2013 No.3472134 >>3472114 Being able to understand old writers without getting pissed off with them for not talking the same way we do. So pretentious, man! Being able to understand medical and scientific terminology more intuitively.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 11:18:42 2013 No.3472186 43,200 Suck it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 11:32:41 2013 No.3472202 >>3472050 >not knowing tenebrous, braggadocio, bruit, estivation, and uxoricide

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:08:41 2013 No.3472265 File: 23 KB, 718x417, Vocab size.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 40,100 I feel like I'm a pretentious twat though...

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:09:41 2013 No.3472267 If you didn't get them all right then you have zero chance of becoming a succesful writer and should probably kill yourselves

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:12:41 2013 No.3472271 >>3472267 we have google now grandpa

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:15:41 2013 No.3472279 22k I didn't cheat though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:17:41 2013 No.3472281 45,000 (srs)

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:18:41 2013 No.3472283 >>3472134 The complicated words from this survey aren't archaic words...they're obscure ones.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:24:41 2013 No.3472292

>>3472267
>can't become a successful writer without knowledge of mostly archaic words

To understand why this argument is stupid, compare someone like Faulkner to someone like McCarthy.

Sure, Faulkner doesn't have those seemingly made-up words that McCarthy uses (I remember there being a ton in The Road), but he has that beautiful poetic prose and impeccable style that McCarthy decided to ape. That's what elevated Faulkner's novels to their canonical status, not some contrived show of the extent of his vocabulary.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:29:41 2013 No.3472297 >32,000 Well, shit. I had no fuckin' idea I was doing well, I thought I left way too many blank by the end...

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:29:41 2013 No.3472298 >>3472292 >seemingly made-up words that McCarthy uses None of them are made up.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:32:42 2013 No.3472306

>>3472292
tru dat

Good to see that some of you (well, at least one of you) can tell the difference between shit and shinola. Another thing that has always bothered me is McCarthy's disregard for certain punctuation marks, as if the rules don't apply to him. Pretentiousness at its finest.

>>	Controversial Opinion Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:34:41 2013 No.3472311 >>3472306 Time will prove McCarthy a better writer than Faulkner.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 12:46:41 2013 No.3472331

>>3472311

I don't know about that. It was a bit of an exaggeration on my part to call McCarthy shit--he will probably end up in the canon. I enjoyed Blood Meridian and liked Suttree even more, but I still think Faulkner is leagues ahead of McCarthy. McCarthy is just too inconsistent. He will have have a few beautiful passages in all of his books, but some parts are just so poorly written. I think he would be a much better writer--I know he's capable of based on some of the passages he has written--if he didn't write in such a gimmicky style.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 13:19:41 2013 No.3472369 29,000, not bad for a second language.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 13:33:27 2013 No.3472387 13,000 here I don't give a flying fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 13:55:42 2013 No.3472425 File: 931 KB, 245x185, 1355858161909.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3472387

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:04:42 2013 No.3472442

>>3470626
And for foreign learners of English, we've found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000 words. Click here for the full distribution (opens in new tab/window).

I got

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
12,000
words

So I think it ain't THAAT BAD

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:12:42 2013 No.3472457 Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 22,400 words Non-native. It's ok, I guess, on average.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:12:42 2013 No.3472458 >>3472442 Well at least I'm well above other foreign learners. 18900 But is it good enough to publish a fantasy novel in english?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:18:41 2013 No.3472471 >read sidebar >"Norman (French)" all of my wut if they can't get a simple fact right then who are they to judge my vocabulary

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:21:41 2013 No.3472479 I'm 20 years old, a native English speaker, and I got 19,500. Am I retarded?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:22:41 2013 No.3472481 28,300 native speaker and read my first novel when i was 8, fuck yeah

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:24:41 2013 No.3472488 >>3472298 In Blood Meridian he describes the horns of some cow or bull as "agoggle." I can't find it in the OED so I suspect it's a made up word.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:27:51 2013 No.3472497 File: 58 KB, 190x190, 1346941631091.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 18,300 and i'm native

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:27:51 2013 No.3472499

I don't think of myself as having a large vocabulary, but even so I think this test suffers from sample bias and outright lying. I expected to be quizzed on some of these words I was claiming to know. I think people are checking words they couldn't properly define.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:28:41 2013 No.3472501 >>3472481 8 is pretty average, bro.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:36:41 2013 No.3472509 >>3470626 24,300 I'm 19 so I guess that's okay.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:38:42 2013 No.3472512 File: 404 KB, 500x406, and-not-a-single-fuck-was-given-that-day-flood.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 8750 master race reporting in

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 14:51:41 2013 No.3472533 30,700

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:02:42 2013 No.3472564 Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 17,500 words German here. Feels okay, man.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:02:42 2013 No.3472566 >>3472497 Native Australian, roight?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:03:41 2013 No.3472567 >>3472512 >that look of approval by the old man Grat picture.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:08:41 2013 No.3472582 38,900

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:11:41 2013 No.3472587 29,800 Not a native speaker.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:13:51 2013 No.3472590 This vocabulary test sucks. It's not randomized.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:14:51 2013 No.3472596 File: 1.47 MB, 320x240, 1349545281239.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >28.5k >19 year old >non-native, but learned very young >over-achiever in general >got into serious reading about a year ago Feels alright.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:15:41 2013 No.3472601 >>3472590 >It's not randomized Why would you take the test more than once?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:17:42 2013 No.3472604 >>3472601 To learn more words.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:23:41 2013 No.3472616 13,700. Not bad for a non native speaker who has never been in an English speaking country.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:39:41 2013 No.3472669 29,400 I suspect it's a bit lower than that...

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:47:42 2013 No.3472690 19,200 words Not bad I guess, Belgiumfag here.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:52:41 2013 No.3472710 >21,700 I felt bad until I looked at the breakdown by age and realised I was less than 1,000 off the "average"

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 15:57:41 2013 No.3472728 39,900 I got most of them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 16:02:41 2013 No.3472746 >>3472488 'goggle' is a word to describe ogling something/someone 'a' is a common prefix to turn a word into describing a state, e.g. 'abed', 'asleep', 'ago' Even though it's not in the dictionary, it's a fine word, I think.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 16:18:41 2013 No.3472789 17,500 words, foreign language student from Argentina. Not bad, I guess. Average score for foreigns is 2,500-9,000

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 16:37:41 2013 No.3472825 >>3470626 >http://testyourvocab.com/ So... How the fuck can I improve my vocab? 22,300 is just depressing...

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 16:40:41 2013 No.3472833 >>3472825 Read more. Look up definitions.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 16:44:41 2013 No.3472844 >>3472746 I remember my English teacher (foreign language) telling me that in English there are new words ever day which makes it the language with the largest vocabulary.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 16:45:41 2013 No.3472846

>>3472833

I read constantly, and rarely encounter words I don't understand. There were a few in infinite jest that I had to look up but apart from that other stuff seems to be fine.

I would actually really like to improve my vocab though, it would be awesome to be able to throw out words like opsimath and seem like a pretentious assole.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 16:48:41 2013 No.3472853

>>3472825
Don't be depressed. This is a flawed test. They extrapolate the size of your vocabulary based on how well you know words that were only common centuries ago and have since been relegated to the "only-used-ironically-by-normal-pele-if-at-all-but-used-unironicallby-fucktards" category.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 16:54:41 2013 No.3472863 Do I have to be able to "describe it" or just know what the words mean and be able to use in a correct sentence?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 17:08:42 2013 No.3472887 >>3470662 master race

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 17:14:41 2013 No.3472897

>>3472825

Read a lot. Read English classics.

This is my word learning system:

>keep a notebook and jot down any words i are unsure of (i am very strict with this - it's surprising how easy it is to con yourself into thinking you know a word when the definition isn't clear in your head)
>each day put the new words in a spreadsheet
>google definitions for the new ones and date them (I love using image search for plants/clothes/animals/architectur features)
>then I randomise the lines of the rest of the sheet (my old look ups) and go through ten or twenty lines and check I can remember the definitions.
>any I am sure of I move to another "words definititely learnt" spreadsheet
>any I'm not sure of I date (to a keep a tab on how often words are looked up) and leave in the sheet to have another go at on some random day in the future

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 17:18:42 2013 No.3472906 >>3472897 Clever. I'm going to try that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 17:21:41 2013 No.3472915 >second language >studied English for over 10 years >22.900 >tfw all the words I would have gotten if I had started as a native speaker I...It's okay...

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 17:22:41 2013 No.3472918 31,100 native speaker I feel like I should've known a lot more of those words but some just slipped my mind. And I keep a journal of new words and everything ;_;

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 17:27:41 2013 No.3472927 19,400

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 17:58:41 2013 No.3473003

>>3472853
Well yes, but words pretty much just fall into categories of either common now or "only-used-ironically-by-normal-pele-if-at-all-but-used-unironicallby-fucktards".

What's the point of testing a vocabulary if its only limited to common words? How else would one measure vocabulary?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 17:59:41 2013 No.3473006 >>3472863 if you can use it correctly and understand it that's enough by my standard. Definitions are just descriptions of use after all.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:03:41 2013 No.3473019

37,800.

>>3472124
Using the right words is the mark of being a great writer. It's not like you have to use them if you know them, but having more words to use is always good. Also, obscure words tend to be exceptionally euphonious, and a little bit of showmanship never hurt anybody. It's a real joy to watch someone completely in command of their form really go all out, whether it's a writer, a dancer, a musician, or what have you.

>>3472853
Intuitively it seems like a little bit of a Blogthings methodology, but think about it: English is a vast sprawl that's accumulated over more than a thousand years. At any given time, only a small portion of it is necessary to function, even to speak intelligently. Look at all the people scoring just north of 10,000 functioning on an English-language discussion forum. The test probably isn't flawed. It's just measuring something of iffy import.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:08:41 2013 No.3473031 File: 113 KB, 1279x717, 1358949402612.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >23,400 words >Native speaker I am going to study he dictionary, this is not good enough.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:18:41 2013 No.3473056 File: 8 KB, 190x192, 1360958432521.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >27,300 words And to think I thought myself well spoken for a younf man of 18 years

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:20:41 2013 No.3473062 File: 234 KB, 853x480, 1358199094908.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >27,300 words And to think I thought myself well spoken for a young man of eighteen years

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:28:41 2013 No.3473084

>>3472078
He's tried my patience with Shadow. I really, really want to like it. I'll give Claw a shot, but I'm taking a break with some Murakami.

To make the post relevant: 30,300. Seems okay for a high-school senior. Still really lacking for a native speaker I think.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:29:41 2013 No.3473087 File: 54 KB, 756x506, retard.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I am a native english speaker.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:31:42 2013 No.3473088

>35,700
words

I guess it's okay. I'm not sure if I'm a real native speaker though. I was born in Australia to Yuropoor parents, grew up over there for a couple of years, stayed in Yurop ever since but was in a British school.
I guess that I'm a native speaker.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:32:42 2013 No.3473095 I'm a native speaker who has studied latin, greek, and german and done a decent bit of reading. SO HOW THE FUCK DID I GET A 28,000?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:43:42 2013 No.3473131 >>3473095 You're probably young; study more Greek and Latin.

Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:44:42 2013 No.3473137

27100
as a german who has been stuck for most of his life in a school where movies were put above books.
surely that was because the pronounciation was already presented.

now that i think about it... i was a fucking asspie. i got buttmad when we watched 1984 instead of discussing the book. the only book that was discussed was lord of flies which was... okay

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:47:41 2013 No.3473148 >>What nationality are you? >>England, Belgium, Germany etc. Since when are countries nationalities?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:48:41 2013 No.3473151 >>3473148 since always pretty much.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:49:42 2013 No.3473154 File: 32 KB, 480x349, 1338064237976.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3473148

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:50:42 2013 No.3473157 >>3473151 So... Americans should be America, and I shouldn't be Dutch but The Netherlands? Also my score was 30200. I like it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 18:51:41 2013 No.3473160 File: 12 KB, 248x249, checkem.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3473157

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:17:41 2013 No.3473252 Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 14,000 words This is fairly bad, even if it is my second language. I'm Estonian

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:18:41 2013 No.3473256 >>3473252 Don't feel too bad, for an Estonian its a big achievement just to be literate.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:29:41 2013 No.3473285 >What gender are you? privilege checkin' time

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:31:41 2013 No.3473293 >27,900 >Mexican >just like your gardener You should be ashamed if you're under my number and American.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:32:41 2013 No.3473298 >>3473293 What if I'm Australian?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:36:41 2013 No.3473312 >>3473298 I only have a problem with Americans, but if you have a score below mine you should be ashamed too that a foreigner knows more about your own language.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:47:41 2013 No.3473355 File: 18 KB, 500x378, 1353961226163.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >second language >21,400

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:49:41 2013 No.3473361 First language, 24,700 words. I studied engineering instead of liberal arts in university, though, so I blame it on that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:56:41 2013 No.3473386 I started to cry upon doing this because my vocabulary isn't as great as I thought it was. 25,300. Native language.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 19:57:41 2013 No.3473387 >>3473293 Are you preparing yourself to illegally storm the border to get in the US or are you already in?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 20:04:41 2013 No.3473413 43.600; non-native speaker as in not being born in an English-speaking country. However, I've grown up with both German and English. But honestly, having learned Latin and some Greek has helped me out a lot. I'm really pleased with the outcome.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 21:36:42 2013 No.3473680 >>3472267 0/10 Try again next time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 21:50:41 2013 No.3473700 Are you guys sure you didn't just click on words you recognized but don't actually know?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 22:24:42 2013 No.3473764 22,500 English is the only language I speak fluently.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 22:35:41 2013 No.3473786 8,490 non native speaker oh god, what do I do, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 22:35:41 2013 No.3473789 how long does the test take?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 22:49:42 2013 No.3473823 >>3473789 two pages, so about 2 minutes tops you lazy bastard

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 22:50:41 2013 No.3473827 >20,500 >English is third language Could be a lot better, I am disappointed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 22:58:42 2013 No.3473855 >>3473387 This is an interesting reply. I wish I had seen it earlier so you could tell me if it was a genuine question or a well-aimed joke. You could say I'm preparing myself, I just got accepted into Yale.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 23:47:42 2013 No.3473949 >19 year old Australian >38,100 words Is this a good thing, or do I need to get out more?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 15 23:54:42 2013 No.3473968 >>3473062 >tfw also 18 and apparently know 1000 more than you. feels good man

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:13:41 2013 No.3474009 >>3473949 both

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:25:42 2013 No.3474033 >>3473855 As a fellow Mexican, good job

Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:27:42 2013 No.3474035
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HOLY SHIT

I am not that smart at all. Second language too. Are they the same words every time or are they shuffled? I think I got all the easy ones, or something. I'm gonna do it again and see.

Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:30:41 2013 No.3474044

>28,200 words
>27-yeard old native speaker

Mathfag here. Read roughly five books per year between undergrad lit and graduation just to keep my skills from atrophying. Of course some were the literary equivalent of fast food: Koontz, GRRM, and Tad Williams. Others were more substantial like Daniel Keyes, Thomas Friedman, and Brian Greene.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:39:41 2013 No.3474058 >21 years old >Working on my J.D. >43,200 What have you done lately?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:41:41 2013 No.3474063 File: 435 KB, 340x191, tumblr_luvwiezQRU1qiicfz.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] welp, about time to start reading the dictionary.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:44:41 2013 No.3474069 >>3474033 Que un extraño en 4chan me lo dijera se sintió mejor a que lo hiciera un conocido. Gracias.

Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:47:42 2013 No.3474076

>>3473855
>You could say I'm preparing myself, I just got accepted into Yale.

Remember this for the rest of your life, you did not get on your own hard work or merit. You got in to fill a minority quota, and took the place of a student much smarter and hard working than you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:50:41 2013 No.3474085 File: 31 KB, 285x332, 1345752548427.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >26,500 I was impressed with myself for a lot of them, too...

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 00:55:41 2013 No.3474094 33,500 native speaker 29

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 01:08:42 2013 No.3474116 25800, non-native speaker I was 10yo when knights of the old republic came out, I literally played that game through with a dictionary in hand. Then in school I could skip all English classes and still get all the tests 100% correct

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 01:12:42 2013 No.3474120 >>3474076 Remember this for the rest of your life, don't be such a bitter cunt who projects their own prejudices on situations they know nothing about.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 01:12:42 2013 No.3474121 File: 147 KB, 516x408, givingafuck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >29000 falling asleep >mfw I'm still a better writer than any of you twats will ever be time for bed

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 01:23:41 2013 No.3474135 File: 44 KB, 367x367, Jun17421.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 43,500 here Amurrican of Chilean parents Native speaker of both English and Spanish Feels good, man.

>>	Cellis !eTB.HcnPbU Sat Feb 16 01:34:41 2013 No.3474147 >>3470902 Same score, that feel.

>>	captain lower case !!QnLsYtrr3tn Sat Feb 16 01:36:41 2013 No.3474148 >>3474135 are you a jew?

Anonymous Sat Feb 16 01:45:41 2013 No.3474171

>>3474148
On my mother's side I'm descended from Italian that immigrated to Chile from Naples.

My father's side are descended from Basques that immigrated to Chile in the 1870s to escape the ravages of the Third Carlist War.

So to answer your question, no.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 01:54:42 2013 No.3474188 >>3470626 I got all of them. On the other hand my hobby is reading dictionaries in order to find recherche words and then using them in conversation as a form of intellectual masturbation.

>>	captain lower case !!QnLsYtrr3tn Sat Feb 16 01:56:42 2013 No.3474191 >>3474171 >escape the ravages but o.k., thanks for answering.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 01:56:42 2013 No.3474193 File: 40 KB, 142x165, 1252788806911.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3474188 Sounds like someone is butthurt.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 02:05:42 2013 No.3474205 Fuck yes 36,800 Time to look up some of those fuckin words

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 02:08:41 2013 No.3474206 >>3472897 Do yourself a favor and use Anki.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 02:09:42 2013 No.3474209 >21,000 >first language >imokwiththis.png

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 02:24:41 2013 No.3474228 21,900. Didn't even finish High-School, so if you're a native speaker and score less than you should probably kill yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 02:25:41 2013 No.3474230 I got 12900 words. The way to learning English is too hard ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 07:11:42 2013 No.3474778 The average seems skewed because people who read from /lit/ or other forums would take the test more often than others. Basically, my 30k word score is way above average. It makes me feel better to think this way.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 07:18:42 2013 No.3474788 22k english is a secondary

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 07:19:42 2013 No.3474791 Your huge dic only means you put less effort into conveying your thoughts. Which is the opposite of what one should do, as a writer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 07:21:41 2013 No.3474794 >>3474791 I generalized. Most tend to use obscure words rather than simplify their wording.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 07:32:41 2013 No.3474811 31900 non-native speaker. Suck it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 08:11:42 2013 No.3474864 >>3474811 fuck you liar

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 08:29:41 2013 No.3474880 >mfw all these nerds ticking words they kind of think they might know what they could mean

Anonymous Sat Feb 16 08:30:41 2013 No.3474882

23.8k and not a native speaker, nor have I been to an English-speaking country.

This is pretty interesting actually: http://testyourvocab.com/blog/20117-25-New-results-for-native-speaks.php#mainchartNative

I'm just about at the average of a native speaker my age. Feels good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 09:11:41 2013 No.3474983 37,000 native...meh I was surprised by the last column

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:06:41 2013 No.3476114 35,900 for a native speaker... I'd feel worse about it if I had majored in the humanities instead of a STEM degree.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:25:42 2013 No.3476152 >>3474791 Having a large vocabulary makes it easier to express one's thoughts. This is well known.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:30:42 2013 No.3476164 >>3474880 So much this. They've explicitly given instructions not to do so, but hey, anything to massage your ego, right?

Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:35:42 2013 No.3476172

I don't wanna create a new thread so I'll just ask here, am I retarded or is Journey to the West by Anthony Yu not on the internet? Normally I can find shit by googling but I can't find a single link, and the #bookz thing in the sticky didn't give me anything either.

also what's the point of that picture you guys have on the wiki of the different JttW translations? How does that help at all? If someone is looking for that won't they want some of explanation on which translation would be the best for them..I don't see how merely listing them helps.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:36:42 2013 No.3476177 An alternative explanation exists too: people actually know the meaning of the words. One cannot discount this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:40:41 2013 No.3476185 >>3476177 Based on the intelligence level of the average /lit/ poster, I'm going to reject that explanation.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:47:41 2013 No.3476211 As an 18 year old selective school educated Australian I am quite disappointed with my score of 22400. National tests put me in the top 10% of the populace or are Australians just dumb?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:49:41 2013 No.3476217 File: 10 KB, 199x200, This+_73006b6a903ac7ce51d6713b2b34b73c.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] > 45,000 words

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:55:41 2013 No.3476234 >36,600 words

Anonymous Sat Feb 16 18:59:41 2013 No.3476248

>>3473003
The problem is that the words on the test are at two extremes: they are either extremely common, or they are archaic. The selection of words could be much improved.

It would be better to test vocabulary by using common words, uncommon words that would be known by anyone who reads good writing, and a smattering of the archaic words that Classics majors love.

I would say anyone who is able to read most articles archived at aldaily.com and find that they know all of the words has an excellent vocabulary. Most of those articles have words that are fair and effective for judging a vocabulary.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:01:42 2013 No.3476254 >>3476211 HSC pls go

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:07:42 2013 No.3476273 >>3476254 why?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:12:42 2013 No.3476298 >terpsichorean >valetudinarian >embonpoint >hypnopompic jesus

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:18:42 2013 No.3476315 >Non-native >20 100 Works for me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:23:41 2013 No.3476326 non-native, 9650 i'm working on it

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:36:41 2013 No.3476354 >mfw saw trollop

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:41:41 2013 No.3476363 >>3476211 Any 18 year old is going to have a relatively poor vocabulary. Try again in 20 years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:49:42 2013 No.3476377 20 000 What a letdown. I am a non-native, though; maybe in a few years...

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:53:42 2013 No.3476386 34,400 motherfuckers. >the relief that I'm as good as I thought sweet validation

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:55:41 2013 No.3476391 >>3470685 Holy shit you're sad because of 11,100 words and it's your THIRD language. shut up I'm jelly

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:55:41 2013 No.3476392 >>3476211 Australia is pretty hit-and-miss in my experience. Sorry, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:56:41 2013 No.3476394 >>3476363 No way, some of these words do not appear in modern vernacular and quite frankly do not add proficiency to one's vocabulary.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 19:57:41 2013 No.3476396 >>3476392 what do you mean

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:05:42 2013 No.3476419 >32,600 words Actually feels good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:07:41 2013 No.3476424 >>3476394 Outside of Classics academia, this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:07:41 2013 No.3476425 >>3476394 They don't appear in the 'vernacular'; you're right. But they do appear, albeit rarely, in educated works. Knowing more words is always better than knowing fewer - that's just how it works.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:08:41 2013 No.3476427 I bet you don't know the meaning of the word carnaptious.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:13:41 2013 No.3476444 I think you'll find all people, even the most adroit wordsmiths, utilise the same words across most of their writing and conversations.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:19:42 2013 No.3476463 >>3476444 >utilise why does this word even exist? Better question: why the fuck would you use it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:24:41 2013 No.3476474 >>3476463 Whenever you are writing about something that gives you a particular advantage or effectiveness, you should use 'utilize' over 'use'.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:24:41 2013 No.3476477 >>3476463 You may be able to utilize "utilize" euphonically.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:31:42 2013 No.3476499 >>3472497 Phew, I did better than someone. It's no excuse but when I wasn't confident on a word I Googled it and if I wasn't exactly right I didn't check. I also sensed a slight cultural bias with a few words like "natter" mixed in. Bad feels.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:32:42 2013 No.3476502 30,700 words. Could be worse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:34:41 2013 No.3476508 >>3476463 I find 'utilise' is more indicative of the technological process man engages with when he 'makes use of' a signature artefact be it word of pencil

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:35:42 2013 No.3476511 >>3476463 I find 'utilise' is more indicative of the technological process man engages with when he 'makes use of' a signature artefact be it word or pencil

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 20:54:41 2013 No.3476553 >>3470767 >outdated no you're probably a retarded kindle user too

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 16 22:33:41 2013 No.3476717 31,800 The number should really be a bit lower, though. I probably checked a few that I couldn't quite define--just give synonyms for and that sort of thing. Would anyone happen to know of a test like this for Spanish?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 12:52:42 2013 No.3478511 21,200. guess im pleb tier shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 13:09:41 2013 No.3478550 23,100 English as a third language Good thing I don't write in English...

Anonymous Sun Feb 17 13:16:41 2013 No.3478570

>>3476152
Of course, expressing ideas is easier.
But, in conveying it, the obscure words only hinder. You can of course take the gamble and hope the recipient understands those obscure words and risk breaking their concentration and interest.
Accessibility is utmostly important.
Unless one is an egocentric writer/speaker.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 13:46:41 2013 No.3478663 File: 23 KB, 707x324, results.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Meh I usually "read" audiobooks nowadays a lot of the words i probably know the meaning of but never saw them before.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 17 14:15:41 2013 No.3478760 >>3474076 Do you know the guy? Do you know how smart and hard working he is? Of course you do not. So please do not go around humilliating yourself like this.

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