Darth InSidious Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Your vocabulary, that is I found an interesting little testing thingummy here. We estimate that there are 82127 words/phrases which you fully comprehend and might potentially use. There are 4649 words/phrases which you would find familiar whilst not actually understanding. There are 3099 words/phrases which are not familiar to you, but which you would nevertheless be able to understand. This is out of a sample of 150,000, but you are only tested on 100 randomly chosen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSI Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I got 86376 words for potential use, and I didn't even fill out all forms. And I have to admit I got tricked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I found an interesting little testing thingummy here. This is out of a sample of 150,000, but you are only tested on 100 randomly chosen. Seems to be very random results depending on what words are picked. I got guesstimated 77861 words, which sounds very high for someone who isn't a native English speaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSI Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Yeah, and some of them are seems like usual words in our life. No offense meant Stoffe. 'Guesstimate' is a real word, CSI. Check the dictionary before you 'correct' someone. And stoffe is a woman. --Jae [Edited] Oops...Sorry Mama Jae and Stoffe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 We estimate that there are 134,812 words/phrases which you fully comprehend and might potentially use. There are 13,946 words/phrases which you would find familiar whilst not actually understanding. There are 6198 words/phrases which are not familiar to you, but which you would nevertheless be able to understand. I got a list with a bunch of medical terms, flowers, and birds that I knew. The insect ones threw me for a loop. Never have been the entomologist type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igyman Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Whoo, I almost got confused while filling the form, the checkboxes aren't placed very precisely, but I managed and got the following results: 100721 words/phrases which I fully comprehend 29442 words/phrases which I would find familiar but not fully understand 24793 words/phrases that are not familiar to me, but would be able to understand. I think that's pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Seems to be very random results depending on what words are picked. I got guesstimated 77861 words, which sounds very high for someone who isn't a native English speaker. I would never have guessed you weren't a native speaker stoffe, neither am I... Here's my results: 114667 fully use & comprehend 26343 familiar with 15496 not familiar, but would understand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Indeed seems to vary quite a lot depending on what words you get. Tried it again, this time I got 106920 known words, 34090 familiar words and 13946 not known but understandable words. Seems even more unlikely than the first result, so the test probably doesn't say that much about anything. Some of the "words" are pretty odd for a test. Two I got this time: revolutionary armed forces of colombia federative republic of brazil I got a list with a bunch of medical terms, flowers, and birds that I knew. The insect ones threw me for a loop. Never have been the entomologist type. I got a whole bunch which sounded like Latin that I didn't know what they were. Perhaps the flowers and medical terms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Yep, most of the medical terms were from Greek or Latin. They used the Latin/scientific names for Robins and Delphiniums, too. I was very amused that pediculosis pubis made the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSI Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Latin and Greek give me headaches, no offense meant. Move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealDem Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I Fully Comprehend with 148,758 words.3099Words that are familiar to me.And 1550 that I dont know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimartin Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Stoffe did better than me and my native language is English. Guess I should have taken other science classes in college besides Chemistry. I like numbers and math more than the written language. Chemistry made more sense to me as I was an Accountant/Finance major. 99,172. Words/phrases fully comprehend 37,189. familiar with 18,595. not familiar with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallucination Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 We estimate that there are 133262 words/phrases which you fully comprehend and might potentially use. I forgot the other numbers 'cause I'm that amazing. Latins and Greek make my head hurt, no offense meant. Move on. So you make a mistake whilst trying to point out someone's (someone who happens to have English as a second language!) non-existent mistake, then go and make an error in your next post. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSI Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I forgot the other numbers 'cause I'm that amazing. So you make a mistake whilst trying to point out someone's (someone who happens to have English as a second language!) non-existent mistake, then go and make an error in your next post. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Yeah, thank you. At least I'm not on your grammar hit list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 My vocabulary is big enough thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Where is the "check all" box for the left hand column? It took too long to check all of them manually. We estimate that there are 154956 words/phrases which you fully comprehend and might potentially use. There are approximately 0 words/phrases which you would find familiar whilst not actually understanding. There are about 0 words/phrases which are not familiar to you, but which you would nevertheless be able to understand. Then if you check every single box you see... We estimate that there are 154956 words/phrases which you fully comprehend and might potentially use. There are approximately 154956 words/phrases which you would find familiar whilst not actually understanding. There are about 154956 words/phrases which are not familiar to you, but which you would nevertheless be able to understand. And what I really got... We estimate that there are 77478 words/phrases which you fully comprehend and might potentially use. There are approximately 13946 words/phrases which you would find familiar whilst not actually understanding. There are about 60433 words/phrases which are not familiar to you, but which you would nevertheless be able to understand. Meh. So my English sucks. *shrugs* And I'm a native speaker too. Some other questions I had for this little exercise: - Where in tarnation was the column for "I have no frickin' idea what this word is?" - Who is/was Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski and what significance does he have in the annals of world society that justifies him being on a test like this? - And who would name their child Habdank? My eyes hurt now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Meh. So my English sucks. *shrugs* And I'm a native speaker too. lol, I wouldn't worry about it, for some reason I don't have much faith in the accuracy of that test... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I got: 99172 Known words 46487 Familiar words 9297 Unfamiliar words I have exactly the same question as cut: Where is the "I don't know" column? For all the alien words to me I had to pick "I've heard but dunno." The test sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Catto Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 72829 words/phrases that i fully comprehend. 40289 words/phrases i find familar but dont fully understand and; 41838 words/phrases i dont have a clue what they are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Meh, I speak Caprican and several Cylon dialects, with Ye Auld Kliingon as a second language. I have no respect whatsoever for this Engrish, as it is far to frimsonian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimmerman Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I got on my first time: 103821 that I fully comprehend and may potentially use 26343 that I find familiar whilst not actually understanding 23243 that are not familiar but I could understand nevertheless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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