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Started by garbon, July 27, 2011, 11:21:36 AM

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garbon

July 27, 2011, 11:21:36 AM
http://testyourvocab.com/

Apparently, I only know 32,400 words. :weep:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Habbaku

#1
July 27, 2011, 11:27:08 AM
Tried that earlier.  I got 38.5k.  :smarty:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

katmai

#2
July 27, 2011, 11:29:45 AM
i suck, same score as Garbon.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Grey Fox

#3
July 27, 2011, 11:30:25 AM
28k words.

It's more then I expected. The fact that on the second list almost half the words I knew are also in french did help.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

The Brain

#4
July 27, 2011, 11:56:18 AM
TL
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Solmyr

#5
July 27, 2011, 12:36:48 PM
Got 30100 when I tried it last week.

Scipio

#6
July 27, 2011, 12:56:23 PM
42,100.
What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
-Jose Canseco

There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.
-Every cop, The Wire

"It is always good to be known for one's Krapp."
-John Hurt

katmai

#7
July 27, 2011, 12:58:18 PM
Show off
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Syt

#8
July 27, 2011, 01:03:23 PM
30,700 :Embarrass:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Admiral Yi

#9
July 27, 2011, 01:04:08 PM
35,800

Malthus

#10
July 27, 2011, 01:04:47 PM
39,600.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Syt

#11
July 27, 2011, 01:06:57 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 27, 2011, 01:03:23 PM
30,700 :Embarrass:

Well, according to their statistics I fall into the top 0.3% of non-native speakers.  :huh:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

FunkMonk

#12
July 27, 2011, 01:07:10 PM
You asses, I only got 32,300.  :mad:
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

DontSayBanana

#13
July 27, 2011, 01:07:37 PM
Lawyers, English and history majors/teachers have bigger vocabularies.  Who woulda thunk it? ;)
Experience bij!

DontSayBanana

#14
July 27, 2011, 01:13:50 PM
31,700 for me, by the way.
Experience bij!
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