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

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DGuller

21,200 words.   :Embarrass:  That's not good.  That's very not good.

Lettow77

 32.6k. Felt a little embarrassed, given the strong showings on here.
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

Norgy

Apparently, I know 27 000 something English words.  :rolleyes:

I don't. But I know how say fuck you.

Zanza

22,100 words, which would put me among the top 0.7% of foreign speakers. I doubt that.

Tamas

Quote from: Syt on 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:

heh, 13100 for me, which puts me well above the 2500-9000 range of non-natives.

Malthus

Quote from: DGuller on July 27, 2011, 01:39:12 PM
21,200 words.   :Embarrass:  That's not good.  That's very not good.

You may not be part of the clerisy.   ;)
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

DGuller

Quote from: Malthus on July 27, 2011, 02:04:49 PM
Quote from: DGuller on July 27, 2011, 01:39:12 PM
21,200 words.   :Embarrass:  That's not good.  That's very not good.

You may not be part of the clerisy.   ;)
I don't know what it means, but I have a feeling it's not complimentary.  :(

FunkMonk

Second page already and no word puns yet? I'm disappointed.
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Malthus

Quote from: DGuller on July 27, 2011, 02:11:45 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 27, 2011, 02:04:49 PM
Quote from: DGuller on July 27, 2011, 01:39:12 PM
21,200 words.   :Embarrass:  That's not good.  That's very not good.

You may not be part of the clerisy.   ;)
I don't know what it means, but I have a feeling it's not complimentary.  :(

Forgive my captious puckishness. If you sedulously study, perhaps its meaning will come to you in a hypnopompic state. After all, one would not wish to commit a malapropism.
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

Warspite

32,800, but I only checked words I could use in a sentence.
" SIR – I must commend you on some of your recent obituaries. I was delighted to read of the deaths of Foday Sankoh (August 9th), and Uday and Qusay Hussein (July 26th). Do you take requests? "

OVO JE SRBIJA
BUDALO, OVO JE POSTA

garbon

Quote from: Warspite on July 27, 2011, 02:28:11 PM
32,800, but I only checked words I could use in a sentence.

Oh definitely. Don't think it really qualifies as "knowing" if you couldn't use/provide a definition.
"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.

Viking

First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Maladict

32,100. I'm off the chart  :cool:

Josquius

Got halfway through it, became bored and stopped.
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garbon

It takes like 5 minutes, tops.  The are only two pages. :huh:
"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.