So how well do you know English?
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Pah. The site's buggy. It doesn't let you enter a complete word before it starts jumping the cursor around. I fucking hate sites that don't manage the focus properly, or clear edit fields that you've already entered stuff into.
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Fold With Us![^]I found that very annoying, too. I also question the approach to determining how well someone knows their English based on the system they did.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I agree. There were a lot of words not in that list. Love being one of them. Another being goto :laugh: on a more humorous note.
Beauty is only a light switch away.
I agree. I don't think it was a very accurate approach at determining how good a person's English skills are.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)wife and i, playing together, got 50
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Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)38. They're so damned obvious after you see them.
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Sig history "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon Unix is a Four Letter Word, and Vi is a Two Letter Abbreviation
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Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)I got 38 out of a hundred - And I thought I doing well... I got most of the possessives and prepositions which seem to make up a fair chunk of the words.
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Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)Almost, but not quite, 42.
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Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|
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wife and i, playing together, got 50
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I got 38 out of a hundred - And I thought I doing well... I got most of the possessives and prepositions which seem to make up a fair chunk of the words.
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008) -
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
And I thought I doing well...
So you missed 'was' ? ;P
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008):doh:
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)50 .. woohoo, sadly that seems high :D
I'm largely language agnostic
After a while they all bug me :doh:
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Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)40, just couldn't think of all those little words... Hmmm... interesting, second language people use those more so I think that's why they get a better score, the more common words are the backbone of their initial vocabulary where as we have quite a pile to sort through.
I've heard more said about less.
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)39
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40, just couldn't think of all those little words... Hmmm... interesting, second language people use those more so I think that's why they get a better score, the more common words are the backbone of their initial vocabulary where as we have quite a pile to sort through.
I've heard more said about less.
shiftedbitmonkey wrote:
interesting, second language people use those more so I think that's why they get a better score
Not necessarily. Anyone who has learned a second language and thinks about how they learned it should do fairly well. My strategy was to think about when I was learning Spanish and think about the words there and the groups they were in. When you leanrn a second language you always pick up more about your own language as you try to make associations between the two. You also learn in more detail about various groups of words as each group has a specific set of rules. People don't generally learn that in their first language, because you pick it up as you go along. For example, I started with the articles (definite and indefinite*), then moved on to common verb conjucations (to be and to have), prepositions, interogatives, possessives, conjuctions and so on. * And I completely forgot that English does, along with other languages, have a plural indirect article. If you are curious the plural indirect article is "some"
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shiftedbitmonkey wrote:
interesting, second language people use those more so I think that's why they get a better score
Not necessarily. Anyone who has learned a second language and thinks about how they learned it should do fairly well. My strategy was to think about when I was learning Spanish and think about the words there and the groups they were in. When you leanrn a second language you always pick up more about your own language as you try to make associations between the two. You also learn in more detail about various groups of words as each group has a specific set of rules. People don't generally learn that in their first language, because you pick it up as you go along. For example, I started with the articles (definite and indefinite*), then moved on to common verb conjucations (to be and to have), prepositions, interogatives, possessives, conjuctions and so on. * And I completely forgot that English does, along with other languages, have a plural indirect article. If you are curious the plural indirect article is "some"
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I was thinking along the lines of the MENSA tests that favor the attention to detail of things like the word: of. Where our brain glazes past it and foreign speakers tend to notice it right off. This is a function of the brain taking for granted certain elements. So my theory still applies in the context you supply. You are paying attention to those words, just as a second language speaker where as the bulk of us aren't. So, same point with the exception of the pedantic response. Doh. ;P
I've heard more said about less.
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shiftedbitmonkey wrote:
interesting, second language people use those more so I think that's why they get a better score
Not necessarily. Anyone who has learned a second language and thinks about how they learned it should do fairly well. My strategy was to think about when I was learning Spanish and think about the words there and the groups they were in. When you leanrn a second language you always pick up more about your own language as you try to make associations between the two. You also learn in more detail about various groups of words as each group has a specific set of rules. People don't generally learn that in their first language, because you pick it up as you go along. For example, I started with the articles (definite and indefinite*), then moved on to common verb conjucations (to be and to have), prepositions, interogatives, possessives, conjuctions and so on. * And I completely forgot that English does, along with other languages, have a plural indirect article. If you are curious the plural indirect article is "some"
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Heh, I just noticed you scored lower than I did. Hah! So much for your theory. The non-native speakers were reporting scores of 50.
I've heard more said about less.
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Heh, I just noticed you scored lower than I did. Hah! So much for your theory. The non-native speakers were reporting scores of 50.
I've heard more said about less.
shiftedbitmonkey wrote:
I just noticed you scored lower than I did. Hah! So much for your theory.
But I also scored higher than many other native speakers.
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That's meta-data, not worth knowing. On the other hand, my kid used to watch "Between the Lions", and they had a song called "Ten Little Words", which I assume are the ten most common. After hearing it for the ump-teenth time I wrote them down: A The Is That You Of In And It To
I got 51. But I type fast.
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Do you know the 100 most common words? In 5 minutes? http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords[^] I dont! I got 24 :|
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)To my defense it is just past midnight and I got less than 4 hours sleep total since I woke up at 8:30 AM on Friday morning...
John