So how well do you know English?
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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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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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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
And I thought I doing well...
So you missed 'was' ? ;P
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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)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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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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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
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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 managed 35 - native speaker. But about 3 of them were in the last 15 seconds using words from their intro sentence "See how many of the 100 most common words in the English language you can guess in 5 minutes... " :-O :-D
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