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Offline dot-matrix

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How's Your Vocabulary
« on: November 19, 2006, 01:49:50 pm »
Your Vocabulary Score: A-



Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.

How's Your Vocabulary?

http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2006, 01:55:56 pm »
Your Vocabulary Score: A



Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.

How's Your Vocabulary?

http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/

Me want a harder test.
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2006, 01:58:08 pm »
Your Vocabulary Score: A- 
 
Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person. 


Swear I didn't cheat. Either this test is for dummies or I was just lucky to know most of it  ;D
Ironically, I had no idea, what "erudite" means, had to look it up  :laugh:
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2006, 02:01:28 pm »
Your Vocabulary Score: B+



You have a zealous love for the English language, and many find your vocabulary edifying.
Don't fret that you didn't get every word right, your vocabulary can be easily ameliorated!

How's Your Vocabulary?

http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/

Hey, I'm not a native speaker, OK?

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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2006, 02:06:28 pm »
Mel, that's great.  I would be lucky to guess two words in Dutch, much less know them.
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2006, 03:41:25 pm »
Your Vocabulary Score: A+

Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.

Quote from: mvansand76 on November 19, 2006, 02:01:28 pm
Your Vocabulary Score: B+
Hey, I'm not a native speaker, OK?

Are you kidding? I don't think I'd even pass this test in any other language.

I am constantly impressed by the skills of all the people here for whom English is a second language!
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2006, 06:34:15 pm »
This English major would have been devastated by anything less! ;D:

Your Vocabulary Score: A 
 
Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person. 
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2006, 06:46:07 pm »
Your Vocabulary Score: A



Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.

How's Your Vocabulary?

http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2006, 06:55:09 pm »
Quote from: Ellemeno on November 19, 2006, 02:06:28 pm
Mel, that's great.  I would be lucky to guess two words in Dutch, much less know them.

Oh I know. I would hate see my grade if I took a test like this in French or Dutch.


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I'd flag it for sure.  :(
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2006, 06:53:57 am »
Quote from: David925 on November 20, 2006, 06:55:09 pm
Oh I know. I would hate see my grade if I took a test like this in French or Dutch.


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I'd flag it for sure.  :(

Hee hee hee hee.... ;D

I think you would all do pretty good. I will make a Dutch vocabulary test and you will find that Dutch is a lot like English!
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2006, 07:02:10 am »
Your Vocabulary Score: A



Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.

How's Your Vocabulary?

http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2006, 11:34:26 am »
Quote from: mvansand76 on November 21, 2006, 06:53:57 am
I think you would all do pretty good. I will make a Dutch vocabulary test and you will find that Dutch is a lot like English!
This is what I have heard. I understand that Frisian, a language (or dialect) spoken, I believe, on the northwestern coast of the Netherlands is the non-English language that most closely resembles English. I'd love to see your Dutch vocabulary test, Melissa.
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2006, 04:04:59 pm »
Quote from: mvansand76 on November 21, 2006, 06:53:57 am
I think you would all do pretty good. I will make a Dutch vocabulary test and you will find that Dutch is a lot like English!

I always found Dutch is like a mixture of English and German. When it's spoken, I understand only little; depends on how clearly it is spoken. For a while I had a Dutch channel on TV and found I'm able to at least comprehend the essence of what was talked about.
But when reading, I can understand very much or even most of it, because it's a lot like English and German.

But when talking to a regular Dutch guy in the Netherlands who doesn't give a flying f*ck about speaking the least bit articulately...then I'm totally lost  ;D.
I found it astonishing, that almost all Dutch can understand German (seemingly) without problems and speak it at least a little bit. I would never be able to speak one single sentence Dutch.
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2006, 04:13:04 pm »
Quote from: Penthesilea on November 21, 2006, 04:04:59 pm
I always found Dutch is like a mixture of English and German. When it's spoken, I understand only little; depends on how clearly it is spoken. For a while I had a Dutch channel on TV and found I'm able to at least comprehend the essence of what was talked about.
But when reading, I can understand very much or even most of it, because it's a lot like English and German.

But when talking to a regular Dutch guy in the Netherlands who doesn't give a flying f*ck about speaking the least bit articulately...then I'm totally lost  ;D.
I found it astonishing, that almost all Dutch can understand German (seemingly) without problems and speak it at least a little bit. I would never be able to speak one single sentence Dutch.

Me too, written is much easier to understand than spoken.  I wonder if there are two reasons that Dutch have an easier time understanding German than vice versa - one) German doesn't have so much of an overlay of the guttural sounds, so it's maybe easier to pick out the syllables, and two) I bet Dutch hear much more German than German hear Dutch.  Both just guesses.

But what always blows me away and knocks my socks off is how well so many Germans and Dutch and Scandinavians speak English.  You all here amaze me.


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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2006, 05:16:49 pm »
Quote from: moremojo on November 20, 2006, 06:34:15 pm
This English major would have been devastated by anything less! ;D:

Your Vocabulary Score: A 
 
Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person. 


Quite, Scott! Exactly what I thought, and exactly what I got (I am so HAPPY!!!, yippee!). God I love that site!
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2006, 05:18:49 pm »
Your Vocabulary Score: A-



Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary! (nefarious)
You must be quite an erudite person.

How's Your Vocabulary?

http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourvocabularyquiz/
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2006, 04:54:47 am »
Quote from: mvansand76 on November 21, 2006, 06:53:57 am
Hee hee hee hee.... ;D

I think you would all do pretty good. I will make a Dutch vocabulary test and you will find that Dutch is a lot like English!

Please don't test me in Dutch, Melissa.

Remember "van top tot teen"?   :-\

I thought she was talking about a mountain ya'll. <blush> The proper translation is "From head to toe".

(God. I bet my Dutch grandfather was turning in his grave so fast he was throwing sparks. He might even come back and haunt me.)  :o
 
I have forgotten so much of my Dutch. It is just shameful.   :(


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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #17 on: November 25, 2006, 03:09:56 am »
Quote from: moremojo on November 21, 2006, 11:34:26 am
This is what I have heard. I understand that Frisian, a language (or dialect) spoken, I believe, on the northwestern coast of the Netherlands is the non-English language that most closely resembles English. I'd love to see your Dutch vocabulary test, Melissa.

Scott. My grandfather told me Dutch was the closest language to English. But English is NOT the closest language to Dutch; German is.

Confusing, isn't it?   ???

I also remember my Grandfather telling me people in the north of the Netherlands speak a dialect of Dutch so close to English a person speaking Frisian conversing with another person speaking English can actually understand each other, even though they were speaking two different languages. We never did make it up as far north as Friesland and to the cities of Leeuwarden, Sneek and Bolsward, but I would love to go up there someday.  :)

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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #18 on: November 25, 2006, 03:17:36 am »
Your Vocabulary Score: C+



Your vocabulary is average.
You're not exactly a literature major, but no one's going to accuse you of being illiterate!

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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2007, 10:42:32 pm »

Your Vocabulary Score: A+



Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.

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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2007, 10:56:19 pm »
Well alrighty then, Kerry!  :D

Way to go!!!!
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2007, 11:12:33 pm »
Quote from: David on February 27, 2007, 10:56:19 pm
Well alrighty then, Kerry!  :D

Way to go!!!!

I work with a woman who calls me pedantic!  :D

Alas, she doesn't mean it as a compliment!   :'(  ;)
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #22 on: February 27, 2007, 11:33:51 pm »
I had to look up the word "pedantic" just to find out what it meant!!!  :laugh:

And I don't think you are one!  :D
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Re: How's Your Vocabulary
« Reply #23 on: February 28, 2007, 12:41:47 am »
Quote from: David on February 27, 2007, 11:33:51 pm
I had to look up the word "pedantic" just to find out what it meant!!!  :laugh:

And I don't think you are one!  :D

Thank ya kindly, David. I surely do hope I'm not pedantic.  Let me know, if ever I start to display any wayward traits!  :-\   :laugh:
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