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23,100
The vocabulary of a successful 30 y/o American businessman (pfft to businessperson).
I’m not sure that’s a proper equivalency. Seems to be a low bar these days.
pbirdJanuary 24, 2018, 11:26 AM
I came out about like the browndog. Expected better. lol
30,150
& Gerard, if your score was really 22,000, I’m quite sure you cheated, entering wrong answers on purpose, just to make the rest of us feel good. Thanks! What a guy!!
Rob De WittJanuary 24, 2018, 11:42 AM
30,325.
My only excuse is that I was born before the Baby Boom, and I’m a compulsive reader.
Phil in EnglewoodJanuary 24, 2018, 12:50 PM
30,325. Another compulsive reader. Also had a fabulous high school English teacher.
captfleeJanuary 24, 2018, 12:52 PM
30,500
Sure, in some parallel universe my vocabulary is larger than Gerard’s…just not this one. Quirky algorithm? Perhaps that old saw about some seamen being relatively literate owing to having nought else to do off watch has some validity after all?
SuburbanbansheeJanuary 24, 2018, 1:01 PM
Also 30,500, but some of those early questions had very bad answers; I basically had to guess at what the survey makers thought they were doing. And towards the end, I had to guess at the meaning of “avulse.” (Ew! What a terrible word!)
So yeah, I think at a certain point the quiz is more a matter of testsmanship than wordsmanship. Our Host is much better at words than I.
Rob De WittJanuary 24, 2018, 1:18 PM
Hard to imagine my vocabulary is that much broader than Gerard’s, all right – despite his tendency to misspell “its” from time to time ;-}
So if it’s true that he didn’t cheat to make the rest of us feel better, I ‘spect my years as an introvert doing crossword puzzles must be the answer, since I’m self-educated. Also I’ve been getting paid to sing Gregorian for the last couple of years, so there’s been a lot of Latin for the first time.
And I agree that testing skills is probably a good bit of it.
TonyJanuary 24, 2018, 1:47 PM
29,800 here. And it ain’t how many you know, it’s how you put them together.
Poetry = language raised to highest and best use, and conveys maximum content with minimum verbiage. Gerard, you win.
29975 puts me in middle of this pack, so I guess I can talk some sh!t, but I ain’t dazzlin’ this crowd.
jscd3January 24, 2018, 6:37 PM
30150 – but I am only an IT guy so you can’t expect too much…
Snakepit KansasJanuary 24, 2018, 7:22 PM
21,900. I are idiot.
edaddyJanuary 24, 2018, 7:27 PM
30500 … “You are Shakespeare”???? Bull sheeeeeiitttt!
Witch Sniffer says this has to be wrong. Hillbillies in fly-over country ain’t supposed to know who Shakespeare is anyway. I sure as hell couldn’t stand that sumbich.
Grew up reading mom’s harlequin romance novels, anyway. Fabio Lanzoni walks on water as far as I’m concerned. Hell yes.
KhortonJanuary 24, 2018, 7:35 PM
30,325. I guess I better get started on that play… Actually, I’m a reader not a writer.
I know better than to take on the editor in a vocab test. Why he’s the writer extraordinaire, and I the reader.
TN TuxedoJanuary 24, 2018, 8:29 PM
I was quite proud of my 28,925 score.
That is, until I was forced to scroll past all the comments touting scores of 30K and above in order to tell everyone about it.
BlackdogJanuary 24, 2018, 9:21 PM
Eight!
Rob De WittJanuary 24, 2018, 9:26 PM
…..in order to tell everyone about it.
Well Hell yes in order to tell everyone about it. Last time I won anything was over 20 years ago.
Anyhow, I’m pretty sure this is more about age than anything else. You’re in a crowd that probably didn’t grow up on television, and were taught not only how to read but to enjoy it. There’s no substitute; witness the global semi-literacy of the millennials who grew up with SpelChek and computerized everything, where nothing they read had been proofread either. Not only are we the last people with vocabularies, we’re the last people to care.
MMinLamesaJanuary 25, 2018, 2:27 AM
29100-no way I outscored, trounced, beat out, shelled, drubbed, vanquished, crushed(take your pick) you Mr Van
ghostsniperJanuary 25, 2018, 4:22 AM
Rob is right.
“….we’re the last people to care.”
I knew a person once that pronounced it pot-porry.
Larry GeigerJanuary 25, 2018, 6:00 AM
23100. Which it says was top 5%. So all the numbers listed above were in at least the top 10%. Looks good to me.
What…29,975 (0.12%)…!?
“I’se quietly proud.” – Pogo Possum (AKA, Walt Kelly, cartoonist), ca. 1954 AD.
DinahJanuary 25, 2018, 7:45 AM
30,150! Shakespeare, no less! I think vocabulary comes from plenty of reading over many years as well as the desire to know what a ‘new’ word means. The answer comes from context or plain ol’ looking it up. Snake: for a good portion of my life, lots of folks of my acquaintance called it pot-porry. I can’t figure out if they all died off or learned differently somehow. I still say it that way sometimes just to yank a chain. And I am certain Gerard jiggered the test just to make his readers feel ‘quietly proud’. I knew, starting that test, that there wasn’t a chance in Hell I’d come close to his score.
edaddyJanuary 25, 2018, 8:22 AM
Witch Sniffer here throws the BS flag! This hillbilly from flyover country got a 30500, too, and I ain’t never read anything by Harlequin Romances and state statutory law while in prison.
Like the rest of you fellers, I was so happy with with my score I clicked through the advertisements. My male enhancement pills will get here on Friday with my disability check.
Casey Klahn, I noticed tiny Israel too. It must be because they stole all those other countries’ shit.
R DaneelJanuary 25, 2018, 4:25 PM
29800
PubliliusJanuary 25, 2018, 9:43 PM
29975
Neener neener is the antonym of…
VanderleunJanuary 26, 2018, 9:17 AM
I am humbled by the outstanding erudition of my readers. I must do better…. must do better…. must do better….
Then again I remember this little ditty:
“It’s not what you play,
lbut how you play it.
It’s not what you say
But how you say it.
It’s the singer,
Not the song.”
waitingForTheStormJanuary 26, 2018, 2:51 PM
30,500. I took the test about a year and a half ago. I almost almost win at scrabble, but usually end up in arguments because people think I am making words up.
Mikey NTHJanuary 27, 2018, 10:16 AM
30,325
Top 0.01%
Ray Van DuneJanuary 27, 2018, 11:48 AM
Forgot to remember it! 30 K Plus a bunch at least. Could it have been 33K+? Said I was top .01 of one percent. Yes, I love words, why do you ask?
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Joe Scarborough’s Single Is The Protest Song No One Was Waiting For Imagine yourself as a mad scientist charged with creating a computer program to write the anthem for the next Monsters of Vaguely Folkish Alterna-Rock Festival. The song will be performed by a replicant attempting to pose as a newly woke hipster dedicated to the #resistance. Now imagine that your work is pointless because Joe Scarborough beat you to it,
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That was a solutions quiz… 😉
I hate autocorrect.
Salubrious.
Rolled a 29,975.
23,100
The vocabulary of a successful 30 y/o American businessman (pfft to businessperson).
I’m not sure that’s a proper equivalency. Seems to be a low bar these days.
I came out about like the browndog. Expected better. lol
30,150
& Gerard, if your score was really 22,000, I’m quite sure you cheated, entering wrong answers on purpose, just to make the rest of us feel good. Thanks! What a guy!!
30,325.
My only excuse is that I was born before the Baby Boom, and I’m a compulsive reader.
30,325. Another compulsive reader. Also had a fabulous high school English teacher.
30,500
Sure, in some parallel universe my vocabulary is larger than Gerard’s…just not this one. Quirky algorithm? Perhaps that old saw about some seamen being relatively literate owing to having nought else to do off watch has some validity after all?
Also 30,500, but some of those early questions had very bad answers; I basically had to guess at what the survey makers thought they were doing. And towards the end, I had to guess at the meaning of “avulse.” (Ew! What a terrible word!)
So yeah, I think at a certain point the quiz is more a matter of testsmanship than wordsmanship. Our Host is much better at words than I.
Hard to imagine my vocabulary is that much broader than Gerard’s, all right – despite his tendency to misspell “its” from time to time ;-}
So if it’s true that he didn’t cheat to make the rest of us feel better, I ‘spect my years as an introvert doing crossword puzzles must be the answer, since I’m self-educated. Also I’ve been getting paid to sing Gregorian for the last couple of years, so there’s been a lot of Latin for the first time.
And I agree that testing skills is probably a good bit of it.
29,800 here. And it ain’t how many you know, it’s how you put them together.
Poetry = language raised to highest and best use, and conveys maximum content with minimum verbiage. Gerard, you win.
30150, not bad for a 2nd language.
I noticed the only country not marked shithole status is Israel. That’ll really fry the libs.
30325. Reader & writer.
29800, pleasant surprise as I don’t read nearly as much as I used to.
My score is 30,150, in the top .01%. Thanks for playing!
30,150 – due entirely to being a compulsive reader of this wonderful blog.
30500 – Heavy reader and fucking old to boot! My wife has a genius IQ, way more than me, and she scored 22500 but she’s much younger too.
21750
Low man on the totem pole. I know I accidentally clicked on one incorrect choice by accident.
All my incorrect choices were by accident.
I refuse to participate in that sexist, racist, divisive, offensive, vocabulary-shameing test!
(And yes, I have alerted the authorities.)
29975 puts me in middle of this pack, so I guess I can talk some sh!t, but I ain’t dazzlin’ this crowd.
30150 – but I am only an IT guy so you can’t expect too much…
21,900. I are idiot.
30500 … “You are Shakespeare”???? Bull sheeeeeiitttt!
Witch Sniffer says this has to be wrong. Hillbillies in fly-over country ain’t supposed to know who Shakespeare is anyway. I sure as hell couldn’t stand that sumbich.
Grew up reading mom’s harlequin romance novels, anyway. Fabio Lanzoni walks on water as far as I’m concerned. Hell yes.
30,325. I guess I better get started on that play… Actually, I’m a reader not a writer.
I know better than to take on the editor in a vocab test. Why he’s the writer extraordinaire, and I the reader.
I was quite proud of my 28,925 score.
That is, until I was forced to scroll past all the comments touting scores of 30K and above in order to tell everyone about it.
Eight!
…..in order to tell everyone about it.
Well Hell yes in order to tell everyone about it. Last time I won anything was over 20 years ago.
Anyhow, I’m pretty sure this is more about age than anything else. You’re in a crowd that probably didn’t grow up on television, and were taught not only how to read but to enjoy it. There’s no substitute; witness the global semi-literacy of the millennials who grew up with SpelChek and computerized everything, where nothing they read had been proofread either. Not only are we the last people with vocabularies, we’re the last people to care.
29100-no way I outscored, trounced, beat out, shelled, drubbed, vanquished, crushed(take your pick) you Mr Van
Rob is right.
“….we’re the last people to care.”
I knew a person once that pronounced it pot-porry.
23100. Which it says was top 5%. So all the numbers listed above were in at least the top 10%. Looks good to me.
Me too, 30,500! Is that 100? I haven’t seen anyone get a higher score.
What…29,975 (0.12%)…!?
“I’se quietly proud.” – Pogo Possum (AKA, Walt Kelly, cartoonist), ca. 1954 AD.
30,150! Shakespeare, no less! I think vocabulary comes from plenty of reading over many years as well as the desire to know what a ‘new’ word means. The answer comes from context or plain ol’ looking it up. Snake: for a good portion of my life, lots of folks of my acquaintance called it pot-porry. I can’t figure out if they all died off or learned differently somehow. I still say it that way sometimes just to yank a chain. And I am certain Gerard jiggered the test just to make his readers feel ‘quietly proud’. I knew, starting that test, that there wasn’t a chance in Hell I’d come close to his score.
Witch Sniffer here throws the BS flag! This hillbilly from flyover country got a 30500, too, and I ain’t never read anything by Harlequin Romances and state statutory law while in prison.
Like the rest of you fellers, I was so happy with with my score I clicked through the advertisements. My male enhancement pills will get here on Friday with my disability check.
Another 30,325 here.
I think it is inflation. I scored 28,925. I only use about 1500 of them, and very few of the ones I tested on.
I did the IQ test from the same site. I clicked I don’t know on every answer. It said my IQ was zero and I was G. W. Bush.
I refuse to believe that I beat Gerard. The vocabulary test is fake news.
Casey Klahn, I noticed tiny Israel too. It must be because they stole all those other countries’ shit.
29800
29975
Neener neener is the antonym of…
I am humbled by the outstanding erudition of my readers. I must do better…. must do better…. must do better….
Then again I remember this little ditty:
“It’s not what you play,
lbut how you play it.
It’s not what you say
But how you say it.
It’s the singer,
Not the song.”
30,500. I took the test about a year and a half ago. I almost almost win at scrabble, but usually end up in arguments because people think I am making words up.
30,325
Top 0.01%
Forgot to remember it! 30 K Plus a bunch at least. Could it have been 33K+? Said I was top .01 of one percent. Yes, I love words, why do you ask?