anna-banana
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not bad for a second language 
oh whoa I got the whole top 20 correct! 
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Moog
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| anna-banana wrote: | 68
not bad for a second language
oh whoa I got the whole top 20 correct! |
Well done!
Maybe it being a second language helps, cos you have to study it, rather than just pick it up by osmosis.
What's your first language?
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heckeler06
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| anna-banana wrote: | 68
not bad for a second language
oh whoa I got the whole top 20 correct! |
Yeesh! Congrats!
I only got 66.
I'm amazed gargantuan and septuagenarian and addlepated and booyakasha aren't on the list though... |
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Moog
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| heckeler06 wrote: | | I'm amazed gargantuan and septuagenarian and addlepated and booyakasha aren't on the list though... |
They were the first four I tried too
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heckeler06
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| Moog wrote: | | heckeler06 wrote: | | I'm amazed gargantuan and septuagenarian and addlepated and booyakasha aren't on the list though... |
They were the first four I tried too |
Booyakasha! Any septuagenarian is addlepated that these words didn't make the gargantuan list!
See how common they are! |
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OneStepBeyond
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| heckeler06 wrote: | | I only got 66. |
in short: poop. |
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anna-banana
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| Moog wrote: | | anna-banana wrote: | 68
not bad for a second language
oh whoa I got the whole top 20 correct! |
Well done!
Maybe it being a second language helps, cos you have to study it, rather than just pick it up by osmosis.
What's your first language? |
yeah I studied it while stealing your jobs my first language is Polish.
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| OneStepBeyond wrote: | | heckeler06 wrote: | | I only got 66. |
in short: poop. |
Bwahaha! |
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Joe90
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I got 65 out of 100.
I actually quite enjoyed the game.
There is one common word what isn't there and it is ''is''.
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26/100.
All of these words are non-words. They're mostly grammatical. They don't mean much on their own. Half of them I did not even think of but it submitted it when I was typing another word. |
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echinopsis
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this was interesting. 59. "is" is already included as a form of the verb "to be" and words that are not nouns are still words.
im not a native speaker and thus i do not have as much statistical information as people living in an english speaking country, on the other hand the proportion of common words in ones vocabulary is usually higher in a second language compared to ones first language i guess.
unfortunately i ended up cursing a lot because i did not understand why the words "why" and "f**k" insisted on not being as common as i thought they were. |
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40
Most of these words are just grammatical tools that we take for granted.
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billypony
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that was pretty fun! 49. I was stuck on about 12 untill about two minutes to go when I realised that by singing a song in my head I could get loads of those little words that the list was mostly made up of.  although im sure there was a few that I typed that it didn't pick up. :/ |
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buryuntime
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| echinopsis wrote: | this was interesting. 59. "is" is already included as a form of the verb "to be" and words that are not nouns are still words.
im not a native speaker and thus i do not have as much statistical information as people living in an english speaking country, on the other hand the proportion of common words in ones vocabulary is usually higher in a second language compared to ones first language i guess.
unfortunately i ended up cursing a lot because i did not understand why the words "why" and "f**k" insisted on not being as common as i thought they were. |
The words on this list mean almost nothing by themselves though, thus hardly being a word in the sense I think of.
I was confused why things like sun, wind, animal, house, friend, love, bad, evil, moon, wrong, friend, knowledge, sad, happy etc. were not on the list. Those seem like more essential and common concepts and things than pure grammatical words.
Whatever, my score is embarrassing. |
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| 63. I could get addicted to some of the games on that website |
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