A Different Kind of Word Count
Thursday, July 28th, 2011 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogel(To be crossposted to LJ, if it ever comes back up reliably.)
Gacked from synecdochic, I got an embarrassingly low estimated vocabulary on the Test Your Vocab quiz. 36,500 words. Better than the majority of native-English adults, but I still feel the need to spend some serious quality time with a dictionary.
On the other hand, I knew 44% of the hardest words on the test, and could doubtless make a fair guess at the rest of them in context. So at least I can fake being well educated.
(Note to self: adumbrate (to intimate, foreshadow, or give a sketchy outline of) is an awesome word, and I need to use it more.)
And yet, I still manage to use words so obscure that my beta readers don't even think they're words, and assume I must have made an impenetrable typo. Sigh.
Gacked from synecdochic, I got an embarrassingly low estimated vocabulary on the Test Your Vocab quiz. 36,500 words. Better than the majority of native-English adults, but I still feel the need to spend some serious quality time with a dictionary.
On the other hand, I knew 44% of the hardest words on the test, and could doubtless make a fair guess at the rest of them in context. So at least I can fake being well educated.
(Note to self: adumbrate (to intimate, foreshadow, or give a sketchy outline of) is an awesome word, and I need to use it more.)
And yet, I still manage to use words so obscure that my beta readers don't even think they're words, and assume I must have made an impenetrable typo. Sigh.
