Your vocabulary

[Hand of Evil]

I can't spell and I have an impediment (stutter) so I try to keep away from words that will trip me up, I know the meanings but try not to expose myself to the general public.

 

[Desdichado]

I [...] try not to expose myself to the general public.

We all appreciate that, Hand.

 

[Goblyn]

You assume that I was insulting them for their benefit. I would think that most insulting things said by anyone are uttered to release stress in the person who is actually performing the verbal barrage.

DM

I always thought that insults were more satisfying when the victim knows they just got zinged. But maybe that's just me; ... and possibly too vindictive.

 

[Turjan]

I also got 8/10 in that quiz. I knew 5 words (one of them fiacre; you know that if you have been to Vienna ), the rest were guesses, although two of the words seemed familiar. What irks me about that quiz is that some answers are typical crosswords questions. That's not a good measure of your vocabulary, but a test whether you were bored enough to do crosswords .

Anyway, my English is quite shoddy. I've got problems with grammar and prepositions. I'm not a native English speaker, though, and it's not so easy to learn proper English at my age. But I try and I hope it will get better with time .

 

[sniffles]

I scored 8/10. I confess I guessed on more than the two I missed, but they were well-reasoned guesses based on my knowledge of vocabulary. So I learned several new vocabulary words today! I'm not sure where I'll have an opportunity to insert addax into casual conversation, but mulct should come in handy.

I guess it helps to have come from a household where reading the dictionary or Encyclopedia Britannica for entertainment was de riguer.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Man, now I'm stuck trying to remember the lyrics to one of my favorite songs, called You Rule. The problem, of course, is that I can no longer remember the artist.

Anyway, one of the lines goes a little something like this:

My vocabulary fails me,
It's a sesquipedalian thing.
She's like, I dunno know ...
It's just so true.

Yeah. Vocab rocks.

EDIT: Before posting, YES! It's by Jim's Big Ego. Great band.

 

[Boojum]

8/10 for me. The only one I was positive on was Hiragana, most of the rest I was able to puzzle out through elimination or linguistics, and the two I missed were Fiacre and Mulct.

 

[Thotas]

Put me down as another 80 per cent-er. Also another one brought down by fiacre and mulct. Also have the thing in common with Sniffles of reading the dictionary and encyclopedia as a kid ... but, as established on another thread, I skipped the "minaret" entry.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Yeah, Sniffles taught me "minaret" too. Thanks, Sniffles.

 

[fusangite]

My vocabulary is good, but I don't use a lot of the odder words even with people I know would understand them, never saw the point of it.

Agreed. I've found, though, that my manner of speech has really changed since my day to day work changed from politics to graduate school. As you guys can probably pick up, I have a domineering personality I try to hold in check a lot of the time. So I have an unconscious tendency to speak with authority when I address people. The thing is: when you're in politics, speaking authoritatively is contingent on people easily understanding you; when you're in graduate school, speaking authoritatively is contingent on people struggling to understand you. So, now the pointlessly big words come out a lot more.