Your vocabulary

[fusangite]

I got 8/10 on the quiz but that's because I treated it as a logic puzzle. If I had been asked which words I was sufficiently sure of the meaning to employ in a sentence, I would have got 0/10.

 

[Henry]

By Jove, man, the plurality of roleplaying enthusiasts frequenting this electronic abode were raised on the ramblings of Gary Gygax, himself! He is the reason that the very epithet "Gygaxian" exists! His discussions of "milieus" and "becs de corbin" and "abbatoirs" impelled our vocabularies to new heights in our tender ages of youthful fancy.

Really, now!

 

[Dougal DeKree]

6 out of 10 but i am german, so i guess that's good enough.

Apart from that - does technical vocabulary count, too, for the question posed?

Dougal

 

[fusangite]

By Jove, man, the plurality of roleplaying enthusiasts frequenting this electronic abode were raised on the ramblings of Gary Gygax, himself! He is the reason that the very epithet "Gygaxian" exists! His discussions of "milieus" and "becs de corbin" and "abbatoirs" impelled our vocabularies to new heights in our tender ages of youthful fancy.

Really, now!

Yeah -- but you were never 100% sure that what Gary thought was a word really was or that he was using terms and abbreviations properly in AD&D. My friend Steve was heartbroken, for instance, to discover that "libram" really wasn't a word at all. Anywhere.

I think one could argue that, more than LOTR, Lankhmar, Conan or anything else, the biggest literary influence on AD&D was Roget's Thesaurus.

EDIT: I actually think this is becoming an on-topic thread.

 

[Henry]

Fascinating article:

http://phrontistery.info/disq6.html

Of things magocratic, lycanthropic, and libramaic...

 

[Arnwyn]

Compared to my peers? Considerably above average.

Otherwise, I'm about average and regressing every year... Go figure.

 

[Mark Chance]

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.

Quite right. The important thing is not how many words you know, but how well you express yourself with the words you know. A large vocabulary does not necessarily make one an effective communicator.

 

[diaglo]

Compared to my peers? Considerably above average.

Otherwise, I'm about average and regressing every year... Go figure.

doesn't peer mean equals???

i'm confuzzled. how can you be above an equal. wouldn't that make them not your peers???

 

[sniffles]

Quite right. The important thing is not how many words you know, but how well you express yourself with the words you know. A large vocabulary does not necessarily make one an effective communicator.

That's a very good point. It's one of the reason I find Mr. Gygax's writing extremely annoying (sorry, Col. Pladoh). He uses a lot of archaic or obscure vocabulary when common-usage words would make his meaning more clear.

But if you like enlarging your vocabulary just for fun, try this site - oh, oops, Henry already beat me to it!

 

[Arnwyn]

doesn't peer mean equals???

i'm confuzzled. how can you be above an equal. wouldn't that make them not your peers???

See? Regression.