Comments | shade_42: Fun and favours

shade_42

Fun and favours

Jan 21, 2008 19:38

Quikchange pointed me towards this little game online that is meant to test your English vocabulary skills ( Read more... )

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ramou January 21 2008, 13:12:32 UTC

floating around 42, maxxing at 45.

shade_42 January 21 2008, 15:14:56 UTC

I find the most of the time I go over 42 it is thanks to a combination of french etymology and archaic words I picked up role-playing. What resources are you tapping?

ramou January 21 2008, 15:15:41 UTC

probably similar stuff. Sometimes I just am very sure and go with the word, so it's coming from somewhere, I just dunno where.

helenseidolon January 21 2008, 16:39:40 UTC

I played that a while ago. I hovered around 46-47 and made it up to 50 several times. French, Latin and Greek.

shade_42 January 21 2008, 19:07:34 UTC

... ... SO originally I was planning on using this thread as an opportunity for nerdy, erudite trash-talking, but you just owned me.

Serves me right for trying to step up to a Classics major of any stripe I suppose. (~_^)

helenseidolon January 21 2008, 21:54:59 UTC

Heh, don't worry. That's all my degrees are good for - doing well in online vocabulary games :D

By the way, I'm pretty busy, but if you particularly want me to read your thesis, I can. Not sure I'll be able to follow a lot of it, though!

platypus_herder January 23 2008, 00:55:15 UTC

Went to 1000 grains to make sure I'd reached asymptotic behaviour. Top score was 48, and DC level was about 47 for the last stretch. This was mostly achieved by exploiting the multiple-choice nature of the test and clever etymological guessing.