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07/16/2013 03:37:08 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by blindjustice:
Oddly, "Sparge" was on there, a beer brewing term, at least as one definition. |
The beer-brewing definition was actually a surprise to me. It's the only definition that doesn't involve the bubbling of a gas through a liquid. |
When you brew beer gas bubbles up through a liquid for several days ... |
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07/16/2013 03:39:56 PM · #52 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by blindjustice:
Oddly, "Sparge" was on there, a beer brewing term, at least as one definition. |
The beer-brewing definition was actually a surprise to me. It's the only definition that doesn't involve the bubbling of a gas through a liquid. |
When you brew beer gas bubbles up through a liquid for several days ... |
Sparging refers to the "tea making" process creating the wort, sending boiling water back through the barley. At least thats specific enough to get credit for the word. |
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07/16/2013 04:01:29 PM · #53 |
| Ah, I was always lazy and used malt extract, except for a few handfuls of black patent malt I threw into the kettle whole. |
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07/16/2013 05:42:19 PM · #54 |
Originally posted by blindjustice:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by blindjustice:
Oddly, "Sparge" was on there, a beer brewing term, at least as one definition. |
The beer-brewing definition was actually a surprise to me. It's the only definition that doesn't involve the bubbling of a gas through a liquid. |
When you brew beer gas bubbles up through a liquid for several days ... |
Sparging refers to the "tea making" process creating the wort, sending boiling water back through the barley. At least thats specific enough to get credit for the word. |
And if you bottle it too soon, it 'bubbles up' elsewhere. (ask me how I know that) |
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07/16/2013 05:59:06 PM · #55 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
And if you bottle it too soon, it 'bubbles up' elsewhere. (ask me how I know that) |
Do we want to ask? :)
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07/16/2013 06:14:31 PM · #56 |
Originally posted by Nadine_Vb:
Originally posted by sfalice:
And if you bottle it too soon, it 'bubbles up' elsewhere. (ask me how I know that) |
Do we want to ask? :) |
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I can still hear the explosion(s)...and it was a loooong time ago.
:) |
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07/16/2013 09:52:47 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Ah, I was always lazy and used malt extract, except for a few handfuls of black patent malt I threw into the kettle whole. |
me too. I bet yours was pretty good General! |
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07/17/2013 12:41:20 AM · #58 |
| It's funny how many words you recognize and could understand in context, but can't come up with a definition out of the blue. |
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07/17/2013 02:24:25 AM · #59 |
Well done, Elite.
My score... not bad I guess, although page 2 was a bit of a let down :-).
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07/17/2013 10:42:46 AM · #60 |
I don't read much , but need to I guess.
Kat |
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07/17/2013 12:21:04 PM · #61 |
| Out of curiosity I ran it again and checked off every single word: final score, 44,800. So I assume that's the highest one could get. FWIW |
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07/17/2013 12:32:58 PM · #62 |
I find that evaluating your loquaciousness with this test to be a little supercilious...
Probably because I got an average score. :D I was hard on myself though. If I couldn't verbalize an actual definition I skipped it.
Message edited by author 2013-07-17 12:39:08. |
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07/17/2013 12:40:16 PM · #63 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I find that evaluating your loquaciousness with this test to be a little supercilious... |
Lol, you quipper, you! |
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07/17/2013 12:52:43 PM · #64 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I find that evaluating your loquaciousness with this test to be a little supercilious... |
I think you should eschew obfuscation ... ;-) |
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07/17/2013 03:12:46 PM · #65 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
If I couldn't verbalize an actual definition I skipped it. |
me, too. not a well designed test. |
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07/17/2013 03:33:58 PM · #66 |
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07/17/2013 03:42:05 PM · #67 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
If I couldn't verbalize an actual definition I skipped it. |
me, too. not a well designed test. |
Totally agree. I tried really hard to be honest, and I do know a whole lot of words, but in the end how much was I fooling myself? Altogether, it's more of a curiosity than a valid datum :-) Although I'm proud to say I absolutely DID know the meanings of such words as "funambulist", "williwaw", "uxoricide", "regnant", "oneiromancy" and "opsimath" :-)
When you're deaf from a young age, you start to get your vocabulary from dictionaries. I used to READ the dictionary for pleasure... |
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07/17/2013 04:00:49 PM · #68 |
whatever that's supposed to mean
Probably little..
I always found it amusing that around 50% of the 'tough words' in this kind of tests are either of Latin or Greek origin, or derived by Latin languages.
Therefore, Latin languages speakers, such as myself, will probably bag 30% of the obtainable points even before taking their first English lesson. But they would fail quite miserably to recognize words which are well within the average vocabulary of a 4 years old native speaker, of course :D
I still remember my German lecturer at the Uni recalling how the first time she visited Germany she could discuss Goethe in great detail but she found ordering a meal an embarrassing ordeal.
We all have to deal with subsets of words, 'registers' to use the technical term, dependently on who we are, who we deal with and what we are talking about. So I guess any test which doesn't take that into account will produce a not too meaningful result..
They are useful for spotting words you never heard before though, I am off googling :)
EDIT: I finally found how to format the tag for getting a link rather than showing the full address, I guess that was the failed cleverness test :D
Message edited by author 2013-07-17 16:13:19. |
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07/18/2013 03:48:25 AM · #69 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I find that evaluating your loquaciousness with this test to be a little supercilious... |
Out of grammatical curiosity - the word in bold doesn't belong in this sentence, am I right?
Help a non native speaker :-).
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07/18/2013 07:39:02 AM · #70 |
| I think you are right, it's (at least) superfluous with the use of the verb form "to be" as written ... however, I'm also of the school that the most important thing is that the sentence's meaning be understood, regardless of its "grammatical correctness." |
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07/18/2013 08:10:26 AM · #71 |
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07/18/2013 08:13:09 AM · #72 |
14,200
Hmmm that qualifies me for the brown ribbon |
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07/18/2013 09:45:46 AM · #73 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
If I couldn't verbalize an actual definition I skipped it. |
me, too. not a well designed test. |
Totally agree. I tried really hard to be honest, and I do know a whole lot of words, but in the end how much was I fooling myself? Altogether, it's more of a curiosity than a valid datum :-) Although I'm proud to say I absolutely DID know the meanings of such words as "funambulist", "williwaw", "uxoricide", "regnant", "oneiromancy" and "opsimath" :-)
When you're deaf from a young age, you start to get your vocabulary from dictionaries. I used to READ the dictionary for pleasure... |
I like how you slipped "tenebrous" into the "you name it" challenge! |
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07/18/2013 11:33:25 AM · #74 |
Originally posted by tome:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I find that evaluating your loquaciousness with this test to be a little supercilious... |
Out of grammatical curiosity - the word in bold doesn't belong in this sentence, am I right?
Help a non native speaker :-). |
We'd sniff you out as a non-native speaker in a second if you spoke that properly...
It is an extra word, but gets used in that context all the time. |
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07/18/2013 01:03:38 PM · #75 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by tome:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I find that evaluating your loquaciousness with this test to be a little supercilious... |
Out of grammatical curiosity - the word in bold doesn't belong in this sentence, am I right?
Help a non native speaker :-). |
We'd sniff you out as a non-native speaker in a second if you spoke that properly...
It is an extra word, but gets used in that context all the time. |
I know I'm an idiot because I only know 32,000 words, but I believe the doctor is wrong. If you're going to use "that" then use "is"
"I find that evaluating your loquaciousness with this test is a little supercilious..."
It helps when you diagram "evaluating your loquaciousness with this test" into a noun phrase.
I find the post office to be a little supercilious.
I find that the post office is a little supercilious.
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