Christine Eaton

@Ethryndal *lowers voice not at all* Of course I’ve seen the extended version. What kind of fan do you think I am?
That scene is sad, but not long enough in my oh so humble opinion. They didn’t even have the funeral; it just showed them there! I needed to see more mourning too—from a close up, personal stand point. But what really gets me is…[Read more]

by the range of your vocabulary.

@Ethryndal YES. All that. Poor Fili. *sniff* I think I cried over it, but even if I didn’t there was shocked screaming inside. (*lowers voice even more confidentially* And I’d have preferred it if Fili and Kili died the same way as they did in the book…that’d have been so much sweeter. Defending Thorin with shield and body and all that. But of…[Read more]

@daeus Either way, I like Obi-wan the best. *flies away on mop*

And also your intelligence is not judged the range of your vocabulary. 😉

I took it yet again, after I memorized all the words I missed and now I must be smarter or something, because I got estimated 39,100. 😛

@Daeus Yay!

@sierra-r I took a look at that list. I was surprised to find that tricorn was on it.
Woah! Even more interestingly, there’s that annoying red squiggly line beneath it that says it’s misspelled.

Here’s a fun one that I missed: terpsichorean. Of or relating to dancing 😀

And on a rather unrelated note, can anyone guess when this quote on vocabulary was written? No cheating! 🙂

“The vocabularies of the majority of high-school pupils are amazingly small. I always try to use simple English, and yet I have talked to classes when quite a m…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy I took a look at the list of the hardest words on the test (http://testyourvocab.com/hard), and apparently they only occur in English less than 3 times per hundred million words. So you’re absolutely right, no one should be taking this too seriously.

@hannah-krynicki
No problem! I hope your novel is going well. 🙂 Let me know if you have any other questions. 😀 British culture is simply fascinating (especially the accents; I LOVE British accents!).

For those of you surprised they didn’t do better, thought I’d point out that this test is a knowledge quotient test, not necessarily a judge of how deep your vocabulary is. Most of the words on that list I could have figured out just by dissecting their roots, but as I was supposed to click the ones I knew I let them lie. Also, though this…[Read more]

Glad you’re all having fun with this 🙂 *applauds @northerner respectfully*

My vocabulary’s apparently grown since I took this test last year and I now average at around 29,000.

@ethryndal Ooh, that’s a good one. Here are a few that I missed on the vocab test. (trust me, there are more 😛 )

Parsimonious: Excessively cheap with money; stingy

Svelte: Slender and graceful

Embonpoint: Plump

Funambulist: Tightrope walker

@Daeus Ah wait—he’s a Sith because he’s dealing in absolutes by saying unequivocally that “Chancellor Palpatine is evil!” and “Then you are lost” ?
How close to the mark did I come…

@Daeus Ah wait—he’s a Sith because he’s dealing in absolutes by saying unequivocally that “Chancellor Palpatine is evil!” and “Then you are lost” ?
How close to the mark…

@daeus Okay, so hypothetically, you’re right. Does that make me a Sith?

@daeus Okay, so hypothetcally, you’re right. Does that make me a Sith?

@daeus Okay, so hypothitcally, you’re right. Does that make me a Sith?