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@Daeus Ah, okay. Thanks! 🙂

*lowers voice not at all* Of course I’ve seen the extended version. What kind of fan do you think I am?

@Emma-Flournoy Forgive me of such slander! Sackcloth and ashes are forthcoming. 😛

I haven’t seen the Hobbit in a while (a month, to be exact 🙂 ) so I didn’t really remember the Arkenstone not being with him, (capital offense, I know) but n…[Read more]

@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]

Hey @aratrea @daeus, I have a question: I’m trying to come up with Experiments in Living, and I’m finding that most of them look exactly like possible answers to a Focusing Question. How do I know the difference, is there a difference, or am I doing something completely wrong?

Hey @aratrea, I have a question: I’m trying to come up with Experiments in Living, and I’m finding that most of them look exactly like possible answers to a Focusing Question. How do I know the difference, is there a difference, or am I doing something completely wrong?

@Emma-Flournoy I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the extended edition, but there was this scene of their funeral and *lowers voice confidentialliest* it was even worse than their death. I bawled. I bawl just thinking about it. And I agree, it would have been much more satisfying (if I can call it that 🙂 ) if their death was more book-like. Book…[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.

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