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Post by joew on Jul 12, 2016 10:15:49 GMT -5
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Post by joew on Jul 12, 2016 10:27:23 GMT -5
I got 30,500, which they say is in the top 0.01%
That shows what taking four years of Latin does for you. There was one I wasn't sure of.
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Post by jspnrvr on Jul 12, 2016 14:15:44 GMT -5
Not quite as good as Joe, my vocabulary size was 30,150. But still enough to be in the top 0.01%!
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Post by liriodendron on Jul 12, 2016 22:20:56 GMT -5
Mine was also 30,150. Goes to show what reading can do for you!
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Post by doctork on Jul 14, 2016 18:09:33 GMT -5
My score was also 30,500. I think perhaps this is like Lake Wobegone, where all the test takers are above average!
Joe, "they say" medical school is like learning two languages - and almost all of the words are of either Latin or Greek derivation. I can usually read and understand Spanish lab and X-ray reports since they use the same Latin or Greek based words.
Yet I have also read that in daily English we use only about 500 different words. Maybe, but it is still a very difficult language to learn if one is not a native speaker.
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Post by gailkate on Jul 18, 2016 9:28:51 GMT -5
Well, this is odd. I could have sworn those scores were in the thousands, not 10 thousands. I got 3000 something which said I could be Shakespeare, but being a word person I didn't pay attention to the small numbers.
Some annoyed me, as I either disagreed or thought the parts of speech weren't exact. Did you all say 'like' is a synonym of 'love'? Could be related, but not truly synonymous, right? Perhaps I was too persnickety or perhaps, heaven forbid, I'm not Shakespeare after all.
But fugacious was all new to me and I love it. Tempus fugit notwithstanding, I was mystified.
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Post by doctork on Jul 20, 2016 21:56:56 GMT -5
So - someone ran that same quiz on one of my doctor forums (yes I know enough Latin to realize that is incorrect, should be fora or possibly forae, Joe will tell us), and there were plenty of docs who admitted to scoring lower than top 0.01%.
That's AFTER 4 years college, 4 years med school (which = Latin + Greek, mind you), and then 3 - 8 years residency. Don't worry about a few zeroes GK. I agree, that the quiz was sloppy on parts of speech and alleged synonyms. Here is a tip for the authors of the quiz: Do NOT do the NYT crossword puzzle in ink, especially on Friday or Saturday.
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