How big is...?

[Aeson]

I'm pretty sure that test is bull****.

a) None of the really good words are on it. (Except "tool", but who knows if they were talking about that hoe and rake stuff?)

b) "A jar" is two words. But they only counted it the same as one even though I know both of them

c) Knowing "raiment" and "legerdemain" just means you're a RPG nerd. It should be a negative since the only other words those freaks know is "mommy" and "I've soiled myself".

d) Going with "hair" right above "box" was distracting. Favoritism to gays and straight women

It said I know 31,700 words. I'm building my list now to prove these bastards wrong. Will post later.

[Ben Kenobi]

terpsichorean

Clearly KH doesn't play enough Pirates! That's an embarassment.

How much is the frenchie bonus, KH?

[Tupac Shakur]

35,200

[KrazyHorse]

Ah, I know what raiment is now (given Aeson's clue).

Oh well...

[KrazyHorse]

Clearly KH doesn't play enough Pirates! That's an embarassment.

How much is the frenchie bonus, KH?

I'm a native speaker who writes a hell of a lot better than you

[Kitschum]

adumbrate
puckish
raiment
sedulous
epigone
bibulous
embonpoint
pother
cenacle
cantle
terpsichorean
deracinate
fuliginous
oneiromancy
tatterdemalion
williwaw
caitiff
hypnopompic
opsimath
sparge
uxoricide

Yeah, like I said I ticked uxoricide but it's possible I shoudln't although I fail to see that it doesn't mean exactly what it seems to mean. Adumbrate was another judgment call for me. I know what it "should" mean because I know "ad" and "umbra" but I didn't tick it, because I wasn't sure of the nuance.

[Ben Kenobi]

Hey, I know prestidigitation too! That should count for something! :P

[snoopy369]

38,100. I'm fairly sure being an extensive reader of historical fantasy helped me out a bit here Most of what I missed overlaps with KH's, though I know four of those words, and missed a couple others. Interestingly they weren't on the same screens - uxoricide was the only one I missed from the first screen, while KH had it on the second. Basically every word KH missed that I didn't came from reading fantasy as far as I can tell... Puckish, raiment, pother, oneiromancy being those four by the way.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm a native speaker who writes a hell of a lot better than you

Ugh, don't remind me. My french is terrible!

Seems unsurprising that the person with the biggest vocab is bilingual.

[KrazyHorse]

38,100. I'm fairly sure being an extensive reader of historical fantasy helped me out a bit here Most of what I missed overlaps with KH's, though I know four of those words, and missed a couple others. Interestingly they weren't on the same screens - uxoricide was the only one I missed from the first screen, while KH had it on the second. Basically every word KH missed that I didn't came from reading fantasy as far as I can tell... Puckish, raiment, pother, oneiromancy being those four by the way.

I should have ticked puckish. I thought I had heard the term before, and the meaning is obvious to anybody well-read.

[Ben Kenobi]

So that's Snoopy, KH, Koya, and then me. Cool.

[KrazyHorse]

If this was high school I would have gotten cenacle...

[Aeson]

I put in kindergarten (with a PhD) and checked all the boxes and it said I know 45000 words.

[Ben Kenobi]

See that outlier with "aeson'? Oh look, that outlier isn't there anymore.

[Aeson]

I wanted to be sure they would catch that it's not a real result. I wouldn't want them to think there was someone out there who really does know 45000 words... *shudder*