Thread: How's your vocabulary?
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Old 10-24-2011, 02:55 PM   #81
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Intelligence isn't the same as vocabulary. Even so, I'll mention again that I scored a little over 36,000...

And age plays a big part in it. One picks up obscure vocabulary as one goes along. Interestingly, they show a levelling off of this around age 50.
Does everything start going downhill after 50? I'm beginning to wonder if there are any benefits at all...

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes View Post
That's when you start to forget what things like continence mean.
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