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Old 10-24-2011, 11:28 AM   #76
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Today! I'm still not sure about the colours. I might revert to the old one.
The old one is cuter this one is cool!
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Old 10-24-2011, 11:42 AM   #77
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38,300 ....

seems an overestimate to me ....
For a man of few words, you seem to know quite a few!
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Old 10-24-2011, 01:22 PM   #78
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Old 10-24-2011, 02:06 PM   #79
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For a man of few words, you seem to know quite a few!
Or maybe he's just an expert at summarizing Proust.

"Proust in his first book wrote about wrote about Proust in his first book wrote about..."
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Old 10-24-2011, 02:15 PM   #80
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41,800 words.

Did everyone else look up those words with which they were unfamiliar?

That was fun, thanks for calling this to our attention!
That's why your score was 41,800.
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Old 10-24-2011, 02:55 PM   #81
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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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Old 10-24-2011, 05:57 PM   #82
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Does everything start going downhill after 50? I'm beginning to wonder if there are any benefits at all...
Things start slowing down at 25. It's just that you're still coasting up until 50. Then you start back down again...
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Old 10-24-2011, 06:45 PM   #83
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25200

That's plenty!
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Old 10-24-2011, 06:46 PM   #84
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Today! I'm still not sure about the colours. I might revert to the old one.
Yes, sorry but the blue and green clash for me.
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Old 10-25-2011, 07:52 AM   #85
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The old one is cuter this one is cool!
How do you like the revised new one? I know the cut of the coat is the same as the other one, but I think I like this shade of green better.
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Old 10-25-2011, 07:55 AM   #86
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How do you like the revised new one? I know the cut of the coat is the same as the other one, but I think I like this shade of green better.
Yep. Better.
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Old 10-25-2011, 09:04 AM   #87
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My high school's colours were green and gold. I hated high school. I hate your new look.

I just did the quiz again to check what the maximum score is and it's 45,000.
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Old 10-25-2011, 09:41 AM   #88
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I have done it again
20.700
and I took a note of the words I knew once but no longer remembered their meanings.
Code:
slough
judicious
offal
redolent
tawdry
burgeon
ingratiate
abscond
dirge
prig
parsimonious
noisome
dowdy
I have to start memorising words again. I have to. I must. Whatever.
I will.
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Old 10-25-2011, 10:11 AM   #89
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How do you like the revised new one? I know the cut of the coat is the same as the other one, but I think I like this shade of green better.
this one looks... extreme. Yeah, that's the right word. Extreme. The previous one is milder, nicer.
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this one looks... extreme. Yeah, that's the right word. Extreme. The previous one is milder, nicer.
Green is the "in" colour this autumn .....
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