How many words do you know?

30,700 words was my result.
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As a 23 year pediatric speech pathologist, I can tell you first hand that expressive vocabulary is not such a great measure of real expressive language skills, from about 19 months well through the preschool and early elementary school years. Expressive vocabulary is a huge indicator of socio-economic background in these children. In children about 8 years old and up, I think all expressive vocabulary measures do is identify who likes to read for pleasure and who does not.

If I want to know something about a preschool child's expressive language system, I look at syntax variety and complexity. If I want to know something about an older child's expressive language system, I analyze discourse cohesion.

I love words, as you all know, but they do not impress me all that much. Think about it - we go from "wah-wah-wah" at birth to something like "When grandma comes to our house she brings me the green Popsicles, cuz she remembers I like the green ones." (Actual quote from a smart little girl I saw once for some articulation work. She was about four and a half years old at the time.) Now that, my friends, is impressive!

As a 23 year pediatric speech pathologist, I can tell you first hand that expressive vocabulary is not such a great measure of real expressive language skills, from about 19 months well through the preschool and early elementary school years. Expressive vocabulary is a huge indicator of socio-economic background in these children. In children about 8 years old and up, I think all expressive vocabulary measures do is identify who likes to read for pleasure and who does not.

If I want to know something about a preschool child's expressive language system, I look at syntax variety and complexity. If I want to know something about an older child's expressive language system, I analyze discourse cohesion.

I love words, as you all know, but they do not impress me all that much. Think about it - we go from "wah-wah-wah" at birth to something like "When grandma comes to our house she brings me the green Popsicles, cuz she remembers I like the green ones." (Actual quote from a smart little girl I saw once for some articulation work. She was about four and a half years old at the time.) Now that, my friends, is impressive!

Couple years later the only thing you can get out of them is, BFF TTUL LOL.
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I used to be a cruncher like you, then I took an arrow to the knee.

ouch... 9,510
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ouch... 9,510

Sirius, you must have been trying to answer the French version of this test.

lolwut ? there is a french version ???
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lolwut ? there is a french version ???

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All those with a score of 25,000 or over, please make their way to Launch pad 37 where the last Alpha Centauri Shuttle is about to depart.

Very impressive. I've always been amazed at how quickly 4 year olds can train a grandparent.

PUBLIC ANNOUCEMENT

All those with a score of 25,000 or over, please make their way to Launch pad 37 where the last Alpha Centauri Shuttle is about to depart.

Worked for me this time.



I expected higher. In law school one of the things my study group did was to choose 10 words each week from the OED that none of us knew and use them for the week. Really helped build vocabulary. But then when was the last time you attended a bacchian soiree. It was actually counter productive. We were being taught how to write legal opinion in layman English.

Many of the words are archaic, but one thing I enjoy is study of the evolution of language. English is so rich because of the various invasions, Romans, Saxons, Viking, etc. I enjoy reading old English, it's almost Germanic.

Oh where's my ticket to the shuttle.

As a 23 year pediatric speech pathologist, I can tell you first hand that expressive vocabulary is not such a great measure of real expressive language skills, from about 19 months well through the preschool and early elementary school years. Expressive vocabulary is a huge indicator of socio-economic background in these children. In children about 8 years old and up, I think all expressive vocabulary measures do is identify who likes to read for pleasure and who does not.

If I want to know something about a preschool child's expressive language system, I look at syntax variety and complexity. If I want to know something about an older child's expressive language system, I analyze discourse cohesion.

I love words, as you all know, but they do not impress me all that much. Think about it - we go from "wah-wah-wah" at birth to something like "When grandma comes to our house she brings me the green Popsicles, cuz she remembers I like the green ones." (Actual quote from a smart little girl I saw once for some articulation work. She was about four and a half years old at the time.) Now that, my friends, is impressive!

30,200 - and I'm not a native speaker.

Oh where's my ticket to the shuttle.