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[which_chick]

I think I did this meme before, but anyway...

English Genius You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 80% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go! Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it! For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 55% on Beginner You scored higher than 34% on Intermediate You scored higher than 35% on Advanced You scored higher than 40% on Expert

Link: The Commonly Confused Words Test written by shortredhead78 on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Comments

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

I got 100 100 100 80, and I'm pretty sure which ones I got wrong on that, so, yay. That was way easier than I was expecting.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I pulled one on the Advanced and I have no idea which one it was unless they go for "hanged" now instead of "hung". (You'll be hung! Oh, I am, I am, and very well, thank you.) Perhaps I would do better not using The Pirate Movie as my reference for appropriate use of language.

In the expert section, I missed 33 (a while, awhile, for a while) and 31, which was a retread of the hanged/hung thing.

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

I thought I got farther/further mixed up, but in retrospect, I think I got that one right. So I'm not sure which ones I got wrong since I am pretty sure of all my answers for the rest of them. Hanged/hung is, in my opinion, a really stupid distinction, because how often do hangings come up in modern English-speaking countries? (Probably more than I would expect, but still.) Who/whom I support as a grammatically useful distinction. The advantages of hang/hanged are that, I guess, they're easier to figure out than lie/lay/laid which I can't figure out for the life of me.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was surprised that there were no lie/lay questions.

Results = perfection

[ardvaark99999.livejournal.com]

It is indeed "hanged" instead of "hung." Stationery nearly snagged me.

Re: Results = perfection

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Dude, you're a dork. (Yes, I am jealous of your mad leet grammar skillz, which probably makes me even dorkier.)

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

I missed the a while one too.

Argle. I had it right, then changed it.