/lit/ - Literature

and one for grammar

>>10327618

My shame

>>10327654
that's ok anon, ty for trying

>>10327618
>tried the testyourvocab.com test since this one seemed like a joke
>10k-something words
how do i become less of a brainlet, /lit/?

>>10327690

I'm getting there

>>10327618

newb question tho: is english easy or hard to learn comparatively to other languages?

Kill me i'll never make it

>>10327725
Depends completely on what languages you know before.
From a "neutral" standpoint, it probably isn't that hard, but there are several easier languages.

I'm not even a native-speaker.

>>10327725
I'll say it's easy because it's rather simple on a basic ground. Unless you go full rhetoric you shouldn't have problems learning it on 10 weeks.
Also, being the franque language helps a lot as we are more familiar with it, regardless of where do you live.

28925, top 0.35 percent, better than i expected desu

>>10327709

Grammar

>>10327739
That's the exact score I got. I'm a native speaker.

I got a 2,700.

I thought 30325 was the highest possible score

>>10327618
>tfw got nearly the exact same score as the other test
>tfw all these tests I've taken are empirically consistent with my actual intelligence
>tfw forever 1960 SAT, 127 IQ, 22000 on these tests brainlet

>>10327618
>used testyourvocab.com
>24,200
I'm starting to forget my native language.

>>10327812
127 iq is pretty high, which test was it on?

>>10327821
Stanford-Binet

>>10327825
127 is better than ~96% of the population, not bad mang

>>10327712
kek'd pretty hard dood

What are smart people like you guys doing on 4chan? Or is this test meaningless and you're all a bunch of retards?

>>10327858
Being smart doesn't automatically make you a hard worker

>>10327858
i'm the guy who posted my test results. most people would consider me dumber than I actually am, or at least that's how I've conducted myself over the years. it's cringeworthy the lengths I used to go to prove myself, although that's mostly an ego issue more than anything.

>>10327858
because i'm lazy as fuck tbqh. and don't worry once i get back to skiing i won't be here very much

>>10327858
unless you are not a native speaker, it's meaningless

>tfw you knew what a word meant but not what any of the examples mean

>>10327858
Vocabulary doesn't equate to intelligence, it's mostly a matter of exposure and memorization

>>10327888
Same
>t. another non-native speaker

>>10327618
Looks like you’ve got some balls to suck, verbose gaylord. Your homework is to coin some new words to describe the experience. I hope you’re as good at sucking as you are literate.

>>10327712

>>10327858
I don't know what to do with my life desu.

>>10327973
i mean, if i have to suck, i may as well aspire to be in the top 0.01% of suckers

>>10327968
you ski or you're lazy or both?

>>10327980
you're already "doing something" with your life whether you like it or not, so may as well try to figure out a way how to do what you enjoy at any cost

I've had this saved on my phone for almost a year. I was drunk as shit when I took the quiz.

>>10327725
It has a LOT of stupid fucking rules or things that don't really make sense, especially to non-native speakers, but it's not the hardest thing to learn to an acceptable level.

>>10327618
How old are you OP? I’m 19.

"The Antonym of" is triggering me. Would have it be so hard to right "An antonym for"? Most of these are not "The" antonym.

>>10327797
anon, i want to believe but you know it doesn't count if you take it more than once right

>>10328111
Have you been reading a lot since you were 11 or something?

>>10328111
36

>>10328115
most of them toward the end i felt entailed picking the least shitty one, seemed to work out

>>10327618
Not a native speaker but it seems good enough.

>>10327618
28925 and I'm 18 and I don't even read

get over yourself, the results are obviously heavily curved

21 years old non-native neet.
also got 112 in grammar.

>>10328178
I don't believe you

Time for a REAL test
http://testyourvocab.com/

Never had any chance to interact with native speaker.

>>10328115
And not just bitching, 29450

>>10328227
For reference, these are the score I got.

>>10328227
close enough

>>10328235
Don't bother. Most native speakers have an extremely limited vocabulary. You'd probably expand your vocabulary more by reading works written by pseuds than by having conversations with other humans.

>>10328248
having alternatives does make it easier on the multiple choice, i think

I'm a lazy french student, is it a good score? Also got 104 in grammar. This website says I'm a "language god" but still not sure about that

>>10328227
Did they just start making up words at the end? It's weird to encounter things I can't even figure out the root of.

>>10328227
im smrt

>>10328021
I'm lazy about anything else than skiing and climbing

>>10328354
i'm thinking of moving to the mountains so i can ski and climb all the time

>>10328111
trippy trips

>>10328125
i did this in one shot
serious you are all brainlets
im old to be fair
im not even this guy
but 30500 is prob the max

>>10328291
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a couple are, since it's an actual survey they would want to root out dolts who just tick every single box

>>10328125
I took it some time last year before so it did feel like cheating. I think I got 30000 before but have learned the remaining words since.

>>10327618

>>10328127
I read a lot more than anyone else I know personally and have done so for the last 6 or so years - at the moment I spend between 10 and 14 hours reading each week. I also look up every unfamiliar word I come across and sometimes will neurotically look up a familiar word to check my definition is homogenous with the official one. It’s all a little bit autistic I must admit.

Non-native.

>>10328455

29175

I've had articles published and done some academic proof-reading. If your score is higher than this you're an English black-belt.

>>10328227

>>10327858
4chan is fun, because you never quite now what to expect. There's always something new, even after having been here for over 7 years now.

Make way for the king, plebs.

>>10327618
I'm pretty sure that its impossible to honestly get lower than this.

My vocabulary was like 7000 with the first one but 13000 with the second one.
Non native speaker here. My vocabulary really seems to be lacking but at least I scored 100 on the grammar part.
However the first test really showed me how many words I have never even heard of.

>>10327618
If it's worth something, english is not my native language

>>10327618

>>10328698
This is my English result, for comparison.

>>10328698
There are less words in norwegian than in English i assume.

>>10328554
plus grammar, 112

My grammar is pretty bad by 'people who read and write' standards

>>10328755
Yes, but which Game of Thrones House are you?

>>10327725
Like any other: depends what your native language is. If its European, yes same as any other related language, if Asian then its hard.

The trickiest thing about English compared to some other European languages is the non-phonetic pronunciation, silent letters and stresses. Google 'great vowel shift' for an explanation as to why.

>>10328759
I dun undestand. got 65 on the IQ test

Got 6600 not native tho

>>10328764
>for an explanation as to why
Doesn't explain why you retards don't do orthographic reforms like all sane people out there.

>>10328793
Well now you're just being mean:(

>>10328749
Perhaps.

This is my score for English grammar.

>>10327858
Plebs work for bread and circus, plebs can also get them for free. There's nothing to work for, aside from creative work, yet that would be to honor God, the Creator of all; to assume the mantle as His image.
I'm having a bit of a struggle with that at the moment.

>>10328820
what exactly are you struggling with anon

>>10327725
Early modern English in some ways easier than contemprary English. The clarity of pronouns (thee, thou) and -eth -est verb suffixes are simpler and more intuitively similar to other modern European languages. Ergo, the King James Bible and Shakespeare are easier to read than Zadie Smith.

itt: brainlets

>>10328907

>>10328911

>>10327618
too lazy to screenshot.

22500
non-native speaker, im guessing its not bad but not terrible.

there was a question in the vocab that seemed to have two possible answers btw, the one about catalyst. Anybody remember it clearly?

>>10328962
i think it asked for the antonym, and i can't remember what my choice was, but there was also "damp" which seemed related

>>10328962
It wanted the antonym of catalyst. The options were current, damp, nadir, prevention. The answer is prevention but you could argue that the nadir of a process (or non-process) is the opposite of its catalyst or the 'getting go' of a process. Its a round-about arguemnt but half makes sense.

>>10328815
I took their IQ test. Hah!

>>10327725
Consider the following: "fo shizzle ma nizzle" is a perfectly cromulent English phrase.

>>10329075
"motherfucker you's bein all facetious n shiet" is in fact a legitimate English language expression spoken in the african-american english dialect

>>10329062
i lost interest after 8 questions, randonly clicked the rest and got 110

i got easy words desu

>>10329062
kek bow down ma'fuckas

german is my 3rd language
pretty happy tbqh

I answered all the questions pretty easily except for one with "avulse", but the answer to that one could be deduced based on the context of the other choices.

>>10328111
Hey nice dude

>>10327858

>smart people don't go on 4chan

I'm not saying a large faction of this site isn't pissbottle weebs, but statistically there is most likely a few genuinely intelligent people on a moderately niche literature board

Get on my level ya scrubs

Don't need complicated words to make living lines.

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

>>10329615
mwahahaha

I have read 1 and a half books this year.

>>10329655
Fuck I must be a brainlet

>>10327725
Depends what you consider difficult in languages. I'm French so English sounds a bit like bizarro French with strange uses of prepositions but near-zero use of conjugation/declination. Overall very simple to learn, the French can't speak English meme is largely due to the latter having a much stronger accentuation.

>>10327618

I'm >>10330394
The fact that many "fancy" words in English are just French words may bias the whole thing though.

>>10330423
t. brainlet

>>10330452
There's plenty of people who got less than me in this thread. Why'd you reply to me first?

I got 2250 in english and 2350 in spanish but for some reason the spanish quiz put me in the 0,31% and the english one in the 6%.

>>10327618
I came close

>>10328111
Also 19, hello fellow genius

>>10330460
I was looking at the end of the thread boyo

How long is it?

>>10330557

>>10327618
I was expecting worse honestly

>>10328227
This is what I got

This is my one for OP
>>10330588

>>10330595
fucking hell.
Forgot the image

>>10330597
>>10330588
And the IQ test.

I feel like this is pretty inaccurate, but hey what do I know.

>>10327654
Got around the same
Brainlet squad :(

its starting to occur to me a large vocabulary is basically useless unless you write. What's the point of knowing a lot of words people are going to need you to define anyway? I might as well just make up words.

>>10330697
neologisms are what writers do tho

Tips on passing the Russian test on the same site: just pick the same answers. All of the questions are a literal translation from English test. They just diddn't care when a synonym/antonym pair were translated as cognate words. Or when it was a big stretch to call the transladed pair synonyms/antonyms. Or when translation resulted in grammatically possible, but unusable form of a word. Or that the pool from which translations were picked contained common words only. "You can be next Pushkin", my ass.

For some reason they used a lot of words that I'm fond of. This is the first time I've seen "fugacious" in a while, which I really like. (It's like evanescent but less well known. Fug- like "run" as in "fugitive," or to play a "fugue" where your fingers run fast across the organ keys...) There were a few I didn't recognize though (Avulse?" I know I've come across inveigle before but I couldn't remember what it meant.)

There's this really fun essay by Anne Fadiman in her book "Ex Libris" where you finds a bunch of insanely esoteric words and then quizzes people she knows about them. (Basically extinct words, not easy ones like in this quiz.) I think she basically came to the conclusion that people with any kind of background in knowing Greek or Latin typically can suss out the meaning of the words (I think so anyways, it's been a while since I've read the essay.)

>>10330697
Yeah that's pretty much why I don't use big words unless there's something extraordinarily specific that needs to be said that requires the precise word. There are a lot of "fancy" words that people understand the meaning too though, or they can pick up the meaning through context.

>>10330721
I went on and checked the Japanese test too. I don't even know runes or who the fuck Natsume Souseiseki is.

>>10327618
hungarian is my native language tho

>>10327652
>>10328962
There's a question in the grammar one that has two right answers: "will be" and "is going to" but expects the idiomatic answer.

>>10327725
It's the easiest of all living languages that are worth learning. The easiest to reach beginner level at, the easiest to get decent at and the easiest to approach mastery at.

>>10331007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkPIZtHb_fE

>synonyms of a word in a question asking for antonyms of it
Is this supposed to trick people who don't pay attention to the top sentence? Why would you test people's attention on a vocabulary test?

Yurop here, coming to steal your jobs

I just got lucky in that they gave me words I happened to be familiar with, plus I guessed meanings from knowing suffixes and all shared with other words.
It's likely that people who got lower than me actually have a better vocabulary.

>>10327618
22650, third language.

>>10331007
I can't believe people who think like this are intelligent enough to use a computer to post on this website.

>>10330697
A large vocabulary is extremely useful for reading.

>>10331007
>english with all its retarded rules and exceptions
>easiest language
get fucked

I liked the part where the words weren’t part of contemporary vernacular.

>>10331020
>t.psychometrist

>>10329703
don't worry i'll trade you 10 iq pts for hugs and tendies

>>10329510
DaVinci is higher than Einstein? That's absurd. Maybe Shakespeare or Von Newman, not DaVinci. >>10329528

>>10331346
it's not meant to be very serious dude lol. i think the idea there is that da vinci made contributions way ahead of his time in many different areas, suggesting that he saw the world differently at a much broader level than many other people called geniuses. but making specific comparisons between two people who are already at the far end of the scale is retarded.

>>10328227
looks like I have the biggest brain here

>>10327618
I was close. I think I'm just good at multiple choice, because I get around 24k on other tests.

>>10331428
how's it feel

>>10331450
desu i took some educated guesses on the last couple questions. the self-report questionnaires are more reliable i think.

Satisfied for sure.
I'm going to do my Cambridge Proficiency exam pretty soon. (non-native speaker)

>>10331623
So does that mean we're smarter than everyone else because we can fake our way to a high vocabulary?

>>10332027
i mean basically, which is why i think scores on here would correlate to some degree with iq scores

>>10331007
Nah, I've been learning English for over twenty years and the most I can do is understanding prose. Poetry escapes me.
>Oh the dragon's balls were blazin' as I stepped into his cave,
>Then I sliced his fuckin' cockles with a long and shiney blade!
>'Twas I who fucked the dragon, fuckalize sing-fuckaloo!
>And if you try to fuck with me, then I shall fuck you too!
>Gotta get it on in the party zone!
>I gots to shoot a load in the party zone!
>Gotta lick a toad in the party zone!
>Gotta suck a chode in the party zone!
Like, what is a party zone? What exactly does he want to get on with? How do you fuckalize?

>>10332169
srs question are you on the spectrum

>>10332169
it's "fuckali sing fuckaloo"
he's just making up words to fit into the rhyme, it's poetic license

do you understand the concept of a party??
"get it on" is american vernacular for fucking (hence "shoot a load")

>>10328862
Michael Thomas talks about this in his language courses. In the KJV it says "For they know not what they do" as opposed to modern usage it would be reframed as "for they do not know what they are doing "

"know not" part of the sentence is a lot like how other European languages structure their sentences.

It makes sense that KJV would be the easiest for a foreigner to read because of the sentence structure. I've heard countless stories of people learning English by reading the KJV. I even knew an old man who did this himself.

>>10327739
same here, french , 22 800
couldn't be bothered to screencap

>>10328111
>>10330502
I am the king of technically-not-underage posters, bow down

>>10327858

I've been shitposting on here for the past few weeks after not coming on for almost 4 years. Someone help.

IM THE KING IM THE KING IM THE KING
yall niggs some weak shit. im drunk as fuck did this in 60 seconds

>>10330737
>>10332425
cont.
I am the next Kim Il-Sung. By the way, there are so many Shakespears in this thread, why don't any of you post their sonnet?

>>10332719
But sir, that is incorrect.

>>10327652
the grammar one is legitimately too easy

>>10331040
Hi, fellow brainlet

I got 28750 even tho i guessed around a third of the questions

>>10333646
i get paid $100/hr as a copywriter so i was REALLY worried i was gonna fuck something up lmao

I read nothing but fantasy and manga and online webcomics.

Why would anyone want to improve their English more than required?
English is a fucking shit language and makes no sense. Don't waste time expanding your vocabulary, instead learn Spanish, French, hell even German is better. Then you can read some great literary works like Camus or Kafka in the original language.

>>10327858
>smart
Good vocabulary is very easy to pick up if you read a lot. This is a board for people who like to read a lot. If anything the opposite of your question is more apt: if your score is anything below shakespeare why are you on this board?

>>10332040
The most satisfying feeling in the world to wake up and know, deep down, (thanks to this quiz) that you're not a brainlet. I feel sorry for these plebs. They'll never make it. I will be greater than Homer ever was. The quiz confirmed it.

>>10333727
>great literary works
>camus

STEMfag reporting

>>10333845
>sub 30000
AHAHAHA YOU FUCKING RETARD

i dont read a lot

>>10334146
and my grammer

OP is good

Can you beat Ben Shapiro /lit/?

>>10328111
>>10330502
I'm also 19, I'm a litlet though who's just getting into reading after loving vocab, favorite part of the SAT.

Abran paso, pelafustanes.

I had to look up what an antonym was

>>10331212
Sure thing friendo

>>10327968
I got the same exact score but I only speak English

This is bullshit. I don't even know what an adjective is. How can I be a God at grammar?

FAKE TEST.

>>10330737
but the important thing is that for a brief moment, right before you realized the absurdity of it all, you giggled comfortably to yourself and felt like you had finally made it.

>>10330728
When I was a kid I had few friends and spoke to others the way people in the books I read spoke to each other.
This did not help with the friends problem...

Did English and Japanese.

I'm not a native speaker of either.

>>10327739
Same score, also not a native speaker.

10200 but I misread a few of first questions.

i'm 20 years old

>>10336286
i've been studying french for 5 years now. i'm straight retarded dont worry my fellow brainlets. i can speak english but i m FUCKED UP ETERNALLY. NO SALVATION.

>>10327618
Didn’t beat yours anon, still happy with 0.27%

>>10333686
How'd you get into that gig?

Test says I know 30k words in English but I'm sure my vocabulary is 10k at best

>>10331096
It is though.

>>10327725
yes

>>10336398
>>10336398
>>10336398

>>10327618
i got top 6-7% but i'm guessing similar to online iq tests i'm really more like top 30-20%

Dutch coming through.

>>10327726
That's pretty respectable, anon.
*Got exact the same result*

>>10327618
>30325

Hello, nemesis.

>>10333792
you said it comrade
what a gratifying feeling

>>10331428
>tfw when high school latin paid off
>tfw when genre wolfe was redemptive

Not even a native speaker. Learned English from tv and internet.

>a synonym for love is like

Literally quit after the first question. This was made by idiotic intellectual onanists with no understanding of linguistic nuance. Trashy survey, trashy questions, trashy thread

didn't know almost half the words
Guess im a brainlet

>>10327618
Hold on. Note: I am ESL.

>>10339495
Ok, here's what I got.

>>10339495
>>10339510
I wonder how much this is actually a strength though, as some of the rarer words they asked me to provide synonyms or antonyms for were clearly latinate (and my native language is Romanian).

>>10327936
This is wrong. Vocabulary size is one of the best and most stable predictors of intelligence.

>>10333737
Dumb people don't retain new words no matter how much they read.

>>10328227
>>10339510

>>10327618
That is a terrible test of vocabulary.

>didn't even break 30k
brb burning book collection and then myself

Why the fuck is everyone here a vocabulary god?

>>10339585
What was your score? That test is pathetically easy. It just seems like a shitty Facebook quiz.

This is a better batch of tests: https://discovermyprofile.com/tag/Intelligence

>>10339539
So i am in the top 5 hundredth of intelligence for English speakers; feelsgoodman.

>>10327812

Are you fucking retarded? 128 IQ is insanely high, probably 0,01% of the world pop.

You are however a brainlet for thinking I matters.

>>10327933

My Nibba, same exact score. Not a native speaker either.

>>10339926
given a standard deviation of 15 or 16, more like top 4%

>>10337744
sup

>>10339889
that doesn't actually follow at all.
[dick]and the fact that you made this inference suggests, if anything, that your actual iq is nowhere near as high as you think it is [/dick]

>>10327618
I'm actually a published author lel

>>10340353
rupi...?:o

>>10338439
whats your native language?

>>10340370
English.

>>10339729
>only got 118 on the IQ test
Is this the right time to an hero?

>>10327618
Lel vocab was one of the lowest thing on my iq test (6/20) but I still got over 120 due to symbol searching being 19/20. Probably cause I'm a sperg and spergs have limited vocab but not always though. For reference I could recite the whole alphabet at 2 but only started to read properly at like 10 but I can read up to Focault and understand abstract concepts now but it's hard to absorb new words.

>>10340940
What was your overall IQ anon?

close

>>10341031
120, the clinician didn't want me to get a score because my intellectual sub-groups were so split but I wanted to know. It was Weschler and I got 112 verbal (noting that I scored horribly on vocab), 102 on matrixes (not arithmetic), 110 working memory and 133 on PSI (processing speed). Definitely did way below expectation on matrixes and working memory considering that I excel in math. But that may be because it's the only subject I am truly interested in.

>>10339729
is the icar-16 an iq test?

Who /brainlet/ here?

>>10342477
I guess.