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How copious is the bric-a-brac in your lexicographical pantechnicon?

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ONLY NICE THINGS

15:17 / 12.02.03

A slight change from the "which LOTR slahs pairing are you, MR......Anderson"....Schmie's word test. It's a bit time-consuming, but fun.

Kit-Cat Club

15:29 / 12.02.03

159, that's a bit wank, isn't it? But I passed on all the ones I didn't immediately get, so in fact I only got eight actually *wrong* (not the point though really...

Jack Fear

15:35 / 12.02.03

170, or 85%. Didn't pass on any—but the same/opposite binary is pretty strained in many of those cases...

Smoothly

15:46 / 12.02.03

I'm the shittest. 158.

come on Haus, don't be coy. (or do I mean shy? or....)

The Strobe

16:01 / 12.02.03

Oh blah. Now I'm the shittiest, 155. I agree with Jack, though, at times same/opposite was a bit vague. Still, it's a good test, if biased to those with classical knowledge who can at least work stuff out they mightn't know. (Or not, as my score shows).

Ethan Hawke

16:04 / 12.02.03

165. That's a really fatiguing test.

And I dispute that "gnomic" is the same as "pithy."

phhft!

deja_vroom

16:05 / 12.02.03

138 and gasconading away!

Persephone

16:37 / 12.02.03

177! I was proudest of knowing "thewy"...

w1rebaby

16:58 / 12.02.03

170. I didn't look at which ones I got wrong, so I might do it again tonight if I've got the patience and see if not being at work makes any difference. It's more a test of attention span.

I'm not too keen on his attempt to link it to IQ.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:03 / 12.02.03

I got 164 out of 200 correct, with 30 unanswered. Bah.

I'm signing back up with Dictionary.com's mailing list.

Jack The Bodiless

17:10 / 12.02.03

162. I'm suffering a little from lack of validation, however... does this make me Legolas or Darth Maul?

Whisky Priestess

17:14 / 12.02.03

You show me your, Haus, and I'll show you mine (as I said after a cast party a few years ago). Mind you, the number of Latinate terms in there gives you something of an unfair advantage ...

Whisky Priestess

17:25 / 12.02.03

You show me yourS, I mean. Bloody hell, I can't even write. What hope do I have of toppling capitalism?

Ganesh

17:29 / 12.02.03

173, with no guesses (I don't believe in guesses). No 'invaginate', though...

Whisky Priestess

17:44 / 12.02.03

A particular favourite of Biology GCSE students everywhere - maybe that's why they missed it out? Like masticate and masturbate, ho ho.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

18:38 / 12.02.03

158 should have waited and tried it at home.

ephemerat

19:19 / 12.02.03

170. There was a fair degree of uncertainty in many of my answers, however (unlike Ganesh, I tend to think that educated guesswork is a perfectly valid method for throw-away test-taking, um, or something). And as to linking this to natural intelligence? I mean, what - a fucking vocabulary test? Bollocks.

Arr... and it be a good thing I'm no real pirate or I'd have accidentally severed my Mainbrace in a fit of confusion long ago. Arr... bugger.

Ganesh

19:34 / 12.02.03

Ephemerat: I do too; my post was intended to convey, in sideways manner, my firm belief that one should never admit to guesswork. And never leave a multiple choice question blank.

Cosmicjamas

21:32 / 12.02.03

158 as well, should have tried it when I was sober!

Ariadne

21:45 / 12.02.03

165 for me. Quite a few guesses, though I didn't check whether I got the guesses right and ones I 'knew' wrong.

ephemerat

21:46 / 12.02.03

Ah. My mistake, then - we have the same approach (barring your cunning refusal to admit to any... uh, oops).

And while I'm here: C'mon then Haus and The Highest Priestess - reveal thine glory to our naked eyes. Don't keep us quivering in an- ticipation like this...

Ooh, and I love some of these new words I've learnt - like pyknic - as in 'Haus is no pyknic'.

Ba-boom.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:46 / 12.02.03

166, and I have a feeling that most that I got wrong, I guessed.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:46 / 12.02.03

Obviously.

Mazarine

22:14 / 12.02.03

163 and feeling inadequate.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:38 / 12.02.03

Oh, sorry. Forgot. I did what I always do on this sort of thing, got bored and raced through, made a couple of stupid mistakes (glen and dale...geln and dale...), ended up with 186. Highest anyone's carded so far is 192. Apparently 165 would put you in the top .1 or .2 percentile, but personally I struggle to believe that...

ephemerat

23:56 / 12.02.03

Mmm. Thinking that as the test designer scored 165 it may well be that he's a little, um... well, biased, perhaps?

Either that or Barbelith has a phenomenally large collection of (sexy, bomb-toting, drug-hoofing, anarchistic, FUCK-SHIT-UP-ing) intellectual geniuses.

Or a phenomenally large collection of (sexy, bomb-toting, drug-hoofing, anarchistic, FUCK-SHIT-UP-ing) truth-masseurs, obviously. I prefer to assume that it's Peter Schmie's own tortured ego at fault (and am I the only one to internally hear his surname as Schmee! i.e. Squee's bedraggled teddy bear and fear sponge; 'Sponges are sc-ary').

invisible_al

13:34 / 13.02.03

Owwww my head hurts, 152 with 3 left unanswered and more than a few guesses. But I was suprised at the ammount I actually knew, so thats ok in my head I think. Score one for reading lots of just about anything

Quantum

14:01 / 13.02.03

I thought it was just me! A schmee IQ test, what an oxymoron- like a GIR IQ test ('Gir! You're sending out deadly waves of stupidity!')
Anyone notice #4 'minion-myrmidon' Myridons being evil minions in the invisibles? anyway 169. Stoopid test.

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:08 / 13.02.03

Yep - looks like whoever set it had been reading the Invisibles. Obviously.

Now I *really* need a cigarette.

Whisky Priestess

15:44 / 13.02.03

And you shall have one for being so clever! Nicotine swells your brain, you know.

178 - I hang my head in shame. I am but a shed to the mighty Haus.

grant

21:14 / 13.02.03

172, but I agree that the opposites are a bit tough to determine.

And I made at least one goof (I know damn well that "sensible" and "giddy" aren't the same).

What the heck is "backwardation"?

Ganesh

16:41 / 14.02.03

Xoc's too modest to say, but he got 179. He did Classics at school, and reckons that helped.

I love him for his relatively oversized vocabulary. And massive diction.

Whisky Priestess

17:37 / 14.02.03

Haus, why did you delete your score? It's not shameful to be stuffed full of big clever words, you know.

Unless it's in a sexual way.

The Apple-Picker

17:43 / 14.02.03

Well this test really puts a girl in her place: 160.

That catholic/universal one really got me. I had no knowledge of the "universal," "comprehensive" definition of catholic.

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:44 / 14.02.03

I didn't...it's just up there.

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