It just occurred to me that my internet dialect in my IRL dialect are slightly different in a few ways. Curious to hear others dialectal differences and thoughts on the subject.

  • undetermined
    6•2 years ago

    I’m not a native speaker either. I took an online vocabulary test once and it told me I’m on the level of a ten year old. Yay?

    • @Moonguide@lemmy.ml
      11•2 years ago

      I mean, isn’t the average english level in the states equivalent to that of a six year old? Remember reading something to that effect. Or maybe it was about literacy rates.

    • @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
      5•2 years ago

      Can you please provide us with a link? I’d love to take that test and learn about my english age. Maybe it’s like dog-years.

        • KingJalopy
          6•2 years ago

          I got a 22688. Top 5.5% equal to… Lol White collars… Then why am I a blue collar bitch?

          • @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
            3•2 years ago

            21470, top 7.55% Guess that’s satisfactory. But I’d still prefer to know my virtual age. And not the colour of my collar. 😉

            • Bo7a
              7•2 years ago

              Whew. Top 0.1%!

              Now… Where do I put this skill to good use?

                • @ellabee@sh.itjust.works
                  5•2 years ago

                  not the guy you asked, but also .01%. I read. a lot. and I pretty much always have. mostly science fiction and fantasy, but I pick up the occasional nonfiction.

                  books were always around the house when I was a kid, and we went to the library a lot. my grandma taught me to read before I started school, so that’s about 40 years of exposure.

                  so nearly everything on that test, I’ve encountered in context and at least have a fuzzy idea what it could mean.

              • radix
                3•2 years ago

                Wow, what’s your history? I got top 0.12% from being a pedantic kid studying SAT vocabulary since middle school (and from being a native English speaker who also learned Spanish and French to intermediate high school American standards).

                • Bo7a
                  2•2 years ago

                  Part of a Ba in Phil. I spent most of my life as a manual labourer and then fell into unix/linux sysadmin. But I read like it is oxygen.

        • megane-kun
          3•2 years ago

          Got 29610 or top 0.2%, apparently. I don’t consider myself to be wide-read not learned. Also, I mostly guessed my way on the tougher items.

          Not a native English speaker at that. I just live in a country where a lot of the post-primary schooling is done in English.