Take that, Jargon!Boss

[kaitou]

Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test...

English Genius

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 93% 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!

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Comments

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I got 100/100/100/73. "Advanced" by their ranking, annoying by mine. *grin* I expect that I muffed it on the 'me/I' question and the 'hanged/hung'. The former is always a point of difficulty for me, and the latter I vaguely recall that the correct grammar (if there can be correct grammar for that topic!) always sounded wrong to my ears.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Yes, hanged I got right by going against my instincts. I don't care if it IS 'hanged.' It just sounds wrong and we should allow language shift to get rid of it. I think I either got the 'phenomena/non' or the 'stationary/stationery' one wrong.

[soranokumo.livejournal.com]

Haven't taken the quiz (yet), but d00d... So impressed. >^_^< Go, you! (And stick it to the jargon man! XD)

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Now I want to see what you get!

(Also, when can I lure you to Ohio? I have punch and pie!)

[soranokumo.livejournal.com]

English Genius, apparently. 100/100/100/87. Not as high on that last one as I'd like, probably because I second guessed myself--haven't gone back to look at the answer key 'cause I'm at work. XD But, you know, this is why writers should have good editors. ♥

(I would love to, but I have no idea when I would be able to just yet. I will try to keep you posted on potential future dates! As it is, I'm hoping I haven't done anything suicidal by registering for Otakon this year.)

[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

This was fun. I only missed the while one, because I second-guessed myself.

And I laughed myself silly thinking about "navel travel." ^_^

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

I know! I was so close to picking c) Both A and B for the Naval/Navel one. (But of course it's navel gazing, which can result in astral travel. LOL)

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

I got 100/100/93/80. I think I muffed phenomena/phenomenon (I knew one was the plural of the other but just couldn't think at the moment) and the complement/compliment one --I did know the definitions but I was thinking that it could be meant either way in the context in which it was used. And I know that I got faze/phase wrong because faze is not a word I often see in print. It's funny what you learn by reading and by listening. I'm surprised that the test creator did not use irregardless or dove as a verb form of dive. (Which was originally only dived but common use has made it generally accepted.)

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Irregardless or inflammable would both have been good ones. I agree ont he listening and reading thing too. I mean, of course I know how to pronounce hors d'oeuvres. But it doesn't keep me from thinking 'whors devohrs' in my head.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

The word that brought this home for me was epitome. I had heard it first so when I read it, I knew exactly what it was. However, I havea friend who had only read it so when he mispronounced it I knew immediately how he had first encountered it.