Yeah, me!
Although I did spot one mistake in the test itself .. did you also see it?
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When I saw this test on ahistoricality, I just had to take it. I was disappointed. It was way too easy for me:
Rock Star
You scored 100%!
You damn rock star. You know all the basics, and if you got any wrong, I bet it was that stupid Traveling Wilburys question.…
I am horribly, terribly disappointed with myself and my score on this stupid quiz. What was your score? (Keep in mind that I'll never speak to you again if you scored higher than I did);
78% Geek
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Okay, I am geekier than ALL OF YOU put together!!
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Mr. Z records live music and is nuts about microphones.
Whenever we watch t.v. he is always pointing out microphones to me. Earlier this evening, the first NFL playoff game ends, there's a crazy scene on the field, confetti flying in the air:
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Take a look at this short video -- it's a list of animals. Try to remember as many animals as you can.
If you're like me, you're pretty confident that you will remember the entire list, even after ten minutes or so. In my case, that's not so much because the list names animals that most of us are…
D'oh. I got one wrong. 'Embarrassment'. Speaks for itself. :)
Maybe they mean Tori Spelling.
I got 'Embarrassment' wrong as well.
But here is the thing: There is no embarrassment in making any of these mistakes. The embarrassment is failing to proofread our work and correct it. I proofread even casual communication (and still let mistakes slip through.)
In doubt? How about looking it up?
And I'll pause to complain about the absolutely chaotic spelling rules that the English language suffers from.
Hooked on phonics? Uh, our (not ARE!) language is not remotely phonetic!
I understand how it got that way, but I recognize the difficulty it presents for many people. You can be really smart and a lousy speller.
Neither 'Calender' nor 'Calendar' are proper nouns. They are common nouns, spelled 'calender' (the smoothing machine) and 'calendar' (the date computer).
BTW, the test covered only the easy ones.
Also BTW, there is no fix for English spelling. Regional accents will be the ruin of any attempt to spell-as-sounds. How do you pronounce 'Boston' and 'car'? If the name of a thing is pronounced the way I would spell it -- 'nun un' -- would you recognize that as the term 'nine iron' as said in the South? In New England, the word 'drawer' is pronounced 'draw' and the word 'drawing' is pronounced 'droring' [yes, no mistake: they add an 'r' where it isn't when they don't sound an 'r' when it's there].
And no, I don't see their error, except I question whether or not "that'll" is truly a proper contraction.
One could probably quibble with some of the grammar.
GrrlScientist, are you sure you didn't mean "Yay, me!"?
And shouldn't your ellipsis have one more period?
;-)
Nalgas:
True on spelling. But it is goofy that we have a language that is around 14 letters short for phonemes and lacks a distinct letter for our most common vowel sound. And we have multiple spellings for many sounds due to our ransacking of other languages.
In one of John McWhorter's books, he wrote about an effort by a Boston school district to prohibit teaching by anyone with a "discernible accent". This prompted letters-to-the-editor by non-native Bostonians with an outsider's perspective.
One writer described his teacher citing "orphan" and "often" as an example of homonyms.
Another had trouble with a teacher over spelling "Korea" and "career". As the teacher pronounced them, career was the country and Korea was your job...
I got 100% on the spelling, and I'm keeping out of the discussion of how you Herns mis-pronounce our language.
The test-makers don't seem to like punctuation.