Geekety geek geek geek.

[go_team]

The anal-retentive English teacher who lives in my forebrain is still in fine form, I see:

English Genius

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 83% 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!

You too can try The Commonly Confused Words Test; if you're like me, you'll probably find yourself thinking, "That's a change in progress! I'm going to get this wrong, but in 20 more years I bet this'll be common usage!" Usually my inner linguist can shut up during grammar tests; her domain is spoken language, not the written stuff. Oh geez.

And those of you who are language nerds enough to have read this far might be interested in The Eggcorn Database, which takes the "commonly confused words" idea and runs with it in a way that I find truly wonderful.

Comments

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I thought that was weird, too. So far everyone I know who's taken this test and posted their results to LJ has been scoring better than just about everybody else in their age groups, and I've seen a pretty wide range of scores. Also I want to see an age distribution of people who've taken the test, because the results claim that people in the 55-59 group have been scoring highest across the board, but I'm guessing that this test isn't all that popular in that age group, so the people who took it are a small self-selected sample of grammar nerds, who of course did really well on the test and skewed the data six ways from Tuesday. I also suspect that the testwriter cares way more about grammar than about statistics.