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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tom on November 13, 2017, 12:11:37 PM
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Seems there has been a lot of discussion on different threads on the subject. Here's your test. :grin:
https://www.engvid.com/english-grammar-negative-prefixes/
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8 not great
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Better than my score. :tongue:
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9 for me.
I credit taking 2 years of Latin in high school. Best thing you can do to understand why the language is like it is ....
Lannis
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89% for Old Jock, 78% for me and Lannis is at 100%. :grin:
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I got held back a semester.... :grin:
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Hey, no problem! We'll give you a special dispensation. Have to adjust for the "bell curve". :grin:
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8/9 for me...and +1 on the Latin comment - all those conjugations, declensions, prepositions, direct and indirect objects! So much fun a long time ago!
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89%. I'm holding the bottom w/Shorty. :grin: Without someone on the bottom, where would the top be? :shocked:
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Missed one (89%).
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:thumb:
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I don't even understand that site, what test? Sorry, we had no computers w/I went to school.
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Bullshit. Correct answer to #7 is when the root word is an adjective -- and almost invariably a latinate adjective. As in
IMpossible
IMmaterial
IMpertinent
Jeez.
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I don't even understand that site, what test? Sorry, we had no computers w/I went to school.
Look for this bubble under the main view.
"Test your understanding of this English lesson"
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Bullshit. Correct answer to #7 is when the root word is an adjective -- and almost invariably a latinate adjective. As in
IMpossible
IMmaterial
IMpertinent
Jeez.
"Almost" invariably is the key. It's "Always" in the case of not lining up two dissimilar letters ... at least that was my reasoning.
English can be rough. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
Lannis
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:grin:
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Missed on no 7.
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8 out of 9 and I had two years of latin too. Must have missed a few days.
Pete
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Bullshit. Correct answer to #7 is when the root word is an adjective -- and almost invariably a latinate adjective. As in
IMpossible
IMmaterial
IMpertinent
Jeez.
I agree on Q7. Reading their answer they add ...and also a B or P which completely changes the perception of the question. I feel particularly strongly because it was the only one I missed, so it's their fault :thewife:
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English can be rough. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
English is rough because it's a mishmosh of old Germanic Norse with Celtic, Anglo Saxon, Norman French and Latin, with additional vocabulary lifted from Greek, Arab, Spanish, Hindu, Yiddish, Native American (and Australian) languages, Chinese, Japanese, etc etc. Fact: Legal documents are prolix because after the Norman conquest, contracts had to be written with nouns and verbs repeated in several languages, so that anyone could understand what was being agreed to, whether they were educated in Danish, Anglo Saxon, Celtic, French or Latin. And by Shakespeare's time, every one of the redundant words wound up in the English vocabulary.
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Missed on no 7.
Yep. 7 got me too.
:-(
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Fortunately or unfortunately, English or more specifically American English is the language for most international business or so I've heard. :shocked:
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(http://thumb.ibb.co/jGNQqw/IMG_3124.png) (http://ibb.co/jGNQqw)
That weren't nuthin.
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English is the language for international air ops.
http://www.aviation-esl.com/ICAO_English.htm
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English is the language for international air ops.
http://www.aviation-esl.com/ICAO_English.htm
True that, but fly some in FL and you will hear pilots "supposedly" speaking English - how ATC understands them is beyond my comprehension.
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How the proficiency is checked is another story. :grin:
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Bullshit. Correct answer to #7 is when the root word is an adjective -- and almost invariably a latinate adjective. As in
IMpossible
IMmaterial
IMpertinent
Jeez.
:1:
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#7 tripped me.
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:sad:
8 out of 9 , # 6 was the wrong guess according to the other guy , but I'm not sure the person who made up the test knows what is right either ... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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7 out of nine for me. My parents would be spinning in their graves. They were both english teachers and my father did latin at university. I did three years of latin but I think I forgot it all.
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Hey, no problem! We'll give you a special dispensation. Have to adjust for the "bell curve". :grin:
Do I get a "participational trophee?" :kiss:
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Yeah....an attah boy cookie. :grin:
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It was #7 where I fell down too for the reasons already stated by Testarossa et al
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9 out of 9 not a problem. I would still post incorrectly just to piss off the cramudgeons. Nobody reads anything I post anyway
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True that, but fly some in FL and you will hear pilots "supposedly" speaking English - how ATC understands them is beyond my comprehension.
We were flying in southern Mexico one time and about the only thing we truly understood was 05 Delta.
I have a friend that flies triple 7s internationally, and was going in to somewhere in the far east. The co pilot asked her if she got that transmission.. and she said, "Sure. Mew mew, ... mew mew mew....mew mew mew. :smiley:
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Missed on no 7.
Same here
Being a farang with a skinny school english,- I can live with it.
edit : hmm- seems that I should have read the whole thread before doing the test :rolleyes: :laugh:
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Easy! (9/9) But then, I had to learn English when I was 12, without any previous bad (speech) habits.
Jürgen
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Was this like one of those internet IQ tests where everyone scores 140 ? :rolleyes: :laugh:
Dusty
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My bad speech habits are from learning Punti (Cantonese) before age 2 while in Ohio. Transplanted to Hawaii before 3. Mom & Dad got homesick at the same time :shocked: Mom is talking Punti to us at home . Dad using English. When we go out of the house it's English. Later on it's Pidgin English. :tongue:
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I went 9 for 9, but have to admit that I did do some educated guessing.
Yes #7 was a good guess on my part.
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I fell asleep during the video!
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:grin: :grin: :grin: At least you were there. :undecided:
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:embarassed:
7, but I an Norwegian!