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Offline Tom

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Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« on: November 13, 2017, 12:11:37 PM »
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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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2017, 12:41:39 PM »
8 not great
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2017, 12:47:03 PM »
Better than my score.  :tongue: 
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2017, 12:52:16 PM »
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 ....

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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2017, 12:54:06 PM »
89% for Old Jock, 78% for me and Lannis is at 100%.   :grin:
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2017, 01:17:23 PM »
I got held back a semester.... :grin:
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2017, 01:21:37 PM »
Hey, no problem!  We'll give you a special dispensation.  Have to adjust for the "bell curve".   :grin:
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2017, 01:23:32 PM »
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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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2017, 01:28:07 PM »
89%.  I'm holding the bottom w/Shorty.   :grin:  Without someone on the bottom, where would the top be?   :shocked:
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2017, 01:34:16 PM »
Missed one (89%). 
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2017, 01:47:25 PM »
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2017, 02:00:32 PM »
I don't even understand that site, what test?  Sorry, we had no computers w/I went to school.
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2017, 02:03:40 PM »
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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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2017, 02:17:02 PM »
Quote from: guzzisteve on November 13, 2017, 02:00:32 PM
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.

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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2017, 02:27:27 PM »
Quote from: Testarossa on November 13, 2017, 02:03:40 PM
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.

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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2017, 02:32:09 PM »
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2017, 02:33:34 PM »
 Missed on no 7.
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #17 on: November 13, 2017, 02:34:34 PM »
8 out of 9 and I had two years of latin too. Must have missed a few days.

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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #18 on: November 13, 2017, 02:44:34 PM »
Quote from: Testarossa on November 13, 2017, 02:03:40 PM
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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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #19 on: November 13, 2017, 02:47:39 PM »
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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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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2017, 02:57:58 PM »
Quote from: pebra on November 13, 2017, 02:33:34 PM
Missed on no 7.

Yep. 7 got me too.
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #21 on: November 13, 2017, 02:59:40 PM »
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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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #22 on: November 13, 2017, 03:01:27 PM »



That weren't nuthin.
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #23 on: November 13, 2017, 03:03:06 PM »
English is the language for international air ops.

http://www.aviation-esl.com/ICAO_English.htm
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #24 on: November 13, 2017, 03:07:08 PM »
Quote from: Tom on November 13, 2017, 03:03:06 PM
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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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #25 on: November 13, 2017, 03:35:53 PM »
How the proficiency is checked is another story.   :grin:
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #26 on: November 13, 2017, 03:36:40 PM »
Quote from: Testarossa on November 13, 2017, 02:03:40 PM
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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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #27 on: November 13, 2017, 11:11:01 PM »
#7 tripped me.
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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #28 on: November 13, 2017, 11:31:25 PM »
 :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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Re: Okay, I got 7 out of 9. Here's the test.
« Reply #29 on: November 14, 2017, 12:24:47 AM »
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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