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Monday, April 19, 2010

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A challenging vocabulary test

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A challenging vocabulary test

via TYWKIWDBI by noreply@blogger.com (Minnesotastan) on 4/18/10

Michael Spear, an Associate Professor in a Journalism Program came up with "The Journalists' Vocabulary Challenge" for his copy editing students - a "random list of words that journalists might know or might want to know. They represent no standard. Take a minute and see how well you do, whether you are a journalist or not."

The background and rationale for the quiz is explained here. I tried it a few nights ago and scored 90/100. I missed fulsome, insouciance, cavil, panache, ululate, mordant, feckless, sophistry, sinecure, and one other I can't remember.

The test is "self-scoring" with little smiley-faces for a correct guess and an "X" for an incorrect one.

The quiz itself is HERE. Via Kottke.

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

A compilation of "We've got company" from the movies

I'd like to see one where the movie title is said in the dialogue, a la Family Guy ( see here if you don't know what I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKsfL1q91hM )

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A compilation of "We've got company" from the movies

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If you like this and haven't seen The Wilhelm Scream compilation, you should look at that as well. And maybe the "cut/slide" montage depending on your squeamishness.

Found at Swimming Freestyle.