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Improve your English and end world hunger

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Louche
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 Message 25 of 31
07 November 2007 at 3:17pm | IP Logged 
El Gringo wrote:
Louche wrote:
El Gringo wrote:
Lemus wrote:
Now, I realize this isn't language related at all, but I would like to encourage everyone to visit The Hunger Site to click once each day to donate a cup of staple food. There are also similar sites you can link to that donate books, fund health care, and save rainforest. It takes only a few seconds everyday, but if we all started clicking it would make a big difference.

Sweet.
I made it my new homepage, so every time I use the net I won't forget to do it.


I love how that website is basically saying that wasting your time is the equivalent of solving world hunger.

No one is serious in there claim about solving the issue.
But its fools like you who can't spend 2 seconds clicking on something before going about your business...
People like you are the reason problems like this exist in the first place.
You have to take baby steps to see any progress and if more people cared for others it would have never gotten this bad.

Peace.


Oh, my. I am surely a member of the worst class of people in the world, "people like me". I'm sure your aggressive accusations are making the world SO much better.
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El Gringo
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 Message 26 of 31
07 November 2007 at 10:05pm | IP Logged 
Louche wrote:
El Gringo wrote:
Louche wrote:
El Gringo wrote:
Lemus wrote:
Now, I realize this isn't language related at all, but I would like to encourage everyone to visit The Hunger Site to click once each day to donate a cup of staple food. There are also similar sites you can link to that donate books, fund health care, and save rainforest. It takes only a few seconds everyday, but if we all started clicking it would make a big difference.

Sweet.
I made it my new homepage, so every time I use the net I won't forget to do it.


I love how that website is basically saying that wasting your time is the equivalent of solving world hunger.

No one is serious in there claim about solving the issue.
But its fools like you who can't spend 2 seconds clicking on something before going about your business...
People like you are the reason problems like this exist in the first place.
You have to take baby steps to see any progress and if more people cared for others it would have never gotten this bad.

Peace.


Oh, my. I am surely a member of the worst class of people in the world, "people like me". I'm sure your aggressive accusations are making the world SO much better.

I never said your an evil individual but apathy does nothing but hurt people who need compassion and help.
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iieee
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 Message 27 of 31
07 November 2007 at 10:22pm | IP Logged 
I was at 43 with 1000 grains. Highest score was I believe 45. No Latin here, but I did study for the GRE within the last year.

Of course most of it was educated guessing based on roots or similar words. For example, one of the words was preponderate. I don't know that word per se, but I do know the word preponderance, as in "a preponderance of evidence". Therefore I was able to guess that preponderate means to outweigh.

If I had to do this test in my target language I don't know if I could score any points at all. Those of you who know English as a second language should congratulate yourselves.
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iieee
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 Message 28 of 31
07 November 2007 at 10:23pm | IP Logged 
PS. Take your arguing to private messages.
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Iversen
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 Message 29 of 31
04 December 2007 at 8:45am | IP Logged 
47 after something like half an hour, - but apart from "rorqual" (which is a very useful word for a wellknown gentle creature of the seven seas) and "impecunious" (which is in fact the financial state of the majority of the Earth's population) I can't see myself using most of the words I have been guessing at lately. In fact I'm probably already using too many arcane words, and adding jape, obloquy, bellewether, footle, pyrexia, craven and declaim will do little to lessen the obfuscating tendencies of my cacoethes loquendi.
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LanguageGeek
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 Message 30 of 31
17 March 2008 at 8:21am | IP Logged 
This is indeed a fantastic site to help increase your active vocabulary in English. I think it makes for scintillating entertainment and I will continue to use it with great alacrity :)

I hit 37 rather effortlessly after a couple dozen or so questions, but I was just dabbling, the usual idle goofing off I am prone to when nothing especially captivating rivets my imagination.

I think I can reach and maintain 45 as I consider my command of the English vocabulary to be on par with an erudite native.

Okay, enough of this blatant self-adulation... Thanks for the link and I will go back to the humbling but gratifying experience of reading Hungarian poetry.
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kengibson2001
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 Message 31 of 31
24 March 2008 at 7:21am | IP Logged 
I got to level 38 and I never went to college.

To be fair to the people that speak English as a second language, many of the words are very old dating back to the middle ages that are not used much anymore.

Edited by kengibson2001 on 24 March 2008 at 7:22am


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