April 20, 2006

Etymologic - try a quick multiple-choice guess-the-etymology game. Betcha don't know the origin of "Amazon".
posted by fish tick 18 years ago
  • Wow, 7 out of 10...surprising! And no, I don't know the origin of "Amazon"...
  • That was fun. I did okay, but I was really just guessing. I did well with the phrases and poorly with the words.
  • I think they make half this shit up.
  • 3 of 10 on the first try, which is slightly better than guessing. Nearly suicidal I though I best try it again and I rather love linguistics. On the second go it was 8 of 10, and should have been 9 of 10 but I talked myself out of one I knew. I was trying to work the test rather than my knowledge. Now I'll spend the rest of the night playing in search of that perfect 10 of 10 game so that I may declare myself Verbal Trivia Master of the Universe and sleep well. With such a title I'll expect my peons to grunt me a good morning and deliver me a mimosa and jelly doughnuts in bed. Not that I like jelly doughnuts. They just have trouble understanding my requests with their meager language skills and didn't hear "nubile virgins" correctly.
  • I got 9 out of 10. but that sort of thing is right up my alley.
  • Did ok but I suspect that languagehat might have found some room for contention here.
  • 9 out of 10 -- it got me on rankle.
  • 7 of 10. ehh...
  • I too got 9 out of 10. That rankle gets around.
  • 8. I wrongly assumed that they would follow the incorrect but popular derivation of 'posh'...
  • 9. Foiled by a Cape Cod turkey. Tons of fun, thanks fish tick.
  • MonkeyFilter: Foiled by a Cape Cod Turkey
  • 7/10. Apparently I know very little of maidens, cocktails, and pandering.
  • Cool! I love it! *bzzzzt* Dammit! *bzzzzt* Dammit! *bzzzzt* Aargh! *bzzzzt* Fuck! I hate it!
  • *clak* take 2! 9 out of 10. Meh. lousy stuipd no good dumb ol' crazy word thing
  • note to self: don't invite the underpants monster and friends to next mixed-drinks party
  • 8/10 - medieval French terms trip me up. Not that this is a problem on a day-to-day basis.
  • 9/10 nifty.
  • 9/10. The Devil tripped me up.
  • Ugh 3/10, "Miserable". *clak* take 2! 7/10, "Good". Ugh.
  • i "gotta go study".
  • I got 10 out of ten on my second attempt.
  • teacher's pet eh?
  • Ye mean we get a second try?