Interesting Links for 16-12-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Vocabulary Test: How Many English Words Do You Know? (I scored 21,900, above 92% of native speakers)

(tags:language quiz )

2. I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

(tags:kenya english language ai style )

3. The giant heat pumps designed to warm whole districts (in Germany. UK is miles behind)

(tags:heating Technology germany )

4. Hungary is leading the world in solar adoption (25% of its electricity is solar)

(tags:solarpower hungary europe )

Comments

[chickenfeet]

I managed 24000. Kicking myself at not being able to remember what "agnate" meant!

[andrewducker]

Not a word I'd ever heard before!

[chickenfeet]

It's interesting in that there doesn't seem to be a feminine equivalent but then mabe there aren't any succession rules that would require one.

[bens_dad]

The American Heritage Dictionary says:
Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor; ; in this sense it is a correlative of uterine.

The OED has uterine Obsolete. rare. plural. Children or offspring of the same mother.
No suggestion as to what replaces it.

[darkoshi]

I wasn't presented with that word; don't know it either. So they must not use the same set of words in each test.

[andrewducker]

"After each response, the system updates the respondent’s estimated vocabulary size and selects the next word so that its difficulty is close to the respondent’s current ability level."

https://www.myvocab.info/en/howitworks