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house-carpenter:

I had a productive day at work today browsing through the website of Karl Hagen, who seems like a pretty erudite and knowledgeable person. He has this very nice quiz, which is a “real grammar quiz”, in that it tests your understanding of morphosyntactic concepts (nouns, verbs, agreement, phrase structure, etc.) rather than the memorization of arbitrary rules about spelling, punctuation and word choice. It does suffer a little from the problem of a lot of morphosyntactic concepts not having particularly widely agreed-upon precise definitions, but I think most of the questions were reasonably unambiguous. I got 32/35 (you can see my marked results here).

 

nathanielbuildsatesseract:

12/35

I would post the I-am-below-average gif but I don’t actually know that that is below average.

 

evolution-is-just-a-theorem:

I got bored and didn’t finish but @ghostofasecretary you should do this

 

sigmaleph:

23/35

gonna pull the “this is not my native language” card

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#interesting #language #(22/35) #(there were a few where I tried and got it wrong) #(and there were *also* a few where I was just like #”I have never heard that jargon before in my life‚ how the hell should I know which of these answers fits it”) #(if I had no idea whatsoever I skipped the question rather than trying to guess) #(it’s not like a school exam where having a high grade is instrumentally useful in itself) #(so my grade here should purely reflect how much I know and not how lucky I am)