{"id":873,"date":"2011-07-21T14:10:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2011-07-21T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:10:53","slug":"erudition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Erudition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a bumper sticker last week that was in Latin. Such things tend to catch my eye; I&#8217;ve got two t-shirts with Latin text on them. On translates into English as, &#8220;I have a catapult. Give me all your money or I shall hurl an immense rock at your head.&#8221; The other one is a bit sillier, and translates to, &#8220;How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the bumper sticker I saw reads, &#8220;Si hoc legere potes eruditissimus es <em><strong>sed parum distas!<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; This translates to, &#8220;If you can read this, you are well-educated <em><strong>and too close!<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, speaking of well-educated (or stretching in that direction, anyway), <a href=\"http:\/\/testyourvocab.com?r=176225\">I have a vocabulary of 35,000 words<\/a>. This puts me at the top of the &#8220;most people&#8221; range, and somewhere between the 85th and 90th percentile. They don&#8217;t have a lot of data yet, though &#8211; the average SAT verbal score for people who&#8217;ve taken the test so far is 700. They&#8217;d like more people to take their test, particularly ages 15 or younger. My age doesn&#8217;t have an average vocabulary reported, though. They only report that for ages 18-32. The data shows an increasing vocabulary size with increasing age, although the data isn&#8217;t monotonic. I&#8217;m wondering if the increase is regular enough beyond 32 to be worth extrapolating to see how I compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a bumper sticker last week that was in Latin. Such things tend to catch my eye; I&#8217;ve got two t-shirts with Latin text on them. On translates into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-its-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}