From where does the craving for vocabulary expansion stem? Is it the desire to communicate more efficiently? Most likely not, since the average person will typically know enough words to communicate a typical experience. While guesses vary wildly, rough estimates put the average person’s vocabulary at around 10,000 to 30,000 words. Of course, if you can count past 30,000, you know a few more words than you think.
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The Power of Words
September 28th, 2009Names
August 5th, 2009In a troubled time where people (frequently notable celebrities) find it acceptable to name their children Apple, Blanket, or Pilot Inspektor, let’s take a moment to review what goes into creating-or simply borrowing-a name. It interests me to consider that the English language, providing via sheer vernacular volume more vocabularistic opportunities than any other terrestrial language, is accompanied by a name popularity contest, with every year seeing a new “unique” name rise dramatically to the top of the baby-naming charts. Think McKenzie, Brayden, Sophia, Grayson, and all the wonderful alternate spellings associated with said names.
Where Did The Votes Go?
July 29th, 2009If you’re here, you’ve probably noticed that we’ve hidden the vote counts next to the current word’s sentences. “Why is that?” you may be wondering. Well, in this experiment we call Quotidian Word, we noticed a bit of favoritism towards sentences that already had votes next to them and feedback from users concerned that the voting system was unfair in that respect, even though points don’t really mean anything and the site is for fun and education. So we decided the best way to counter this effect is to hide the total vote counts for a sentence until the voting for that word is over.
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Supercilious Sunday!
July 26th, 2009As you can see, Supercilious Sunday has arrived! Since Sundays are much slower internet days in general, we figured we’d toss a really crazy word out there worth big points for those loyal QWers who visit the site quotidianly.
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POLL: Should Vote Counts Be Visible?
July 22nd, 2009We’re always trying to improve the user experience at Quotidian Word, and one of the issues that has come up has been voting. Even though the site really isn’t about voting and winning (everyone’s a winner when you expand your vocab!), the voting process adds a little fun. In order to maintain said fun, we’d like to propose a little user poll to see how people feel:
Should vote counts be hidden until after winners are determined?
- Yes (67%, 4 Votes)
- No (33%, 2 Votes)
- Your mom (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 6
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