Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Improve Your Vocabulary...

...feed the world.

Saw that on the news the last night and thought I'd give it a try. It was Slashdotted all night, so I only got around to playing tonight. It's pretty addictive, Amy and I both had fun (although I probably had more fun since I was driving and she was feeding Bambina), and if the site does what it says, I think it's worth a couple of minutes a night. Enjoy!

6 comments:

Boo and Peanut's Momma said...

Kinda fun. Have to admit I was surprised by how many I got right. By the way on the last post, loved the sock picture! Way cool.

Joann said...

We did this at school last week. I think it's a cool concept.

rebecca said...

that is very cool, though i don't know many words past the first three that came up for me. The food crisis has been keeping me up late at night - pretty scary that there are people rioting and killing for food right now.

Darrin said...

My vocabulary is pretty bad... but somehow I got quite a few right. But it's always amusing to me when I get one wrong and then 3 words later it comes up again and I still miss it. :-P

Bald Man Tom said...

bb's momma -

Like yourself, I was pleasantly surprised as well. Some of the words I knew from doing crossword puzzles, some of them I was able to figure out from what I deemed to be the root of the word.

joann -

You probably already know this, but it was originally started by a guy who wanted to help his son brush up on his vocabulary for writing college entrance essays. Learnin' is fun!

rebecca -

Keep practicing, you'll learn new words and get to feed hungry people in the process! I think the story was partly a follow on to the food crisis, so it was very timely.

darrin -

You know that if you get it wrong, it tells you what the right answer should have been, yes? :)

Darrin said...

Tom... that's the sad part. I'm even looking at the right answer. Obviously not really absorbing it or something. :-P