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Wasted The Great said:
Now for something completely different:  this is just too much You Can't Hug Every Cat
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I.... see. I'll just say this much about it, I love cats myself, but I think that girl and I have fundamentally different perceptions about this matter.
 
Cats are awesome. This guy is a kitten, we got him in March!

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@Per,  yeah, I was laughing pretty hard at her 'hard core' attitude.  Story has it that the eHarmony video it was based on was a hoax anyway.

But, who knows!
 
Well, guess what. I got the result of my TOEFL test (that English language certificate I'd been ranting about earlier), and I passed with flying colours. Among other things, I was told that, Test takers who receive a score at the HIGH level, as you did, typically understand academic texts in English that require a wide range of reading abilities regardless of the difficulty of the texts. I really do feel kind of offended by the fact that somebody even feels the need to point that out!
 
Verb 1. pass with flying colors - succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course"
ace, breeze through, sail through, sweep through, nail
make it, pass - go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now"

Aight, then congrats I guess :)
 
Welcome to the world of English speaking citizens!

I completely dig your feeling there-- when you are that fluent in a language, you should expect to have that kind of score.
 
Thanks guys! :)
I never had any doubt that I'd nail it, and I did so without any sort of preparation whatsoever. The only thing I had problems with was the "listening comprehension" part. The reason being, I had to take notes, and in the middle of it, my pencil tip broke off, so I had to ask for a sharpener which wouldn't work initially. So my concentration was off, and I could neither pause nor repeat the audio file. So I only got 111 of 120 points. Bummer.
 
Some guy from the Balkans who lives in Stuttgart and speaks both German and English with a heavy accent tells you that you don't. Rejoice!
 
LooseCannon said:
Rejoice isn't a real English word.
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I found out the other day that there's a whole load of words that English people use that I had no idea where actually Americanisms. Words like: lengthy, reliable, talented, influential, tremendous. (Source). I'm either never been up on the complete history of English language or just completely ignorant.

@Perun: Good job. :ok:
 
Everything broke at work for 5 hours today. As a result, now that it is fixed, I'm taking phone calls.

Yay.
 
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