Players' vocabulary

by Art Morte Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:25 am

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/926838/rio-ferdinand-bottom-in-player-vocab-twitter-study?cc=5739

Damn, I'd like such a study done on myself Razz

by Ali Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:05 am

this would be cooler if it was multi-language Razz

by Iceman Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:15 am

I lol'd at this line : "However, none of the footballers in the study used more than 1% in advanced words."

What would they consider as "advanced words" though?

by Ali Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:09 am

Iceman wrote:I lol'd at this line : "However, none of the footballers in the study used more than 1% in advanced words."

What would they consider as "advanced words" though?

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true story

by Giggslegend Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:24 am

Iceman wrote:I lol'd at this line : "However, none of the footballers in the study used more than 1% in advanced words."

What would they consider as "advanced words" though?

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by rwo power Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:04 pm

Looks like we are lucky that we have quite some players in Germany who have the Abitur (A-Levels) - heck, many of them even study at the university after their active career!

by EarlyPrototype Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:07 pm

Ferdinand was beaten by Rooney?.................. :lol!:

and I thought Rooney was the on that was bad at English.

by che Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:12 pm

i'd like to see how many "advanced" words an average twitter user posts

by which i of course don't mean that ferdinand is of average intelligence Laughing