Me Insightful Linguist
Me Think…
I found a link to an IQ test here. Sure, I bet it’s way too short to be a reliable test of anyone’s IQ, but I couldn’t resist, so I filled it in. The results:
See? SEE? I’m not just bright, I’m an insightful linguist! Whatever the heck THAT means!
And for anyone that notices that this IQ test seems to be part of a dating website – no, I didn’t notice that till after I had done the test. Honest honey, I wasn’t looking for a date, I swear! THWACK! Ow! 
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| I made this light-hearted post a while ago, and somehow it became the top-ranked Google result for searches on the term “insightful linguist” (it’s not anymore). Many people posted comments to this article, which is great (it’s calmed down a bit now). I’d just like to point out that I am in no way affiliated with the IQ test, I’m just someone that did the test and wrote a small post about it on my blog. Also, I don’t think “insightful linguist” is a term with any scientific meaning, nor do I believe that online IQ tests are very reliable – so don’t take it very seriously, ok? |
-Try as you will or try as you may- DONKEY
it’s already been said in a similar way.
Keats,Shelly,Dickinson and the rest that I’ve read
have their own styles, but share what’s been said.
What else do we have in common–Do the rest of you like flying kites?
dumb bitches, i scored 136
just kiddin. regarding the “idiot’s” q… read again teh question.. it’s not related with the structure of the word… and i wouldn’t go that far with the “fuzz” and shitt. 
i realyy scored 136
)) . the “dumb bitches” part was supposed to be a joke 
. it’s 4 am… bye 
)
Hmm. Pretty Interesting
131 here & also “Insightful Linguist”.
I’m slightly dislecsic, spelling is down the drain. Handwriting is pathetic. Genral lifestyle is disorganised. 23 / M / ZA.
Only did Highschool till 1/2 grade 11. Twas so not mentaly stimulating. Bored stiff. Basicaly flunked.
Now an IT manager/Website Design/Database Design/Multimedia Video & Audio…. Well, Jack of all trades with regards to the IT field.
And to top it all off, The 3 top students in my class are, A bank Teller, A Secratary & …….. drom roll please…… a waiter.
So i guess the poor losers who had no social life, studied their asses off to get the best marks ever, now sit in pathetic jobs.
My personal opinion is that most of the people here are gifted with their brains capabilities.
& for newbies to the Insightful Linguist club… You can do so much and make lots of $$ with your nut. Dont be “Stupid” now, we deserve the best!!!
Thinking about making a forum for all Insightful Linguists. If theres a big enough interest, can organise.
This has been the most “Insightful” board i’ve read in ages.
Cheers fellow people.
I scored 124 on the IQ test!! My strengths are writing, painting, drawing, communicating with others and i have strong negotiation skills!! So yes, I think this test may be accurate. Especially, i am very good at visual and spatial concepts. I am observant for example, i seem to hear details and pertinent information when others seem to miss it!! In the movie Seabiscuit all of the main characters triumph over adversity. It does take perserverance and skill to succeed in this world.
Broadly conceived, ‘linguistics’ is the study of human language and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. Linguistic inquiry is pursued by a wide variety of specialists, who may not all be in harmonious agreement; as Russ Rymer flamboyantly puts it:
“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists, and neurologists, along with whatever blood can be got out of grammarians.”
This is something i found on my google search for the meaning of “Insightful Linguist” which i earned with an IQ test of 126
im putting it down to decoding the alien language as i beleive this question to be one of the tests for linguistics aswell as a few over questions like zig zag ones and asking if there true or not
sorry cant remember nonsense
hmmmmm think im writeing far too much
so ill shut up now
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Another curious “Insightful Linguist”
Last week, I stumbled on the Tickle IQ test via a link disguised as a geometric puzzle. Generally, I’m suspicious about links however this one looked interesting and I’d never taken an IQ test before. The questions sound the same as Emode (I selected grape re stone fruit). They gave me 135. What did that mean? Was the test valid? What were the answers? What’s an insightful linguist? …which led me here. I looked around and found some info re IQ:
IQ – Intelligence Quotient. The ratio of mental age to chronological age. (IQ=MA/CA*100)
MG – Moderately Gifted (IQ 130 – 145)
HG – Highly Gifted = (IQ 145 – 160)
EG – Extremely Gifted = (IQ 160 – 180)
PG – Profoundly Gifted = (IQ 180+)
For those with an interest in the Maths, have a look at http://www.usenet-replayer.com/faq/rec.games.bridge.html
Also some interesting background at http://www.archure.net/psychology/akrosintel.html
Thank you Skevos for this very interesting webpage. It feels great to share with you all the “privilege” of being an Insightful Linguist.
I did the test while waiting for some media in the lab and scored 126 on the Tickle IQ test. To take it seriously or not, I don’t know but it’s fun and definitely boosts you up.
Thanks for the fun guys, you’ve made my day.
In response to Idiot and Skevos Mavros – I thought the difference between the fruits is that grapes don’t have pits?
IQ 133 Insightful Linguist
What a neat site. There must be some truthfulness to the results. I can see myself in most of the posts. I picked grape because of the vine as well. I did terrible all through school. I failed the 5th and 7th grade and my highschool GPA was 0.9. I did go to college and was admitted on a trial basis. My grades improved because I had to maintain a 3.0 but I took a job in sales with about a year left. Looking back I remember classes where I did well and it really didn’t have anything to do with the subject. The teacher or professor and class format had to interest and stimulate me. I wasn’t going to do 100 math problems when I could do ten and know how it is done. So I socialized, entertained myself and the class, and did just enough to get by. Now I’m a fairly-successful businessman. I believe I can attribute my success to my ability to read people and understand what makes them tick. There is a saying that: “B students work for the A students and the C students own the company”.
In closing, here are some words that describe me: Good listener, easily bored, caring, spontaneous, fun loving, competitive, sometimes sad but never let it show, still do mischevious things, continuous struggle with my dark side, often hard to focus on one thing, problem solver for others and not so much for myself, adrenaline junkie, love a crowd, love friends, punch me and I’ll turn the other cheek, hurt my feelings or pick on someone that can’t take up for themselves and I’ll kick your ass, or get mine kicked trying, hate to read, love the theatre, love all music, drinker, smoker, social druggie, overeater, love all women, trying to have a relationship with Jesus, husband, father, still feel like I’m 18, politically conservative, can see straight through BS, good BS’er, love the water and being on the water, love nature, perfectionist, etc. Etc. means I’m getting bored but could keep going. Man, I’m really screwed up.
Later,
Mark
Ha Ha Ha! Yeah right… the guy who said to send him $1… everyone is looking to make a buck, huh? Well “David” don’t forget we were listed as “insightful” and we saw right through you
(I scored 133 – whatever that means!)
To Mark Mize.. Your the very same as me. Maybe thats what an insightful linguist is.. Cheers.
> Which on of these is unlike the other 4?
> Plum
> Grape
> Apricot
> Peach
> Cherry
Grape, grows on vines, grows in a bunch
I got a 131, and I’m an Insighful Linguist too.
Where can I take a real I.Q. test? Now I’m all into this, its gettin my juices flowin for an I.Q. test. I need my itch scrathed. Anybody?
Also, what the hell is going on. This is nuts! A website for all the insightful linguists. This is really screwin’ with my head. Being insightful linguists, I guess this is what we would do. We should also want to know if the test has any validity.
I think all of us Insightful Linguist should start a club or a malitia or something. We can get into fights with the regular people, and just talk them into submission. Possibly write a book or draw a picture that will confuse them. Who’s with me?!?
Mmm! Another Insightful Linguist posting another Insightful post. I had fun doing the test and was quite surprised by the result, especially the end comments.
Anyhow, about the following question:
Which one of these is unlike the other 4?
Plum
Grape
Apricot
Peach
Cherry
Well I went for the obvious “CHERRY”…All the rest are fruits…
Insightful Linguist, IQ 127
I enjoyed reading each & everyone of the comments. I’m now in between choosing architecture or engineering to continue my studies. To all insightful linguist, since we have something in common any advice? On a separate note, to Edwin (March 4, 2004) it’ll be fun to have a forum. To Sallie Forth (february 26, 2004) I love flying kites!! :ţ
Well here I am at the end of reading all these messages posted about Insightful Linguists. And to be quite honest I find it strange that we all looked up the meaning of Insightful Linguist and ended up here. Well Skevos you must be proud of yourself to started out with just your opinion and for it to grow so big from there….and by the way I like to write but I can never seem to get it all down on paper the way I see it in my mind any suggestions?? So many stories in my head a great imagination…..just can’t get them down on paper…….also i have a keen since of observing people and things and remembering them almost exact like a picture. Well good luck to all!!
Well Janna…I seem to have the same problem; getting it all down. I have discovered that in part my weakness in that respect is the time it takes to flesh it out in comparison to the speed at which it comes to mind. Great for poetry (a short format), not so great for the longer endeavor (short story or novel.) If writing is a definite desire you may like to try your hand at whats best known as “flash fiction.” Given the seeming visual and spatial strengths you can also try some form of visual art as your narrative.
Just wanted to say a thank you to Renee!
Insigtful Liguist 131
52 years old, left handed.
2 years college
when I graduated in 1971 jobs were tight, Nixon, then, Jimmy Carter was president, mortage rate 18 percent. Inflation 20 percent per year…Add ‘em together, it was then called the Pain Index. Only job I could find was Washing and preping new trucks for delivery, then Parts Dept counterman, then Fiberglas factory worker, then Water Treatment Plant operator, Then Kidney Failure, then dialysis at 30, then a Renal Transplant, then timekeeper in a defense plant, then Electrician. Did that for 18 years… really enjoyed the work. Repaired factory machine tools.
Insightful Linguist would clown with co-workers and do “Vulcan Mind Meld” on machines to determine what was wrong with them. Now health problems caught up with me.
If I had it all to do over…probably would have like to have gotten more education, then teach perhaps. Pastimes— Ham Radio, elctronics, hunting, fishing…just hanging out with the dog.
Wife has withheld sex since my 18 year old daughter was born, Daughter hates me, I try to please everyone but still get the treatment. Dog loves me though.
hey everybody! i just took the test at tickle and i got 120, so maybee i dont belong in the new INSIGTFUL LINGUIST MENSA SOCIETY you guys have made for yourselves (he cries), but hell i have adhd so we have to take that into concideration now dont we. im also blind.
ANDY K
oh!, and by the way, RJS, i’ve heard that dogs are very inisigtful creatures, so im sure u guys make a great pair. have u thought of writing a novela together? any book co-written by a dog would sell. i can guarantee that!
ANDY K, 18 years old, ottawa, ont. canada
Ahhh… the irony of being an insightful linguist! Procrastinating by completing internet IQ tests (and confirming I’m a ‘gifted’ writer!)to avoid writing a paper on my research!!
Now that’s insight…
Thanks for hosting our egos S!
M.
Insightful Linguist; IQ 127; Left-handed;
This little insightful linguist wants to try to answer and comment on all the postings above – my neurons were firing at all your notes! Apologies on the non-linear way I have written this. I figured all you IL’s can follow fine.
Firstly, thanks to Skev for giving us all a place to share our thoughts!!
Thanks to the person (Renee??) who recommended flash fiction. I’ll have to look into it myself!
To the person who thought of Mensa for Insightful Linguists, I had exactly the same thought.
It is nice to know there are so many creative off-beat people doing all sorts of things in their lives (and on the internet).
Keep looking for that thing(s) you want to do; keep doing and searching in the process; don’t be afraid to change if it doesn’t feel right.
I picked grape as well on the grounds that the rest were stone fruits. I tend to trust my gut for these tests – although in life I can tend towards analysis as well.
On the career front, I studied both business and psychology and my own business actually does anything communications oriented – written, verbal and visual.
The psychologist in me would say that the tickle test leaves a lot to be desired. However, like many of you I am both an expert procrastinator and can make it through the whole list of postings. Moreover, it is nice to share something in common with people about whom I know nothing and yet I can see parts of myself in many of their words. Besides, look how many people we can link ourselves to through the results of this rather scientifically invalid test!
Any more profound thoughts of my own I may have wanted to add elude me, so I will leave you with two thoughts for the day “Erlichta” [lighten up] and keep searching for ‘The Perfekt Taco’.
Yes my preciousssss …we also tooks the testss..ands we got 131(prances around).Grapes ns apricots they sezz .(gollum gollum) .they all wants it..but its miness it is..insightful lingiusts alls..(dimkum donkum)..and the girls postingss…all sincere and ..honest..bah!!!they wants it too..but we wont let them have it ..will we my preciousss!!!..(gollum gollum)..this groups must goes ..if we are to have it..yes master skevosss..follow me..i know the way to the report..(gollum goluum)
Insightful linguist – 137
This a amazingly funny…
Left handed and easily amuzed.
Pheww!! lots of reading.
I scored a 126 on this test and as all of us, I winded up here searching for more info on the “insightful linguist” subject.
I can`t recall all the post at this point, but I have a lot of things in common with all the persons that have posted on this “forum” (Thanks Skevs!).
Would be interesting to further compare how much more alike we are. Try sparing some time on this page: http://www.humanmetrics.com and do the “Jung personality test”. To me is by far the most accurate $#!t I`ve seen on the net. You might fit into a model, but the test actually hands out levels of percentages for each type.
For example, I am a INTJ type according to this test,22%Introverted, 56%Intuitive, 22%Thinking and 56%Judging, Give it a try and lets keep up the thread going.
Quoting Steave: “I Like building complex abstract theory relationship models”, me too, and I really enjoy the fact that I can easily read most ppl! *grins*
Just saying Hi! to all you Insightful people! Feeling quite a bond to you all.
Took the tickle test minutes ago and got this Insightful linguist result… Very flattering, but they wouldn’t sell any tests if they didn’t flatter people, would they?
I am myself a PhD student so the result would suggest I have chosen the right path. With this in mind writing hopefully will become less of an anxiety-ridden activity.
How do you all Insightful linguists deal with the writer’s anxiety??
Tricky fruit question – I opted for grape…
I wish someone bought the damn 15-page report and publish it free on the net. We are all very curious of course.
Greetings!!
Give us this day our daily web search!
Hello and kudos to Skevos!
Of course I found myself here because I too took the free IQ test from a link off The New York Times online. I scored a 126 which is exactly the same score I received in high school on a standard IQ test. I thought it would be a hoot to take a commercial version. I figured there would be a fee for a “real” report…but I was perplexed as hell that it was in connection to a dating service…dating service is to intelligence as hard up is to…?
Anyway, I have been getting some long over due hilarity from all the posts regarding the illusive insightful linguist term…which really had me going because what kind of a dumb ass linuist would fail Spanish in school? (Me.) I do have above average vocabulary comprehension but only in English and I can’t spell for crap… so how the linguist portion came into play here is beyond my IQ. Then I thought maybe insightful linguist was one of the groupings in the Myers-Briggs personality test which I had to take twenty years ago for an employer…another good laugh…in a room of 600 people I ended up sitting at a table with just four other people sharing the same personality type as myself…was really hoping I wasn’t split personality serial mom in my spare time or something… but alas, insightful linguist is not a Myers- Briggs type. They are all Introvert/ Extrovert things.
So the insightful linguist me is a completely right brained female with a knack for logic who has made a living and a dying in the arts and computer programming. I read lots of books…but never wrote any. My only published works are in Newsletters. That’s not exactly linguistic! And obviously I do a lot of time on the Internet. It would seem there is no science behind insightful linguist unless this great little web site is really cyber science in disguise as a blog and we are all being duped.
Oh yea…I’m right handed and my nick name is “httpmom.” I have two degrees. One in English and the other in Graphic Design. My neighbors call me the neighborhood glue because I’m always getting everyone together socially. I have a lot of friends and they sit on both sides of the political fence. I’m married to a sweet left brained mechanical engineer who’s IQ is about 10 points higher than mine. He’s REALLY good at the math thing. My daughter’s IQ is exactly the same as mine…she was professionally tested..I have dogs and horses and I garden in my spare time. I also love to cook.
Sincere Thanks,
Casey
P.S. I thought the answer to the fruit question was grape because all the other items grew on trees and grapes grow on a vine. More than one right answer? My Santa Rosa plums do not have fuzz.
I sored 35, and I answered apricot to the question. I have no idea why it was the first answer that came to mind.
135, and feeling quite bright!
Oops! Guess I should clarify since I note there are categories other than Insightful Linguist with a 135 score. I did indeed fall into the Insightful Linguist category.
131 and a cunninglinguist too
i got 127, then found i was an isightful ling. then felt a little cheap as i didnt want to pay for any results, so i found all this through my tight fistedness, then did the jung test and found i was entirely moderate, then i felt a little predictable, a little depressed and a little less unique …debated whether i should write then swallowed my pride … and yes, grapes have tiny little seeds, the rest are stony hearted things…
mmmm, “Insightful Linguist”….sounds almost good enough to buy the report! Here is a thought, maybe the “Nice Name” was invented to make you feel great and convince you to buy the report. As a matter of fact, look at the sample report. A score of 91 lands you the title of “Visionary Philosopher” with references to Plato. Someone mentioned that an IQ below 100 will make it a little more difficult to get through school. This is true to an extent and yet a score of 91 makes you a “Visionary Philosopher”? If they gave any catagory a “bad” name (eg. blot head) would you buy the report? My guess…no. Overall a very fun thing to do, as for the “titles”…looks like a good marketing name to make some cash. How much attention should you pay to the score? Look at it from a fun perspective! If you are serious about your IQ score, have a bunch of these done (all types including social intelligence etc) by a registered pro. They will also explain to you what the score means. Hey have fun!
I scored 136. Who cares what insightful linguist means. Whats important is the figure not the category. Just be happy!!!
Its wonderfull to be part of the international fraternity of insightfull liguists….or are we all master debaters?
Its wonderfull to be part of the international fraternity of insightfull liguists….or are we all master debaters?
Insightful linguist with score = 138, connected to the Tickle test through NY Times site. Enjoyed reading the postings – made me laugh. I took four years of Latin in high school and remember none of it except “Semper ubi sub ubi” – “always wear under wear.” And I can sing “Jingle Bells” in Latin “O tantum est gaudium dum vehimur in traha! Tinnitus Tinnitus Semper Tinnitus!”
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/hoeflin.html I’m an insightful linguist as well. Funny! Here’s a link of a bunch of different types of tests. Have fun.
A long time has passed yet still people are writing to this forum!! Unbelieveable! Its like we found a new race of people, even though some dude probably made the name up and randomly gave it out in a test, I wonder if there is another forum somewhere with a bunch of people calling themselves methodical idealists or something.. I think we should all be happy with what we are, unique, and stop looking for a label or explanation.. dream on folks anyway xx
This is hilarious! I can’t believe the events that brought me to this site. I did this test over 2 years ago (October 16, 2002) and had is stored in my personal folder at work, happened to be in there looking to see if I had a copy of a family friend’s resume, and came across the e-mail, then thought “what the raas (Jamaican curseword) is an Insightful Linguist anyway – googled it and came across this link – still the first hit on google. The comments people have been putting here are just too funny. Enough so that they drove me to post as well (I don’t normally post on sites that I visit). I’ve gotta admit I share some characteristics with a number of people who have posted here – like Mark Mize for example. I also did this test again about a week or two ago (procrastinating at home – doing my MBA – couldn’t focus on my Mergers & Acquisitions paper) and ended up in another category altogether, (but with the same score of 135!) so not sure what that means. Anyhow its all marketing, I’d question how much science there is behind that test. We should start a Yahoo chat room for people who post here called “Insightful Linguists”!
Hello! I just took the IQ test online. I scored a 127, which concludes that I am an “Insightful Linguist”. What is that in the first place? I actually question the accuracy of this test. Why would they want my date of birth and the type of education I received………OH, MAYBE TO MANIPULATE THE DUMB IQ SCORE AT THE END ACCORDING TO MY EDUCATION AND AGE!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SO RIDICULOUS. Anyways, for all of you who received low IQ’s, don’t sweat it!!!!!!!! Only you really know, and have the capacity to determine how much you can or can’t learn, and how much you know or don’t know.
Friends, I cannot believe I am posting this here. I never post anything. I scored 135 the first time 8 months ago and today scored 127. It was because of the fruit answer. I answered grape because of vine first time and aprcot today. I have been different throughout my life. I was beaten up when I was in grade 1-3 because I am told I was brighter than the kids. So my parents sent me to a private school. There I stayed including highschool. I worked as the youngest Vice President of Finance and Accounting for a global company at the age of 15. After highschool, I went into systems design engineering and accounting. Worked for a strategy consulting firm. Then worked as a Senior Policy Advisor. Then as a Senior Executive Vice President. Today I’m a Kellogg MBA #1 ranked in the world and a Group Chief Financial Officer for a Global 1000 company. I’m doing my Executive Chartered Accountancy and a LL.M (Masters of Law). I have also taken the Jung test and was a Motivating Director which is double red.
This community of friends here is truly amazing. Let us truly start a chat group on Yahoo and stay in touch. I believe it will help all of us understand what we are facing in our lives.
I have personally always been different. I am writing 2 books at the moment. I have always been stronger conceptually than anyone I know. But what I think has made me successful is showing empathy and understanding people as people. I am inclusive.
Cheers.
Hey number 95; comment ‘cant believe this’ Any chance of a loan of a few bob??
I got an IQ of 131, and I’m 11. That’s good, right? Also, thanks for shattering my belief in my being an Insightful Linguist and having the natural fluency of a writer. I actually took hope in that for a while. Now I can feel my writer’s block coming back on…
Hello. Just completed the emode IQ test and found all the ILs were joining up here. I was overwhelmed to find my IQ so high. It makes me wonder if I might be able to better my station in life and move past clerking at this gas station? Let me consult my consigliere. What do you say Mr. Eight Ball? Oh, too bad. All signs point to no.
I got that test from tickles and got a 129 and, obviously, “insightful linguist”. One thing that I have found to be probably one of the most interesting things about these posts is that we all decided to look into the insightful linguist catagory.
Also, for those of you who may be worried that you are an idiot because of a low score, just remember that test scores can be very missleading as it bases your answers off of things you KNOW. This is differant from intellagence. Some guy in the middle of the African bushlands who has never had any formal education at all could very well be the smartest guy on earth but chances are he would do terrable on a test like the one we took as he would have very limited grammer (even if it were in a language he could understand) and mathmatical skills.
I got a 129 score on the test and was interested to find that I was an “insightful linguist”. I don’t know about being highly intelligent, but I have been a journalist for the past 11 years – therefore writing does have a natural fluency for me and my spelling is also pretty good. My typing could do with a little work though!!
Like No. 98, I find it interesting that so many of us who turned up a result of insightful linguist have gone on the hunt for more information about what that really means. I’m not sure we’ve really found the answer yet.
While I’m not going to rely too heavily on an on-line test such as this one, I think we’re all in agreeance that it is a fantastic boost to your confidence. What has probably intrigued me the most about this site is that Skevos’ first posting was 18 months ago and it is still attracting a lot of interest and comment. And yep, it is still number one on a google search.
Oh, and re that fruit question…I also selected ‘grape’, principally because all the others are stone fruit. Grapes also grow on a vine, while plums, cherries, apricots and peaches are all perennial tree fruit which are related.
Insightful Linguist. HMM. I got a 126. I chose “grape” because a grape has more than one seed inside, usually. All of you guys/gals have stengthened my self-esteem and have made me realize that I can do better than a Calculations Clerk job and deserve to be treated with respect, as well as show empathy towards others. Good luck to all of you in this New Year.