I keep thinking that I should get cracking on studying kanji because my Japanese reading comprehension has gone down the tubes. Then the New York Times went and published their 50 Most Frequently Looked Up Words on NYTimes.com for 2011. I felt pretty good because I know a lot of the words on that list. But they posted it as a jpeg or some other image and I started looking around for a text copy so I could more easily look up the words. Well, google found me a list for 2010 and I felt much less smug. Most of the words were pretty foreign to me. I mean, really, inchoate vs panegyric? Good thing I’m not studying for the SATs.