Tuesday, December 4, 2012

16 Dictionary trap

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Based on an idea by Edgardo Galende. Edgardo  is an English-Spanish translator and researcher based in Buenos Aires.

16 comments:

  1. L.J.December 4, 2012 at 11:42 AM

    Not worst than the Wikipedia trap… You just want to check one thing and you suddenly realise that hours have passed and you're 100 pages away from what you originally wanted to check…

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    1. MarcoCeraDecember 4, 2012 at 11:53 AM

      Exactly! The WIKIPEDIA TRAP is much, much more dangerous!

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    2. Ross K. WolfeDecember 4, 2012 at 4:18 PM

      Apparently neither of you have ever visited tvtropes.org... far worse than Wikipedia.

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    3. SoñadorDecember 6, 2012 at 12:28 PM

      Yes Ross, I've been in the tvtropes.org trap. I agree, since it is so well-made, it's the worst trap of all.

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  2. TonksDecember 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM

    ¡jejejeje estupendo! I know this trap very well ;)

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  3. Alessandra MuzziDecember 4, 2012 at 12:13 PM

    I'd say the Internet trap in general. You follow a link, then another one, then another one...

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  4. RichardDecember 4, 2012 at 12:27 PM

    That is soooo true.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 4, 2012 at 12:28 PM

    Yes, our way is full of such traps!

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  6. JenniferDecember 4, 2012 at 1:13 PM

    Totally agree, both with Mox's dictionary trap and L.J.'s Wikipedia trap!

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  7. AnonymousDecember 4, 2012 at 2:32 PM

    Wikipedia trap - my nightmare...

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  8. TradinterDecember 5, 2012 at 7:54 PM

    That's what happens when you don't succeed to meet your fundamental needs, among other your need of belonging ( http://tradinterinc.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sentiment-dappartenancesense-of.html ) and your need of pleasure ( http://tradinterinc.blogspot.ca/2012/11/plaisirpleasure.html ), you get caught in the Wikipedia Trap or Internet Trap, call it as you wish.
    Sylvie Lemieux, trad. a.
    B.A. (trad.), M.A. (trad. et termi.), Ph. D. (ling.)


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  9. AnonymousDecember 6, 2012 at 2:32 PM

    Yesterday I fell into the YouTube trap...

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    1. AnonymousDecember 8, 2012 at 9:38 AM

      I fall every night in that trap, and the next morning it's so hard to wake up...

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  10. AnonymousDecember 6, 2012 at 5:38 PM

    I think I fell into the dictionary trap in about 1974... No one has rescued me. I am still there.
    Does anyone else ever remember the year that you first learnt a new word (and perhaps the sentence in which is occurred, and where you were at the time)? This is a little-known affliction called vocabulary acquisition documentation syndrome, VADS.

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  11. AnonymousDecember 9, 2012 at 9:32 PM

    i'm with ross on tvtropes. i've lost hours there, and still cant remember what i learned, other than that anime girls are one dimensional and armor need not be protective.

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