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22.8.03
Posted by tim at 11:04
The word for today is "Zeugma"
There are 25 kilograms of dictionary in my house. If I ever become a professional translator, I aim to have enough dictionaries to make an igloo. Igloos are made out of ice which is made out of water. Fish live in water and Eskimos live on fish. Eskimos live in igloos. Words live in dictionaries and translators live on words. Therefore translators should live in igloos made out of dictionaries made out of words.
In case you're wondering, the dictionaries include foreign-language dictionaries, dictionaries of science, language and modern thought, and various more specifically English-related dictionaries. The biggest is an old 5 kilo Webster's and the smallest is a 250 gram school French dictionary that I had to weigh on the kitchen scales because it barely registered on the bathroom ones.
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