Apr. 29th, 2008 06:08 pm
A new life for Word of the Day
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muckefuckAbove all, I want to thank everyone for their contributions to my "Word of the Day" feature. What started out as a side project to shore up my vocabulary took on new life with your contributions. I began to look at it less as a list of words to memorise and more as a starting point for very educational discussions.
As a result, I've been toying with the idea of revising it to make better use of the feedback. Instead of me combing dictionaries and websites for translations, how about I throw out a term and you all can suggest equivalents? We can talk about them and then group the results into a short list. (As a result, I'll have to drop Korean and China from the list of languages, since I don't think I have any regular reads who know them well enough.)
If y'all're game, then I'll kick off the new feature with a phrase that occurred to me today at lunch: "raised by wolves". In English, we use this as a humourous means of casting aspersions on someone's etiquette. Apparently, "You weren't raised by wolves!" is used by some parents to castigate their children's boorish behaviour. Another usage would be "What, were you raised by wolves?" as a familiar way of commenting on a friend's faux pas.
Ideas? Ideen? Ideeën? ¿Ideas? Idees? Idées? Syniadau? Smaointe?
As a result, I've been toying with the idea of revising it to make better use of the feedback. Instead of me combing dictionaries and websites for translations, how about I throw out a term and you all can suggest equivalents? We can talk about them and then group the results into a short list. (As a result, I'll have to drop Korean and China from the list of languages, since I don't think I have any regular reads who know them well enough.)
If y'all're game, then I'll kick off the new feature with a phrase that occurred to me today at lunch: "raised by wolves". In English, we use this as a humourous means of casting aspersions on someone's etiquette. Apparently, "You weren't raised by wolves!" is used by some parents to castigate their children's boorish behaviour. Another usage would be "What, were you raised by wolves?" as a familiar way of commenting on a friend's faux pas.
Ideas? Ideen? Ideeën? ¿Ideas? Idees? Idées? Syniadau? Smaointe?
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