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Word of the Day Mistake

by Alkanadi, December 24, 2014

Messages: 3

Language: English

Alkanadi (User's profile) December 24, 2014, 5:59:41 AM

Esperanto word: prokrasti
English translation: to adjourn

Esperanto example: La klaso finiĝos post unu horo.
English example: Class will adjourn in an hour.

nornen (User's profile) December 24, 2014, 6:33:16 AM

Well, the example isn't a mistake per se. It just doesn't have anything to do with the WOTD.

Who is the author of these WOTD anyway?
Looks to me like some (badly written) script: Take same word (here: prokrasti), translate it into English (here: adjourn), then lookup some English sentence with this word in it (here: Class will adjourn in an hour.) and then look up its translation, no matter whether the original WOTD appears in it or not.

Alkanadi (User's profile) December 24, 2014, 1:28:44 PM

nornen:Well, the example isn't a mistake per se. It just doesn't have anything to do with the WOTD.

Who is the author of these WOTD anyway?
Looks to me like some (badly written) script: Take same word (here: prokrasti), translate it into English (here: adjourn), then lookup some English sentence with this word in it (here: Class will adjourn in an hour.) and then look up its translation, no matter whether the original WOTD appears in it or not.
Exactly. I also study the Arabic word of the day every morning and the example word is supposed to be used in the sentence.

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