I AM IN UR DICKSHUNRIZ

[robinturner]

I am now in the last stage of the Turkish-English dictionary, which means starting over from "A" and correcting and supplementing the example sentences my co-author has written (not to mention correcting my own blunders). Having the English author write the Turkish translations and the Turkish author write the English example sentences is not the most rational way to go about writing a bilngual dictionary, but then such things are not up to me to decide. Aside from correcting the usual mistakes that Turkish writers make (e.g. missing articles), I get to have fun adding example sentences where she couldn't think of any, didn't think it was necessary (when it was) or didn't have time. This means I can also amuse myself seeing what I can sneak through. For example, I decided that "awe" needed an example sentence, and came up with: "The American strategy of 'shock and awe' in Iraq was only half successful: it produced much shock, but little awe."

Comments

[vret.livejournal.com]

Awesome

[evan.livejournal.com]

FWIW, that sentence isn't very useful in describing what "awe" means. :P

[solri.livejournal.com]

You're right, of course, and I may well replace or modify it for this reason. It's actually damnably difficult to write sentences that explain the meanings of words, because people don't normally use such redundancy. On the other hand, since this is a bilingual dictionary, the reader already has a translation of the word, so the aim of the examples is more to show how the word might be used (particularloy important in cases where the word has a grammar which is different from its Turkish equivalent).

[vret.livejournal.com]

Shocking

[(Anonymous)]

D'you mind if I stick my awe in?

[solri.livejournal.com]

Go ahead, so long as it's an inclusive awe, not an exclusive awe.