Nothing here is deleted for being unsourceable. A corpus that quietly drops what it cannot verify is teaching the opposite of what this course is for.
- primary
- the artefact, or a copy
- secondary
- reported, and traceable
- apocryphal
- repeated, never sourced
PRIMARY · 1
I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.
The Swansea road signprimary
English → Welsh
SECONDARY · 4
intoxicado → intoxicated
Intoxicadosecondary
Spanish → English
- Source date
- 1980
- Mechanism
- A false friend, in a setting with no interpreter and no time
- Used in
- Week 9
Fuck Goods
The dried goods aislesecondary
Chinese (Simplified) → English
- Source date
- 2007
- Mechanism
- Character merger under simplification, then sense selection by corpus frequency
- Used in
- Week 2
Fuck the duck until exploded
The merged charactersecondary
Chinese (Simplified) → English
- Source date
- 2007
- Mechanism
- Character merger under simplification, then sense selection by corpus frequency
- Used in
- Week 2
出口 EXPORT
出口 / EXPORTsecondary
Chinese (Simplified) → English
- Source date
- 2010
- Mechanism
- Polysemy resolved by frequency rather than by context
- Used in
- Week 1
APOCRYPHAL · 2
no va
The Chevrolet Novaapocryphal
English → Spanish
- Source date
- 1970
- Mechanism
- None — the reading it depends on is not how the phrase parses
- Used in
- Week 3
The vodka is good but the meat is rotten
The vodka is good but the meat is rottenapocryphal
English → Russian → English
- Source date
- 1960
- Mechanism
- Unestablished — no system has been identified
- Used in
- Week 3