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Indeed, something smells fishy. First, the words "Everywhere, [to] spot" seem too simple to need to be researched - are these words so uncommon in Romanian tha
by stephengillie 10y ago
Indeed, something smells fishy.
First, the words "Everywhere, [to] spot" seem too simple to need to be researched - are these words so uncommon in Romanian that students need to look them up?
Second, they impacted ALL users to their site, merely because they saw an increase in use that coincided with the test? Did they even check their website logs to see where the source IPs were geo-located? They laugh off the impact caused to a blogger's readers with their replacement of "treachery"'s meaning.
- pricechild 10y ago> There were only nine searches for those two words in the hour before the exam started, but the number soon began to soar. In the final hour of the test there were 989 requests for their meaning The article suggests you could likely count the number of innocent users affected on fingers & toes?
- stephengillie 10y agoThe article suggests many readers of a popular author's blog were impacted. > The DEX editors assumed it was and changed its definition, but later discovered that it had been used by a well-known Romanian author in a blog post that morning, something they call an "unfortunate coincidence".
- pricechild 10y agoApologies, thanks.
- apetresc 10y agoNo, these aren't common words at all. The definitions the site is giving here are their more commonly-used analogues. In the same way that "domicile" in English means "home", but it doesn't mean you don't know what a home is because you have to go to the dictionary for "domicile".
- catalinme 10y agoThe original term in romanian is pretty uncommon. It was used in a poem written by this author Ion Pillat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Pillat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Pillat The poem is at least 70 years old.