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> prelegeri Sorry, I’m having trouble tracking down this term. Could you tell me what it means or what it means in this context?

by CSSer 4y ago

jodrellblank 4y ago
Speculation: Google Translate says it's "lesson" in Romanian; tsimionescu's name might make that make sense. Possibly connected to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/praelego#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/praelego#Latin and the form praelegere to 'read before' in Latin, either the same kind of lecture/lesson sense, or about the parent comment "reading 'regulatory capture' before should really be 'retail capture'"?
- tsimionescu 4y ago
  You're right about Romanian, and the best translation is "lecture", but it was just a bilingual predictive keyboard-assisted mistype - the best kind of mistype!
tsimionescu 4y ago
Oops, that's bilingual predictive auto-correct failing, and me not re-reading my comment... I wanted to say "the problem is retail capture", but somehow it filled in a Romanian word instead... Phone keyboards... Just for completeness, "prelegeri" would be best translated as "lectures" - it made no sense at all in context, it only happened to match a few letters of what I fat-fingered.
- MichaelZuo 4y ago
  I didn't realize bilingual auto correct existed until now. How did you set that up?
  - tsimionescu 4y ago
    It's a standard feature of many mobile keyboards. I personally use MS SwitfKey, but GBoard has it as well, and I'm sure others have it too. You get to select multiple languages for which they'll do auto-correct, predictive suggestions, and swipe-typing. It works surprisingly well, but it does sometimes fail pretty spectacularly when you're sloppy and mis-type too many letters. It also can't help much when words are ambiguous (is that an English "in" or a mistyped Romanian "în"?). Still, it's generally a godsend for typing in mixed languages (say, like in Spanglish, where you'll write unas palabras en Ingles, y altras in Spanish). They even include things like names of local politicians or cities or brands. Windows does seem to have this as well as an option ("Multilingual text suggestions"), but individual apps might not (e.g. I haven't seen it in Outlook).
    - MichaelZuo 4y ago
      That seems pretty cool. Maybe one day in the future, after trilingual, quadrilingual, etc., autocorrect, something like Esperanto will be reinvented from the ground up.

> prelegeri Sorry, I’m having trouble tracking down this term. Could you tell me what it means or what it means in this context?

by CSSer 4y ago

> prelegeri Sorry, I’m having trouble tracking down this term. Could you tell me what it means or what it means in this context?

jodrellblank 4y ago

Speculation: Google Translate says it's "lesson" in Romanian; tsimionescu's name might make that make sense. Possibly connected to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/praelego#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/praelego#Latin and the form praelegere to 'read before' in Latin, either the same kind of lecture/lesson sense, or about the parent comment "reading 'regulatory capture' before should really be 'retail capture'"?

tsimionescu 4y ago
You're right about Romanian, and the best translation is "lecture", but it was just a bilingual predictive keyboard-assisted mistype - the best kind of mistype!

tsimionescu 4y ago

Oops, that's bilingual predictive auto-correct failing, and me not re-reading my comment... I wanted to say "the problem is retail capture", but somehow it filled in a Romanian word instead... Phone keyboards... Just for completeness, "prelegeri" would be best translated as "lectures" - it made no sense at all in context, it only happened to match a few letters of what I fat-fingered.

MichaelZuo 4y ago
I didn't realize bilingual auto correct existed until now. How did you set that up?
- tsimionescu 4y ago
  It's a standard feature of many mobile keyboards. I personally use MS SwitfKey, but GBoard has it as well, and I'm sure others have it too. You get to select multiple languages for which they'll do auto-correct, predictive suggestions, and swipe-typing. It works surprisingly well, but it does sometimes fail pretty spectacularly when you're sloppy and mis-type too many letters. It also can't help much when words are ambiguous (is that an English "in" or a mistyped Romanian "în"?). Still, it's generally a godsend for typing in mixed languages (say, like in Spanglish, where you'll write unas palabras en Ingles, y altras in Spanish). They even include things like names of local politicians or cities or brands. Windows does seem to have this as well as an option ("Multilingual text suggestions"), but individual apps might not (e.g. I haven't seen it in Outlook).
  - MichaelZuo 4y ago
    That seems pretty cool. Maybe one day in the future, after trilingual, quadrilingual, etc., autocorrect, something like Esperanto will be reinvented from the ground up.