Linguistic Data Consortium: the gift that keeps on giving
Mar 8th, 2008 by trevelyan
Bizarre entries from the Linguistic Data Consortium still surface every now-and-then like sea creatures from the deep. The latest I noticed was a surprising definition for 深入研究. The dictionary had it as “lucubrate”, which WordNet defines as “to elaborate on”.
True to form, both Dict.cn and Kingsoft appear to have copied the entry wholesale without lucubrating too much over accuracy or attribution. Still, a definite step-up for them from the depths of “nigger-brown“.
And to think that they wouldn’t hire me because I wasn’t a native speaker of Chinese. Still, the best ever LDC word was “chummage.” It still makes me happy.
“I refuse to lucubrate on my relations with my landlord, except to note that he insists on his regular chummage.”