Re:Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats
by apetresc on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:33AM
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No, 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".
Re:Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats
by catalinme on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:34AM
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The 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
The poem is at least 70 years old.
Re:Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats
by pricechild on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:27AM
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> 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?
Re:Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats
by stephengillie on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:30AM
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The 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".
Re:Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats
by pricechild on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:10PM
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Apologies, thanks.
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.