Comment by gwd
9 months ago
> Terms like chancery, Michaelmas, Lincoln's Inn Court, Lord Chancellor, etc, are a foreign language to an American but pretty obvious to an educated Brit in London, especially if they have familiarity with the court system.
This was a kind of frustrating part of the article. Not catching the reference to the flood, or the age of the dinosaurs is pretty shocking. But not knowing what Lincoln's Inn Hall is?
They seemed to expect the kids to look up every word they didn't know. Which, if they were being paid to do a professional translation that was going to be published somewhere, would be a legit expectation. Expecting people donating their time for a study... not so much.
> They seemed to expect the kids to look up every word they didn't know.
Yes. They are students. They should look up any term they do not know.
Should they prefer guessing based on context? Just ignoring new terms? Assuming any unknown word means "skibidi?"