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[quote=GRIZ326,244315]Most English people think I have a HUGE vocabulary however emails from my Chinese friends frequently send me to the dictionary to look up words! Consider this word "catholicon" which I found in another post today. I had to look it up to learn it meant "a universal remedy; panacea." Often seeing these uncommon words sets me to rolling on the floor in laughter! This must be a function of looking a word up in a Chinese to English dictionary and seeing 5 or 6 possible words...and the writer picking the first word presuming it to be the "best" word because it was first. ...but then I do the same thing when trying to translate my English thoughts into Chinese. I'd be willing to bet the English to Chinese dictionary comes up with some real "doozies" too! Let's share a few of these doozies just for fun :-)[/quote]
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