Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Sometimes I seriously wonder about WordReference.com

packvi (fill a room with people)entasser vtr
The concert hall was so packed that you couldn't even see the band.
*Ils ont entassé les prisonniers dans les wagons.

3 comments:

Colin Morris said...

lol. I love finding those. They must do it to be funny... right? The contrast to the site's otherwise academic tone makes me wonder. And laugh harder.

Elizabeth Brown said...

Maybe it's a clever polyglot hoping to catch proud high-schoolers off guard. Sort of a "use online translaters with caution or you WILL sound like an idiot" kind of thing.

Chris said...

Funny, in a weird sort of way.

From what I can see (went to look in the dictionary), the sentences marked with an asterisk are not translations of the ones above, just different sample sentences.

I think.