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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6206 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 9 of 13 04 March 2012 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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At school, I bought and carried around pocket dictionaries, as they are cheap and easily portable, and consulted the bigger ones in the school library. I wouldn't say even now that it is a case of one or the other - both have their uses and their disadvantages.
On a more general point about dictionaries, ability to use one at all appears to be a clue for psychologists that your IQ is not very low. I was watching the Democracy Now! satellite channel last year and it mentioned a case of a convicted murderer who was taken off Death Row in Texas because his IQ was deemed to be too low to warrant the death penalty. Atkins vs. Virginia is the relevant court case for this. Then a psychologist noticed two dictionaries in his cell and wrote a report that put him back on Death Row - one of the dictionaries was a German one, incidentally. However, there was no chair in the cell and apparently the prisoner put one of the dictionaries on top of the other and used them as a seat, not for reading. Edited by William Camden on 04 March 2012 at 2:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6637 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 13 05 March 2012 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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If he had been just a little bit brighter he would have chosen another genre
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6206 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 11 of 13 05 March 2012 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
There have been some clever murderers, even mass murderers. The cleverest ones have probably never been caught. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4843 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 12 of 13 05 March 2012 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Is that a confession? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6206 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 13 of 13 06 March 2012 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Nope. Just an observation. It may be just as well, though, that many murderers and other criminals are stupid, because the police do not exactly have a reputation as rocket scientists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdIpatsAIU The relevant parts of this Youtube start at about 3:10 and 7:50. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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