Thursday, and feeling all encouraged from the fact that some completely meaningless person took offense to what I'm doing here makes me want to put in extra effort today ! So here goes:
From Spits:
- from one and the same article (front page in fact), two words: 'Antiterreurplan' and 'radicaliseringsprocessen'. The first should be rather obvious: anti terror plan. The second one refers to muslims being taught to become radically opposed to certain aspects of Dutch society in their mosques, and means, literally translated, 'radicalisation processes'.
- from an article plugging a special train that will be driving this autumn in celebration of our queen's silver jubilee, 'evenemententrein', meaning event train.
- from an article about the World Championship of cooking pea soup, a special word for that: 'Snertkoken'. I mean, after all, it is such a special activity that splitting it in two is pointless, and it's set apart from cooking anything else so much, that we need this label. I understand this. Don't you ?
- I hate to get repetitive, but I also found the words 'antiterrorismeconferentie' (anti terrorism conference) and 'tsunami-baby' (aka. 'Baby 81', a Sri Lanka baby who survived the tsunami and who now has two families fighting over being its parents - DNA testing will be done).
I'll admit that, after all that, I decided to read the rest of the Spits newspaper for today a lot less attentively - I mean, too much is too much. I also ignored the Metro and Volkskrant for today. So without further ado, the winner: the Word of the Day, selected completely undemocratically and without any justification for my choice, simply because I can and because if it pisses you off I'll simply laugh:
Snertkoken !!!
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