Mar 9, 2020 15:56
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English term

curtain-twitcher

GBK English to Czech Social Sciences Journalism
Definition from Oxford dictionary:
n. colloquial (chiefly British) a person who observes other people's activities from his or her window, esp. in a furtive and prying manner; a nosy neighbour.
Example sentences:
But now, thanks to the internet, the nation’s curtain-twitchers have new methods of snooping on those living closest to them. (MailOnline)
Note to curtain-twitchers: if you really want to know what’s going on, knock on the door. (EveningStandard)
Charlotte Edwardes: An attempted break-in has turned me into an online curtain-twitcher — I’m seeing my ’hood in a new light. (EveningStandard)
Proposed translations (Czech)
4 šmírák
Change log

Mar 7, 2020 00:43: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"

Mar 8, 2020 16:07: Andrea Capuselli changed "Vetting" from "Needs Vetting" to "Vet OK"

Mar 9, 2020 15:56: changed "Stage" from "Preparation" to "Submission"

Mar 12, 2020 16:59: changed "Stage" from "Submission" to "Selection"

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Discussion

jarda Mar 13, 2020:
stop this nonsense You are trying to compile a multilingual dictionary of completely inappropriate lexems. Such terms as you propose are more suitable for an explanatory dictionary, possibly supplemented with hypothetical translations to other languages. Why? Because there is pretty low probability of existence of an established lexem or even functionally equivalent lexem in any other language for your "terms". They are too idiomatic and playful to be correct entries of interlingual dictionary. Thus, no attempt to "translate" such term could be regarded as a valid lexical entry by itself. Who came up with such nonsense? As if it wasn't enough that you were giving space to the scammers and thiefs posing as translation agencies, whose rates are only a fragment of the wage of a garbage collector and who have no clue about natural laguage creation at all. Such scammers a big majority here! And in collusion with vendors of scammy baby-software they are not only scamming their clients, but they are vandalizing almost all (target) natural languages, which amounts to some sort of genocidium (according to UN definition).

Proposed translations

534 days

šmírák

Definition from own experience or research:
ten, kdo někoho rád tajně pozoruje nebo sleduje
Example sentences:
Místo omluvy však zaznělo jen pár slov o tom, že nic podivného neudělal, a slíbil, že už na žádný předmět ve vlastnictví kraje nesáhne, kromě své manželky. Stihl také vynadat novináři, který na jeho využívání superbu upozornil, a označil ho za šmíráka. (Forum24)
Typologie facebookářů: závisláci, mrtvé duše a šmíráci (Lidovky.cz)
Kdo nechal vytesat tento podivný pomník udavačů a šmíráků? (ExtraStory.cz)
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