Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography

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Now, have any of y'all ever looked up this word?
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Jel' itko od vas ikada potražio ovu riječ?
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You know, in a dictionary? (Laughter) Yeah, that's what I thought.
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Znate, u rječniku? (Smijeh) Da, to sam mislila.
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How about this word?
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Što kažete na ovu riječ?
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Here, I'll show it to you.
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Ovdje, pokazat ću vam je:
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Lexicography: the practice of compiling dictionaries.
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Leksikografija: postupak sastavljanja rječnika.
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Notice -- we're very specific -- that word "compile."
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Primjetite -- vrlo smo specifični. Ta riječ „sastavljanje.“
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The dictionary is not carved out of a piece of granite,
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Rječnik nije izrezbaren iz komada granita
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out of a lump of rock. It's made up of lots of little bits.
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ili stijene. On je načinjen od mnogo malih dijelova.
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It's little discrete --
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To su mali zasebni —
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that's spelled D-I-S-C-R-E-T-E -- bits.
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piše se Z-A-S-E-B-N-I - dijelovi.
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And those bits are words.
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I ti dijelovi su riječi.
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Now one of the perks of being a lexicographer --
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Jedna od dobrih stvari kada si leksikograf je ta da --
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besides getting to come to TED -- is that you get to say really fun words,
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osim što dođeš na TED -- počneš govoriti zaista smiješne riječi,
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like lexicographical.
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kao „leksikografski.“
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Lexicographical has this great pattern:
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„Leksikografski“ ima odličan uzorak -
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it's called a double dactyl. And just by saying double dactyl,
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zvan dupli daktil. I samo govoreći „dupli daktil“,
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I've sent the geek needle all the way into the red. (Laughter) (Applause)
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napravila sam nepriliku nekome željnom znanja.
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But "lexicographical" is the same pattern as "higgledy-piggledy."
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„Leksikografski“ ima isti uzorak kao „higgledy-piggledy (svinjac).“
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Right? It's a fun word to say,
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Nije li tako? To je smiješna riječ za reći,
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and I get to say it a lot.
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i ja ju često govorim.
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Now, one of the non-perks of being a lexicographer
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Sada, jedna ne tako dobra stvar kada si leksikograf
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is that people don't usually have a kind of warm, fuzzy, snuggly image of the dictionary.
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je ta da ljudi često nemaju toplu, ugodnu, mekanu sliku rječnika.
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Right? Nobody hugs their dictionaries.
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Točno? Nitko ne grli svoje rječnike.
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But what people really often think about the dictionary is, they think more like this.
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Što ljudi često misle o rječnicima je to da oni misle ovako.
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Just to let you know, I do not have a lexicographical whistle.
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Samo da znate, nemam leksikografsku zviždaljku.
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But people think that my job is to let the good words
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Ljudi misle da je moj posao da pustim dobre riječi
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make that difficult left-hand turn into the dictionary,
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u rječnik,
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and keep the bad words out.
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a da loše ostavim vani.
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But the thing is, I don't want to be a traffic cop.
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Stvar je u tome da ja ne želim biti prometni policajac.
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For one thing, I just do not do uniforms.
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Kao prvo, ne volim uniforme.
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And for another, deciding what words are good
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A kao drugo -- zaista nije lako odlučiti koje riječi su dobre,
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and what words are bad is actually not very easy.
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a koje loše.
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And it's not very fun. And when parts of your job are not easy or fun,
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K tome, to nije zabavno. I, kada dijelovi posla nisu lagani ili zabavni,
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you kind of look for an excuse not to do them.
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uvijek tražiš ispriku da ih ne uradiš.
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So if I had to think of some kind of occupation
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Kada bih morala smisliti naziv vrste zanimanja
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as a metaphor for my work, I would much rather be a fisherman.
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kao metaforu za moj posao, rado bih bila ribar.
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I want to throw my big net into the deep, blue ocean of English
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Želim baciti svoju veliku mrežu u oceansko plavetnilo engleskog jezika
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and see what marvelous creatures I can drag up from the bottom.
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i vidjeti koja divna stvorenja mogu izvući sa dna.
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But why do people want me to direct traffic, when I would much rather go fishing?
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Pa zašto bi ljudi onda htjeli da ja upravljam prometom, kad bih ja radije išla pecati?
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Well, I blame the Queen.
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Za to krivim kraljicu.
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Why do I blame the Queen?
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Zašto krivim kraljicu?
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Well, first of all, I blame the Queen because it's funny.
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Pa, kao prvo, krivim kraljicu zato što je to zabavno,
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But secondly, I blame the Queen because
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a kao drugo, krivim kraljicu zato što se
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dictionaries have really not changed.
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rječnici stvarno nisu promijenili.
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Our idea of what a dictionary is has not changed since her reign.
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Naša ideja o tome što rječnik je nije se promijenila od njezine vladavine.
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The only thing that Queen Victoria would not be amused by in modern dictionaries
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Jedina stvar koja se kraljici Viktoriji ne bi svidjela u modernim rječnicima
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is our inclusion of the F-word, which has happened
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je naše uključivanje riječi J*, koja se pojavljuje
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in American dictionaries since 1965.
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u američkim rječnicima od 1965.
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So, there's this guy, right? Victorian era.
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Tu je ovaj gospodin, u redu? Viktorijanska era.
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James Murray, first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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James Murray, prvi urednik Oxford English rječnika.
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I do not have that hat. I wish I had that hat.
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Nemam takav šešir. Da ga bar imam.
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So he's really responsible for a lot of
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On je stvarno odgovoran za puno toga
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what we consider modern in dictionaries today.
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što mi smatramo modernim u današnjim rječnicima.
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When a guy who looks like that, in that hat,
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Kada je čovjek koji tako izgleda-- sa tim šeširom --
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is the face of modernity, you have a problem.
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lice modernosti, tada imamo problem.
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And so, James Murray could get a job on any dictionary today.
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I tako bi James Murray danas mogao dobiti posao na bilo kojem rječniku.
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There'd be virtually no learning curve.
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Linija učenja se praktički ne bi promijenila.
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And of course, a few of us are saying: okay, computers!
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I naravno, nekoliko nas govori : Računala!
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Computers! What about computers?
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Računala! Što je s računalima?
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The thing about computers is, I love computers.
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Stvar kod računala je -- obožavam računala.
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I mean, I'm a huge geek, I love computers.
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Ja sam veliki računalni frik i volim računala.
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I would go on a hunger strike before I let them take away Google Book Search from me.
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Radije bih započela štrajk glađu, nego da mi uzmu Google tražilicu knjiga.
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But computers don't do much else other than
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Računala ne rade ništa drugo od
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speed up the process of compiling dictionaries.
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ubrzavanja procesa sastavljanja rječnika.
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They don't change the end result.
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Ne mijenjaju konačni rezultat.
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Because what a dictionary is,
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Sve što rječnik je,
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is it's Victorian design merged with a little bit of modern propulsion.
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je viktorijanski dizajn sjedinjen sa malo moderne pokretnosti.
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It's steampunk. What we have is an electric velocipede.
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To je znanstvena fantastika. Sve što imamo je električni bicikl.
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You know, we have Victorian design with an engine on it. That's all!
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Znate, imamo viktorijanski dizajn sa motorom. To je sve!
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The design has not changed.
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Dizajn se nije promijenio.
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And OK, what about online dictionaries, right?
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Ok, a što je s rječnicima na internetu?
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Online dictionaries must be different.
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Rječnici sa interneta su sigurno drugačiji.
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This is the Oxford English Dictionary Online, one of the best online dictionaries.
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Ovo je Oxford English rječnik sa interneta, jedan od najboljih rječnika.
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This is my favorite word, by the way.
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Ovo je usput moja najdraža riječ:
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Erinaceous: pertaining to the hedgehog family; of the nature of a hedgehog.
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Erinaceous: odnositi se na obitelj ježeva; ježeve prirode.
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Very useful word. So, look at that.
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Vrlo korisna riječ. Pogledajte ovo.
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Online dictionaries right now are paper thrown up on a screen.
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Online rječnici su upravo papir bačen na ekran.
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This is flat. Look how many links there are in the actual entry: two!
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Ovo je ravno. Pogledajte koliko poveznica ima u ovom unosu: dvije!
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Right? Those little buttons,
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Točno? Ovi mali dugmići --
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I had them all expanded except for the date chart.
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sve sam ih proširila, osim grafikona.
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So there's not very much going on here.
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Znači, nema puno stvari ovdje.
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There's not a lot of clickiness.
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Nema puno klikanja.
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And in fact, online dictionaries replicate
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I uistinu, online rječnici ponavljaju
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almost all the problems of print, except for searchability.
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gotovo sve probleme tiskanja, osim što omogućuju bolje pretraživanje.
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And when you improve searchability,
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I kada poboljšate pretraživanje,
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you actually take away the one advantage of print, which is serendipity.
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zapravo oduzmete jednu prednost tiskanja, a to je slučajno otkrivanje.
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Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for,
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Slučajno otkrivanje je kada pronađete stvari koje niste tražili
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because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
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jer je pronalaženje nečega što tražite jako teško.
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So -- (Laughter) (Applause) -- now, when you think about this,
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Dakle --(Smijeh) -- sada, kada razmislite o ovome,
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what we have here is a ham butt problem.
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što mi imamo ovdje je problem buta.
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Does everyone know the ham butt problem?
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Da li svi znaju što je problem buta?
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Woman's making a ham for a big, family dinner.
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Žena peče šunku za veliku obiteljsku večeru.
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She goes to cut the butt off the ham and throw it away,
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Ide odrezati but sa šunke i baciti ga,
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and she looks at this piece of ham and she's like,
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pogleda u komad šunke i pomisli,
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"This is a perfectly good piece of ham. Why am I throwing this away?"
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„Ovo je savršen dio šunke. Zašto ga bacam?“
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She thought, "Well, my mom always did this."
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Mislila je, „Moja mama je ovo uvijek radila.“
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So she calls up mom, and she says,
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Zatim zove mamu, i kaže,
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"Mom, why'd you cut the butt off the ham, when you're making a ham?"
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„Mama, zašto bi odrezala but sa šunke kada ju pečeš?“
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She says, "I don't know, my mom always did it!"
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Mama kaže, „Ne znam, moja mama je uvijek tako radila!“
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So they call grandma, and grandma says,
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Zatim one zovu baku, i baka kaže,
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"My pan was too small!" (Laughter)
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„Moja tepsija je bila premala!“ (Smijeh)
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So, it's not that we have good words and bad words.
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Dakle, nije da imamo dobre i loše riječi --
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We have a pan that's too small!
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imamo tepsiju koja je premala!
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You know, that ham butt is delicious! There's no reason to throw it away.
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Znate, taj but šunke je ukusan! Nema razloga da ga se odbaci.
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The bad words -- see, when people think about a place
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Loše riječi – vidite, kada ljudi traže mjesto
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and they don't find a place on the map,
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na karti i i ne pronađu ga,
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they think, "This map sucks!"
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pomisle, „Ova karta ne valja!“
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When they find a nightspot or a bar, and it's not in the guidebook,
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Kada pronađu noćni klub ili kafić o kojem ništa nema u vodiču,
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they're like, "Ooh, this place must be cool! It's not in the guidebook."
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oni si pomisle, „Ooh, ovo mjesto mora biti cool! Nema ga u vodiču!“
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When they find a word that's not in the dictionary, they think,
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Kada naiđu riječ koja se ne nalazi u rječniku, pomisle,
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"This must be a bad word." Why? It's more likely to be a bad dictionary.
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„Mora da je ovo loša riječ.“ Zašto? Više je moguće da je to loš rječnik.
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Why are you blaming the ham for being too big for the pan?
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Zašto kriviti šunku da je prevelika za tepsiju?
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So, you can't get a smaller ham.
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Ne možete dobiti manju šunku.
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The English language is as big as it is.
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Engleski jezik je upravo takav.
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So, if you have a ham butt problem,
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Dakle, ako imate problem buta,
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and you're thinking about the ham butt problem,
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i razmišljate o tom problemu,
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the conclusion that it leads you to is inexorable and counterintuitive:
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zaključak koji vam on donosi je neuvjerljiv i kontrainuitivan:
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paper is the enemy of words.
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papir je neprijatelj riječi.
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How can this be? I mean, I love books. I really love books.
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Kako je to moguće? Mislim, volim knjige. Doista ih volim.
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Some of my best friends are books.
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Knjige su jedne od mojih najboljih prijateljica,
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But the book is not the best shape for the dictionary.
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ali one nisu odgovarajući i najbolji oblik za rječnik.
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Now they're going to think "Oh, boy.
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Sad će ljudi misliti, "O, čovječe.
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People are going to take away my beautiful, paper dictionaries?"
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Sad će mi uzeti moje divne, papirnate rječnike?“
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No. There will still be paper dictionaries.
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Ne. Još uvijek će biti papirnatih rječnika.
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When we had cars -- when cars became the dominant mode of transportation,
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Kada smo imali aute – kada su auti postali glavna prijevozna sredstva,
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we didn't round up all the horses and shoot them.
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nismo skupili sve konje i ustrijelili ih.
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You know, there're still going to be paper dictionaries,
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Znate, papirnati rječnici će još uvijek postojati,
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but it's not going to be the dominant dictionary.
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ali oni neće biti vladajući rječnici.
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The book-shaped dictionary is not going to be the only shape
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Rječnici u obliku knjige neće biti jedni oblik
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dictionaries come in. And it's not going to be
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u kojem će se rječnici pojavljivati. I to neće biti
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the prototype for the shapes dictionaries come in.
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prototip oblika u kojem se rječnici pojavljuju.
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So, think about it this way: if you've got an artificial constraint,
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Mislite o ovome na ovaj način: ako imate umjetnu granicu,
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artificial constraints lead to
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umjetne granice vode u
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arbitrary distinctions and a skewed worldview.
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proizvoljne distinkcije i asimetrične poglede na svijet.
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What if biologists could only study animals
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Što kad bi biolozi mogli proučavati jedino životinje
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that made people go, "Aww." Right?
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na koje ljudi kažu, „Aww.“ Točno?
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What if we made aesthetic judgments about animals,
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Što kada bismo mi estetski sudili o životinjama,
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and only the ones we thought were cute were the ones that we could study?
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i samo one koje bismo smatrali slatkima bi bile one koje možemo proučavati?
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We'd know a whole lot about charismatic megafauna,
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Znali bismo puno više o karizmatičnoj mega-fauni
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and not very much about much else.
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i ništa previše o svemu drugome.
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And I think this is a problem.
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Ja smatram da je to problem.
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I think we should study all the words,
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Mislim da bismo trebali proučavati sve riječi,
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because when you think about words, you can make beautiful expressions
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zato što kada razmišljamo o riječima, možemo stvoriti prekrasne izraze
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from very humble parts.
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od vrlo malenih dijelova.
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Lexicography is really more about material science.
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Leksikografija je zaista više materijalna znanost.
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We are studying the tolerances of the materials
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Mi proučavamo toleranciju materijala
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that you use to build the structure of your expression:
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koji se koriste pri gradnji strukture izraza:
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your speeches and your writing. And then, often people say to me,
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u govoru i pisanju. I onda mi ljudi često govore,
08:03
"Well, OK, how do I know that this word is real?"
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"OK -- kako znam da je ova riječ stvarna?"
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They think, "OK, if we think words are the tools
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„Ok, ako misliš da su riječi alati
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that we use to build the expressions of our thoughts,
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koje koristimo pri gradnji izraza naših misli,
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how can you say that screwdrivers are better than hammers?
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kako možeš reći da su odvijači bolji od čekića?
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How can you say that a sledgehammer is better than a ball-peen hammer?"
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Kako možeš tvrditi da je okrugli čekić bolji od čekića s okruglom glavom?
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They're just the right tools for the job.
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Oni su samo pravi alat za određeni posao.“
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And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?"
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I ljudi mi često kažu, „Kako znaš da je riječ stvarna?“
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You know, anybody who's read a children's book
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Znate, svatko tko je pročitao bilo koju dječju knjigu
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knows that love makes things real.
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zna da ljubav čini stvari stvarnima.
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If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.
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Ako volite riječ, upotrijebite je. To je čini stvarnom.
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Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction.
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Pojavljivanje u rječniku je umjetno razlikovanje.
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It doesn't make a word any more real than any other way.
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To ne čini riječ ništa više stvarnom nego bilo koji drugi način.
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If you love a word, it becomes real.
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Ako volite riječ, ona postaje stvarna.
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So if we're not worrying about directing traffic,
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Stoga, ako se ne brinete o upravljanju prometom,
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if we've transcended paper, if we are worrying less
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ako napustimo papir, ako se manje brinemo
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about control and more about description,
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o kontroli i više o opisu,
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then we can think of the English language
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onda možemo misliti o engleskom jeziku.
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as being this beautiful mobile.
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kao prekrasnom prijenosniku.
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And any time one of those little parts of the mobile changes,
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I, bilo kada se jedan od tih malih dijelova prijenosnika promjeni,
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is touched, any time you touch a word,
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on je dodirnut -- bilo kada dotaknete jednu riječ,
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you use it in a new context, you give it a new connotation,
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koristite je u novom kontekstu, dajete joj novu konotaciju,
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you verb it, you make the mobile move.
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oglagoljujete ju – pokrećete prijenosnik.
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You didn't break it. It's just in a new position,
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Niste ga uništili; to je samo nova pozicija,
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and that new position can be just as beautiful.
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i ta nova pozicija može uistinu biti prekrasna.
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Now, if you're no longer a traffic cop --
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Sada, ako više niste prometni policajac --
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the problem with being a traffic cop is
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problem prometnog policajaca je
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there can only be so many traffic cops in any one intersection,
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u tome da samo ograničeni broj policajaca može biti na raskrižju,
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or the cars get confused. Right?
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inače će doći do kolapsa. Točno?
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But if your goal is no longer to direct the traffic,
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No, ako vaš cilj nije više upravljati prometom,
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but maybe to count the cars that go by, then more eyeballs are better.
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nego brojati automobile koji prolaze, onda je bolje imati više očiju.
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You can ask for help!
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Možete pitati za pomoć!
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If you ask for help, you get more done. And we really need help.
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Ako pitate za pomoć, napravite više stvari. Mi zbilja trebamo pomoć.
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Library of Congress: 17 million books,
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Kongresna knjižnica: 17 milijuna knjiga,
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of which half are in English.
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od kojih je pola na engleskom.
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If only one out of every 10 of those books
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Kada bi samo jedna od 10 ovih knjiga
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had a word that's not in the dictionary in it,
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imala jednu riječ koja nije u rječniku,
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that would be equivalent to more than two unabridged dictionaries.
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to bi bilo jednako više od dva velika rječnika.
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And I find an un-dictionaried word --
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Ja nađem jednu riječ koja nije u rječniku -
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a word like "un-dictionaried," for example --
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riječ kao „ne-rječnički,“ na primjer --
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in almost every book I read. What about newspapers?
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u gotovo svakoj knjizi koju pročitam. Što je sa novinama?
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Newspaper archive goes back to 1759,
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Novinska arhiva potječe iz 1759.
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58.1 million newspaper pages. If only one in 100
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58.1 milijuna novinskih stranica. Kada bi samo jedna od 100
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of those pages had an un-dictionaried word on it,
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ovih stranica imala ne-rječničku riječ,
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it would be an entire other OED.
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to bi bio cijeli OED.
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That's 500,000 more words. So that's a lot.
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To je 500.000 više riječi. Pa to je -- to je puno.
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And I'm not even talking about magazines. I'm not talking about blogs --
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I ovdje čak ne govorim o časopisima, ne govorim o blogovima –
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and I find more new words on BoingBoing in a given week
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i nalazim više novih riječi u „BoingBoing“ u danom tjednu,
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than I do Newsweek or Time.
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nego u „Newsweek-u“ ili „Time-u.“
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There's a lot going on there.
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Puno se toga događa ovdje.
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And I'm not even talking about polysemy,
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I ovdje ne govorim čak o polisemiji,
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which is the greedy habit some words have of taking
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koja je proždrljiva navika riječi da imaju
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more than one meaning for themselves.
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više od jednog značenja za sebe.
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So if you think of the word "set," a set can be a badger's burrow,
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Ako promsilite o riječi „set“—„set“ može značiti jazavčeva jazbina,
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a set can be one of the pleats in an Elizabethan ruff,
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„set“ može biti jedan on nabora na elizabetinskoj kragni –
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and there's one numbered definition in the OED.
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i postoji jedna numerirana definicija u OED-u.
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The OED has 33 different numbered definitions for set.
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OED ima 33 različite numerirane definicije za „set“.
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Tiny, little word, 33 numbered definitions.
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Malena riječ, 33 numerirane definicije.
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One of them is just labeled "miscellaneous technical senses."
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Jedna od njih je jednostavno označena „ različita tehnička shvaćanja.“
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Do you know what that says to me?
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Znate li što mi to govori?
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That says to me, it was Friday afternoon and somebody wanted to go down the pub. (Laughter)
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To mi govori da je bio petak poslijepodne i netko je radije želio otići u pub.
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That's a lexicographical cop out,
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To je leksikografsko izvlačenje iz situacije,
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to say, "miscellaneous technical senses."
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kada se kaže, „različita tehnička shvaćanja.“
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So, we have all these words, and we really need help!
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Dakle, imamo sve ove riječi i mi uistinu trebamo pomoć!
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And the thing is, we could ask for help --
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Stvar je u tome da možemo pitati za pomoć -
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asking for help's not that hard.
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nije teško pitati za pomoć.
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I mean, lexicography is not rocket science.
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Mislim, leksikografija nije kvantna fizika.
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See, I just gave you a lot of words and a lot of numbers,
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Vidite, upravo sam vam dala mnoštvo riječi i mnogo brojeva,
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and this is more of a visual explanation.
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i ovo je više vizualno objašnjenje.
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If we think of the dictionary as being the map of the English language,
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Ako razmislimo o rječniku kao karti engleskog jezika,
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these bright spots are what we know about,
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ove svijetle točke su ono što mi znamo
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and the dark spots are where we are in the dark.
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i tamne točke su nama nejasna područja.
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If that was the map of all the words in American English, we don't know very much.
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Ako bi to bila karta svih riječi u američkom engleskom, mi ne znamo puno.
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And we don't even know the shape of the language.
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Čak ne znamo ni oblik jezika.
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If this was the dictionary -- if this was the map of American English --
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Kada bi ovo bio rječnik -- kada bi ovo bila karta američkog engleskog --
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look, we have a kind of lumpy idea of Florida,
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pogledajte, imamo kvrgavu ideju Floride,
12:03
but there's no California!
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ali nema Kalifornije!
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We're missing California from American English.
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Nedostaje nam Kalifornija u američkom engleskom.
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We just don't know enough, and we don't even know that we're missing California.
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Mi jednostavno ne znamo dovoljno, i štoviše ne znamo da nam nedostaje Kalifornija.
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We don't even see that there's a gap on the map.
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Čak ne vidimo da postoji praznina na karti.
12:16
So again, lexicography is not rocket science.
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Ponovo, leksikografija nije kvantna fizika.
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But even if it were, rocket science is being done
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Čak i kad bi to bila, ona nastaje
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by dedicated amateurs these days. You know?
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od strane predanih amatera. Znate?
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It can't be that hard to find some words!
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Ne može biti toliko teško naći neke riječi!
12:30
So, enough scientists in other disciplines
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Stoga, dovoljno znanstvenika drugih disciplina
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are really asking people to help, and they're doing a good job of it.
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doista moli ljude za pomoć, i uspijevaju u tome.
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For instance, there's eBird, where amateur birdwatchers
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Na primjer: postoji „eBird“ gdje amaterski promatrači ptica
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can upload information about their bird sightings.
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mogu unijeti informacije o svojim promatranjima,
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And then, ornithologists can go
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nakon čega orintolozi mogu
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and help track populations, migrations, etc.
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odrediti populaciju, migraciju itd.
12:45
And there's this guy, Mike Oates. Mike Oates lives in the U.K.
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I postoji jedan čovjek, Mike Oates. Mike Oates živi u Velikoj Britaniji.
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He's a director of an electroplating company.
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On je direktor tvrtke za galvanizaciju
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He's found more than 140 comets.
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i otkrio je više od 140 kometa.
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He's found so many comets, they named a comet after him.
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Otkrio ih je toliko, da je jedan komet dobio ime po njemu.
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It's kind of out past Mars. It's a hike.
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On je negdje iza Marsa -- skitnica.
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I don't think he's getting his picture taken there anytime soon.
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Ne vjerujem da će ga on uslikati bilo kada uskoro,
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But he found 140 comets without a telescope.
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ali on je otkrio 140 kometa bez teleskopa.
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He downloaded data from the NASA SOHO satellite,
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Skinuo je podatke sa NASA-inog SOHO satelita
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and that's how he found them.
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i na taj način ih je otkrio.
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If we can find comets without a telescope,
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Ako možemo pronaći komete bez teleskopa,
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shouldn't we be able to find words?
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zašto ne bismo bili sposobni pronaći riječi?
13:16
Now, y'all know where I'm going with this.
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Sada znate kamo s ovim ciljam
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Because I'm going to the Internet, which is where everybody goes.
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jer me to vodi do Interneta, koji je mjesto kamo svi idu.
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And the Internet is great for collecting words,
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Internet je odličan za skupljanje riječi
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because the Internet's full of collectors.
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zato jer je pun kolektora.
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And this is a little-known technological fact about the Internet,
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Ova tehnološka činjenica o internetu
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but the Internet is actually made up of words and enthusiasm.
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je malo poznata, a on je upravo načinjen od riječi i entuzijazma.
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And words and enthusiasm actually happen to be
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Riječi i entuzijazam su upravo
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the recipe for lexicography. Isn't that great?
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recept za leksikografiju. Nije li to krasno?
13:38
So there are a lot of really good word-collecting sites out there right now,
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Dakle, trenutno postoje uistinu dobre stranice koje prikupljaju riječi,
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but the problem with some of them is that they're not scientific enough.
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ali problem s njima je u tome da one nisu dovoljno znanstvene.
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They show the word, but they don't show any context.
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Pokazuju riječ,ali ne pokazuju kontekst:
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Where did it come from? Who said it?
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Odakle je riječ došla? Tko je rekao?
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What newspaper was it in? What book?
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U kojim se novinama ili knjizi pojavila?
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Because a word is like an archaeological artifact.
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Riječ je poput arheološkog artefakta.
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If you don't know the provenance or the source of the artifact,
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Ako ne znaš njegovo porijeklo ili izvor,
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it's not science, it's a pretty thing to look at.
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tada to nije znanost -- to je onda nešto kao ukras za gledanje.
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So a word without its source is like a cut flower.
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Dakle, riječ bez izvora je kao odrezani cvijet.
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You know, it's pretty to look at for a while, but then it dies.
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Znate – lijepo ga je na trenutak gledati, ali tada uvene.
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It dies too fast.
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Uvene prebrzo.
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So, this whole time I've been saying,
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Ovo cijelo vrijeme sam govorila,
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"The dictionary, the dictionary, the dictionary, the dictionary."
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"O određenom rječniku, određenom rječniku, određenom rječniku, određenom rječniku."
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Not "a dictionary," or "dictionaries." And that's because,
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Ne o "bilo kojem rječniku" ili rječnicima. Sve to je zbog toga -
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well, people use the dictionary to stand for the whole language.
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što ljudi koriste značenje rječnika za cijeli jezik.
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They use it synecdochically.
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Koriste ga sinegdotski --
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And one of the problems of knowing a word like "synecdochically"
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i jedan od problema kada znate riječ kao što je „sinegdotski“
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is that you really want an excuse to say "synecdochically."
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je taj da uistinu želite izliku da tu riječ izgovorite.
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This whole talk has just been an excuse to get me to the point
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Ovaj cijeli govor je bio samo izlika koja me dovela do točke
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where I could say "synecdochically" to all of you.
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gdje bih mogla reći „sinegdotski“ svima vama.
14:34
So I'm really sorry. But when you use a part of something --
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Stoga, jako mi je žao. Kada koristite dio nečega --
14:37
like the dictionary is a part of the language,
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kao rječnik koji je dio jezika,
14:39
or a flag stands for the United States, it's a symbol of the country --
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ili zastavu koja predstavlja SAD, simbol države –
14:44
then you're using it synecdochically.
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tada to koristite sinegdotski.
14:48
But the thing is, we could make the dictionary the whole language.
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Stvar je u tome da bismo mogli napraviti rječnik kao cijeli jezik.
14:52
If we get a bigger pan, then we can put all the words in.
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Ako nabavimo veću tepsiju, onda možemo staviti sve riječi u nju.
14:56
We can put in all the meanings.
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Možemo unijeti sva značenja.
15:00
Doesn't everyone want more meaning in their lives?
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Ne žele li svi više značenja u životu?
15:04
And we can make the dictionary not just be a symbol of the language --
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Mi možemo učiniti riječnik ne samo simbolom jezika -
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we can make it be the whole language.
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već ga možemo učiniti cijelim jezikom.
15:11
You see, what I'm really hoping for is that my son,
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Vidite, ono čemu se ja uistinu nadam je da se moj sin --
15:13
who turns seven this month -- I want him to barely remember
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koji će napuniti 7 godina ovaj mjesec – želim da se on jedva sjeća
15:16
that this is the form factor that dictionaries used to come in.
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da je ovo bio uobičajeni oblik rječnika.
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This is what dictionaries used to look like.
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Ovako su rječnici prije izgledali.
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I want him to think of this kind of dictionary as an eight-track tape.
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Želim da on misli o ovom rječniku isto što misli o audio kazeti.
15:25
It's a format that died because it wasn't useful enough.
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To je oblik koji je izumro jer nije bio dovoljno koristan.
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It wasn't really what people needed.
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On nije bio ono što su ljudi uistinu trebali.
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And the thing is, if we can put in all the words,
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Stvar je u tome, ako možemo unijeti sve riječi,
15:35
no longer have that artificial distinction between good and bad,
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više ne imati umjetno razlikovanje između dobrih i loših riječi,
15:39
we can really describe the language like scientists.
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tada zbilja možemo opisati jezik poput znanstvenika.
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We can leave the aesthetic judgments to the writers and the speakers.
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Ostavimo estetske sudove piscima i govornicima.
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If we can do that, then I can spend all my time fishing,
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Ako možemo to napraviti, onda ja mogu provesti svoje cijelo vrijeme pecajući
15:48
and I don't have to be a traffic cop anymore.
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i ne moram više biti prometni policajac.
15:53
Thank you very much for your kind attention.
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Hvala vam puno na ljubaznoj pažnji.
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