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Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime? | I look up words and phrases every day

Brian Gallegos M.A. — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:55:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime?
Poster: Brian Gallegos M.A.
Post title: I look up words and phrases every day

Languages have always fascinated me. My language pair is Spanish-English, so I do spend time every day exploring the various meanings of at least one Spanish word or phrase and how it's used in sentences.

Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime? | Serious fun!

Christine Andersen — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:09:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime?
Poster: Christine Andersen
Post title: Serious fun!

I check out words and solutions for crosswords. Sometimes I need to find out who a celebrity is, when it is someone I have not heard of - this is often the key to the big Sunday crossword.
Then there are all sorts of challenges and words I suspect the crossword compiler has invented for the ocasion! Most of them, however, are real words, but far fetched.
Then, while I have the dictionary open - online or especially the trusty hard copies with fascinating thumbnail illustrations - I browse back and forth and find more fascinating words to ponder over.

I do this in both my main languages, and sometimes in the languages my family speaks, or I check up on something I have read or heard on TV - Swedish, Italian, German, Norwegian or French...
Or I check up some piece of jargon a journalist has used (or misused IMHO :-D ).

I may even forget what I originally intended to look up, and then I have to start again, but so what?

[Edited at 2026-05-28 09:11 GMT]

Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime? | Four percent

Philip Lees — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:11:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime?
Poster: Philip Lees
Post title: Four percent

I wonder what the seven people (at time of writing) who answered "I need a total break from words" are doing in the translation business.

Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime? | Other

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:11:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Other

I have absolutely no idea how often I do this. I read ‘Le Nouvel Observateur’ and ‘The Economist’ every week, and from time to time I have to look up the meaning of a word (usually a neologism) when I can’t figure out what it means…

Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime?

ProZ.com Staff — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:10:05 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How often do you research a word or phrase "just for fun" during your downtime?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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