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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
I also thought Blackadder was quite good for livening up history - I was going to show it to my kids (10 and 13) to try and make them a bit more more interested. I started watching the WWI series and thought it might get too embarrassing to try and explain all the humour. Perhaps I'll just throw the DVDs in their direction and tell them to work it out for themselves.
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The third series is a bit easier for kids, I suppose...
In topic: even if I can quite easily infer the meaning of a word, I still think having a dictionary is an important feature. Also, it depends on a language; languages have twists and turns, and dictionaries are the tools to work around them.
Example? My first language is Italian, and I once had to explain to the boss (whose first language is French) that you can say "produrre un documento" in the Latin sense (not just producing, making a document; it also means showing it- usually to an authority). All that bark (I'm not a slag, I just have a larger knowledge of my language than he has, and that's natural, for Pete's Sake!) for the lack of the check-the-dictionary reflex (like French says,
le bon reflexe!).