The Lexico Project
by Michael Zand
The objective of The Lexico Project is to try to make sense of topical, interesting or ambiguous phrases by engaging with foreign languages through a procedure called the lexico-posotional method.
The procedure works like this:
Step 1: a topical, interesting or ambigous phrase is selected from the english language
Step 2: the key nouns in that phrase are located in an english dictionary
Step 3. the dimensional position of those words are calculated as ratios of the total
dimensions of the dictionary
Step 4: using dictionaries of the top 20 official languages of the world, the same positions are
found and the corresponding words in these positions are noted
Step 5: these new words are assigned appropriate prepositions and listed in rank order by size of official language population
war on terror
english war on terror
mandarin cladding of envy
hindi collusion with crows
spanish prostitution of tenure
russian chaos of indulgence
french removal of command
arabic enshrinement of race
portuguese geysers on reptiles
malay students of carrots
bengali convection by heatstroke
japanese standardisation by universities
german largesse on rollerskates
urdu enunciation of poetry
italian mendacity of interplay
korean science on fire
vietnamese search for colour
persian postponement of injustice
tagalog ritualism of mouthpieces
thai consolidation of boots
turkish decay for personal gain
quality of life
english quality of llife
mandarin fomulation of romance
hindi honour of illness
spanish contest of giving
russian treatment of sacrifce
french exposure of purpose
arabic hypothesis of doubt
portuguese rendtion on falsehood
malay project of spite
bengali bubble of unity
japanese emulation of welcomes
german malfunction of smoke
urdu plague of dreams
italian reflection of hurt
korean suspension of metaphor
vietnamese framework of entertainment
persian illustration of robots
tagalog accordance of materials
thai employment of type
turkish purchase of depression
the new generation of poets
new generation of poets
english the new generation of poets
mandarin the new archivers of continentals
hindi the new hairdressers of cuckoos
spanish the new photocopiers of benefits
russian the new employers of pop
french the new heroes of acronyms
arabic the new brains of boredom
portuguese the new wrecking of understanding
malay the new victims of dependence
bengali the new fans of central heating
japanese the new players of weekly magazines
german the new expressways to aesthetics
urdu the new reactionaries to prescriptions
italian the new evelators of fear
korean the new courage of hyprocrisy
vietnamese the new calculators of contact lenses
persian the new merchants of bull
tagalog the new soul of telephone directories
thai the new critics of the ordinary
turkish the new culture of no