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May 19, 2022 15:23
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English term
"self-own"
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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
"The former US president was supposed to be talking about Ukraine in this incredible self-own." https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gzbg/george-w-bush-iraq-wa...
The term refers to any situation where someone (usually unintentionally) incriminates themselves or embarrasses themselves, often while criticizing others.
"Self-own" is a noun in the sentence above, but is also used as a verb as in this example sentence from urbandictionary:
"Devin Nunes self-owned himself in magnificent fashion when he filed his case against Twitter." https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=self owned
The term refers to any situation where someone (usually unintentionally) incriminates themselves or embarrasses themselves, often while criticizing others.
"Self-own" is a noun in the sentence above, but is also used as a verb as in this example sentence from urbandictionary:
"Devin Nunes self-owned himself in magnificent fashion when he filed his case against Twitter." https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=self owned
Proposed translations
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| 3 +1 | gaffe |
Fabrizio Zambuto
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| 4 +1 | lapsus (papera, svista, errore madornale) |
Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.
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gaffe
una proposta, poi vedo che la maggior parte dei giornalisti Italiani la descrive così....
elf own è difficile da rendere bene in Italiano.
elf own è difficile da rendere bene in Italiano.
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Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.
: gaffe: azione o espressione inopportuna, che crea * imbarazzo * negli altri: fare, commettere una gaffe https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/gaffe/
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Elena Feriani
: è stata definita anche gaffe: https://www.adnkronos.com/bush-iraq-e-ucraina-la-gaffe-delle...
Inoltre, da Google: "gaffe di Bush" ha 10.000 risultati, "lapsus di Bush" solo 31.
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Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.
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English term (edited):
self-own
lapsus (papera, svista, errore madornale)
self-own = lapsus, papera, svista, errore madornale (errore linguistico involontario)
Durante un discorso [...] l'ex presidente # è incappato in un lapsus confondendo....
https://video.corriere.it/esteri/lapsus-bush-confonde-l-ucra...
Durante un discorso [...] l'ex presidente # è incappato in un lapsus confondendo....
https://video.corriere.it/esteri/lapsus-bush-confonde-l-ucra...
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