Στο 2ο επεισόδιο της 5ης σεζόν του Hustle διαμείβεται ο εξής διάλογος ανάμεσα στον Μίκι, τον αρχηγό των απατεώνων, και την Έμμα, την καινούργια συνεργάτιδά του.
M: You can’t give in. Not after two goes.
E: Why not?
M: It shows a distinct lack of stickability.
E: Stickability? That’s not even a word. You can’t have a lack of something that doesn’t exist.
M: Of course it’s a word.
E: Well, it isn’t in the dictionary.
M: Neither is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, but it’s still a word.
E: Well, not really. It’s a song.
M: OK, it’s a song... about a word.
E: You just can’t admit you’re wrong, can you?
M: It’s because I’m not.
E: Well, there’s a word for people like you.
M: Yeah?
E: A never-think-you-are-wrong-ist.
Δύο βασικές διορθώσεις: το stickability είναι λέξη και υπάρχει στα λεξικά. Το ίδιο και το supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Για το stickability και το πιο γνωστό συνώνυμό του, το αμερικάνικο stick-to-itiveness, θα λέγαμε εμμονή, πείσμα, αφοσίωση. Έχουμε τίποτ’ άλλο;
Η λέξη, σύμφωνα με το OED, κυκλοφορεί από το 1888!
Capacity for endurance, persistence, perseverance, staying power.
1888 Voice (N.Y.) 10 May 7/3 Stickability‥is the most important ability a farmer can possess. 1905 British Weekly 28 May 193/2 To be able to take rebuffs happily and still go on requires, to use a coined word, ‘stickability’. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 634/2 The foreigner has supplanted the middle and lower class Chilian in nearly every branch of industry in which the quality best described as ‘stickability’ is required. 1962 Daily Tel. 17 Aug. 18/1 All too many lack any degree of ‘stickability’ and flit from job to job like butterflies. 1976 P. Donovan Relig. Lang. iv. 45 Those engaged in such activities get their stickability‥from the quite reasonable assumption that unless someone persists‥, there is little chance of any discovery being made.
Τώρα έχει αποκτήσει και δεύτερη σημασία. Στο OALD λέει:
2 (of a website) the ability to keep visitors interested for more than a short time.
Κολλητικότητα;
M: You can’t give in. Not after two goes.
E: Why not?
M: It shows a distinct lack of stickability.
E: Stickability? That’s not even a word. You can’t have a lack of something that doesn’t exist.
M: Of course it’s a word.
E: Well, it isn’t in the dictionary.
M: Neither is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, but it’s still a word.
E: Well, not really. It’s a song.
M: OK, it’s a song... about a word.
E: You just can’t admit you’re wrong, can you?
M: It’s because I’m not.
E: Well, there’s a word for people like you.
M: Yeah?
E: A never-think-you-are-wrong-ist.
Δύο βασικές διορθώσεις: το stickability είναι λέξη και υπάρχει στα λεξικά. Το ίδιο και το supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Για το stickability και το πιο γνωστό συνώνυμό του, το αμερικάνικο stick-to-itiveness, θα λέγαμε εμμονή, πείσμα, αφοσίωση. Έχουμε τίποτ’ άλλο;
Η λέξη, σύμφωνα με το OED, κυκλοφορεί από το 1888!
Capacity for endurance, persistence, perseverance, staying power.
1888 Voice (N.Y.) 10 May 7/3 Stickability‥is the most important ability a farmer can possess. 1905 British Weekly 28 May 193/2 To be able to take rebuffs happily and still go on requires, to use a coined word, ‘stickability’. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 634/2 The foreigner has supplanted the middle and lower class Chilian in nearly every branch of industry in which the quality best described as ‘stickability’ is required. 1962 Daily Tel. 17 Aug. 18/1 All too many lack any degree of ‘stickability’ and flit from job to job like butterflies. 1976 P. Donovan Relig. Lang. iv. 45 Those engaged in such activities get their stickability‥from the quite reasonable assumption that unless someone persists‥, there is little chance of any discovery being made.
Τώρα έχει αποκτήσει και δεύτερη σημασία. Στο OALD λέει:
2 (of a website) the ability to keep visitors interested for more than a short time.
Κολλητικότητα;
Αυτό, πράγματι, δεν είναι λέξη. Το γνωρίζουμε καλά ως έννοια, ωστόσο.
