Word alignment can be described as the task of finding correspondences on the word or phrase level between a source text and its translation.
If we ever look calm in conversation, it's because we're desperately focussing on finding the one word that will avoid making the situation difficult.
We smell freedom," he went on, finding the words.
In "Talking Back (To WH Auden)", William Meredith counters with the suggestion that What it makes happen is small things, sometimes, to some, in an area already pretty well taken care of by the senses and he continues - It is like finding on your tongue Right words to call across the floe Of arrogance to the wise dead, Of health to sickness, old to young.
Poetry makes such things happen/ sometimes, as certain people do/ at the right juncture of our lives./ Don't knock it, it has called across/ the enchanted chasm of love/ resemblances like rescue gear./ It is like finding on your tongue/ right words to call across the floe/ of arrogance to the wise dead,/ of health to sickness, old to young./ Across this debt, we tell you so.
They've also launched a basic word search game, called Jawfish Words, that lets players compete on the getting the highest scores, finding the longest words or the most diagonals.
This being Le Carré, things don't go as planned, and Salvador is soon eaves-dropping on brutal beatings, finding synonyms for the word "mercenary" and wondering just who the good guys are.
The study didn't take into account metaphors, tone or potentially playful lyricism, and instead based its findings on word count, word length and the number of syllables contained in each word.
Also, as a public man obliged to write speeches and narrate events, I agree with the illustrious writer on the delight of finding the exact word - a kind of shared and inexhaustible obsession - until the phrase fits our criteria.
