They don’t usually attract attention. We don’t usually notice them. They are the dictionary examples: those small phrases that from a secondary position illustrate the meanings of the words. Compared to their fellow definitions (scrutinized, debated and commented on ad nauseum), the dictionary examples are discreet and tend to remain out of the spotlight. Not even when the RAE publishes the dictionary updates at the end of the year and for a few days the lexicographic work makes news and makes headlines, do we look at the examples that accompany them. Until a few weeks ago, when something unprecedented happened: on the TVE program The Revolt The comedian Jorge Ponce used examples from the academic dictionary to put together a humorous section. The examples in the dictionary momentarily abandoned their traditional subordinate position and, for a few minutes, became the absolute protagonists of the prime time television.
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