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the representation and reception of paraphrase
in newspaper headlines 407
Appendix 1 List of all paraphrased headlines and the percentage of
their understanding by young examinees21
100 %: Drago is back / Šime is back;
The Mandarin tree isn’t picked / The olive tree isn’t picked;
98 %: Kobe Bryant come home / Lassie come home;
95 %: Pirates of the river Danube / Pirates of the Caribbean;
93 %: Boredom at two pm / Sunday at two pm;
90 %: Pay so you can swim / Pay so you can mock;
Through the mud to the stars / Through the thorns to the stars;
Ante is alone in the world / Pale is alone in the world;
85 %: End of the elephants / End of the world;
Nobel Hope Prize, Nobel Prize in Hope / Nobel Peace Prize/in Physics/in
chemistry/in medicine etc;
Šeks scandal / Sex scandal;
80 %: All the president’s dribbling / All the president’s men;
Grain by grain - pleasure is here / Grain by grain - bread is here;
78 % Spices against humanity / Crimes against Humanity;
Love is in the Balkans / Love is in the countryside;
73 %: Serbian theorem / Pythagorean/Thales’ theorem;
I rape you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost /
I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost;
Lost in the institute / Lost in translation;
68 %: Grandma credits are gone / Grandma and her cookies are gone;
Good spirit of skyscrapers / Good spirit of Zagreb;
63 %: My sweet nuclear village / My Sweet Little Village;
60 %: In search of lost innocence / In search of lost time/for lost treasure;
58 %: Sanader’s curse / Zvonimir’s curse;
Crying and screaming, which means life / Boards that make you live;
Ready for all! / Ready for the country!;
Croatian National Tourist deception / Croatian National Tourist Board;
55 %: Shower of the absurd / Theatre of the absurd;
Croat is a Serb to another Croat / Man is wolf to another man;
50 %: The good old corruption / For good old times;
45 %: A German doesn’t believe a Greek / A well-fed man doesn’t believe a hun-
gry one;
43 %: Sanader stole my Christmas / How the Grinch Stole Christmas;
Mulder without Scully / Mulder and Scully;
21 Original phrases are not italicized.
in newspaper headlines 407
Appendix 1 List of all paraphrased headlines and the percentage of
their understanding by young examinees21
100 %: Drago is back / Šime is back;
The Mandarin tree isn’t picked / The olive tree isn’t picked;
98 %: Kobe Bryant come home / Lassie come home;
95 %: Pirates of the river Danube / Pirates of the Caribbean;
93 %: Boredom at two pm / Sunday at two pm;
90 %: Pay so you can swim / Pay so you can mock;
Through the mud to the stars / Through the thorns to the stars;
Ante is alone in the world / Pale is alone in the world;
85 %: End of the elephants / End of the world;
Nobel Hope Prize, Nobel Prize in Hope / Nobel Peace Prize/in Physics/in
chemistry/in medicine etc;
Šeks scandal / Sex scandal;
80 %: All the president’s dribbling / All the president’s men;
Grain by grain - pleasure is here / Grain by grain - bread is here;
78 % Spices against humanity / Crimes against Humanity;
Love is in the Balkans / Love is in the countryside;
73 %: Serbian theorem / Pythagorean/Thales’ theorem;
I rape you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost /
I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost;
Lost in the institute / Lost in translation;
68 %: Grandma credits are gone / Grandma and her cookies are gone;
Good spirit of skyscrapers / Good spirit of Zagreb;
63 %: My sweet nuclear village / My Sweet Little Village;
60 %: In search of lost innocence / In search of lost time/for lost treasure;
58 %: Sanader’s curse / Zvonimir’s curse;
Crying and screaming, which means life / Boards that make you live;
Ready for all! / Ready for the country!;
Croatian National Tourist deception / Croatian National Tourist Board;
55 %: Shower of the absurd / Theatre of the absurd;
Croat is a Serb to another Croat / Man is wolf to another man;
50 %: The good old corruption / For good old times;
45 %: A German doesn’t believe a Greek / A well-fed man doesn’t believe a hun-
gry one;
43 %: Sanader stole my Christmas / How the Grinch Stole Christmas;
Mulder without Scully / Mulder and Scully;
21 Original phrases are not italicized.
