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What Do We Know about the World?
Kosor didn’t like them / Hawk didn’t like him;
35 %: To die for the new recession / To die for your country;
33 %: Croatists and slavists, unite! / Proletarians of all countries, unite!;
The slaughter of innocent pigs / The slaughter of the innocents;
To Russia with love / From Russia with love;
My gunfight with Sanader / Gunfight at the OK corral;
25 %: Tower neither in socialism nor in capitalism / Tower neither in heaven nor
on earth; Major railway robbery / The Great Train Robbery;
18 %: Potemkin farmer / Potemkin villages;
15 %: The working class doesn’t go to heaven / The working class goes to heaven;
Istria as it as it once was / The Mediterranean as it once was;
10 %: It’s time for sun to shine on Hajduk / It’s time for me to be at peace with the
world; The false hope traders / The fake goods traders;
When the spies go marching in / When the saints go marching in;
8 %: Worm in the Big Apple / Worm in the apple;
0 %: Closely watched bulls of arts / Closely Watched Trains;
Mausoleum of Croatian heritage / Mausoleum of Croatian kings;
Olympic screams and silence / Cries and Whispers;
Going to black / Back in Black;
Hitler from our beach / Hitler from our street;
Collective suicide / Lovely collective murder.
Appendix 2. List of all paraphrased headlines and the percentage of
their understanding by older examinees.
98 %: The Mandarin tree isn’t picked / The olive tree isn’t picked;
All the president’s dribbling / All the president’s men;
Grain by grain - pleasure is here / Grain by grain - bread is here;
95 %: Tower neither in socialism or in capitalism / Tower neither in heaven nor
on earth; My sweet nuclear village / My Sweet Little Village;
Nobel Hope Prize, Nobel Prize in Hope / Nobel Peace Prize/in Physics/in
chemistry/in medicine;
93 %: Pay so you can swim / Pay so you can mock;
90 %: Drago is back / Šime is back;
88 %: Ante is alone in the world / Pale is alone in the world;
83 %: The good old corruption / For good old times;
70 %: Pirates of the river Danube / Pirates of the Caribbean;
68 %: Kobe Bryant come home / Lassie come home;
Šeks scandal / Sex scandal;
65 %: Boredom at two pm / Sunday at two pm;
Kosor didn’t like them / Hawk didn’t like him;
35 %: To die for the new recession / To die for your country;
33 %: Croatists and slavists, unite! / Proletarians of all countries, unite!;
The slaughter of innocent pigs / The slaughter of the innocents;
To Russia with love / From Russia with love;
My gunfight with Sanader / Gunfight at the OK corral;
25 %: Tower neither in socialism nor in capitalism / Tower neither in heaven nor
on earth; Major railway robbery / The Great Train Robbery;
18 %: Potemkin farmer / Potemkin villages;
15 %: The working class doesn’t go to heaven / The working class goes to heaven;
Istria as it as it once was / The Mediterranean as it once was;
10 %: It’s time for sun to shine on Hajduk / It’s time for me to be at peace with the
world; The false hope traders / The fake goods traders;
When the spies go marching in / When the saints go marching in;
8 %: Worm in the Big Apple / Worm in the apple;
0 %: Closely watched bulls of arts / Closely Watched Trains;
Mausoleum of Croatian heritage / Mausoleum of Croatian kings;
Olympic screams and silence / Cries and Whispers;
Going to black / Back in Black;
Hitler from our beach / Hitler from our street;
Collective suicide / Lovely collective murder.
Appendix 2. List of all paraphrased headlines and the percentage of
their understanding by older examinees.
98 %: The Mandarin tree isn’t picked / The olive tree isn’t picked;
All the president’s dribbling / All the president’s men;
Grain by grain - pleasure is here / Grain by grain - bread is here;
95 %: Tower neither in socialism or in capitalism / Tower neither in heaven nor
on earth; My sweet nuclear village / My Sweet Little Village;
Nobel Hope Prize, Nobel Prize in Hope / Nobel Peace Prize/in Physics/in
chemistry/in medicine;
93 %: Pay so you can swim / Pay so you can mock;
90 %: Drago is back / Šime is back;
88 %: Ante is alone in the world / Pale is alone in the world;
83 %: The good old corruption / For good old times;
70 %: Pirates of the river Danube / Pirates of the Caribbean;
68 %: Kobe Bryant come home / Lassie come home;
Šeks scandal / Sex scandal;
65 %: Boredom at two pm / Sunday at two pm;
