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| Only for fuel | Sep 17, 2014 |
Dictionaries are for amateurs
| | | | Mario Chavez (X) 
Local time: 10:18
English to Spanish
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Chris S wrote:
Dictionaries are for amateurs
In need of goading, eh? Hahahah.
Your brain then must be linked to the cloud, er, Internet.
| | | | Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 10:18
English to Spanish
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| We're assuming electricity and the Internet are permanent givens | Sep 17, 2014 |
I remember an anecdote I read in Reader's Digest years ago. It involved some journalists who wanted to write a report in a cabin in the woods, away from distractions, from civilization, completely cut out. So they packed everything in their car and went to this wooded area. Upon setting up their things on the table, they sadly realized that they had packed typewriters...of the electrical type!
Listen up, people. I know that some of you prefer reading ebooks rather than depend on som... See more I remember an anecdote I read in Reader's Digest years ago. It involved some journalists who wanted to write a report in a cabin in the woods, away from distractions, from civilization, completely cut out. So they packed everything in their car and went to this wooded area. Upon setting up their things on the table, they sadly realized that they had packed typewriters...of the electrical type!
Listen up, people. I know that some of you prefer reading ebooks rather than depend on some dog-eared softcover. I know that many keep their CD-based dictionaries handy (I have two or three, and I consult two of them rather asiduously). However, have you consider what you will do if your precious power goes out or you are without Internet?
Sure, the same can be said about computers and our other gizmos, but any well-made printed dictionary can beat Wikipedia or onelook.com on a bad day.
[Edited at 2014-09-17 21:28 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
United States
Local time: 07:18
Spanish to English
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My paper dictionaries are still on my bookshelves over my workstation. I can reach them without standing up.
Most of the time I'm looking for a nuanced meaning of a word commonly translated in another way, and online dictionaries are of little or no help.
For me, online resource I rely on most often is Linguée, a matched corpus that shows two parallel translations in context. If I can't find what I'm looking for there, then I hit my paper bilingual dictionaries. Then... See more My paper dictionaries are still on my bookshelves over my workstation. I can reach them without standing up.
Most of the time I'm looking for a nuanced meaning of a word commonly translated in another way, and online dictionaries are of little or no help.
For me, online resource I rely on most often is Linguée, a matched corpus that shows two parallel translations in context. If I can't find what I'm looking for there, then I hit my paper bilingual dictionaries. Then I go to the paper monolingual dictionaries in the source language. Then I go back online and look for glossaries.
If I have a general idea of the meaning but I'm looking for the mot juste, then I use Roget's thesaurus on paper. I need to browse the index, which the online version doesn't allow you to do.
If I'm still stuck, then I post a question on KudoZ.
To summarize, I almost never check online dictionaries. For dictionaries, I prefer paper. When I go online I'm looking for translations in context or glossaries. ▲ Collapse
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Mario Chavez wrote:
I remember an anecdote I read in Reader's Digest years ago. It involved some journalists who wanted to write a report in a cabin in the woods, away from distractions, from civilization, completely cut out. So they packed everything in their car and went to this wooded area. Upon setting up their things on the table, they sadly realized that they had packed typewriters...of the electrical type!
Listen up, people. I know that some of you prefer reading ebooks rather than depend on some dog-eared softcover. I know that many keep their CD-based dictionaries handy (I have two or three, and I consult two of them rather asiduously). However, have you consider what you will do if your precious power goes out or you are without Internet?
Sure, the same can be said about computers and our other gizmos, but any well-made printed dictionary can beat Wikipedia or onelook.com on a bad day.
[Edited at 2014-09-17 21:28 GMT]
OK, so in this post-apocalyptic scenario you have the edge on terminology, but how are you going to email your work to the customer?
PS Paper dictionaries every tieme for me!
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