Looking for dictionary recommedations

maru dubshinki · 15 Jun 2006, 04:27 · from 2006-June.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru dubshinki)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:27:09 -0400
Subject: (urth) Looking for dictionary recommedations
In-Reply-To: <20060612142716.47056.qmail at web51111.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20060612013232.77697.qmail at web36811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<20060612142716.47056.qmail at web51111.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <f5238c30606142127p52bb3f78y69c28bdcbaff7f77 at mail.gmail.com>

On 6/12/06, Macronaut <macronaut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> You might also consider the DVD version of the OED.
> Much easier to search, and it's far cheaper.
>
> Macronaut

To be honest, I'd have to disagree. I own the Compact OED and I've
used the disc versions, and the COED is a better choice. The price
differential doesn't really justify one over the other (for such a
long-term purchase, anyway), and even worse, the disc version is
Windows-only. In ten or 20 years, which one do you think will still be
as useful as the day they were bought? (And that's assuming one even
uses Windows, which isn't a safe assumption). No doubt there are other
reasons other than simply future-proofing things.

~maru

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net