At 03:39 PM 5/9/2002 +0200, Johan Malmström wrote:
[snip]
>Do you still use books for this? Use a DICT server near you instead! For Mac
>OS X I recommend the client OmniDictionary from Omnigroup.
Well, Johan, aside from the fact that I have zero idea who "Omnigroup" are (and
whether they have the chops to actually do a creditable job putting together an
English-language dictionary), *my* copy of the full OED happens to be on CD.
;-)
Trusting an online DICT server for your dictionary needs is a lot like trusting
Microsoft to put together an authoritative encyclopedia. Oh wait, silly me:
they've sold millions of copies of that abomination called "Encarta," haven't
they?
And people wonder why ignorance seems to be increasing. :-/
Garth
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