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For me as non-native, my first association to dictionary is a bilingual one, German-English in my
case.
I have of course several physical dictionaries at work and at home, but found that I use more and
more online dictionaries:
http://dict.leo.org
- because it is more current than my books,
- because it has a lot of special vocabulary that my books don't have and
- because it has an active community which discusses translations and which can be asked. If there
has been a thread on the word I query, the thread(s) are always presented as an additional source.
Babylon because I can query different source files at once, giving me various definitions for
acronyms, giving me simultaneously an English-English and an English-German translation/
defintion.
JensR
<zitiere wer="jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com">
>
> i noticed in recent threads that folks mention specific dictionaries as
> indispensible (merriam, am. heritage, and so on...). what i wonder is, why
> the need for physical dictionaries when dictionary.com and other online
> resources provide that info at our fingertips? or omnidictionary, if
> you're an os x user?
>
> then again, maybe there are valid reasons tech communicators would use
> physical dictionaries instead of online ones. just curious.
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