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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    RE: On-line lexicon
From:       Logi Ragnarsson <logir () imf ! au ! dk>
Date:       1999-11-15 10:12:41
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Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Xenitellis S ritaši
>The URL with online dictionaries that I like is
>
>		http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
><http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html> 

This is actually a very interesting link. Thanks!

But, these general purpose dictionaries are not going to cover the vocabulary
you need to translate computer software. They are not going to give a
meaningful translation of "shell", for example.

Also, at least for the Icelandic translation, it is very often that no
translation exists for a technical usage of a word and we have to come up with
one. In these cases it is very useful to have a lexicon that we edit ourselves
to mantain consistency in the translations.

BTW, the page has improved quite a bit since I last posted the url
(http://logi.imf.au.dk/lexicon/search.jhtml). It is fully usable except that
there is no way to delete or modify something already in the database, but this
is easily implemented when I don't need to do statistics exercises :-)

Logi

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