Re: "Usefull languages"

In a message dated 2002.02.20 03.16.15 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

>I should perhaps clarify that I in no way dislike dictionaries, and may
>even be found browsing thru' one on the chance I'll find something
interesting.
>It's just that sitting down and actually reading a dictionary, like you'd
>read a novel, is unbearably tedious.
    LOL I actually have sat readin' the Oxford Encyclopedic Dictionary on
occasion... well, not exactly readin' thru' it like a novel, but sort of 1/2
readin', 1/2 browsin' ;) clearin' up my (mis-)understandin' of certain words,
learnin' unfamiliar ones, lookin' up the origins, etc..
    BTW once I got the OED, I could not tolerate other [English] dictionaries
(i.e. the Webster). This is purely opinion and linguistic "stylistics', of
course (and possibly somehow my Sino-British cultural
background/identification as well). But do others on this list have certain
dictionary preferences? and - perhaps - certain dictionaries they absolutely
loath?

In a message dated 2002.02.20 03.24.37 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

>I've got a private "game" for ingredient lists and similar: I try to figure
>out what it means in the most exotic language to me, if that fails, I look
>at the second most exotic lang, und so weiter.
>
>I get bonus points for getting it in a Romance language, good for Dutch,
>and
>okay grade for German. If I have to check the English or Scandinavian
>versions, I've failed. Finnish is usually not worth trying!
    ROTFLMAOSHIH  ::tongue-in-cheek tone:: I thought I was the only one that
did that.

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