Re: ahem! reposting question re: polyglot dictionary

    I found these with a quick search. I'm not even sure how good they are
(haven't tried them yet) but here's the addresses...
                http://www.logos.it/index.html
                http://www.ctv.es/USERS/alberfon/dicsear1.htm

    Joe

DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> From: "taliesin the storyteller"
>
> > * Zhang2323@aol.com <Zhang2323@...> [000429 02:21]:
> > >     Any recommended polyglot dictionaries?
> > > (A dictionary with multiple languages)
> > >     I am trying to find a decent recent polyglot dictionary &
> > > can't seem to find one too easily...
> >
> > Tell me if you find one, I've been looking for years... onlinely
> > speaking, collections of dictionaries are abundant, but one where you
> > can look up a word in several languages at once? No chance :(
>
> It seemed to me there was one that had a turtle as its mascot. I've
> forgotten the name, but you typed in a word (for me, most often in English)
> and got a variety of translations for various languages. To be sure, I was
> often disappointed, as it seems their database is reliant on viewer
> participation. Nevertheless, it did often provide links to the word used in
> sample literary contexts to let you see how it is really used as opposed to
> those one-to-one translation (travel) dictionaries lurking out there (though
> I remember a decent Swedish/English, English/Swedish one floating out
> there). And some non-Euro langs included. Not perfect, but a decent
> springboard. I have my bookmarks from Taiwan somewhere on disk, I'll try to
> dredge it up if I can't find it through the circuituous meandering seraches
> I found it through in the first place.
>
> Kou