Re: Desiring good English to Greek / Greek to English and English to Latin / Latin to English books
| From: | Edgard Bikelis <bikelis@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 29, 2008, 0:11 |
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Nomad of Norad -- David C Hall <
nomad-conlang@...> wrote:
> Can someone point me to a good, fairly comprehensive, English to Greek
> dictionary?
http://www.ancientlibrary.com/eng-grk/
> And a good, fairly comprehensive, English to Latin dictionary? Ideally,
> the Greek one would need to tell me the word in Greek, followed by the
> pronunciation in English-style lettering, that is, transliterated into
> English.
I suggest you learning the greek alphabet... it's beautiful and not that
hard, in comparison to learning devanagari, for instance ; ). IPA is a must
too. Wikipedia helps me on that all the time...
> I came across one English to Greek, Greek to English book on Amazon.com
> that had a review on it warning that it wasn't really that great for
> translating stuff from English into Greek, because that particular book was
> much more heavily weighted towards Greek to English... :-/
Learn a bit of both languages first... try Reading Greek and Reading Latin,
fine books... I prefer the second, though.
> Oh yeah, and what's the best beginners book on learning the art of
> conlanging? :-D
I guess we need to know how a language works... then try to emulate, or
perhaps make it better ; ). I would suggest a good book on Linguistics, but
I don't remember any : /.
Edgard.
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