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Solutions Edition
2006.03.28 2:18

Everybody around me knows that I am extremely particular about a dictionary. I used to carry a dictionary wherever possible whenver. I was a man walking with a dictionary, then people called me in short, I am a walking dictionary, and I'd prefer to be called so.
This time my choice is Collins English Dictionary. They say or I say there are five good dictionaries in the world. Those are Oxford, Chambers, Collins, Longman, Cambridge. Now I have OALD -however old it is -it has lost 18 pages in A section, and POD -however disbanded it is -it is devided into 10 pieces. Oxford Pocket Dictionary -however small it is, Longman Pocket Dictionary -I just store it, Cambridge International Dictionary of English -however big it is,. Chambers -I was unable to find it any more.
Collins is a new star to me. Instead of purchasing again OALD, POD, I chose Collins. This comes in handy, brighter paper, lighter weight, many vocabulary, with appropriate etymological description I found it almost perfect to meet my demand and needs.
Solutions Edition -that's the name of this edition.
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Have you thought about(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.28 2:38 (#15004037) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Getting a PDA and then buying the electronic editions of these works? I'm into Bible History- and I carry around several Bible translations, all on one convient flash card....
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.
Re:Have you thought about(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.28 3:05 (#15004242) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
several Bible translations
Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Koine ( Common Simplified Greek around that time ). It might be a little bit hard for you to understand Hebrew though why not challenge reading the New Testament in Greek. I think it is worth while to try.
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.28 3:31 (#15004444) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Koine ( Common Simplified Greek around that time ). It might be a little bit hard for you to understand Hebrew though why not challenge reading the New Testament in Greek. I think it is worth while to try. It's actually a bit more complicated than that. There's also a version of the OT in Koine Greek that contains books not preserved past the Council of Nazareth in Hebrew. In addition to all listed above, I keep around the Douay-Rheims (first English translation), a modern English version, Luther's 1504 Bibel in German, some extra-Biblical works such as the Nag Hammadi Texts (which are the Coptic Bible from Egypt/Ethiopia), and some Bible Study tools. In addition to all of that, I've also got the Standard Microsoft Library of Public Domain Works for Microsoft Reader, and a couple of books by my friend Regina Paul (I'm working on coming up with .LIT versions of her books so that she can sell them on her website).
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.29 3:21 (#15012038) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
Wow!
There's also a version of the OT in Koine Greek that contains books not preserved past the Council of Nazareth in Hebrew.
Are the books related to the Apocrypha? I'm curious to know the real reason 14 books were taken away from the Old Testament.
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Re:Have you thought about(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@aracnet.com> on 2006.03.29 3:34 (#15012132) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2006.04.29 1:56)
Are the books related to the Apocrypha? I'm curious to know the real reason 14 books were taken away from the Old Testament. Yep, that's them. Really 13 books and a few extra chapters from the book of Daniel. There were three reasons, at three entirely different times, for removing them. The earliest was the Council of Nazareth- a Pharasee Jew council after the destruction of Jerusalem, that blamed the revolution on Christianity and other end-of-the-world sects like the Essenes and the Zealots and the Zionists. They traced all of these theologically back to the Greek Invasion of Israel- and so expunged from the Hebrew scriptures anything written after the time of Ezra the Priest, which would include the Septugiant, a Greek translation done in the time of Alexander the Great because so many of his subjects were Jews who did not know Hebrew.The second was the Manichean Heresy- an anti-Nicene Gnostic group that both added extra books to the New Testament and adopted the Hebrew version of The Scriptures. Around this time the mythical stories of Daniel battling the Dragon and the Babylonian God Bel were also expunged. But the Manicheans died out, they didn't survive the fall of Rome.The last was during the Protestant Reformation in the early 1500s- Martin Luther considered nothing of importance to be in the Apocrypha, and also tried to expunge the later epistles.
--Admiting that you don't know everything is the begining of wisdom- or the lack of broadband internet.
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How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.28 2:56 (#15004179) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
Do you have them in a backpack or something, or are they small enought that they're easy to carry?
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.28 3:38 (#15004499) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I used to carry at least one, sometimes two in the backseat of a car. The book was 11 cm x 17 cm. The weight was probably 100 -150 grams I believe.
I carry not only one or two dictionaries but a collection of my previous writings and other books - usually I was reading a book at my leisure, my favourite one was ' The Whale '.
But it's true, even if I were not in a car, I used to carry a dictionary by the hand. For example I used to carry a dictionary in picnic, etc.
I said 'used to'. I ceased to do so several years ago. Once when I was 33, my first wife hid my dictionary in a barn - OALD as I mentioned. The second wife when I was at age 35, she torn apart my dictionary into two. That's the one I am still in use -the same one -OALD. I've been using the same dictionary longer than my better-half.
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.28 4:23 (#15004875) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
So how old are you now?
And why did they hide them? Would you use the dictionaries to correct them?
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.29 3:43 (#15012201) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I'm 44. My first wife was the Filipina, she didn't like to hear my very literal expression with a lot of authoritative pronunciations, so she hid it in a barn. I was extremely perplexted. As if my laptop were taken away. My life at that time was exacerbated, anyway soon after we found we had not shared the same value in life, I divorced my first wife first time.
After my second wife -Japanese, tore apart my dictionary, I went to Kinko's whether my scattered dictionary is able to recover, they say it's hard to repair. I repaired it with paste and Celotape by myself, and I didn't like the woman who burst into tears, so I divorced my second wife.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.29 3:48 (#15012252) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
How did you find slashdot, meaning, how did you stumble upon this community of ours?
I'm 35, by the way. Do you have any pictures of you posted where I can see what my Brother looks like? :)
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.29 4:59 (#15012822) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
About one and a half year ago I was looking for what the 'corporate governance' is through the Internet. I put the word in the MSN search, where I found one Slashdotter's journal -this one was Slashdot Japan User -the name of User was von_yosukeyan. I read his journal and it was an excellent explanation as to 'corporate governance'.
I was impressed, then I made an account in Slashdot Japan site, but unfortunately at that time I'd been almost only using English in my private and public life, so I wrote entries in English. Naturally nobody seemed to care about my comments and journals.
Then I assumed -there must be an American site, I put the word 'Slashdot' in a search engine.
Eureka! I made an account, I started posting comments and journals here. You can check your mirror or screen.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Re:How big are the dictionaries?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.29 6:18 (#15013346) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
Got the picture. Yes...there are similarities. :)
I didnt know there was a Slashdot Japan. Wow...I just loaded it. Very pretty.
I have no idea what it says. I mean, apart from the numbers and "Apple Vs. Apple" part. :)
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut