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- Platform: Windows 95
- Media: CD-ROM
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
OLD, but gOLD,
By A Customer
This review is from: Oxford Talking Dictionary (CD-ROM)
A CD-ROM dictionary is to be rated, I think, in accordance with two main criteria: content and software usefulness. Regarding contents, a dictionary might be given an excellent rate, but its poor software might spoil its usefulness and damage user's work effectiveness. This is the case, in my opinion, with the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary version 2 (year 2002) - it has all those 500 000 entries which the Oxford Talking Dictionary (OTD) (OTD is based mostly on the SOED's predecessor - the 1994 release of The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) does as well (and they are even improved), but its appearance and performance customizing opportunities are far poorer than those of OTD. In the SOED there is practically zero opportunity for the user to customize its appearance in order to adapt it to his/hers preferences and needs. One cannot change even the font size of entry's text which is definitely a great disadvantage in my (and in many others) shortsighted eyes. The OTD's screen appearance is the most useful one I have encountered mostly for its capability of OUTLINING - OTD's screen is split into three very clearly outlined fields so that the user could automatically, with only a quick glance, visually recognize the three very successfully distributed different areas of the full word reference, of the thesaurus and the quotations and of the alphabetically ordered "All Entries" pane. I find it very important that this pane occupies the right end of the OTD screen, because English speakers are accustomed to reading in left-to-right direction and when one is looking up a word his/her look falls not first on the "All entries" with all those words he/she is NOT looking for, but directly to the word reference, because the alphabetical list of words is on its right side - this is indeed the only such appearance decision I have ever seen which I strongly approve of (this is not the case with SOED unfortunately).None of this is to be belittled when a user (especially a non-native English speaker such as myself) spends long hours in in-depth-familiarizing him-/herself with a certain word's history and typical usages. So this 1998 release might seem outdated to some, but I think right on the contrary - it has certain features and offers certain opportunities extinct in more "up-to-date" Oxford English dictionaries which make it far better and efficient than most of them. P. S. Oh, and I am running it under Windows XP with no problems whatsoever.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent tool, runs on Linux using wine too,
By GvI (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Oxford Talking Dictionary (CD-ROM)
The Oxford Talking Dictionary is an excellent tool, providing extensive coverage of the meaning and usage of more than 100,000 items. The interface, as others have noted, is flexible, and provides powerful tools for finding the information that you are looking for.
One useful feature of the OTD is its ability to look up entries whose spelling is similar to that of a query not present in the OTD database. This comes in handy not only if the user misspells a lexical item, but also if they only know what it roughly 'sounds like'. The OTD is, indeed, one of the very few Windows programmes that I still use. I mostly work on Linux, which is notoriously short on professionally made, native dictionary applications. The open source Wine project (now at version 1.0 rc 1) allows me to run the OTD at 'native' speeds, with all of the features present on the Windows platform. Two tips for prospective users who would like to run the OTD on Linux: make sure that Wine detects your CD-ROM drive correctly, and copy all of the ttf fonts from the OTD folder to /Windows/fonts once the OTD has been installed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
More than you might think,
By A Customer
This review is from: Oxford Talking Dictionary (CD-ROM)
This is the information copied from the back of the box, (c) The Learning Company...-------- *Choose from over 500,000 definitions. *Instantly look up a word - anywhere and locate words within the text of a definition or thesaurus entry. *Alternate spellings - helps you find the word even if you don't know the correct spelling. *Select the language of the software interface. You have the choice of English, Spanish, French, German or Dutch. *Integrated Thesaurus - provides comprehensive selection of 300,000 synonyms. *Rich multimedia content - Includes 100,000 pronunciations as well as 3,000 pictures, illustrations and maps. *Over 9,000 encyclopedic entries and 83,000 citations make this in depth dictionary even more informative. *Link the dictionary to your word processor. I use this all the time. What the above information doesn't say is the dictionary inside is the complete 'Shorter Oxford English Dictionary' which is the expensive 2 volume set Oxford releases every 10 years or so! Hence the 83,000 citations mentioned above. This software was released in 1998. The recent equivalent software Oxford publish is now called the Shorter OED. I think the new one is 2003 (after they released the latest SOED book) and was priced, when I looked a while back, the same as the 2 volume book - though I notice it's under a price review as I write this. So this is software is older, but excellent all the same.
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