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- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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- Discover the finest lines from thousands of famous writers
- Enhanced accessibilty-search by keyword or theme
- Instant display of quotations in a pop up window
- Runs in the background
- Can easily be integrated with other Oxford products.
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Whether you are preparing a speech, researching an essay, or simply looking to expand your conversational skills, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is the perfect reference guide for any home or office library.Discover the finest lines from Shakespeare, Dante, the Bible, Winston Churchill and hundreds of other writers, philosophers, political figures, and entertainers Enhanced accessibility - search by keyword or themes - such as advertising slogans, catchphrases, film lines, epitaphs and prayers, to help you find the best quotes on your chosen subject. Quotations are instantly displayed in a pop-up window. No fuss and no waiting. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations automatically installs on your hard drive and runs in the background ready for whenever you need it. Can be easily integrated with the New Oxford Thesaurus of English, the Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary, the Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary, and the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary.
Containing over 20,000 quotations from more than 3,000 authors, this collection provides a broad and up-to-date coverage of quotations drawn from every field of interest, from politics and science, to music, sport, and the arts. As well as quotations from traditional sources such as the Bible, English, and European literature, plus improved coverage of world religions and classical Greek and Latin, this dictionary now covers areas such as proverbs and nursery rhymes.
Ranging from profound to compelling, serious to witty, these quotations will add spice to your writing and conversation and will provide an excellent source of entertainment and inspiration for public speakers, writers, or anyone else who enjoys a sparkling line or spirited reply.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
This CD-ROM of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is best avoided. The ifinger interface is a disaster. For example, if you wanted to find Portia's speech from The Merchant of Venice which beings 'The quality of mercy ...', if you input just that it will tell you it can't be found. However, the quotation is on the CD, it's just that you need to search for Shakespeare, then find Merchant of Venice then access the speech. In other words you need to know the speech is from The Merchant of Venice. This is one of the least user-friendly pieces of software I have ever come across. Perhaps someone can persuade Microsoft to include a dictionary of quotations on Encarta - now that really would be useful.
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Though his review has certainly helped me to work out how to use the product, I think the Oct 2010 reviewer has missed the point in saying that the earlier reviewer (from 2005) doesn't understand how to use the product properly. At first, my reaction was exactly the same as that of the earlier reviewer. From this later review it is clear that, despite having an extensive database of quotations at its core, the search engine only works to search for one word at a time, and that it is incorrect to search for a phrase. I must admit that I have tried quite a few samples of my own using this technique and have been pleasantly surprised that they turn up the correct results. Most obscure of all was Harold Macmillan's quote that we had "never had it so good" given that any one of these words (never, had or good) were so bland in themselves that it was difficult to believe that any one of them could be used for a search, yet using either never or good did produce the required quote (amongst others), though had really was far too generalised to provide a result.
However, although I take the point that this would be made clear in the instructions, and that trying to search for a phrase is thus "not using the product correctly" the point that the earlier reviewer is making, and that I reiterate here is that this inability to search on a phrase it very poor by the standards that we can normally expect from search engines. It's all very well saying that we need to search on the individual words, but apart from the fact that, as with the Macmillan example, it can be difficult to pick out the most appropriate unique word, the result is usually a very long list of quotations, through which you have to scroll to find the right one, and even then, if it is by somebody (such as Shakespeare) who made many worthwhile quotations, to find the full entry still requires pulling up a long list of all of the entries by that author/orator, as evidenced by the example of the 41st (in my version it was 41st not 43rd) Shakespeare quotation quoted as sample.
If the search engine were able to cope with a phrase instead of just a single word, this would provide far more specific results, and require far less effort in browsing to the correct result. It really doesn't seem such a great deal to ask, given that just about every other serach engine that can be encountered does provide this ability to refine the search.
However, although I take the point that this would be made clear in the instructions, and that trying to search for a phrase is thus "not using the product correctly" the point that the earlier reviewer is making, and that I reiterate here is that this inability to search on a phrase it very poor by the standards that we can normally expect from search engines. It's all very well saying that we need to search on the individual words, but apart from the fact that, as with the Macmillan example, it can be difficult to pick out the most appropriate unique word, the result is usually a very long list of quotations, through which you have to scroll to find the right one, and even then, if it is by somebody (such as Shakespeare) who made many worthwhile quotations, to find the full entry still requires pulling up a long list of all of the entries by that author/orator, as evidenced by the example of the 41st (in my version it was 41st not 43rd) Shakespeare quotation quoted as sample.
If the search engine were able to cope with a phrase instead of just a single word, this would provide far more specific results, and require far less effort in browsing to the correct result. It really doesn't seem such a great deal to ask, given that just about every other serach engine that can be encountered does provide this ability to refine the search.
One of the reviews of the iFinger Oxford Dictionary of Quotations seems to be result of misunderstanding how to use the dictionary.
If you have opened iFinger (you may have more than one piece of software from them - for example, the Oxford Thesaurus AND the Dictionary of Quotations), and you are in, again for example, Word, and you type quality, and then double-click that word, you will see (continuing the example) entries for that word in both the thesaurus and the quotations. In the latter, you will find "quality of mercy" listed as the 43rd entry under Shakespeare. Clicking on the Shakespeare link, and scrolling down to #43, will display the full quotation. Typing mercy and then double-clicking on that will give you the same result.
Then, again, if you type city and double-click on that, you should easily find the quote for "a rose-red city half as old as time"..
And so on.
If you've used the book of the Dictionary of Quotations, looking up a quote from a single word should be second nature.
There is a Manual on the CD, as a pdf file. And it always pays to RTFM...
Frankly I use this product - AND the Oxford Thesaurus of English on CD-ROM - reasonably often, and I can recommend BOTH.
If you have opened iFinger (you may have more than one piece of software from them - for example, the Oxford Thesaurus AND the Dictionary of Quotations), and you are in, again for example, Word, and you type quality, and then double-click that word, you will see (continuing the example) entries for that word in both the thesaurus and the quotations. In the latter, you will find "quality of mercy" listed as the 43rd entry under Shakespeare. Clicking on the Shakespeare link, and scrolling down to #43, will display the full quotation. Typing mercy and then double-clicking on that will give you the same result.
Then, again, if you type city and double-click on that, you should easily find the quote for "a rose-red city half as old as time"..
And so on.
If you've used the book of the Dictionary of Quotations, looking up a quote from a single word should be second nature.
There is a Manual on the CD, as a pdf file. And it always pays to RTFM...
Frankly I use this product - AND the Oxford Thesaurus of English on CD-ROM - reasonably often, and I can recommend BOTH.
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