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58 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The book is excellent, but the CD software is not., 17 Dec 2002
By A Customer
The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is excellent, but its companion CD - Oxford Advanced Genie isn't. I wonder if it's just an experimental software or not, it seems not quite professional. The following problems have been found at the first time I was using it:1. The dictionary window is quite small and cannot be resized. It causes part of content cannot be viewed. For example, when I type the word "landscape", after scrolling down to the Which Word section, there are 3 colomns of nouns that are frequently used adjectives ~landscape~scenery~countryside. But the third column is missing or partly missing even if the font size has been set to small. The same problem happens at Which Word section when I check the word Scottish. Between "... while Scots is only used to describe its people, its law and especially its language:" and "accent", nearly 90 words of text can not be viewed. 2. The e-dictionary can neither tolerate any spelling mistake nor even a wrong case. For example, the "Scottish, Sunday" are correct, but "scottish, sunday" cannot be found, and there isn't any hint for the word you are looking for. I belive that many readers of a dictionary are foreigners. They will often make spelling mistakes as well as use a wrong case! Most e-dictionaries on the market have such function to allow user to make mistake and rather than confuse the user by displaying a "No Result", they gave a list of words with similar spelling. And for wrong case, they just display the right word, not a "No Result". 3. QuickFind dosn't work in some web pages, so I have to copy the text and paste it into the input box of the dictionary. This is quite like a program bug. 4. Phonetic symbol cannot be viewed. If I don't want to install the sound file, as a non-English speaker, I won't be able to know how to read it. In my point of view, the Oxford Advanced Genie has a long way to go to be a good commercial software.
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