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#199116 - 04/14/11 08:57 AM Linguistic therapy
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#199123 - 04/14/11 11:10 AM Re: Linguistic therapy [Re: Candy]
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Loc: Land of the Flat Water Those little grammar things can really gnaw at a person._________________________
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#199127 - 04/14/11 04:08 PM Re: Linguistic therapy [Re: Candy]
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Loc: Oregon For some people the dictionary is a remedy for insomnia. For others...it's a page turner.
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#199129 - 04/14/11 06:54 PM Re: Linguistic therapy [Re: obihave]
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Loc: Land of the Flat Water Just a reference for me......or a door stop._________________________
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#199132 - 04/14/11 08:39 PM Re: Linguistic therapy [Re: obihave]
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Registered: 12/18/06
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Loc: Auckland, New Zealand For others...it's a page turner.
And for others its a click.
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#199134 - 04/14/11 08:53 PM Re: Linguistic therapy [Re: olly]
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Loc: Land of the Flat Water I'll stick with page turner......._________________________
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#199147 - 04/15/11 07:11 AM Re: Linguistic therapy [Re: Candy]
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Posts: 13667 Back when I was a kid, you put me down with a dictionary and I'd have forgotten the word I was looking up by the time I'd made it through the dozen byways I'd gotten off on before finding the word I was looking for.
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#199148 - 04/15/11 07:31 AM Re: Linguistic therapy [Re: Faldage]
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Posts: 724 I have individual relationships with my various dictionaries. A Marathi to English - I hate - it never helps. So many words I have not found in it. A big urdu(nastaliq) to English I like but it is an effort since my nastaliq is not too good and the dictionary is huge. I have a teeny tiny Urdu (devanagri) to English which I love! It never fails me. It seems written for poetry. Any difficult urdu word in a poem I will find in this dictionary even though it is just 3"x 3". My English-sanksrit is like a wise old man. It is there for me when I need it, which is not that often.
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#199165 - 04/15/11 11:13 AM Re: Linguistic therapy [Re: Avy]
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Loc: Land of the Flat Water I really envy you that many languages. It has to be so
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#199167 - 04/15/11 11:21 AM Re: Linguistic therapy [Re: Avy]
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Loc: this too shall pass one problem I have with researching obscure words is that I have just too many dictionaries to search through in attempting to find them - and too often none of them are helpful. (this situation often leads directly to one of my "mystery word" posts.)
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