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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think you're being a little pessimistic in describing it as "devastating", at least for dictionaries in Ey nglish. English is a language with relatively little inflection, hence a simple lookup works pretty well. Eg, with the sample dictionary supplied with the Gen3 (which only contains the letter "L"), a lookup of "living" and "lived" both found "live" as the correct dictionary entry.
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This is why I made the proviso that depending on the quality of the dictionary some non-standard words are supported. Nevertheless, even in the dictionary your refer to I didn't find an entry for the lookup of "limbs" and "laboriously". However there was an entry for "lurched" and "lower".
Maybe the word "devastating" is too strong in the abstract; but it holds for me. I like to read books in Italian which I have learned rather late in life; thus my vocabulary is pretty shaky and I have to use the dictionary constantly. The Italian language has at least as many inflections as the German. In addition it allows under certain circumstances to add pronouns at the end of a verb. For instance, you may come across a word like "daglielo", which means "give it to him". To arrive at this translation through a look-up is quite a job.
Therefore, willy-nilly, I have to go back to my old Cybook where I can fiddle around with the stylus.