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Originally Posted by HarryT
Which just goes to show that there's no such thing as a device which is best for everybody  . It's great that we have a choice.
I do maintain that the Sony's dictionary isn't as good as the Kindle, when it comes to looking up basic inflections. Eg, the first word I tried to look up, when I got my 350, happened to be the word "Published", and I was disappointed that the Sony said that it wasn't found. Of course, "Publish" is in the dictionary, but it really should be able to find such a common inflection as "Published", I think. |
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Originally Posted by vxf
My PRS950 also displays weird dictionary behavior. Occasionally, it will just fail to find words - and I am not sure it has anything to do with 'flexing'. It just seems bugged to me. The other night, neither of the two english dictionaries would find the word 'apple' (I tapped on it by mistake and was surprised it was not there...). I rebooted and now it was there. I think there are bugs with the dictionary.
But that the kindle have a dictionary search log? I just love that feature in the SONYs, as I can go back and review the 'difficult words' I looked up. English is not my mother-tongue, so I like to keep learning...
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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
I've been impressed with the Oxford English dictionary on the Sony as well. I looked up an odd flexed version of an antiquated term, and it found it no problem.
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Originally Posted by delphin
I noticed that the Sony did not seem to handle suffixed forms very well, until I switched from the "New Oxford American" to the "Oxford Dictionary of English".
The first option was only so-so, but the second "Oxford Dictionary of English" is much better, and not only handles modified forms of words better, but also manages to find UK spellings, plus lots of amazingly obscure words not included in the Americanized version.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Well, as I said, it seems not to know the word "published", which disappointed me.
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Originally Posted by Billi
Poppi, it is great for us Germans to have a very good English-German dictionary on the Sony but I can't see how this is relevant here.
Do you want to suggest that a native English speaker who doesn't find a word in a monolingual English dictionary shall look it up in an English-German dictionary?
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No, I just said it is the dictionary that is not working properly because Harry said he does not like the dictionary of the
Sony but prefers the one on his Kindle.
As someone said here it is possible it is not working properly because of a glitch, this is just not true. The Oxford simply can not find this word.
I just can't see how it is irrelevant when I say there is another one that works when others have done so before, without being asked why they do it and without being told it is irrelevant. I would appreciate it, if you tell me why you say so to me, as I have not suggested he should use it.