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Originally Posted by lucretius
I liked the possibility to have a setting within Marvin without affecting the whole system.
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I would have liked that possibility, too, because it's, in fact, the only reasonable way for the offline dictionary to work. But no matter what I tried, the dictionary never worked as intended. The blame lies squarely at Apple's door. They do not make it possible to switch the dictionary language transparently on-the-fly (see the Kindle app!), although this should be elementary. The iOS offline dictionary is built on the silly assumption that all iPad users are strictly mono-lingual and only ever read texts in their single, native language.
Also, as a native speaker of German, you may have noticed the extremely bad quality of iOS's German dictionary. It fails to identify even some of the most basic words of the German vocabulary, if they happen to occur in a text in an inflected form, which they do most of the time, naturally. Given such abysmal lack of quality, the current solution made possible in Marvin 1.5 -- the option to use, for example, the standard Duden German dictionary as your default -- is superior over what iOS has to offer in this department. I believe it's irrelevant that the Duden is not an "offline dictionary"; the iPad is pretty much an "Internet-dependent" device, anyway.