January 05, 2005

Just what I need

ECTACO Latin bidirectional talking dictionary

This talking English-English dictionary is built on the latest text-to-speech technology to give you advanced English speech synthesis and a dictionary with over 450,000 entries, which makes it a great learning tool and an extensive multipurpose linguistic resource.

Or maybe not. Not only is it pretty darn expensive, at $150, but I'm deeply suspicious of its 450,000 entries. The Oxford Latin Dictionary, a monstrous compendium of 2100 pages weighing in at eight and a half pounds only claims 40,000 words. To get up to ten times that number, they must be doing something stupid like counting each form as an "entry."

Posted by joshua at January 5, 2005 07:43 PM
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