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Online Dictionaries

Still fumbling for the right
words? Or hopelessly
lost in translation?
Online dictionaries are the
way to go for the truly
tech-savvy.

Those were the good ol' days when writers and translators had whole bookshelves of heavy references when browsing for the perfect word or translation. In the past few years, however, growing technology and the rise of the Internet have posed a threat to the world of thick hardback books and libraries. Still, for many years online dictionary sources have been incomplete, inconsistent, and simply unfit to replace our giant copies of the Oxford English Dictionary. The Web was—and in large part still is—ridden with broken links and hopeless translations that present words out of context. Online translators, which held the hope of translating whole sentences rather than words, produced texts that were more humorous than useable.

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