Re: HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:23:02 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

In article
<d99b6905-8568-44d6-8930-73a3a86d7975@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, AEF
<spamsink2001@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Merriam Webster.

Why not?

What would you recommend?

Check again. Webster came up with a style of dictionary, and just
about all publishers use it.

On the cover page of the dictionary you can find out who actually
published it. They may not actually be Merriam Webster. And they
are responsible for the content.

Sometimes the publisher will include a discussion of what
self-proclaimed experts wrote the content. Sometimes they just hack
something togther that they can sell, and the content is amaizingly
poor.

I had a stunning example of that a few years ago with an English-German
dictionary. It was a recognised brand, but unlike any other English-
German (or German-English) dictionary I have come across, it completely
omitted the usual indications of which gender nouns take in German.

Fortunately the sales stuff understood why I wanted the gender
information and had no hesitation giving me a full refund.

And even M-W is wrong sometimes.

A decade or more ago I found so many errors in the online version of M-W
that I didn't trust it. That does seem to have improved since.

--
Paul Sture
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?
    ... What would you recommend? ... about all publishers use it. ... They may not actually be Merriam Webster. ... And even M-W is wrong sometimes. ...
    (comp.os.vms)
  • Re: Michael McCullum (Re: Novels that came from short stories)
    ... it in this interlocked worlkd. ... a good number of German Fantasy-writers forward, with bestselling sales sometimes, while before it has been a market dominated by anglophone authors. ... But the Fantasy-wave has helped to change the perception of publishers, especially as German authors are cheaper than translations. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
  • Re: HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?
    ... On 12/16/2011 11:02 PM, AEF wrote: ... about all publishers use it. ... They may not actually be Merriam Webster. ... Copyright infringement! ...
    (comp.os.vms)
  • Re: Techno Witches
    ... space-themed game when he showed around the prototype, but German ... publishers as a main source of inspiration for his game. ...
    (rec.games.board)