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> What can I say other than I’ve got one and you haven’t?
I guess...
> Well I could say school dictionaries are abridged, your school bought
> cheap dictionaries etc.
Well it was big enough. If you had hit somebody over the head with it,
they would probably have a concussion.
> The dictionary on the Sony is not a freebie it is licenced by the OED
> and if you were to buy it, it would cost you money.
So how come it doesn't cost you money then?
> BTW "indefatigable" is in this dictionary.
How about "frobnicate"?
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On 18/01/2011 9:41 AM, andrel wrote:
> advantage to who? (or is that whom, one of the finer details that is
> lost on me).
Use he/him to decide who/whom, correctness.
So as "advantage to he" sounds wrong it must be "advantage to whom".
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Regards
Stephen
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On 18/01/2011 10:33 AM, scott wrote:
> That's called a concise or shorter dictionary, the majority of words
> have been deleted out so it can fit in one book. This is a proper
> dictionary:
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-English-Dictionary-second-Volumes/dp/0198611862
> I'm sure the Kindle can easily hold a 20-volume
> dictionary, and I guess amazon can easily sort out a deal with a
> supplier for it.
Then again, the dictionary you linked to costs almost £700. That's
multiple times the cost of a Kindle. What in the name of God makes you
think that they would give this kind of thing away for free?
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On 18-1-2011 11:36, Stephen wrote:
> On 18/01/2011 9:41 AM, andrel wrote:
>> advantage to who? (or is that whom, one of the finer details that is
>> lost on me).
>
> Use he/him to decide who/whom, correctness.
>
> So as "advantage to he" sounds wrong it must be "advantage to whom".
>
Thanks, that should be easy to remember.
I have the feeling that I do not see that often people using whom, is
that so or is that because I mainly talk to people for whom it is a
second language?
Was it the not the nine o'clock news where they had a sketch about a
student handing in the same paper over and over that turned out to be
about who/whom? It must be on youtube, but how to find it?
And the sketch about 2 pilots that crashed in Antarctica and one ate the
other. The final defence (after some lame excuses about penguins) when
interrogated for murder was that the guy wanted it that way and not the
other way around, because he was a vegetarian. (though this could very
well be fry and laurie)
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On 18/01/2011 10:34 AM, Invisible wrote:
>> What can I say other than I’ve got one and you haven’t?
>
> I guess...
>
>> Well I could say school dictionaries are abridged, your school bought
>> cheap dictionaries etc.
>
> Well it was big enough. If you had hit somebody over the head with it,
> they would probably have a concussion.
>
That explains a lot. :-P
>> The dictionary on the Sony is not a freebie it is licenced by the OED
>> and if you were to buy it, it would cost you money.
>
> So how come it doesn't cost you money then?
It did but included in the price of the e-reader.
>
>> BTW "indefatigable" is in this dictionary.
>
> How about "frobnicate"?
No, neither is pockle.
"Frobnicate" is, I believe, Jargon
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Regards
Stephen
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On 18/01/2011 3:47 AM, Neeum Zawan wrote:
> Somehow I doubt Gutenberg will have their favorite authors.
Why not? A lot of my wife's favorite authors are in Gutenberg.
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Stephen
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> Then again, the dictionary you linked to costs almost £700.
A lot of that is probably just the manufacturing cost.
> That's
> multiple times the cost of a Kindle. What in the name of God makes you
> think that they would give this kind of thing away for free?
Who said anything about giving it away for free? Amazon probably gives
2 pounds or something to the dictionary publisher for each Kindle sale.
The dictionary publisher is happy because they are getting loads of
extra money for basically doing nothing (beyond preparing the data for
the Kindle).
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> Use he/him to decide who/whom, correctness.
Is it valid to use I/me to decide "x and I"/"x and me" correctness? If
so, I see a lot of people getting it wrong - eg "Me and John will be
coming tomorrow" or "It will be John and I coming tomorrow"
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>>> The dictionary on the Sony is not a freebie it is licenced by the OED
>>> and if you were to buy it, it would cost you money.
>>
>> So how come it doesn't cost you money then?
>
> It did but included in the price of the e-reader.
Except that a dictionary is more expensive than an e-reader...
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> I have the feeling that I do not see that often people using whom, is
> that so or is that because I mainly talk to people for whom it is a
> second language?
IME those with English as a second language would be more likely to know
when to use who/whom than native speakers :-)
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