Poll: How many dictionaries do you use on a regular basis? Autor de la hebra: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Agneta Pallinder 
Reino Unido
Local time: 05:49
Miembro 2014
sueco al inglés
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| None or lots | Jun 25, 2018 |
None - if you mean printed dictionaries.
Lots of different specialist or generalist online ones.
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It depends on what is meant by regular: sometimes weeks go by without me touching any of them. My Phrasal Verbs Dictionaries (PT-PT) are probably the ones I use most. As EU-related texts are the bulk of my work, my regular ports of call are Eur-Lex, IATE and the Interinstitutional Style Guide.
| | | | Debora d'Amato (X)
Italia
Local time: 06:49
inglés al italiano
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If you mean online dictionaries, even 3/4, that I guess it's not a high number.
Anyway, I have a favourite one, the one I consider the best for my translations but you never know, I mean, better consulting to one more than referring to only one.
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I have an online pack with at least five, and another handful in another pack as a backup.
Then I have a whole bookcase full of dictionaries etc. with one shelf of works I consult frequently, if not what you call regularly. It depends on the subject area.
Style guides, background reference, lists of abbreviations and acronyms, handbooks for context - I don't know if they count, but I spend a lot of time looking up what I need to know.
Much of it is online, ... See more I have an online pack with at least five, and another handful in another pack as a backup.
Then I have a whole bookcase full of dictionaries etc. with one shelf of works I consult frequently, if not what you call regularly. It depends on the subject area.
Style guides, background reference, lists of abbreviations and acronyms, handbooks for context - I don't know if they count, but I spend a lot of time looking up what I need to know.
Much of it is online, but the printed sources are sometimes just as quick, because I know precisely where to look, and they are RELIABLE! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brasil
Local time: 02:49
Miembro 2014
inglés al portugués
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| Zero to several | Jun 25, 2018 |
Paper dictionaries: Zero
Online dictionaries: quite a few
| | | | Yaotl Altan
México
Local time: 23:49
Miembro 2006
inglés al español
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1.- Diccionario Politécnico de las Lenguas Española e Inglesa, F. Beigbeder Atienza, Díaz de Santos.
2.- Dictionnaire technique, H. Mink, Herder
3.- Diccionario crítico de dudas inglés-español de medicina, Fernando Navarro,
4.- Technisches Fachwörterbuch, H. Mink, Herder, Mc-Graw-Hill
5.- The Macmillan Visual dictionary: multilingual edition, Jean-Claude Corbell and Ariane Archambault, Éditions Québec.
Paper dictionaries all of them.
[Edite... See more 1.- Diccionario Politécnico de las Lenguas Española e Inglesa, F. Beigbeder Atienza, Díaz de Santos.
2.- Dictionnaire technique, H. Mink, Herder
3.- Diccionario crítico de dudas inglés-español de medicina, Fernando Navarro,
4.- Technisches Fachwörterbuch, H. Mink, Herder, Mc-Graw-Hill
5.- The Macmillan Visual dictionary: multilingual edition, Jean-Claude Corbell and Ariane Archambault, Éditions Québec.
Paper dictionaries all of them.
[Edited at 2018-06-25 16:38 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Dictionary Usage? | Jun 26, 2018 |
I used to use lots many years ago. These days, however, the majority of my work is repetitious. Different projects, the same terminology. As such, I tend to spend more time crafting my prose than searching out new terms. That being said, I still love thumbing through dictionaries in my spare time.
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My office is lined with shelves of reference books. The ones I have kept are typically better than what I can find online, though I use online dictionaries as well.
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