computerised Russian-English dictionaries

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Colleagues:

Please take a look at the fabulous Multilex Apresian Russian-
English dictionary available online at.

http://www.medialingua.ru/english/russian/MultilexOnline/MOLFrame
s.htm

It is far and away the finest and richest Russian-English dictionary
available online. And it is available for free. If only there were a
companion English-Russian dictionary in the series. But there isn't.
And there is no point in downloading the dictionary. It is merely a
demo and will only work with the first two letters of the alphabet.

If you forget or misplace the address, you can always find it on my
SRIndex. The address is at the bottom of my signature.

Yours,

Benjamin


On 22 Sep 98, at 19:39, George Fowler wrote:

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Greetings!

>Disppointingly, the Oxford Russian Dictionary on CD-ROM seems not to be
>available yet.

It's out; at least, my colleague Howard Keller has it, and I've seen it
demonstrated. It's really pretty good, even though it runs only on the
Windows platform... :-(((

There is a dictionary called Context from Smart Link Corp
(www.smartlinkcorp.com) which runs on both platforms, and has
numerous
specialized dictionaries. The main dictionary program is reasonably
priced
($125), but add-on dictionaries are ridiculous, e.g., $50 for 10K of
religious terms. I have seen this in use, and the user professed
satisfaction. I have seen, but not used personally, one other
bilingual
dictionary for Macintosh, but cannot recall its name or manufacturer.
Perhaps someone else can help. I daresay there are probably other
Windows
products as well.

George Fowler

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