Dictionaries on line

[Alina Israeli]

>I never thought I would write this, but I wonder if we aren't being a bit
>unfair to poor old Miuller.  His dictionary was never intended to generate
>idiomatic English-Russian equivalents, but to enable Soviet citizens to
>read and understand those timeless classics of English-language literature
>that figured in the canon as defined for the Soviet Union of the 1950s or
>thereabouts.

Indeed. Compare it to the Oxford dictionary of some 25 years ago which
translated "shortage", I believe, as "nedoimki".

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Alina Israeli
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Washington DC 20016-8045                e-mail: aisrael at american.edu

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