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Okay, I have dictionaries too, for the meticulous cobbling of that with which I am not completely fluent. I was raised in the pre-BabelFish era of humanity, and some of the obscure things I've been trying to look up lately don't even translate atall without a lot of detective work. Past life names and such, for myself and others....one never quite knows what languages they may turn up in (Arabic, Turkish, Ancient Egyptian, Latin, really old Gaelic, Tolkienian Elven...), or whether a term will be mentally rendered in one's native tongue. So, helps to have basic tools to work with as many as possible...
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Date: 2007-01-06 12:33 pm (UTC)Okay, I have dictionaries too, for the meticulous cobbling of that with which I am not completely fluent. I was raised in the pre-BabelFish era of humanity, and some of the obscure things I've been trying to look up lately don't even translate atall without a lot of detective work. Past life names and such, for myself and others....one never quite knows what languages they may turn up in (Arabic, Turkish, Ancient Egyptian, Latin, really old Gaelic, Tolkienian Elven...), or whether a term will be mentally rendered in one's native tongue. So, helps to have basic tools to work with as many as possible...