I'm really not sure why that happened. From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: define difficult Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:41:11 -0800 Interesting. Didn't know about that trick. It wasn't particularly easier for me, as I wasn't in my browser, had to launch it, then type google.com into the address bar, then hear Jaws say I was in the search term field, then type in the things I had to type in. But no big deal. As far as the results go, not bad, and, as I said, a nice trick to learn about. To be honest, I prefer to go to either dictionary.com or Webster's, which just suit my taste better, as I'm accustomed to a lifetime of using regular print dictionaries until I couldn't read print anymore, and thus having a feel for where each dictionary I used was coming from in terms of taste and orientation. I sort of like dictionary.com because it gives me a little smorgasbord of the dictionaries I already know from before, and that's handy. One glitch I can't understand, Blake: I've never used the L command to get to the search results in Google, but since you suggested it, I tried it instead of my usual way of doing a page down and arrowing a couple of lines to get to the first hitt. Well, all I got was a report from Jaws saying "no more lists" and throwing me to the top of the page. I'm using Jaws 7. Could this matter? The L works for me in other situations, often enough. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blake Sinnett" <frequency660@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 7:25 PM Subject: Re: define difficult Or, if you wanted to get a definition even quicker, go to google, and type in the search box: define:difficult Then, press enter. Once the page has loaded, just hit l to jump to the list of definitions. Quite cool. From: "alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: define difficult Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:18:13 -0600 Yardbird: This is really cool. Thanks for sharing this with us. I will be using this allot in the future for looking up words I come across in my college textbooks. Alicia "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of >seeing people towards them." >- Helen Keller, 1925 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:02 PM Subject: Fw: define difficult >Here's an example. I created a new message to wsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, and in >the subject line, typed only >define difficult > >And sent it off. Here's the reply: > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Wordsmith" <wsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:16 PM >Subject: define difficult > > >2 definitions found > >From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: > > Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t. > To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W. > Temple. > >From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: > > Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, a. [From {Difficulty}.] > 1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended > with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. > > Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental > effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to > be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the > agent; as, a difficult task; hard work is not always > difficult work; a difficult operation in surgery; a > difficult passage in an author. > > There is not the strength or courage left me to > venture into the wide, strange, and difficult > world, alone. --Hawthorne. > > 2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; > austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person. > > Syn: Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious; > unaccommodating; troublesome. See {Arduous}. > >........................................................................... >If you like words, you'd enjoy this just-released book by Anu Garg, >the founder of Wordsmith.org: Another Word A Day, ISBN 0471718459 >Find it in your local bookstore or online: >http://amazon.com/o/asin/0471718459/ws00-20>The New York Times called his first book "A delightful, quirky collection."
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