RE: OED

  • From: J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:56:57 -0800 (PST)

--- On Mon, 2/13/12, Michael Norman <michael.norman@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> V4 gives you the 7,000 words they added since
> 1.1, but, as Robert
> points out somewhere, 1.1 is the core of the dictionary. I
> don't want to get
> into an argument on lexicostatistic provenance or supremacy.
> Old, indeed, is
> sometimes better 



Michael,

I was not referring to content -- the most important part of 
which I understood to be rather static between versions -- 
but only to the software / hardware usability issues.  With 
different later versions, there were things they required or 
forbade the user from doing, impediments introduced (mainly 
of the copy protection variety), etc.  I was looking to keep 
all that to the bare minimum, with whatever version I got. 
The older versions seemed to turn up for sale very rarely, 
at least at any of the places I kept looking.


  Jordan


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