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mrwarper
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 Message 25 of 198
06 January 2013 at 11:00pm | IP Logged 
Happy new year, good luck with the TAC :)

BAnna wrote:
Yes, I've also heard some of the Langenscheidt ones are good and some are bad. ... Do you know if it is language specific or the type of dictionary?

I have a rather thick one here, humorously titled 'Handwörterbuch' and weighting nearly 4 lbs. 600+ pages of German -> Spanish plus 600+ of Spanish -> German, with grammar references at the beginning of each section and claiming to be professional grade. So far it seems to be: lots of usual and unusual collocations per entry, apparently well sorted. It has helped me to find quite a few typos when translating from a German original, and the day I was in the mood to look up 'pimplar' (a rather quirky, somewhat dated synonym for 'drinking') it came up with 'picheln', which I was told by a native is exactly that: a rather quirky, somewhat dated synonym for 'drinking'.
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 Message 26 of 198
07 January 2013 at 1:44am | IP Logged 
やっとバースに着いた。
Endlich bin ich in Bath angekommen.

16時間かかったよ!
Die Reise hat 16 Stunden gedauert!

エディット: コレクトした。

Edited by stifa on 08 January 2013 at 4:20pm

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 Message 27 of 198
07 January 2013 at 1:57am | IP Logged 
Is that a journal entry? (Did you just travel 16 hours to get to Bath?)
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stifa
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 Message 28 of 198
07 January 2013 at 2:38am | IP Logged 
Yup... Started at 9 from home and arrived at half past midnight. :p (Then add an hour
because of time zone change.)

It's not really a log entry... It was just me expressing my relief after finally
reaching Bath.
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 Message 29 of 198
07 January 2013 at 4:22am | IP Logged 
My goodness...16 hours!
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Brun Ugle
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 Message 30 of 198
07 January 2013 at 8:08am | IP Logged 
What? Did you walk?! I can get to the US in that amount of time (if I'm lucky).


It's funny, but my eye is still drawn to Latin letters more than to Japanese, so I read the German for your entry first even though I don't study it.
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stifa
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 Message 31 of 198
07 January 2013 at 11:38am | IP Logged 
I live on the Norwegian countryside. After the three hours it took to get to Trondheim,
my travel consited of 2 flights, 2 bus rides, a train ride, and a bit of waiting here
and there. I think I could have optimised it to only take about 11-12 hours.

The flights are usually quite a minor part of getting from A to B, in terms of how much
time it takes.
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yuhakko
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 Message 32 of 198
07 January 2013 at 3:59pm | IP Logged 
16hours..?! This is waaay too long!
And just a small correction of your entry, which might be useful: it's not 16時 but 16時
間かかった :)


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