Do you like dictionaries/thesauruses?

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I'm absolutely in love with dictionaries

thanks or the videos, but i cant watch them. youtube is banned over here :/

it might work, but it's quite iffy.
if Annepande can tell me the exact name of the video, than i can see it on this website called yasaktube. it's like youtube but sucks more. XD

The exact names are Mahsun Kırmızıgül: Dinle, and Tarkan: Dudu.
But they probably don't have the "translation" version of Dudu.
Anyway, both songs are great, even though I don't understand the lyrics. But have found translations on other websites.
Think I've come to like Turkish pop through those crazy interpretations.

Edit:
http://yasaktube.net/video+izle.php?tag ... 4AEpOvD1xA

http://yasaktube.net/video+izle.php?tag ... tJGJP50zNw

Anyway, I couldn't watch them at Yasaktube. Hope it works for you.

Edit again:
In fact, they had the interpretation version
http://yasaktube.net/video+izle.php?tag ... sW_fGHAsYQ

... and even the Kaj Voldum version of Dinle!!

(sorry for all my confused posting... )

haha, thanks. . i'll look at them
actually turkish rap is suprisingly good for well...rap. it just sounds better than english.

Indeed I do!

Yep, I love dictionairies, thesauruses, encyclopedias, atlases and books that cover certain areas of interest, like books about plants, birds and philosophy. Examples of the last three are for instance; 'Perennial plant' by Alan Bloom, the well known Petersons 'a field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe' and Bertrand Russells 'The history of western philosophy and it's.... '. Okay, B. Russell elaborates a tad more but these are examples of books that give one the necessairy info in a sort of straight to the point manner. Same with encyclopedias and that's a thing I like a lot.

I think I prefer my books above the internet even.

(maybe went a little off topic here but hey.... )

as a language teacher i use dictionaries all the time, my hands are so used to turning these pages.

my desktop has an english one (no, no mac but linux user)
with a thesaurus, i wish i could have one in my language and in french as well (maybe i can but never searched for it)

if i had more money, i'd put dictionaries in every place to have them close by any time i need it

for cool words, you need french, that's one of the most beautiful (but also most complicated) language there is.

this is an online dictionary i use quite often
http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/

(and ow, yeah, maybe you other dictionary lovers can share your dictionary links too?)

I like dictionaries more than thesauruses cos with dictionaries you get word origins plus you get some proper nouns that don't have any synonyms. Thesauruses are great if you're trying to do a crossword. I am useless at coming up with synonyms in my head.

I have always loved dictionaries. Also thesauruses, atlases, maps, and encyclopedias. When I was about 12, my mother bought a complete set of encyclopedias. I set out to read every one of them, starting with the beginning and working through. I still remember that the first entry in the first book, was Aachen, a town in Germany.

heya hartzofspace
(i've been in Aachen, very possible it was when I was about 12 )

Noone's mentioned the Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable? I've wasted many hours thumbing through this. Pretty much any old phrase or classical name you can think of will be explained in here, amazing book that's perfect for coffee tables, bathrooms and reference libraries. It's probably the best books ever for knowitalls, pedants and such started using it when I was trying to read James Joyce, gave up on Joyce and continued with the Dictionary.

this review from Amazon says it all