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- From: s8923098@macgraw.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Josef WIDJAJA)
- Subject: Re: Macquarie dictionary yay or nay ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.054613.8091@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
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- References: <1992Dec22.191123.15199@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:46:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.191123.15199@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> HCHA8904593X@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (PERRETT, ANDREW) writes:
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- |into seperate schools. In much the same way Zzzzz meaning the sound
- |someone makes when someone is sleeping to me does not show a bad
- |dictionary. Pretty reasonable sort of definition, i remember this word
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- I agree. A non-native English speaker who encounters Zzzz for the first
- time might have trouble figuring out what it means. In her native language
- it might bee Sssss or Shhhhh or something else.
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- In Japanese, the sound that an approaching train makes is Cho Cho..
- and in Malay it is Tut Tut..... Now if you are learning Malay, you
- would hope/expect the dictionary to help you with this word(?).
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- I do no wish to comment on how good the Macquarie is since I am from
- Macquarie myself and some people might question my objectivity.
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