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Video: Why electronic dictionaries are replacing conventional dictionaries
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The so-called language barrier, although not an insurmountable obstacle, can pretty much ruin your life. Even if a person does not work for a foreign company and does not live abroad, he still has to deal with documentation in other languages or face foreign languages in everyday life. Fortunately, with basic knowledge, or even no knowledge at all, dictionaries can be used.
Everyday life in a multilingual society
Everyday life dictates its own conditions, in which even an ordinary person has to deal with foreign languages almost every day. The presence of a global network has turned the physical boundaries between states into a kind of convention. Cultures penetrate one another and, solving everyday problems, for sure, anyone will have to face texts in other languages, the existence of which has never even been heard before.
Fortunately, with the help of a huge number of dictionaries, you can translate almost any text. Thanks to the efforts of linguists, dictionaries exist for most of today's living languages. But, for the most part, you will have to use electronic dictionaries, a huge number of which can be found here slovaronline.com. Traditional paper editions have not yet completely disappeared from circulation, but they are used very limitedly.
Electronic instead of paper
At one time, electronic dictionaries were a great exotic. It was the developing Internet culture and the integration of computer technology into various spheres of life that prompted their creation. When every day you have to deal with any texts in foreign languages in electronic form, it becomes extremely inconvenient to use paper dictionaries. Translating text from the screen using a paper book is an extremely tedious, long and very nervous task. Therefore, electronic dictionaries gained popularity very quickly.
As it turned out, you can find the meaning of a word in electronic form much faster than in a book. At first, there was a demand for software systems that could translate individual words and the entire text, and then online services appeared, offering multilingual translation. The ability to quickly copy and translate an unknown word from one language to another really liked all PC and global network users, and the translation of entire texts turned out to be a truly royal gift. Of course, there were some difficulties, for example, machine translation turned out to be only approximate - it is quite difficult to interpret the nuances of the language taking into account the context, even for a person. Nevertheless, the demand for language services was simply enormous. The global spread of the Internet and communication between representatives of different countries has made online translators perhaps the most popular type of services.
Extended functionality brings a significant share of the popularity of electronic translators. The growing computing power and efforts of developers of popular IT brands have opened up great prospects for all users. Now you can easily translate the contents of the browser window, even the text in the pictures the user will see in their native language. Mobile applications can boast even greater capabilities, which are capable of translating in real time everything that comes into the field of view of the camera, including inscriptions on signage labels, scoreboards and road signs.
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