I search for single words not in English almost every day, always with Google's Advanced Search, and Google is very useful for me.
E.g., earlier today I searched for " κρυπτός " and found this url in the first hit: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CF%81%CF%85%CF%80%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%82 This webpage in Wiktionary told me that my search word is an ancient Greek word meaning "hidden" or "secret" in modern English. This was not useless. I have also found what I needed to know sometimes by getting a hit on a webpage that is in French, Spanish, or some other language that I can read well enough to determine, e.g., the gender of the search word or its English meaning, when I could not quickly find such a page in English. Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elardus Engelbrecht" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 9:16:18 AM Subject: Re: Catalog system for Unix Was: Re: z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers My pet peeve is - when I search a word in a language, not English, then Google is useless. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
