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Hindienglish English Hindi Dictionary
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Product Description
Hindi is the most widely-spoken language in the Republic of India, and Hindi speakers can also be found in Mauritius, Fiji and Trinidad. This Hindi dictionary features over 30,000 entries, with a guide to transliteration for students or travellers to any of these regions.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #965938 in Books
- Published on: 1990-12-31
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 762 pages
Customer Reviews
Poorly organized, poor quality, and racist.
Aside from the poor production quality of this dictionary, organization makes translation of text from english to hindi, and vice versa, particularly frustrating. The section breaks occur at random intervals, requiring tabbing the sections manually, and the english to hindi does not give romanized characters. Only fans of cryptology will enjoy this text.
Inexplicably, the editors deemed it important to include the word "nigger" among the english words selected, and to provide a phonetic pronunciation for hindi speakers. Further, they define "nigger" as "A Negro." with no explication of the patent offensiveness of the term itself or the definitional analog they've provided. The only racial terms in the english section are "Negro", "Negress", and "nigger", as if to drive home some point.
Shame on the editors and the publisher. Hippocrene was founded by a survivor of the Holocaust. They should do better than to allow racial hatred to be peddled in this sub-par text.
Naturally I have returned the text, WITH my comments.
Romanized edition is the key
The Romanized edition is the key to this dictionary. I do not have any help from anyone to learn this language, so the Romanized edition helps when you are not sure of the correct script. There could have been more words. All in all it is pretty good.
not a very comprehensive dictionary
Like many Hippocrine dictionaries, the number of words entered is few. I bought this dictionary for a friend because it has romanized spelling, but I found out that even that is not useful, because the english to hindi does not give romanized characters. So, I am returning it.
There are many other much better dictionaries on the market.
