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So how do you approach it in terms of dictionary use? Legolas Send a noteboard - 12/04/2015 01:01:44 PM

View original postIt's not something to be read quickly, especially when there are thousands of hapax legomena words, thousands of alternate spellings and thousands of archaic expressions.

Every once in a while I'm tempted to start some ambitious endeavour of that kind, usually in Arabic - but having to look up several words per sentence slows the pace down so much that I never get anywhere. How do you do it, do you look up everything you don't get, or only the ones that seem important?
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