>Dear List
>
>I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for good dictionaries or
>other sources for translating German texts, which can often have older
>forms of German words in them?
I do a LOT of translating from German, and I finally got so frustrated I
invested in the CONDENSED MURET-SANDERS GERMAN DICTIONARY, German-English
volume. As its title implies, this is a "reduced" version of the "real"
MURET-SANDERS which, like the "real" OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, runs
several volumes long. But for my purposes, this nearly 1,300 page, 140,000
word volume (with IPA!) does the trick 99.9% of the time. I think I paid
about $70 for it when I ordered it, at a small discount, from Amazon.com.
That, plus 501 GERMAN VERBS have made my life MUCH easier when I have to do
German translations to English. (I never translate in the other direction,
which is why I didn't bother with the English-German volume.)
I would suggest you get that volume, then also scour the used and
antiquarian book stores and sales for a reasonably-priced old
German-English dictionary, one that was published before the First World
War - ideally, it would be published in the mid-19th century, but I know
these can be much hard to find.
Karen Mercedes
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