Dictionaries

Dictionaries

My job requires me to use dictionaries a lot. My favorite
English-Indonesian and Indonesian-English dictionaries, by John
M. Echols and Hassan Shadily, are published by PT Gramedia. I
also use Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

I usually search for words while working with my word
processor and it is inefficient every time I have to open my
dictionary manually.

For my English dictionary I do not have any problems since I
have the CD-ROM version. I can easily find definitions of words
right at my finger tips. But for the English-Indonesian and
Indonesian-English dictionaries, I cannot find CD-ROM versions.

I hope PT Gramedia will publish CD-ROM versions of these
dictionaries. With the increased use of computers, I believe many
people require a CD-ROM dictionary to aid their work. Until now,
there is no English-Indonesian or Indonesian-English CD-ROM
dictionaries available.

Considering that PT Gramedia is the biggest publisher of books
and has PT Elexmedia Komputindo, which publish computer books,
computer magazines, electronic magazines in CD-ROM, as its sister
company, it is hoped that a CD-ROM version of English-Indonesian
and Indonesian-English dictionaries will be published soon.

ADRIANUS HIYUNG T.

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