This post made me very happy :-) Thank you for sharing, Haukur. It's hard for me to imagine a car with a mouse tail...
SJ
On 7/12/05, Haukur Þorgeirsson haukurth@hi.is wrote:
Starting from when I was a small child reading them on the living room floor, I've never fully grasped the reasons why an encyclopedia was not just a superset of the dictionary.
Me too :) But I think I have a better idea now.
An encyclopedia shouldn't be too language-specific. An ideal English encyclopedia and an ideal Icelandic encyclopedia could have approximately a one-to-one correspondance between articles. This would not at all be the case with an ideal pair of dictionaries.