[WikiEN-l] Re: Writing with our readers in mind

[SJ]

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 at 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.