15 of 22 customers found the following review helpful:
 AWEASOME! But one or two drawbacks....., 2001-10-31
This thing is AWEASOME! I alwyas am in situations where people want to know how to define a word. This thing works PERFECTLY! It's also brand new so all the words I know are in it. Nothing is left out. It includes all of those dirty words for you people who have to have a dictionary w/them :-p. For it's size and content i rate this thing 4 stars. Unfortunetly it could do w/some color for you people who have to have Color in everything, like me. It also includes no pictures but thats ok. It loads a little slow like all cards you slip into the expansion slot but yoru talking maybe 5 seconds to open the dic. or thes. which isn't really a big deal. I highly recommend this thing, though if palm wanted it to get 5 stars, they have to work on color.
4 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Nice software, 2001-07-19
It works really well, but it would be much better if there was a way of jumping from Dictionary Entry to Thesaurus entry directly ... . This should be easy to fix in the next release. The other drawback is that the Dictionary loads slow. Once it is loaded the speed is acceptable ,but loading it into the memory takes a few sec.
12 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
Somewhat thorough, not fancy., 2001-07-18
There are a lot of words listed and it's a handy assortment. The definitions are short and to the point, with pronunciation and a few bits about the roots of the words. Most importantly it has dirty words. Dictionaries that lack dirty words are a pet peeve, pointing to a prudishness that likely affects the overall quality of the dictionary's editing: if they can't trust us to restrain ourselves from drooling and writhing over the excitement of reading poo-poo words, can we trust the editing in other matters?There are some helpful Appendices/Tables for general knowledge (Zodiac signs, metric system, Morse code, and about two dozen others) that can be handy for bar bets or if stranded on an island with a meter stick and an astrologer. The Thesaurus is similarly sleek in content. There aren't any cross-links between words that I could find, but that's a nicety, not a necessity. Overall I'm pleased with the purchase. Alas, there's no color, and no illustrations, so if you need to insult someone with: "In the dictionary next to 'stupid' there's a picture of you!" carry around a regular book to point at.
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