Re: TODO draft for round-2 "Wordlist"

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Ahmad Al-rasheedan <asr at baldi dot cc> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2003 00:45, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > The above words can be translated without a dictionary even.  Most are
> > even listed as legal words in most spell checkers (aspell/ispell).
> > A case in point "Marketwise" - well that is someone that is shrewd in
> > his business and/or in dealing with people, etc.  Not sure what to tell
> > ya about how to proceed, but those words listed above a legal - most
> > users would deem it as such.
> >
> 
> Nadim, we all know that. But there _isn't_ a reliable English reference
> _known_ to us vouched for the above words in the format they are 
> in...including your "Marketwise" :))

Well if the meaning is known to us then we should translate it based on
this knowledge - if it were an exotic word that I haven't heard of before
and didn't know the meaning to, then I'd look it up in a dictionary :-)

 - Nadim

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