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This is going to sound like an odd question, but given your job, do you know a supplier of 'technical' dictionaries? You know the sort of thing I mean? It's just our company has just taken over a Swedish company, and we could really do with a Swedish/English dictionary with engineering terms in it...

Personally, no idea, but I'll ask one of our Swedish sub-contractors what they use and try and get back to you with the ISBN N°. etc. tomorrow.

That'd be excellent

**cough**

**dusts off old thread**

Sorry, took a while to get hold of our Swedish Translator...

The one she recommends is a two-volume affair...

ENGELSK_SVENSK teknisk ordbok - ISBN 9197137294 97.01
SVENSK_ENGELSK teknisk ordbok - ISBN 9197325600 98

Hope that helps

Good, that's the second time they've been rec'd,

Well, we do send a bit of work her way dealing with ALSTOM Transport TGVs, underground trains, trams, that sort of thing... so I thought she'd be roughly in the same field as you

Those dictionaries are bloody useful, you can tell her So know I'm pestering again...

any recommendations for German and Italian? Not your field again I know, but does anyone at your place recommend a good standard?

Same answer - I'll give our German and Italian translators a kick and ask them what they use

Don't kick 'em too hard- I want sensible answers out of them.

Guess you kicked 'em too hard.

Oops!

I'm getting old and senile and forgetting things - at least that's my excuse



Got one answer for the German...

Asked out in-house German transator and he sugggested Langenscheidt - who do a range of technical dicos for various domains...

Have a quick glance at
http://www.langenscheidt.de/english/products/fachverlag/index.html

As for the Italian, an e-mail is on its way to our pet Eye-tie as we speak...

Costly little books, aren't they?

How much? (I don't bother looking at prices when buying dictionaries - It's not my money )

Over a grand for the CD version. I do look at the prices, I can only sign for so much.

Yikes - that must be a collection of _all_ the dictionaries... Don't know how long this link'll last coz it's overtly commercial but since you posted I had a look around... have a look at this http://www.computeruniverse.net/products/e90100936/e_Fachwoerterbuch_English_Technik_angewandte_Wissenschaften.asp for just the "Dictionary of Technology and Applied Sciences" - maybe if you can find the one (or couple of) dictionary(ies) that cover what you want it might be cheaper

Oh, cheers. Maybe I wasn't looking properly .