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Universal Free Dictionary
Zdenek Broz writes "The all free dictionaries project focuses on maintaining free dictionaries (now more than 90 with more than 3,300,000 translations). We are designing a new system which will unite them all into one universal dictionary for all languages. The universal dictionary will be soon available for free under GPL."
... a dictionary which will contain the word GPL
Klingon? Jive? 1337 5P34K? Pig Latin?
Great! Now I can add all of my typos and misspellings to the dictionary and the slashdot spelling weenies won't be able to say anything.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
support Klingon language? I never could understand it.Google has Klingon language but cant translate it.
All your noun are belong to us!
sigs, as if you care.
Esperanto - the language nobody speaks and nobody reads. What a great alternative to English!
And for a convenience, it will automatically correct your spelling as follows:
Idiot - noun
1 usually offensive : a person affected with idiocy
2 : a foolish or stupid person
3 : Luigi Dipthong, who insulted me deeply by saying that I had completely misdrawn the control unit of my favorite processor.
Yeah, yeah. Of course I have heard that before. On the other hand, I also keep correspondance with people from around the world, meet with local esperantists for coffee or dinner at least weekly, read magazines and books in esperanto, and listen to esperanto radio(music and talk shows) fairly often. So the several million speakers of esperanto and I tend to disagree with you. Your opinion, while I agree with your right to have it, is uninformed.
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... and it said, "Something that happens to most Japanese men before sex"?!?!
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Now, if I can just find someone to extract this stupid fish...
And if you have more than one car? Does it become char[n]?
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WET PANT
Clearly a left-over cue card from an x-rated movie that was filmed on the premises (and you missed it!)
"Okay baby.. you look so HOT, but you're having a little trouble remembering what to do. Don't worry, what I'm gonna do is hold up these signs, 'kay? First is 'FLIRTING EYES'.. then when sees you and walks over, it's 'INNOCENT GIRL'. Then he'll squeeze your tits, that's time for 'WET PANT'. Yah baby you don't have to remember a word of this, just watch the signs? Okay?"
...SCO sues the operators of GPL Dictionary for using words that were originally included in source code allegedly developed by SCO...
Ok, point conceded.
That does not make English better, only more popular. In comparison, was Bush a better candidate than McCain? No(far from it!), only better funded. I try to promote Esperanto because I believe in it's purpose- to be a politically neutral language that's easy to learn which can be used for a common language for the world. Esperanto is so easy, it takes very little time to learn. It doesn't stomp out the very valuable native cultures of the world, it co-exists with them. English is a stomper. Don't agree? What languages have been spoken here in the U.S.? German, Spanish, French, various Native American languages, Italian, and several others. English has stomped them all into oblivion, mainly because it's so damn hard to learn, by the time you learn it as your native language, your brain is fried toward learning another. That's not just here. How many languages does the average (UK) Englishman speak? One? Hmmm, am I detecting a pattern?
Even if you could force the rest of the world to learn English, you shouldn't. It's terribly destructive to culture. Ask a non-American where the most un-cultured country in the world is. Any non-American. Go ahead. I'll wait.
The proof is in the pudding. English is bad. It's hard to learn and destructive to culture. It sounds awful. Even Klingon sounds more beautiful. And this is a native English speaker saying this.
By the way, slashdot coders, your italics code seems broken.
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i think the idea is to consolodate those down into one so you can use one site as apposed to three or how ever many you happen to use
For crying out loud, the man gave you 3 direct links to dictionaries! : )
You can't take the sky from me...
Soon to be integrate with wearable PCs, then roam anywhere and have tiny headset translate what foreigners say to you. Speaker will talk back at them so they understand what you say as well!
I suggest you read Slashdot
Very interesting concept! Could it ever work for the variances in the thousands of human languages?
Funny story: My Iranian uncle (by marriage - not blood) had just immigrated to Canada, and was caught in a motor vehicle violation (running a stop sign) and repeatedly shouted at the police officer "I ate shit! I ate shit!", which is actually Persian slang for "Boy is my face red. I admit I made a mistake and I ask your forgiveness".
True story. I wish I could remember the Persian phrase right now...
(He got out of the ticket because the officer was laughing so hard)
One dictionary to rule them all!
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Why Q Entries in FAQ use Structured Differently English.
Are maintainers FAQ also architechts Backbone of English?
Am I Possible Detecting liability project here?
"Sometimes you've got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight" Bruce C0ckburn
While the show probably sucks, there's an ad running for a sitcom which has an American telling someone of Asian decent about their tattoo. He claims it says what most of those say, something about eternal love or peaceful waters. The Asian man responds and says, No. It means that in a relationship of 2 men who love each other, you are the one who plays the woman.
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