On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 17:38 +1000, Klaas Visser wrote:
> On 07-Apr-07 10:05 (+1000 UTC), *Carl William Spitzer IV* posted:
>
> > Let me guess you want to translate English into Paul Hogan speak?
> > Isn't that a trifle colloquial for proper usage?
> >
> > Then again in California we could use a talking PDA to translate
> > American to illegal alien for use by restaurants and hotels. Because
> > those businesses are too cheap to hire citizens.
> >
> > You know if you could get a PDA powerful enough a talking translater
> > would enable travelers to avoid problems of mispronunciation.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > CWSIV
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:07 +0000, Kelvin Eldridge wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm the creator and maintainer of the Australian English dictionary files.
> >>
> >> For the next two weeks I will be collecting words for the next release of
> >> the
> >> dictionary files.
>
> Australian English has spelling similar to Great Britain - colour,
> honour, etc, and some usages that differ from American English (footpath
> instead of sidewalk, boot instead of trunk, etc).
>
> The tone of your reply seems to indicate that you don't think an
> Australian English dictionary would be useful - why not?
>
I was just teasing about the Paul hogan speak, see Crocodile Dundee
movies. As to the utility that depends on how different Australian
English is from British or American. I can see the minor spelling
issues and that should be no problem to merely extend a standard
dictionary to allow for it unless size of the files is an issue.
Otherwise have fun.
What I wish is that we had a good talking dictionary like the one by
American Heritage which I have in both Win16 and Win32. All thats
needed is a interface.
Find a way with that and have an Australian or better an unabridged
dictionary version running of HD or DVD and you would have a lot of
takers. Its not just OOo which needs a dictionary. Mail User agents
could use improvement.
Remember English is limited to a very small number of characters and
more importantly phonemes from which all 350k words are derived. Myself
I do not know where to start.
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