That should be beyond the capacity of a dictionary. Suppose a person who does not know grammer or some idiomatic expression, a dictionary alone does not help. Taking the analogy that Bill Harris suggested, for the sentence,
Ich weiss nicht wo ich den Stock gelassen habe; haben Sie ihn nicht gesehen? Anyone who did not speak or understand German, after searching for each word separately in a dictionary, would produce the following farrago of nonsense: I ; white; not; where; I; - ; stick; dispassionate; property; to have; she, they, you; - ; not; - ? sab, 30 Jan 2010, Don Guinn skribis: > I was thinking more of a manual process, being constructed as people attempt > to find something using some keyword or phrase to find something in J. > Automated processes have a hard time figuring out or second guessing what a > person is looking for. In my example there are probably other tools in J > that could relate to indexing. But maybe this list below is a little too > much. I don't know. But I found the difficult way to search for something on > the tip of my tongue but wouldn't come out. > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:35 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > [---=| TOFU protection by t-prot: 27 lines snipped |=---] -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
