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From: "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Aussie slang for Australian English spell check
dictionary
On Friday, January 19, 2007 1:25 AM [GMT+1=CET],
Kelvin Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
G'day,
Some people on the Firefox/Thunderbird lists have expressed an
interest in more Aussie slang being included in the Australian
English dictionary.
To get things started I have set up the following article.
http://justlocal.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/aussie-slang-dictionary-bonzer-idea/
If you would like to contribute Aussie slang words please feel free
to add a comment with the words.
If there is sufficient interest I will create a second version of the
Australian English dictionary for Firefox/Thunderbird users which
includes the contribute Aussie slang. (For OpenOffice.org users a
secondary dictionary will be created.)
Thanks,
Kelvin Eldridge
You might want to look at
http://goaustralia.about.com/cs/language/a/strinea.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/civics/globalcitizens/ozstrine.htm
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/aust-eng.html
and more ...
Or, as we pommie b******s say, am I teaching my grandmother to suck eggs?
Harold Fuchs
London, England
Hi Harold,
Very reasonable comment.
However (from my weak legal understanding) in Australia, if a person creates
a database of information by sweat of brow, that database is considered
copyright.
The people who create those sites put in consider work which I would like to
respect.
I try to avoid copyright issues and the best way to do that is with
appropriate source material.
The sites generally contain a few hundred words at best. Creating original
material without simply lifting the material should not be too hard and that
means the new work can be licensed LGPL for the benefit of everyone. (The
sites of course can be used to cross check words being submitted. The same
as one would use a dictionary to check a word.)
By the way I use the expression "to suck eggs", but interestingly I've not
used it in conjunction with my grandmother;-)
Hopefully this explains why I resort to doing things in such an absurd way.
Thanks for your feedback and listing the sites. The site information should
prove useful.
Kelvin Eldridge
OpenOffice.org Australian English dictionary creator/maintainer.
Also Australian English dictionary files for Firefox, Thunderbird and
SeaMonkey.
www.JustLocal.com.au (Links to dictionary file pages located at the bottom
of the page.)
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