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Like the concept as I am actively learning Dutch right now but I find it hard to copy a word without accidentally clicking on the sentence to play it out. I wa
by umarniz 8y ago
Like the concept as I am actively learning Dutch right now but I find it hard to copy a word without accidentally clicking on the sentence to play it out.
I want to copy words to keep my own word list and to translate the word.
- mettamage 8y agoI looked at Robinson Crusoe, the Dutch looks really old. Spelling is incorrect (according to modern standards), you'll talk a bit like a Dutch Shakespeare if you'll learn it this way.
- petecox 8y agoWell as someone else commented, the source material is likely from Project Gutenberg, so a long out of copyright translation is perhaps expected. On the other hand, Cervantes and Shakespeare were contemporaries, so I think it enhances reading Don Quixote for the translation to use early modern English - e.g. "Idle reader: thou mayest believe me without any oath".
- tyingq 8y agoYeah...binding double-click to select the word only would be a good improvement.
- posterboy 8y agoDon't fiddel with text selection, at all. The use case here might be exceptional, in contrast to contextual ad overlays.