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For those who want to know why this is important, check out this blog post: https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary For those w
by cosmojg 5y ago
For those who want to know why this is important, check out this blog post: https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
For those who want to give it a try on other operating systems, check out this website: https://www.websters1913.com/ https://www.websters1913.com/
- exitb 5y agoThat was quite informative, although to me, as a non-native English speaker, the basic descriptions are often more useful. It seems to make sense for the definition to be written in simpler terms then the term it defines. But I can see the appeal for someone looking to make their use of language less blunt.
- mckeed 5y agoThe most useful part in my opinion is the discussion of how the word differs from synonyms. That should be a much bigger emphasis in modern dictionaries and thesauruses. Unfortunately many definitions from 1913 are already becoming out-of-date.
- phantomathkg 5y agoI think a similar take was taken by the Japanese dictionary, Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Meikai_kokugo_jiten https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Meikai_kokugo_jiten
- kragen 5y agoProbably worth pointing out that dict, dictd, and web1913 have been included with Debian since last millennium. (The dict markup shows in the screenshot on https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary; dict and vh are the things that use {} to delimit references to other entries. Even the line breaks are preserved.) They don't have the nice CSS tho.
- kragen 5y agoFWIW the relevant Debian or Ubuntu package is dict-gcide these days, no longer dict-web1913.
- mistrial9 5y agodebian's adherence to ASCII-like typography probably killed a lot of information though
- dredmorbius 5y agoHowso?
- kragen 5y agoIt's hard to tell where the paragraph breaks are.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThis is specifically in the dict datasets themselves? Or a more general criticism of Debian's documentation philosophy?
- kragen 5y agoNo, no, the dict datasets themselves. Nothing to do with Debian, except that Debian includes them.