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Interesting. We write technical reports for customers every 1-2 weeks, and since customers can have technologies ranging from the very ordinary to the quite uni
by lucb1e 5y ago
Interesting. We write technical reports for customers every 1-2 weeks, and since customers can have technologies ranging from the very ordinary to the quite unique, there are often a number of words not in the dictionary that everyone has to add to theirs (this does not include names/words invented by the customer themselves, of course those would not be in there). I've already put my dictionary in our git, but people would have to put their internal git credentials into customer VMs and then still manually pull to get my updates semi-live. A dictionary server would solve this, I had never even considered the concept might exist.
Someone linked dict.org below which searches a bunch of dictionaries. Rootkit is one of the words my default vim dict doesn't know, this website knows it! It pulls from the jargon file and has a good definition. Nice. But then the next attempt, versioning: nope.
Does anyone happen to know if there is a community-maintained dictionary somewhere? Surely I'm not the first person to run into this. It having a brand names section (e.g. GitHub not Github) and acronyms (e.g. DKIM) would be a big plus, as those together make up about 2/3rds of the entries of my current custom dict. (I'd share it here but it's made during work time so I don't hold the copyright thereto, although I assume if I ask $boss on Monday it would be fine to contribute this back to any open source dictionaries out there.)
Edit: I was looking at the sources of dict.org. This one is worth browsing through:
The Devil's Dictionary https://web.archive.org/web/20170121170915/http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Classic/devils.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20170121170915/http://wiretap.ar... (protip for looking up a specific word: search the page for the word plus a comma). Two favorites so far: "HATCHET, n. A young axe" and "EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me."
- sam_lowry_ 5y ago>Does anyone happen to know if there is a community-maintained dictionary somewhere? I remember seeing wikipedia being served over the dict protocol.
- lucb1e 5y agoThat would be quite useful as well, though again not without manual additions because not every word has a page (e.g. capacitances) and not every word on each page is spelled correctly (admittedly most are, but just two days ago I fixed a brand name capitalization typo). Perhaps with the addition of Wiktionary it would come a long way, though.
- hkt 5y ago>Does anyone happen to know if there is a community-maintained dictionary somewhere? I had the same question and saw KOReader[0] has the GNU dictionary [1] that is creative commons licensed. Oddly I don't think it is in git or accepting PRs or patches: they just say to email suggestions. As an aside, I've had trouble trying to find a capable, free, Linux system friendly English-Esperanto dictionary for ages. It seems weird that there isn't an open source translated dictionary umbrella project. [0] https://github.com/koreader/koreader https://github.com/koreader/koreader [1] https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/0 https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/0
- robryk 5y agoThe dictionary that dict.cc uses knows that versioning is a word, and has translations of it into other languages. I don't know what dictionary it is, nor if it contains definitions too.