europidgin | Translation of the LFN dictionary.

• Autor: europidgin
• Tema: Translation of the LFN dictionary.
• Data: 2002-09-29 11:48
• Mesaje: 281 (presedente, seguente)

Sorry for writing in English, but I'm a bit bussy:-(

I think I have found an easy way to translate word lists into different languages. It's the system invented by Richard K. Harrison in his Universial Language Project.

Each language has a dictionary file where each entry has a hex-number, then it's very easy to combine two or more languages into dictionaries. It's also easy to format the dictionaries almost anyway we want. This can be done automatically by programs. (I can program such programs).

The dictionary files are of course in a standard format and have 1600 entries. The entries are grouped in several categories. The most easy way to create a new language file is to take an empty file and fill in each entry manually in a simple editor like Notepad etc.

The 1600 standard entries seem to be well selected. But for some reasons unknown to me some words, fx personal pronouns are missing. But it's easy to supply some few extra words. I think the most need is covered by the 1600 entries.

I have uploaded a zip-file, "ULDic.zip" to the files section in our groups Yahoo web page (not Geocity). It includes dictionary files for English, German, Dutch, and Italian as well as an empty file for new languages. There is also a small primitive dos program to combine lists. And lastly an introduction text file that explains the system in details.

First of all we need to make a LFN dic-file, then we can combine it with English, German, Dutch, and Italian. Next I think Spanish, Portuguese, and French would be the most needed. But any language would be useful.

Volunteers????

All my best.

Bjorn