May 12, 2006 Archives

Fri May 12 10:22:54 NZST 2006

Online translation/dictionaries

I really like being able to find words/phrases in foreign languages when talking to people, and it's getting easier every day with the Internet's resources.

Here's a decent Thai dictionary … the entry for spam

The ngata dictionary for Maori is pretty good too … although it doesn't seem to have quite as much slang in it.

Freedict covers Latin and a few others, but it doesn't seem to be a very in-depth treatment, unfortunately.

And for English itself, we have the excellent Wordnet – which is often seen in Google search results, and is available as a local application for most OSs as well as an online resource. Go meronym, go hypernym, holonym and gloss :-)


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