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    Barbarian in the Playground
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    Default Anyone know where I can get some foreign word lists?

    At the moment I'm working on a word game project for class, and due to the way my architecture is structured it is actually possible for me to make the game multilingual - which is a really cool element I would love to implement. Right now the program is reading the dictionary from a .txt file which has a list of English scrabble words, and all I really need to do to change it to another language is to point it to a different dictionary .txt.

    Problem is, I can't find any other dictionaries. Not free ones, anyway. Pretty much every non-English one I find either requires a license fee to use or demands that I make my game's code open source, which is impossible for me because I'm using the school's game engine. So... anyone know where I could get one of these? It would have to be a language that doesn't require any extra characters(so French and Spanish are okay since I can ignore the diacritical marks, but German is out since I don't have any ßs).

    Does anyone know where I can get one of these? The format of the word list is simple, and the English one just reads like this:

    aah
    aahed
    aahing
    aahs
    aal
    aalii
    aaliis
    aals
    aardvark
    etc.

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    Default Re: Anyone know where I can get some foreign word lists?

    No help finding it, but for German if you don't have extra characters,
    ß = ss
    ä = ae
    ö = oe
    ü = ue
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    Default Re: Anyone know where I can get some foreign word lists?

    Here is a latin one. It's the "Or download the entire Latin dictionary as a file (Zipped text file)" line. Just need to rename it from .raw to .txt for some reason.
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    Default Re: Anyone know where I can get some foreign word lists?

    Well, at least, it should work with other languages that use what English considers "letters" and "spelling". And, to be fair, that's really a lot of languages!

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    I really wish I knew where to find those sorts of things, man. I'll be watching this thread for resources.

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    Default Re: Anyone know where I can get some foreign word lists?

    I thought it just said "Anyone know where I can get some foreign words?"
    And I was about to answer "Well, a foreign language would be a great place to start!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll View Post
    I thought it just said "Anyone know where I can get some foreign words?"
    And I was about to answer "Well, a foreign language would be a great place to start!"
    My wit for the day, ruined!
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