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2011-11-30, 11:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2009
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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
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2011-12-04, 09:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2011
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- The last place you look
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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 = ueAvatar by Venetian Mask. It's of an NPC from a campaign I may yet run (possibly in PbP) who became a favorite of mine while planning.
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2011-12-04, 10:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2006
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.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of the trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.
-Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
Fourth Doctor avatar courtesy of Szilard
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2011-12-04, 10:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2009
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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2011-12-04, 11:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2006
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- Das Kapital
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!"
My wit for the day, ruined!
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2011-12-05, 01:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone know where I can get some foreign word lists?