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Old 11-30-2011, 11:25 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1
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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:

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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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Old 12-04-2011, 10:02 PM   Top  -  End  -  #3
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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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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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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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Poor gwyn, never gets a break.
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