Re: Most obscure vocabulary award.

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:06:27 +0100, "Paul Blay"
<ask_me_or_get_spam_trapped@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted the following:

>But I'm starting to feel some sympathy for muchan's views on
>'core vocabulary'. You have the 20,000 "common words," a
>standard dictionary has around 60,000 and (depending on how
>you count them) Edict has well over 100,000.
>
>As such a marker for "obscure, technical and / or archaic"
>might be 'nice to have' but I'm not volunteering to check 114,000+
>records to classify them.

As I recall, EDICT is intended more for use as a J->E dictionary than
an E->J; if that is indeed true, I don't think any markers of that
sort are necessary unless they affect the sense of the word. A
dictionary whose main goal is to represent Japanese words in English
should put no limit or restrictions on entries (other than that they
appear somewhere in the real world).

-Chris
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