Re: Most obscure vocabulary award.
- From: jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:44:39 GMT
Chris Kern <chriskern99@xxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>As I recall, EDICT is intended more for use as a J->E dictionary than
>an E->J;
Yes.
>if that is indeed true,
It is. It is. I tell you three times.
>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).
Well, I think it is useful to know whether a word is common or not.
Also, EDICT, etc. is being used as source material in a lot of applications
so a marking that indicates the "commonness" of words is useful.
I quite agree with the "should put no limit or restrictions on entries",
with one caveat. When people use the file in a EJ direction, which
the do all the time, the more Japanese words there are, the more
chance they'll pick a really obscure one. I have been known to use
it an an EJ sense myself, and I filter on the (P). That's why I
put that option in WWWJDIC and in the doc file encourage users to
use it if they want to do EJ lookups.
--
Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
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