tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 11 05:01:19 2000
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RE: Dictionary
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Although it looks daunting at first - keyboarding all the glossaries from TKD,
> the TKD Addendum, KGT and charghwI's New Words List at kli.org (which also
> gives a few words that were inadvertantly listed in only one side of the TKD
> glossary) - once you get started, you'll find it goes pretty quickly.
I'm working from the Klingon to English lists... Luckilly {chargwI'}'s
list seems to point out ambiguities in both listings.
> Hint: It helps to use a *bold* font when inputting the Klingon text to make it
> stand out from the English and easier to read, as Okrand does in TKD and KGT.
I've been using bold for the source language (as I am making it a
"both-ways" dictionary...(
> online, thereby halving the file size. (You'll still need an English-Klingon
> listing if you want to print your personal dictionary, however, which is
> something I've never bothered to do.)
Mmmmmmmmmm.... That's more than half the work! I'm going to print it
because my whole reason for wanting the Dictionary was so that I didn't
get the computer to do the work.... The only problem is that if a word has
more than one English definition I have to make the corresponding number
of Entries in the English side...
jenwI'
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