Dictionary on the eeePC
Posted by karen on May 15, 2008 in Uncategorized
So in exploring my eeePC, I saw that there’s an offline dictionary on it. This was immediately of interest to me, because a) it’s obvious use in the classroom and b) we’re building an open dictionary (which I imagine at some point will reside on all kinds of devices like this).
The dictionary on the eeePC is from Longman. Unfortunately, it was the same problems as WordNet from Princeton and the free Noah dictionary — adult language that renders it unusable in the classroom.
If you’re not easily offended by bad language and want a big laugh, look up the f word and read all the variations and definitions they give. The synonyms are a riot too.
(By the way, if you have an eeePC and want to remove the Chinese, an update is available through the add/remove tool.)
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