{"id":79,"date":"2008-05-15T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T18:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/79"},"modified":"2008-05-15T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T18:40:58","slug":"dictionary-on-the-eeepc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/79","title":{"rendered":"Dictionary on the eeePC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in exploring my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Feeepc.asus.com%2F&amp;ei=XoMsSOOlA6i-pgSF9KGoBA&amp;usg=AFQjCNGMQbrg47KLfpx7pTzMpb4Gx6MNvQ&amp;sig2=nLEUWJfPT04Ql6pEtiTSZA\">eeePC<\/a>, I saw that there&#8217;s an offline dictionary on it. This was immediately of interest to me, because a) it&#8217;s obvious use in the classroom and b) we&#8217;re building an open dictionary (which I imagine at some point will reside on all kinds of devices like this).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldoceonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dictionary on the eeePC<\/a>  is from Longman. Unfortunately, it was the same problems as  <a href=\"http:\/\/wordnet.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordNet from Princeton<\/a> and the free <a href=\"http:\/\/noahpro.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Noah dictionary<\/a> &#8212; adult language that renders it unusable in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, if you have an eeePC and want to remove the Chinese, an update is available through the add\/remove tool.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in exploring my eeePC, I saw that there&#8217;s an offline dictionary on it. This was immediately of interest to me, because a) it&#8217;s obvious use in the classroom and b) we&#8217;re building an open dictionary (which I imagine at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-1h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}