Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Double reminder that local offline copies of wiktionary.org dictionaries are available for download here: github.com/Vuizur/Wiktionary-Dictionaries

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  • Carighan@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For the Kindle versions (yeah I still got one, I know, but not tossing a functional device!) that's the .mobi I presume? And how do I install that as a proper new dictionary? Does it auto-recognize that if I just copy it in the main folder?

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    • Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t own/use a kindle but did a 2 minute search and found this promising fourm post comment from user Enterio www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=360684

      "On my Kindle (Paperwhite, 11th gen), the dictionaries are held in the “\documents\dictionaries” subfolder (I kept my firmware to an older version to keep my USB connection). When I bought them online (on Amazon, see Kindle Default Dictionaries category), I received pre-made MOBI files that I only had to place in the aforementioned subfolder, without converting them to other file formats. Afterwards, I set up my default dictionaries for every language on my Kindle in Settings → Language & Dictionaries → Dictionaries. Hope that helped. "

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      • Carighan@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ah I failed to find that. Thanks, that worked! ✨

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• manxu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s always surprised me that search engines don’t point to Wiktionary by default, and in fact usually don’t show it in search results on the first page.

  Over the years, it has gotten better and better and now is an almost universal resource on all word forms. You see a word and don’t know what it means? You put it in the search bar at Wiktionary and the site will figure out it is the second person aorist of the passive voice of the Ancient Greek verb kataminomai, used only between the second and third centuries in the Hellenistic colonies of Mars. Made up, of course, but the quality of the information is insane.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Reminder? This is how I found out at all!

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• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Also Wiktionary imported the whole Webster dictionary from early 20th century sometime in the beginning of their operation, and apparently Webster was a fan of thoroughly describing each of the twenty meanings of a word. Which tradition continues in Wiktionary to this day — instead of giving three-word descriptions for two or three meanings, as other online dictionaries do.

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