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Does anybody have a digital dictionary on a CD?


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2021 Jul 15, 2:00pm   1,260 views  12 comments

by richwicks   ➕follow (2)   💰tip   ignore  

This is an odd question, but I have noticed that words I use are often marked as "misspelled" in my browser although they are correctly spelled.

We are extremely dependent on the Internet today, but I suspect the language is being changed and modified. I would like to secure a copy of a dictionary for posterity.

In my personal dictionary are "genotype, genotypes, natively, opioid, sociopathy, telomere, uncensorable, vanishingly" - these are all correctly spelled but my web browser (Brave) marks them as incorrectly spelled by default. I think we need to archive the very language at this point.

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1   RWSGFY   2021 Jul 15, 3:41pm  

Buy old paper dictionaries - they are much more durable than any CD.
2   Patrick   2021 Jul 15, 5:48pm  

Paper books are nice for a lot of reasons:

- they don't need batteries
- server censorship does not affect them
- they last for a thousand years if stored reasonably well

Anything you really want to keep should be on paper. Everything else is ephemeral.
3   richwicks   2021 Jul 15, 6:48pm  

FuckCCP89 says
Buy old paper dictionaries - they are much more durable than any CD.


Paper books won't be created in 20 years. I want a digital copy.

The advantage of a digital copy is that I can send you a copy easily. Worried it may be adulterated? That's what a digital signature is for. We do, believe it or not, think ahead.

In 2000 years, if civilization doesn't collapse, the people living then, will be able to see PRECISELY what life was like now.
4   GreaterNYCDude   2021 Jul 15, 7:01pm  

Good luck getting a computer with a CD drive in 20 years.

When in doubt, go with belts and suspenders. Hard copy plus digital.

And no, I do not have a CD copy. But my old man still uses his old school dictionary for his crossword puzzles.
5   RC2006   2021 Jul 15, 7:36pm  

I would think everyone should have paper books. I still even have my scientific encyclopedia set my mom bought me when I was ten, it may weigh 70lbs but I could probably rebuild society with it and all technology before 1985 is still relevant.
6   RWSGFY   2021 Jul 15, 9:15pm  

richwicks says
Paper books won't be created in 20 years. I want a digital copy.


I though you were interested in preserving the existing language, not following latest and greatest newspeak being created over the next 20 years.
7   Patrick   2021 Jul 15, 10:15pm  

richwicks says
The advantage of a digital copy is that I can send you a copy easily.


I'm not saying digital data isn't useful, only that it's ephemeral.

Anything really important should be printed in a physical paper book.
8   noobster   2021 Jul 15, 10:19pm  

Public library?
9   richwicks   2021 Jul 16, 5:33am  

GreaterNYCDude says
Good luck getting a computer with a CD drive in 20 years.


You rip an ISO image. It's a duplicate of the CD at the bit level. With linux (and I believe Windows now), you can mount the image as a read only hard disk.
10   noobster   2021 Jul 16, 6:47am  

Pdfdrive.com

https://www.pdfdrive.com/oxford-english-dictionary-e195222413.html

It's pdf, but likely searchable. And it would be wise to spot check some words to make sure it's not tampered with. Likely other, older dictionaries hosted there as well.
11   richwicks   2021 Jul 16, 11:22am  

FuckCCP89 says
richwicks says
Paper books won't be created in 20 years. I want a digital copy.


I though you were interested in preserving the existing language, not following latest and greatest newspeak being created over the next 20 years.


I am interested in preserving the existing language. Digital copies can be created effortlessly - paper books degrade and can easily be damaged, duplicating them is difficult and expensive and time consuming to do.

Patrick says
Anything really important should be printed in a physical paper book.


At minimum, I'd say both. I can easily hide a book that's digital. Let me give you an example:

I can take a music soundtrack, and encode something else in it at the higher frequencies. Because we use Fourier transforms (or wavelets or other similar stuff) to encode audio and video, the higher frequencies can contain encoded messages in them because those bits, really don't matter. Sure, it will SLIGHTLY effect the sound and video picture, but not noticeably.
12   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2021 Jul 16, 12:06pm  

I have mentioned here before since Trump won in 2016, Google screwed up the spell check. And it also exposed that I don't care what the developers all say, about their browsers not being part of Google and has nothing to do with them. If they use Cromium, which they ALL do. Then they are still Google Chrome with a nicer skin.
Every browser exhibits the same spell check anomalies. Mostly words that Republican would use to describe Democrats or Trump and the Republicans in given contexts.
When I get flinger flubs on Republican the spell checks all provide Republican's or Republicans' as an option. They put an 's on words don't have ownership context to them. And if you have words you have added to the Dictionary before they fucked it up, your local dictionary stash was blown out and you have to add them again.

I must say it has been beneficial as I now will slow down when I feel like my fingers are starting to do the river dace on the keyboard, and I get more prone to stepping on the wrong key. I'm getting far less red squiggly lines.

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