07-26-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Corona688
If you ever happen to use it Microsoft Word has the same "feature". I never understood why typesetters needed nine kinds of apostrophes.
Because typesetters typeset text not only in english. Sorry to say that, but especially americans think that diacriticals are mere decoration while in fact they are often vital to convey a certain meaning.
I once read the (german) tempo-command "mäßig bewegt" in an american music score-sheet (Hindemith, Sonata for Horn in F major, op. 11) made into "massig bewegt". The funny thing was that "massig" is in fact a word in german, as well as "mäßig". "Massig" comes from "Masse" (mass) and means "with (great) mass", while "mäßig" comes from "Maß" (measure) and means "measured(ly)" or "somewhat". So instead of "measuredly moving" it read "massively moving".
Sorry for that non-technical interruption, but this has to be said sometimes.
bakunin
Last edited by bakunin; 07-26-2016 at 04:42 AM..
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
american-english-small
american-english-small(5) Users' Manual american-english-small(5)
NAME
american-english-small - a list of English words
DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/dict/american-english-small is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.
FILES
There may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/. /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
/usr/share/dict/<language> file. /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which
other software should refer to the system word list. See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-
chosen word list.
The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist. Such lists should be coded using the ISO
8859-1 character set encoding.
SEE ALSO
ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
HISTORY
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.
The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words. For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not
exist.
AUTHOR
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors. The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori-
ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.
Debian 16 June 2003 american-english-small(5)