Comments on: IntraText Digital Library

IntraText Digital Library

Wolfdog — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:06:49 -0800

IntraText Digital Library - a few thousand texts in English and many other languages in a heavily hyperlinked concordance format.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:06:13 -0800

Interesting. I guess it's useful mainly as a concordance to the texts included, which lean heavily to the religious. (Needless to say, I like the multilingual aspect, but... Chamorro and Letzeburgesch, but no Russian? WTF?)

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:12:52 -0800

It's an old site, and it seems they did not plan well to accomodate non-Latin alphabets. Some accent marks are just plain ignored, for instance in Polish. And while they do accomodate a few languages via transliteration... they might as well just not. Reading Russian in transliteration gives me a migraine.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:24:45 -0800

The search results page doesn't work with Safari. Handy reference to add to my bookmarks though. Thanks Wolfdog.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:51:11 -0800

Cool, I've been meaning to read The Art of War. I didn't know what a concordance was but I can see how it'd be useful.

By: davy

davy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:07:41 -0800

I see no mention of suicide bombers.