Comments on: The coolest dictionary known to hombre

The coolest dictionary known to hombre

Lezzles — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:28:05 -0800

Lingro. Enter a website in the box to make all words on the page clickable. Available for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Polish.

By: DreamerFi

DreamerFi — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:27:36 -0800

Funny. It knows about recursion ...

By: slater

slater — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:02:51 -0800

Wouldn't this be easier done with a bookmarklet?

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:49:09 -0800

Awesome. It's like the New York Times's worse feature writ large.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:49:30 -0800

worst

By: lodurr

lodurr — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:52:03 -0800

What Plutor said. But with teh added 't'. I wonder how it defines 'teh'?

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:02:06 -0800

It doesn't. 'teh' is not in their English to English dictionary

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:22:31 -0800

Nice find, Lezzles. Cool and practical site. Thanks.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:33:51 -0800

This is awesome in principle. But yes, I'd want this as a Firefox add-on, at least for English (I'm not a native speaker). When I wonder about a word's meaning I'd really like a one-click pop-up lookup, because by the time I typed the URL into Lingro I could of course have looked it up properly three times already. Preferably, it would query Dictionary.com, Ask Oxford, Urban Dictionary, and Wikipedia, in that order. Hope me, Lazyweb!

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:43:19 -0800

That said, it would still be useful for me for other languages. However, for the very first link I tried, the suggested Le Monde, in the top headline, "even with" was suggested as the single definition for "quitte", where clearly a verb form (I suppose "left", but I would have settled for "stopped" or "quit") was intended. Pas diggé.

By: Lezzles

Lezzles — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:49:14 -0800

Don't know what the context of that "quitte" was, but the dictionary obviously thought it was "être quitte" which means "to be even with".

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:18:48 -0800

popjisho covers the CJK part of the webosphere.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:20:15 -0800

Wooooo hypertext is cool!! I love this. Love it! I want thesaurs or wiki info or google hits too though!

By: zorro astor

zorro astor — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:06:56 -0800

I have waited years for something cool like this! Dictionaries are for schlubs.

By: wckdgfy

wckdgfy — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:15:25 -0800

Great way to waste hours at work.

By: strangeguitars

strangeguitars — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:28:52 -0800

Heywood -- thanks!