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by lsb 5478 days ago
I read Latin and Greek, want to know more French, and am intrigued by Sanskrit and Japanese.

I wanted to read more Latin and have more fun reading, and I decided that looking words up in a dictionary was an easy step to circumvent, so I made a website nodictionaries.com --- if you read Latin, check out http://nodictionaries.com/vergil/aeneid-1/1-7 if you want to read twice as fast.

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I really like the website! Would it be possible to add more languages and allow users to enter text - stem it and add the dictionary entries automatically?
nodictionaries.com/novifex
I have an undeveloped passion for latin (I usually just get excited when I figure out the latin roots for English words). Quick question, what about all of the small words that aren't included in that? Like "qui" and "ab" on the first line of that link you gave? Are you imagining that your users will figure them out through context, or was there another good reason for not including them?
Mea Hercule! Hodie facere cupivi, sed hunc ludam.

Seriously, though, this is incredible. I'll probably play with this all weekend.