Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary

> On 05/22/2014 12:10 PM, Urmas wrote:
> > "Kracked_P_P---webmaster":
> >
> > > There are 797866 lines in the .dic file with the top one the number
> > > of words.
> >
> > Due to the author's error, it is shipped unmunched. In the proper form
> > it contains 476898 entries, probably even less if some wordforms are
> > missing. That is close to 70% misrepresentation.

I don't know how spell-check dictionaries are usually compared but, to 
me, it would make sense to count each form as a separate word. It may be 
more efficient in use to compress the dictionary into a smaller number 
of entries, but if there's a single entry encoding 4 forms of the same 
root word, I'd count that as 4 words. Otherwise, a dictionary containing 
100000 words but only the root word of each would seem just as good as a 
dictionary containing the same 100000 root words plus all the variations 
encoded into each entry.

Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> What do you mean by the term "unmunched"?

munch
/mʌntʃ/
verb (used with object)
1. to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
...
Related forms
un·munched, adjective

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unmunched - I didn't swallow the 
dictionary, munched or otherwise)

> Never heard of that term in relation to a .dic file.

Since a .dic file doesn't strike me as being particularly tasty, nor 
useful after chewing, perhaps we should be glad that it is unmunched.

(FWIW, neither LibreOffice nor SeaMonkey recognises 'unmunched'...)

Mark.


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