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- **Press Release **
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- I'd like to announce the release of the software !Linguist for the
- Archimedes.
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- !Linguist is a computerised foreign language dictionary. It
- contains 18 languages at present Afrikaans, Cornish, *Chinese,
- Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian,
- Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish,
- Swahili, Swedish, Welsh. All of these languages are in ONE
- package for one commercial fee of £20. Russian, Gaelic, Maori,
- Hawaiian, North American Indian Languages, Esperanto, Greek
- are in the works. In fact !Linguist will hold all languages known
- to man 'under one roof', the only problem is some fool (us) has
- to key it in.
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- !Linguist first started life as "Translator" for the Apple II in the
- US in 1978. It progressed to the Macintosh in the early 80's. Up
- until now it has only held with 2 or 3 languages. Sadly, as it has
- now been converted to the Arc, it has had to have a name
- change.
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- !Linguist has 3 parts, a dictionary, a quiz/game, and 'automatic
- dictionary look-up'.
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- The dictionary allows simple searches 'is equal to', 'begins with',
- 'ends with', and 'contains'. You can search english to foreign
- language or foreign language to english.
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- The quiz is very simple and added for education. It simply says
- what is the meaning of this word, and then gives you a multiple
- choice answer. You make a choice and it corrects you. A
- scoring system of 'right', 'wrong', 'no. of tries', and 'percentage'
- helps to give you an idea of your progress with that language.
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- The automatic look-up means that you drop a text file on the
- window or the icon bar and the program will read each word of
- the text 'attempting' to find its corresponding translation. This is
- by no means a method of translating poetry but it should give
- the reader of the foreign text a vague idea of its context without
- the need of a human translator or knowledge of the language.
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- !Linguist is growing very fast at the moment (300 words a day)
- and any registered users will be encouraged to return their discs
- for free upgrades, with the addition of a self-address stamped
- envelope, as often as they like. If there is the addition of an
- additional disc you will be asked for the cost of disc, label and
- handling, £1.50 - £2.00
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- *This includes Chinese picto-grams as clip-art. By using the
- phonetic alphabet 'pin yeun' the user of the software can find the
- image for 'horse' or 'I' for example.
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- Included on this BBS is a striped down version of the software.
- For my protection you must realise:
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- 1. Each dictionary is stripped to about 50 - 100 words.
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- 2. Some of these words have been PURPOSELY mistranslated
- or misspelled for the purpose of this demo.
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- 3. The sound and auto-translation sections have been disabled
- for the purpose of this demonstration and DO NOT WORK.
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- 4. Any attempt to add more than 100 words to a dictionary will
- fail.
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- Anyone interested should submit enquiries to me at:
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- Bits 'n' Bytes
- MD Smith
- 26 Grenville Road
- Saint Judes
- Plymouth
- Devon
- PL4 9PY
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- 0752-667599
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- !Linguist is copyrighted '78-'92, and contains the Silicon
- Vision's run-time libraries which are also copyrighted.
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