Maryknoll Taiwanese>English dictionary FREE for download!!

[Taffy]

The only Taiwanese in there is in romanization. The characters and zhuyin are Mandarin glosses, not Taiwanese.

[ironlady]

The characters aren't supposed to be Minnan, they're Mandarin (somewhat classically-slanted to more closely match the Minnan.)

I got an e-mail from them telling me that they are aware there are some errors in correspondence (I mean glaring "this just isn't the right Mandarin entry for this one" stuff) in the file. They did the dictionary off a Word file which was produced from this file, and all the corrections went into the Word file, which is now unavailable. It's still amazingly nice of them to just let us have this, even if there are some small problems with it.

I tried converting this to .csv and uploading to Tap Files and to HanDBase -- no luck. I think the files are too big. I tried FlashCard (by OrangeOrApple.com, my flash card app of choice) as well but so far no luck -- server times out, so file is probably too big. I've got an e-mail in to the developer who usually answers amazingly quickly, so we'll see what he says.

I also did the .pdf thing, but the type is too small to be of much use, and the search function is clunky. (There are detailed English definitions so trying to use it English>Minnan isn't as efficient as you hit lots of things containing the English word you're searching on, for example.)

It doesn't make sense to use SMS on a list this big, as has been noted above. I just want it as a searchable reference.

I'll throw in NT$1000 towards the cost of getting someone on Rent-A-Coder to do an iPhone app for this if anyone's interested...

[chiao]

I know this thread's been down a while, but I contacted Morrison Iunn (of http://203.64.42.21/iug/ungian/soannteng/chil/taihoa.asp) some while back and he e-mailed me the source file for his dictionary. I've added quite a few English glosses to it and hope to augment it with the Maryknoll data, but it's A LOT more time-consuming than I had anticipated. If anyone wants to take turns at it and divide it up, let me know! There are something like 65k entires, so I'll be dead before I finish, most likely.

Chiao

[Kobo-Daishi]

Dear chiao,

I know this thread's been down a while, but I contacted Morrison Iunn (of http://203.64.42.21/iug/ungian/soannteng/chil/taihoa.asp) some while back and he e-mailed me the source file for his dictionary. I've added quite a few English glosses to it and hope to augment it with the Maryknoll data, but it's A LOT more time-consuming than I had anticipated. If anyone wants to take turns at it and divide it up, let me know! There are something like 65k entires, so I'll be dead before I finish, most likely.

So, how's the project going?

Are we likely to see the dictionary soon?

The site you have linked to no longer seems to work.

Kobo-Daishi, PLLA.

[Kobo-Daishi]

Dear all,

I know this thread's been down a while, but I contacted Morrison Iunn (of http://203.64.42.21/iug/ungian/soannteng/chil/taihoa.asp) some while back and he e-mailed me the source file for his dictionary. I've added quite a few English glosses to it and hope to augment it with the Maryknoll data, but it's A LOT more time-consuming than I had anticipated. If anyone wants to take turns at it and divide it up, let me know! There are something like 65k entires, so I'll be dead before I finish, most likely.

So, how's the project going?

Are we likely to see the dictionary soon?

The site you have linked to no longer seems to work.

I wrote that exactly 1 year ago.

It's obvious Chiao is not coming back. He's only ever written 1 post to these forums.

So, does anyone else have a copy of the Morrison Iunn file that he's talking about or an e-mail address for Morrison Iunn, seeing as his web site seems to be down.

Kobo.