Re: [aspell] [Q] Copyright and International dictionaries...

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> >  There is also the issue of the amount
> > of space the wordlists take up and if the soundlike look up should be
> > disabled.  I suggest you browse the Aspell mailing list archive as much a
> > lot of these issues have already been discussed on this mailing list when
> > the RedHat 7.0 packages were being created.
> 
> I just checked the archieves and could not find a specific email where
> the number words have been discussed except where there is an comparison
> of polish dictionary and english dictionary. (since they are not
> searcheable could be in a place where I could not see) 

You can find two searchable mailing list archives at 

http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1247/0/
http://www.mail-archive.com/aspell-user%40lists.sourceforge.net/ 

The Geocrawler one is where the link to the archive originally went to.  I
will try to have this corrected soon.

> 
> The project has a site at http://turkce.sourceforge.net I have now 80376
> words in the Turkish dictionary and the expected ending dictionrty is
> somewhere between 250000 to 400000. The point I miss is what is the
> concern with the number of words other than the space. Could you
> eloborate on this more please

The only real concern is space.  There is no other major
concern.

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Kevin Atkinson
kevina at users sourceforge net
http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/