Re: [Lingo] inTransitive

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

On 13/06/07, Birkir A. Barkarson <birkirb@example.com> wrote:
> This might be interesting,we could have a function that takes a verb, find the
> stem and tries to return the transitive/intransitive verb.

That would probably have to be done using a lookup table.

> Since we have so much spare time we should also plug this into common tools like
> Rikaichan.  One of the problem I have with tools like that is that the answer
> comes to easy and I find I rarely remember the words I need to look up. Getting
> further information like transitive/intransitive versions, and while we are at
> it, opposites and related words might be just the thing to strengthen those
> memory pathways ;)

One of my must-dos is have cross-refs between all the pairs of
transitive/intrans. verbs. Sadly Rikaichan uses the simple old EDICT
version which doesn't carry crossrefs. I've suggested they upgrade, inclluding
using the names file as well (Rikaichan tends to fall apart with names) but
there's been no response.

Jim


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Jim Breen
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