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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] keeping "KLI folklore" words in word lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Wed Dec 17 13:42:50 2014
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From: Alan Anderson <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:42:14 -0500
To: Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r@gmail.com>
Cc: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrien.r@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got to thinking about this because I found myself really wanting some kind
> of rudimentary syntax highlighting for writing Klingon when I kept saying
> absolutely the wrong thing with typos. That got me thinking about where I
> was going to get the data, which I can't take from the book for copyright
> reasons.
Why can't you take the data from the book? I would consider using the
part of speech information in The Klingon Dictionary to be a clear
example of Fair Use. That is exactly how I got the information I built
into a simple Klingon word analyzer program about twenty years ago,
which I used mostly to do spell- and grammar-checking before posting
things to the mailing list.
How can a dictionary be useful if you don't *use* what it contains? As
long as you're using it for your own purposes, I wouldn't worry about
running afoul of copyright law.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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