April 23, 2025
More translations!
- this way
- to accompany (food pairing)
- rice with eggs
- more or less
- to scratch
I also added another translation to "to remember"
April 21, 2025
I've added a bunch of grammar-y things:
- question particle
- classifier (for round objects)
- classifier (for large objects or animals)
- a car
- to know (familiar with someone or something)
- type, kind
- many kinds of things
- to add (to a food or a mixture)
- place
Some of those words are italicized, which means it isn't a direct translation, but more like a definition because it's hard to come up with a direct translation. I noticed that wiktionary does this, so I've added the feature here as well.
April 19, 2025
After listening to a previous conversation with my aunt, I think I understand the difference between chiu1 gue1 and gak(8) gue1. So both are in the database now! (under the word "luffa"). I've also added these other translations
- lazy
- here
- there
- how (to what degree)
- how large
- how late
- how high
April 17, 2025
More translations!
- wet
- last night
- bitter
- to peel (with a blade)
- mango
And I also unhid "towel gourd". I'm not really sure if "towel gourd" is the best main word for this. I might switch it to luffa or Chinese okra but I'm still trying to understand what exactly is gak8 gue1? More to come on that later.
I was curious how many translations I've added to the site, and while it's impossible to get an exact number, I did write up some SQL to get an approximation. It's now listed on the About page!
April 16, 2025
I was thinking about all the different ways to say "more" in Teochew, and I realize I don't even understand how to properly use each of them. It's one of those things that you pick up from hearing it, but I don't really the nuances of when it's appropriate to use one term or another. So, I need to ask my aunt more about this.
I did add a bunch of new translations:
- five dollars
- ten dollars
- sunny
- drizzle
- all day
- thing
- cake
- plate
- breakfast (I already had one translation, but I added another one)
I also fixed a bug that made it so searching traditional characters resulted in nothing being found in the "Words containing..." table
And finally, I started working on a tagging feature. Right now words are in categories, and there are times where I feel like a word could be in multiple categories. So I'm trying to see if a tagging system will be better. Of course this means I need to go and add tags to everything, and that will be a slow process.
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