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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Jackbox 9 is now available in French, Italian, German, and two types of Spanish - The Verge - Translation
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The company says it’s the first time players can ‘enjoy a full Party Pack available in more than English.’
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Jackbox Games has released a free update that localizes the games in its Party Pack 9 bundle. That means that party games like Fibbage 4, Roomerang, and Quixort are now available in French, Italian, German, Latin American Spanish, and Castilian Spanish.
The translations cover pretty much every aspect of the games, from the intro videos and songs playing in the credits to the actual content of the games themselves. In a post on Monday, the company writes that it chose which translations to focus on based on “existing demand.”
It’s not the company’s first run at localizing the content of its party games. In 2020 and 2021, it released versions of Quiplash 2 and Drawful 2 with extra languages, and the 2022 Jackbox Party Starter includes localized versions of Quiplash 3, Trivia Murder Party 2 (one of the best Jackbox games, don’t at me), and Tee K.O.
In an FAQ, the company says that it’s not currently planning on translating all of the content in the previous party packs but that it will “continue to add more languages beyond English to new releases moving forward.”
"Petfluencer" and "rage farming" among new words added to Dictionary.com - CBS News - Dictionary
Dictionary.com has released its semi-annual list of new additions, bringing words like "hellscape" and "petfluencer" to the internet's dictionary.
In addition to adding new words, the update also adds or revises definitions for existing words and changes some spellings.
"Words that are new to the dictionary are not always new to the language (or even remotely recent)," the site said in a news release.
The update, published on Feb. 28, includes 313 new words. Many words address modern situations. For example, "rage farming" is the tactic of using inflammatory content to garner a response on social media and "pinkwashing" refers to the way corporations superficially acknowledge and support LGBTQ+ rights while also supporting anti-LGBTQ causes.
Other words like "hellscape," are more common on social media as a descriptor of the current state of the world. Some phrases describe uniquely 2023 phenomena, like "petfluencers" — online influencers who use their pets or animals to gain a large following.
Bread also played a big role in this update: Eleven different types of bread were given new or revised entries.
The update also included 1,140 revised or expanded definitions, changing how words like "sex" and "woke" are defined by the dictionary.
There are also 130 new definitions included in the list.
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Monday, February 27, 2023
New Dakota dictionary app aims to preserve, revitalize language for young people - FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul - Dictionary
Joe Bendickson, left, is a senior teaching specialist at the University of Minnesota who goes by the Dakota name Šišókaduta. He recently led an effort to launch an app that is Dakota language dictionary aimed at helping young people learn the languag
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - A new Dakota language dictionary recently launched in Minnesota represents a historic effort to preserve and revitalize the language by making it easier for young people to learn.
"We want to use all the tools possible to preserve the language. And one of the tools that we can use is modern technology, such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers, which a lot of our young people are using. And so why not use those tools to help them learn our language?" Joe Bendickson, a senior teaching specialist at the University of Minnesota, told FOX 9.
The dictionary, Dakhód Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi, is available to download at no cost on iOS and Android devices and launched on Friday, Feb. 10, during an event at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Onamia, Minnesota.
A symbol of hope
The effort to create the app began about six years ago, in 2017, when Bendickson, who goes by the Dakota name Šišókaduta, began to worry there were fewer and fewer Dakota speakers in Minnesota.
The situation grew even more urgent with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which disproportionately impacted Native communities in Minnesota, leading to the loss of Dakota elders who were fluent in the language.
"At that time we were losing a lot of our Dakota speakers. A lot of them are past retirement age, and not a lot of younger people are learning… and so we said we need to do as much as we can to save these words and the way they're said," Šišókaduta said.
Šišókaduta wanted to develop online tools to reach young people, so he reached out to The Language Conservancy, a nonprofit that specializes in working with native communities to build language apps and dictionaries for endangered languages. Šišókaduta said it helped that the Conservancy had already helped develop an app for Lakota, a sister language to Dakota.
Will Meya, the director of the Conservancy, said his team understood the urgency behind the project.
"We're proud to be able to put this out in time so that hopefully young people can use this tool to learn their language and move forward in a positive and dignified way with their language. And fundamentally, the app itself is a symbol of hope for the language," he told FOX 9.
Recording the voices of elders
With help from a grant from the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, Šišókaduta and his team began the first stage of the project: recording elders, both men and women, saying each of the dictionary’s over 28,000 words.
"We had usually we'd have to travel to where they were, being they're elderly and we want to respect them and in their time," Šišókaduta explained.
Clifford Canku, an 84-year-old elder of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate tribe who retired as the chair of the Dakota Studies department at North Dakota State University, recorded many of the words.
"People like me were getting old. And what we created needs to be a new adaptation of delivering the Dakota language to the new generation of Dakota language speakers," he said.
A milestone for the language
Once Šišókaduta’s team had recorded, and, when necessary, re-recorded the elders’ voice tracks, they edited the sound files and transferred them to the developers working with the Conservancy, who in turn built the app.
For Meya, the app’s launch was an "historic moment" for the language. Since all the content is downloadable, he hopes it becomes the foundation for future Dakota language projects, like other apps and teaching materials.
"It's been over 100 years since a dictionary of any substance has been produced in this language. And once a dictionary like this is out, it becomes the cornerstone of an entire opportunity to develop new materials to train teachers and learners." he said.
Šišókaduta is proud of his team’s work, but he says ultimately, the future of the Dakota language is in the hands of the community's youth.
"And so I challenge all of our young people to learn your language and speak it, keep it alive. And hopefully, tools like this just help in that endeavor," he said.
Person carries Oxford dictionary to Shashi Tharoor’s talk, netizens says they’re ‘fully prepared’ - The Indian Express - Dictionary
It is no secret that Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is erudite and his vast vocabulary reflects this. People often poke fun at veteran politician’s expansive vocabulary and much to their delight, Tharoor often participates in the joke.
Earlier last week, Tharoor spoke at The Lungleng Show, a talk show, in Nagaland on February 22. A video from the event, which shows an attendee carrying an Oxford dictionary to the talk, is going viral.
It is unclear who took this video. On Sunday, the talk show host R Lungleng shared this video on Facebook and wrote, “Best Takeaway. Somebody here cared enough to bring Oxford Dictionary to listen to Dr. Shashi Tharoor speak😅”.
Commenting on this video, many people revealed that they related to the act of carrying a dictionary. Echoing this sentiment, a Twitter user wrote, “Whoever that’s fully prepared..”. Another person revealed, “Would do the same had I attended..”.
In June 2020, comedian Saloni Gaur shared a video in which she imitated Tharoor and joked about how he would respond to memes that drew similarities between him and a character from Sushmita Sen’s web series, Aarya.
The 66-year-old politician replied to this video and tweeted, “Tharoor soon reacted to the video saying, “Flattered by the comedic imitation. However, I would like to believe that I am not such a garrulous sesquipedalian… Clearly the artiste on the screen does not suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!”.
Your Honor, May I Approach the Bench... with a Dictionary? - Daily Kos - Dictionary
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Your Honor, May I Approach the Bench... with a Dictionary? Daily Kos
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