Scratch needs a built in dictionary

Seam49

I think for creating hangman games or similar, a built in dictionary would be extremely useful. Basically what would be good is a kind of list that you start a project with, or mabe it could be an extension in scratch 3.0,
So this is just an idea I had, that I think would be good!

chexbox

That'd make an excellent 3.0 extension.

<dictonary contains [thing] ?>//true
(definition (1 v) of [thing])//a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
(part of speech of [])//noun
(word tense of [])//singlular
(random [word v])
(random [verb v])
(random [noun v])

Last edited by chexbox (May 15, 2018 21:06:05)

KJRYoshi07

No Support. Just create a list of words yourself and randomise them.

EDIT: Semi-Support, I still go by my old explanation, but this does have potential because it would take a long time to copy the whole dictionary.

Last edited by KJRYoshi07 (Oct. 4, 2018 10:31:07)

Invisible_Factory

KJRYoshi07 wrote:
No Support. Just create a list of words yourself and randomise them.

Yes, in the case where a lot of words are needed - copy a list of words online, put it as one string, detect spaces and separate the words and add them to a list. I agree here.
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Since not that many people actually need a dictionary, and it should be simple to make the program described above (although I haven't tried to make it), No support.
EDIT: Semi-support, see below

Last edited by Invisible_Factory (May 16, 2018 22:42:56)

Sheep_maker

It'd be cool if this dictionary was based on the language setting, so a user using Esperanto would get random Esperanto words, etc. However, this might break when a hangman project only supports the characters from A-Z.

Seam49

well i was thinking of a dictionary with millions of words, maybe like the oxford dictionary

chexbox wrote:

That'd make an excellent 3.0 extension.

<dictonary contains [thing] ?>//true
(definition (1 v) of [thing])//a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
(part of speech of [])//noun
(word tense of [])//singlular
(random [word v])
(random [verb v])
(random [noun v])

yeah! I think this would be cool, but with lots more settings like:

(random [pronoun v])

apple502j

No support, it's too hard to make other languages' dictionaries for ST
(A few ST members can speak them

Last edited by apple502j (May 16, 2018 08:49:39)

chexbox

Seam49 wrote:
well i was thinking of a dictionary with millions of words, maybe like the oxford dictionary
chexbox wrote:
That'd make an excellent 3.0 extension.
<dictonary contains [thing] ?>//true
(definition (1 v) of [thing])//a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
(part of speech of [])//noun
(word tense of [])//singlular
(random [word v])
(random [verb v])
(random [noun v])
yeah! I think this would be cool, but with lots more settings like:
(random [pronoun v])

Yes. I just didn't feel like writing them all.
Edit: Although I do support this, It would be difficult for the scratch team to get a filtered dictionary that follows the CGs.

Last edited by chexbox (May 16, 2018 14:56:27)

Invisible_Factory

chexbox wrote:

That'd make an excellent 3.0 extension.

<dictonary contains [thing] ?>//true
(definition (1 v) of [thing])//a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
(part of speech of [])//noun
(word tense of [])//singlular
(random [word v])
(random [verb v])
(random [noun v])

Interestingly, if this was generalized this could just be a part of a list grouping. But English doesn't really have an easy way to distinguish between parts of speech, so now I semi-support.

Seam49

chexbox wrote:
Seam49 wrote:
well i was thinking of a dictionary with millions of words, maybe like the oxford dictionary
chexbox wrote:
That'd make an excellent 3.0 extension.
<dictonary contains [thing] ?>//true
(definition (1 v) of [thing])//a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
(part of speech of [])//noun
(word tense of [])//singlular
(random [word v])
(random [verb v])
(random [noun v])
yeah! I think this would be cool, but with lots more settings like:
(random [pronoun v])
Yes. I just didn't feel like writing them all.
Edit: Although I do support this, It would be difficult for the scratch team to get a filtered dictionary that follows the CGs.

yeah, I think the scratch team should remove bad words, but that might take a while, and with scratch 3.0 they might be too busy, but there might be some time!

Seam49

Bump

Bump

apple502j

apple502j wrote:
No support, it's too hard to make other languages' dictionaries for ST
(A few ST members can speak them

what will happen
word tense of 買った - 3 in Japanese
random 助詞 (not in English)
random preposition (not in Japanese)

AS A JAPANESE SPEAKER, I'M AGAINST IT!

Last edited by apple502j (May 28, 2018 10:01:32)

MrFluffyPenguins

No support. That will probably work as good as Google Translate.

chexbox

Mr_PenguinAlex wrote:
No support. That will probably work as good as Google Translate.

Not a translator, a dictionary.

radishboy

Support. This is the kinda thing that is almost impossible to make by yourself. This would be quite useful

Seam49

apple502j wrote:
apple502j wrote:
No support, it's too hard to make other languages' dictionaries for ST
(A few ST members can speak them
what will happen
word tense of 買った - 3 in Japanese
random 助詞 (not in English)
random preposition (not in Japanese)

AS A JAPANESE SPEAKER, I'M AGAINST IT!

Maybe it can have other language dictionaries?

Seam49

bumpedybump

--_Nova_--

Support, this would make many projects much easier and would be an all-around cool feature.

ACE009

This could also be used for whitelisting text whenever it needs to be filtered without needing to create a massive list of words, so support.

ScratchDiogoh

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