[sugar] New multilingual dictionary activity

[Ivan Krstić]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
> For the XO, it would be great if dictionaries were *not* constant  
> databases.


Where's the issue? You make the existing corpus a constant database,  
and provide user modifications and additions as a tiny, human-readable  
overlay file that's consulted first on lookups. It hardly strikes me  
as a worthwhile goal to make the user modifications on a fraction of a  
percent of the corpus be in-place at the expense of slowing down all  
queries noticeably. Is there some use case that demands this mode of  
operation?

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