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Sun | September 24, 2006

il ferait cool

It would be cool if there were a program that lets you click on words you know. Check em off, and then it'll show you words you don't know.

I finished reading all my "word a day" newsletters, from m-w.com, dictionary.com, and wordsmith.org. I had been filtering them to a folder at some point and they got all piled up and then I stopped. But I'm all caught up now. So I feel a bit better for having "accomplished" something (i.e. read the last of the unread messages) but it was still a pretty sorry weekend. I went to the park and jumped around on the rocks, for about ten seconds, that was sorta fun. Anyway reading through those newsletters I know most of those words so it would be cool if there were a program that would only show words that I don't know. Not that there is no benefit to looking at those words but it would be nice to be able to see a list of words that are new to me.

Also, a customized, customizable, associated words thesaurus. You make your own lists of words that mean around the same thing to you, and then also can create relationships or links to other words, that may not mean the same thing, but are associated, perhaps because they are used in similar situations. And you could create categories of words, like, "words used to describe food." Naturally, a word should be able to be tagged with any number of categories. And rank words by strength/ severity/ extremeness.

I feel like this should not be too difficult to do, and yet... it is beyond me. Perhaps I need to convince a CS graduate student to take it on as a thesis project. Or an employee of Google.

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