Missing pages in Maryknoll Taiwanese English dictionary

Language Taiwanese and Hakka Corner
#1

I am developing a web application which accepts Taiwanese word and opens appropriate page in Maryknoll dictionary (PDF file).
In the process, I noticed page 26 and 27 are missing from the file.
(http://www.taiwanesedictionary.org/files/B-Words.pdf)

I am wondering somebody who has paper version of the dictionary sort this out by scanning those 2 pages and send them to me, so I can make a complete B-Words.pdf.
(I try to contact Maryknoll but I couldn’t find their email-address.)

I believe there is no copyright issues, since the dictionary is published under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Taiwan License.

Cheers.

mmurak

#2

If no one turns up, there’s contact info here:

http://www.catholic.org.tw/friendship/school.htm

Unless you really need the pdf, the information is in an xls file here:

http://www.taiwanesedictionary.org/Mkdictionary.xls

#3

If I remember when I get home tonight I’ll scan them in.

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#4

Thanks for the contact information.

I know there is an xls file version, but their website states ‘not fully proofread
check against hardcopy’, so I would like to stick with the pdf version.
And pdf version is easier to read for me. :slight_smile:

#5

Thanks Taffy. I’m eagerly waiting for it!

#6

Taffy sent me the pages exactly what I wanted.

With those, I uploaded the applications to GitHub (I will make another thread for details).
Those of you who want complete B-Words.pdf file, you can download it from github.com.
Visit https://github.com/mmurak/MaryknollTESearch/blob/master/T-EN/B1-Words.pdf
and click ‘download’ button on the page. The file is about 6.2M byte.

Thanks everyone.

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#7

I particularly enjoyed this entry from that page:

A little risqué for the Catholic fathers, I would think!

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#8

Taiwanese goes for the earthy sayings :slight_smile:

Someone told me an English translation of a Chinese saying the other day, the essence being “the rat shat in the pot” (meaning “one bad apple spoils the barrel”). Sounded Taiwanese I thought, but maybe Mandarin. Anyone know it?

#9

一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯
Yī kē lǎoshǔshǐ huàile yī guō tāng

I’ve heard it in Mandarin before, but not in Taiwanese (then again, my exposure to Taiwanese is much smaller).

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