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TWEXT |
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; TWEXT |
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: text enriched for language learners |
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: twin text bifocal bitext format |
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: faint translations between lines of foreign text |
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: trademark, for proposed member-ownership management |
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: commercial system to promote universal literacy |
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="twext"= |
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"twext" combines the english words "twin" and "text" |
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"twext" also sounds like "twixt" which means "between".. |
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thus, the word "twext" infers a "twin text" format, where |
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"twext translation" is inserted betwixt lines of text. |
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=="translation"== |
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"translation" here is loosely interpreted to include: |
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- traditional translations, ie english to spanish |
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- dialect comparisons, ie cockney to british |
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- synonyms within same language, ie similar to alike |
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- etc. |
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==bifocal bitext== |
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[[bifocal bitext]] formats "translations" carefully to |
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help us focus to learn new words in various languages. |
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=method= |
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a simple [[twext method]] can easily format bifocal bitext.. |
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twext method may enable rich, complex learning systems. |
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==chunks== |
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twext method can vary [[chunk sizes]] for bifocal bitext, to |
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accomodate for variable word order in variable languages. |
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===mut=== |
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twext method to chunk text enables per-chunk enrichment, |
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enabling users to [[MuT]] "marked up twext]" with added meaning. |
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=twexter= |
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[[twexter]] software can format texts for specific users, |
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and grow to provide a vibrant new learning interface. |
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=trademark= |
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twext is a trademark of twext, now forming with an |
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http://twext.cc/member/owner.html managment proposal, |
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with aim to grow http://twext.cc/literacy.html |
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=SUMMARY= |
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twext may offer a useful new language learning interface |
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integrating a variety of elements, many new: |
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• bifocal bitext: translation info can be nearly invisible |
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• interface: students choose material that truly interests them |
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• flexible: text and translation can both be multi-or-monolingual |
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• chunk size: variable from single-syllable to multi-sentence |
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• MuT: marked-up-twext enables comment-per-chunk enrichment |
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• system: twext makes it lots easier to format bifocal bitext |
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[[wixi]] |
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