Twext

TWEXT

TWEXT

text enriched for language learners

twin text bifocal bitext format

faint translations between lines of foreign text

trademark, for proposed member-ownership management

commercial system to promote universal literacy

"twext"

"twext" combines the english words "twin" and "text"
"twext" also sounds like "twixt" which means "between".. 

thus, the word "twext" infers a "twin text" format, where
"twext translation" is inserted betwixt lines of text.

"translation"

"translation" here is loosely interpreted to include:
- traditional translations, ie english to spanish
- dialect comparisons, ie cockney to british
- synonyms within same language, ie similar to alike
- etc.

bifocal bitext

bifocal bitext formats "translations" carefully to 
help us focus to learn new words in various languages.

method

a simple twext method can easily format bifocal bitext..
twext method may enable rich, complex learning systems.

chunks

twext method can vary chunk sizes for bifocal bitext, to
accomodate for variable word order in variable languages.

mut

twext method to chunk text enables per-chunk enrichment,
enabling users to MuT "marked up twext]" with added meaning.

twexter

twexter software can format texts for specific users, 
and grow to provide a vibrant new learning interface.

trademark

twext is a trademark of twext, now forming with an
http://twext.cc/member/owner.html managment proposal,
with aim to grow http://twext.cc/literacy.html

SUMMARY

twext may offer a useful new language learning interface
integrating a variety of elements, many new:

• bifocal bitext: translation info can be nearly invisible
• interface: students choose material that truly interests them
• flexible: text and translation can both be multi-or-monolingual
• chunk size: variable from single-syllable to multi-sentence
• MuT: marked-up-twext enables comment-per-chunk enrichment
• system: twext makes it lots easier to format bifocal bitext

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