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https://nomenclature.ctang.art

by ctangy • 2 years ago

73 8 2 years ago

nomenclature.ctang.art

Built with Nuxt & MongoDB – a way to preserve language with personal audio, anecdotes and stories. Hope to make a version open source one day so others can preserve their native languages.

ww520• 2 years ago

Congratulation on launching. The goal of the site is admirable. The UI design is clean and clear. One nitpick, is it possible to have a better color contrast on the text?

leohonexus• 2 years ago

I deeply appreciate this - as a native speaker though, some of the translations don't sound as accurate to me. For example, 永遠冇絕對 was translated as "forever is not absolute", but a better translation would be "nothing is absolute", as in 永遠冇(嘢係)絕對.

That doesn't take away from the effort you undertook to curate the slang though, open-sourcing would be awesome as it'd allow PRs.

LittleOtter• 2 years ago

Thank you for this adorable work!"多谢"！

snapetom• 2 years ago

As a native Hongkonger, love this and appreciate it. Tools like this will be especially important as Mainland continues to Chinafy Hong Kong.

jwong_• 2 years ago

Clean UI and a neat way to document your daily learnings.

Would be interested in running it for other Chinese languages as well.

Unbefleckt• 2 years ago

Cantonese is my favourite language and I really enjoy this, good work.

jktzes• 2 years ago

a nitpick: “天时地理人和” should be "天时地利人和".

yclycpaul• 2 years ago

A native Cantonese speaker and Hong Konger here. Appreciate your effort and love the interactive & minimalistic UI! I look forward to seeing it become an open-source project and can contribute to that!

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