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Re:Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary by ww520 on Friday August 09, 2024 @09:06PM (#41206638)
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?
Re:Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary by leohonexus on Friday August 09, 2024 @09:38PM (#41206722)
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.

Re:Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary by LittleOtter on Friday August 09, 2024 @11:23PM (#41207077)
Thank you for this adorable work!"多谢"!
Re:Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary by snapetom on Saturday August 10, 2024 @12:56AM (#41207412)
As a native Hongkonger, love this and appreciate it. Tools like this will be especially important as Mainland continues to Chinafy Hong Kong.
Re:Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary by jwong_ on Saturday August 10, 2024 @02:29AM (#41207723)
Clean UI and a neat way to document your daily learnings.

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

Re:Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary by Unbefleckt on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:22PM (#41212304)
Cantonese is my favourite language and I really enjoy this, good work.
Re:Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary by jktzes on Sunday August 11, 2024 @09:36AM (#41216048)
a nitpick: “天时地理人和” should be "天时地利人和".
Re:Show HN: Personal Interactive Cantonese Dictionary by yclycpaul on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @02:35AM (#41232879)
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!