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Re:Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. ... by yorwba on Monday May 04, 2026 @12:36AM (#48004681)
FWIW, North Koreans also use lots of English-derived loanwords for computer topics, but they may be different from those in the south. Some time ago I made a search interface for a North Korean English dictionary if you want to poke around: https://yorwba.github.io/dic.html/ For example, "file" is 화일 (hwail) instead of 파일 (pail).
Re:Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. ... by GreenDolphinSys on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:46AM (#48005067)
This is really interesting, thanks for putting it together. I figure for specific topics like computing it's pretty much unavoidable.
Re:Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. ... by yorwba on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:12AM (#48005212)
You might also be interested in the writeup by the person who reverse-engineered the original dictionary file format: https://digitalnk.com/blog/2020/05/08/porting-north-korean-d...