Digital solution to age-old dilemma (fwd link)

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Digital solution to age-old dilemma

December 19, 2008
Australia

IN THE most remote parts of Australia, one computer can be shared between 100
people, with only a handful knowing how to turn it on.

But even there, says a University of Sydney linguist, Aidan Wilson, there are
"thousands of mobile phones".

That's why Mr Wilson and his colleagues at the university's Pacific And Regional
Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures hope their indigenous mobile
phone dictionary will be a hit.

It is based on Kirrkirr, an interactive dictionary developed at the university
that shows not only the meanings but also how words are connected to others.

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