Harley Quine

What I’ve Been Working On

I usually have a few different projects in the pipelines, saved on my drive waiting for me to be bothered to work on them. A lot of the time the projects don’t amount to anything and stay saved there for a rainy day when I actually go looking for something to do. Recently I’ve been considering my own situation, I have a year in which to learn a language so thoroughly that I can write long essays in it, and I thought well why don’t I do something that will improve my language skills as well as make my life a bit easier. So I’ve been working on a plugin that puts some order into Finnish grammar.

The upside is that Finnish has a logical grammar structure which will suit this endeavour. The downside is that there are tricky words that like to bend in a different way because they’re exceptions. So far my plugin bends verbs, quite successfully too I might add ;P It also has dictionary functions which can translate a text. The translated text comes out as Finglish though (Finnish word order is less rigid than English) and I haven’t put in phrase translation yet which is a must because Finns have some weird ways of saying things. This plugin would be useful for… me.. and possibly some other people trying to learn Finnish, or people who want to blog in Finnish but also want a translation. The translation part will be tricky but hopefully with some phrase checking as well as dictionary checking and a few nifty code-bits it’ll all come together.