Presto!! Serving up Greek paradigms for you
February 8th, 2008 by Danny ZachariasHow cool is this little piece of software! It is called Kalos software, available for free for both pseudo-computers (PC) and real computers (Mac).
Kalos does 3 things: 1) it is a dictionary. 2) It is a morphological tool that will parse any word form. 3) It will spit out full paradigms for any word! Very cool.
Enjoy, and hat tip to my colleague Ken Penner for pointing it out to me.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Hi Danny,
I downloaded it (second time to do so; first time I didn’t like it) and there are a couple of issues. Although it is free it requires an activation key, which I do not have and cannot find on their website. The other issue is, and this may be solved if I have an activation key, that I’m not able to ‘parse any word form.’ E.g., I tested δεδηλωκασι, pf. form of δηλοω but no information appeared after I pressed search (I used ‘no limit’). My experience with it isn’t as exciting as I thought it would be … and I’m using a Mac.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Hi Jeremy. I confess I didn’t try the parsing part before posting, just the dictionary and paradigm creator. I do know that it is donationware, so the activation key request is the nag screen that you can get rid of by purchasing an activation key. But from what I read on the website, you can use it without purchase as long as you put up with the nag screen.
did you type in the accents? this may be the issue. If not, it may be a problem that the developer’s need to know about.
February 11th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Danny,
I know this will make me sound computer illiterate, but when I download it for Mac, all I get is something that opens in text edit. Is this because I’m running Leopard?
Thanks,
Nick
February 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
weird! Did you download the correct one? I’m also on Leopard and I didn’t have that problem.
If you did download the .sit, it may be that your archive utility is not working. There is a free unarchiver that is great called the unarchiver
February 14th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
The unarchiver did the trick! I’m excited to start using this. Thanks Danny!