> I had a nifty idea I thought I'd share in case anyone
> cared to borrow it for their own conlang.
>
> I learn best by example and analogy so when I look up
> a word in a dictionary I like to have ready access to
> a handful of sentence that use that word so I can see
> how the word actually behaves in the wild.
That's a nice idea! An example often says more than a
thousand words in a dictionary entry.
> To that end, I've written a program to create my
> dictionary page and a sample sentence page from a
> dictionary file and a corpus of sentences. It shows a
> maximum of 20 sample sentences (number is adjustable)
> for a given word and the newer sentences push older
> ones out of sight as time goes on, so that the sample
> sentences continue to represent the most current usage
> patterns.
>
> Here's what the hyperlinked Elomi dictionary (a work
> in progress with a few bugs yet) looks like:
>
http://fiziwig.com/lexicon.html