Catharina Williams-van Klinken
Director of the Centre for Language Studies at Dili Institute of Technology, Timor-Leste; linguist, translator and Tetun-language teacher with a vision impairment.
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Sep 19, 2026
8:22
For dictionary writing, I get someone to do data entry and then they have to read it to me.
8:28
But realistically, the information that goes into a dictionary entry can have Teuton, English, Portuguese and Indonesian all mixed in in one sentence.
8:42
I'd better explain East Timor was a Portuguese colony for many years, several centuries, and was under Indonesian occupation for 24 years and then became independent.
8:58
So I have to get a human reader and I've only just started doing that a few weeks ago.
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