PHP/Javascript Derivations Game Tutorial
Do you like word games? Today’s game takes Latin and Greek root words, shows you their meaning, and asks you for a derived English Word based on this Latin or Greek root word … we’re going to call the game “The Derivations Game” … and you score a point for each word you supply that satisfies some criteria for whether they are derived from your Latin or Greek root (word). It uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server. Maybe it would be a good game to learn English vocabulary.
Programmers often use Linux dictionary files as a means to get a word list, and that list could be in any language, and for ours it is English, so to make it for another language, you’d need a Linux dictionary arrangement (on your web server) with a different language base.
This game has two parts to it for PHP and Javascript to respectively assess a word to use and arrange the user interaction.
Hopefully you can figure the rules when you click the picture above for a live run.
Thanks to “Text Types in English” by Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson pp. 57-58 for the idea for this tutorial.
Another thank you to The Free Dictionary for its great online presence as a dictionary resource, for the functionality to explain an unknown word, for its dictionary meaning. The image map “click parts of the picture” vocabulary ESL tutorials at this blog use the same resource to explain dictionary information about clicked on “things”.
Anyway, see how you go with this game of interest and history!
Here is a link to some downloadable PHP (with Javascript) programming code you could rename to latin_greek.php
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