| Joomla Extension of the Month - April 08 |
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| Tuesday, 01 April 2008 | |
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Thankfully our Extension of the Month for April is here to solve all those problems.
The British-American English mambot automatically explains strange words in either dialect. Examples of the Mambot in Action
The mambot comes with a long list of phrases including gobsmacked, taking the piss in one direction and then boondocks and hoagie in the other.
We're currently working on versions for South Africa, Canadian, Indian and New Zealand versions of English, but gave up on Australian ... that dialect is just a dogs dinner. The mambot should be available shortly. Drop me a comment below if you'd like to test it or want to see any particular words included.
Comments (14)
  written by guido, April 01, 2008
It looks very interesting for every dictionary based use, but you forgot many details:
1 where is the homepage for this extension? where can I download it? 2 is it compatible with 1.0, 1.5? native, legacy? 3 is it compatible with joomfish (2.0 is coming out in the next few days...)? written by Brian Teeman, April 01, 2008
What would be really useful would be a guide to the pronunciation of the word as well. This could be achieved using a TTS (text to speech) perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeTTS.
Sometimes the meaning of a word or phrase becomes more obvious if you can gear it spoken in the local dialect/accent. I'd also find it really useful if it included North Amercian slang and expressions from yiddish, redneck, new orleans etc written by Gillian MB Tyrer, April 01, 2008
Acht, jings, civvens help ma baob.
Us Scots left out yet again. I guess we'll just have to wait for the new version in a years time   written by greenlivingideas, April 01, 2008
looks like you modded the ... errr.. English to English ... bot PHP code.. if you would perhaps tomorrow provide the code changes you made to make the background dark instead of yellow, that would be cool! thanks..
 written by TonyL, April 01, 2008
I'd love to test and use this mambot! but ideally would like the Aussie version!
written by guido, April 02, 2008
Hey people, I have not been able to find this mambot in the extension directory, could anyone give me an hint? a link?
thanks in advance! written by Brian Teeman, April 02, 2008
Hey Guido I am sorry to inform you that this extension only exists in Steve's head.It was an April Fools Day joke.
Having said that if you can get a suitable list of words and their meanings it is very easy to achieve (at least in Joomla 1.0) using the glossary component from www.remository.com and the associated mambot. In fact you can see it in action here www.alyth.org.uk where all the jewish terms are explained written by guido, April 04, 2008
Nooooo!
Fooled by an April's joke! What a shame! Like the worst of the newbies!!!!!!! By the way, thanks, Brian, but still I appreciate the style that joke's popup had, hope that remository people take inspiration from it... written by Brian Teeman, April 04, 2008
The bot I used with the component is from greatjoomla.com and I'm fairly sure you could achieve the style you want with it
 written by Steve Burge, April 04, 2008
It was an April Fools unfortunately - I'd love to see this component for real
 The component I used was FW Tool Tips which looks nice but is actually a bit buggy, particularly with SEF: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,3084/Itemid,35/ I've had to disable it was messing with other areas of the site. written by Brian Teeman, April 07, 2008
A native 1.5 version of the glossary comment from remository.com has now been released by www.granholmhosting.com/
I've not had a chanve to check it out but it looks as if it has the same functionality as the original Write comment
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As a Brit living in the U.S. I really know what George Bernard Shaw was talking about when he said we are "two countries divided by a common language". Some of the things Americans say really don't make much sense and I'm sure lots of Yanks think the same about us.
For example, British people might be confused by a term like "ballpark figure", assuming it refers to the body-shape of someone who ate all the pies. On the other hand, Americans could take a phrase like "luvvly-jubbly" and think its a bubble bath. 
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That is absolutely brilliant! I'd love to try out the South African version when its ready
Cheers,
Chris