I've been quietly working on cleaning up the dictionary--I might have to start over with a new update. Thank you!
I think there's probably still too many words, to be honest: too many hyphenated and overly specific words, and I caught some words that don't belong in the time period DF is 'set in' (like bullet, casing, burger, driveway..more examples in my commit). Perhaps the dictionary can be cleaned up? That's
more or less what I was doing, but I was working on the finished product and not the setup you have. The expanded dictionary at its best adds
tons of great missing, funny, and lewd words that really add to the game: at its worst it can result in hyphenated word salad, and I think more cleaning up would help with that
significantly.
There's a reasonable amount of feedback in the
last two pages of my mod thread. Your work is appreciated.
EDIT: Rather than word on this independently, would it help if I compiled a list of words that I think deserve culling? Right off the top of my head I think the specific creature names can be dropped. Eg, rather than entries for peach-faced-lovebird, peach-faced-lovebird-man, masked-lovebird, and masked-lovebird-man, I was shortening the list to just 'lovebird'. I think it's a fantastic idea that ends up (IMO) contributing to the word salad criticism. I feel similarly about all of the metals and gems included in the dictionary.
I've lost my most recent work, but
this edit comprises much of the work I was doing. Browsing the changes to language_words.txt is probably the most useful. You can see what words I excised there: between that and the feedback here and in my thread, I hope I've provided enough detail to make my critique useful.
If this is too much work I'm happy to take a crack at fixing up the source files myself: I'd just need the same setup you use to be uploaded.