On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:02:16AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> >>From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
> >
> > exude
> >     v 1: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude
> >          sweat through the pores" [syn: {exudate}, {transude},
> >          {ooze out}, {ooze}]
> >     2: make apparent by one's mood or behaviour; "She exude great
> >        confidence"
> >
> >"She exude"???
> >
> >"SHE EXUDE"???
> >
> >I exude.
> >You exude.
> >He exudes.
> >She exudes.
> >It exudes.
> >They exude.
> >We exude.
> >
> >WordNet sucks.
> But this bug report sucks as well.  I'm sorry, but I'm no native speaker and
> do not really know how to fix your problem.

See above:
> >She exudes.

> Could you please provide a patch?  I have no idea how I can fix your problem
[...]

Er, well, I would expect the maintainer of a dictionary package to be able
to edit entries in it.  But I'll see if I can come up with a diff to the
source package in the near future.

> neither do I know why this bug reports has severity "normal" (instead of
> wishlist).

It's a dictionary.  It shouldn't have incorrect examples of language usage.

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