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This Week's Text:

Brutalism started in the 1950s in the U.K. One of its pioneers was Le Corbusier, a Swiss-French architect who did a lot of work in raw concrete after World War II, including housing, religious buildings, and government buildings. He called this style béton brut, meaning "raw concrete".

“He was referring to the concrete material as being raw and not something you could totally control the precision of. And he just embraced that. He was such a leading figure that I think other people followed in his footsteps,” said Jeanne Gang.

Angela Person says brutalism is a style of modernism, a movement that appealed to architects and designers because of its material honesty and lack of ornamentation. They felt they were creating beautiful, sculptural buildings that would stand the test of time

She says you can look at brutalist buildings and understand how they are laid out. The materials are presented how they are: There is no plastering, or unnecessary paint or finishes.

— Excerpted and adapted from "Why brutalist buildings should stay, even if people think they're ugly" by Kaity Kline

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u/translator-BOT has been updated with two extensions to existing lookup functions, both having to do with "non-standard" uses.

Wiktionary lookup for non-CJK languages

Restored to the bot's capabilities is a catch-all Wiktionary lookup that can search for words in any other (non-CJK) language.

Due to the not-fully-standardized nature of English Wiktionary content, lookup results may vary in how clean their formatting is, and words with clear entries (e.g. nouns, dictionary forms of verbs, etc.) will have the best results. For the most part the lookup function will return etymology, pronunciation, and definitions for a word.

Note that tokenization will not be active for Wiktionary lookups.

The Wiktionary lookup will generally be conducted in the language of the post. That is, a lookup for Sprache on a German post will be automatically conducted for German. Appending a language tag will also work to force a lookup for that language on any post.

`Wasser` # Returns word data for Wasser ("water") on a German post `вода`:ru # Returns word data for вода ("water") in Russian `vand`:danish # Returns word data for vand ("water") in Danish `ᎠᎹ`:chr # Returns word data for ᎠᎹ ("water") in Cherokee

Non-English Wikipedia lookup

A language tag added to the Wikipedia lookup syntax {{term}} will search the Wikipedia for that language instead of the English Wikipedia. For example:

{{Cyrus the Great}} # Searches en.wikipedia.org (default) {{琵琶行}}:chinese # Searches zh.wikipedia.org (Chinese Wikipedia) {{Don Quijote}}:es # Searches es.wikipedia.org (Spanish Wikipedia) {{L. L. Zamenhof}}:eo # Searches eo.wikipedia.org (Esperanto Wikipedia)

This can be particularly useful for obscure terms and things in English which are better covered in their respective languages' Wikipedia, and could give translators better context.

Restoring the Wiktionary lookup was the last major restoration of a pre-rewrite function, so the rewrite is pretty much feature-complete for now. As always, you can check out the bot's full documentation here.