Rejig description of project aim/motivation

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However, the quicker I can know more about the words I'm using, the better!
Offline dictionaries are obviously the way to go then, and the Console
implementation of StarDict already has a package or two for Emacs.
implementation of StarDict already has a package or two for Emacs which I can
build off.
I like things fancy though, and all of the existing StarDict interfaces seem a
bit ... restrained --- so I grabbed one of the existing ones and hacked away on it
for a bit.
However, I'd like to really focus on the words, and making it easy and intuitive
as possible to gain a greater understanding of the words and phrases we use.
Thus, I wanted the focus here to not be on the specific backend used (though
only =sdcv= has been implemented as of yet)
This has rich support for the following dictionaries:
+ [[http://download.huzheng.org/dict.org/stardict-dictd-web1913-2.4.2.tar.bz2][Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)]]