Arbitrary baseline violations (was: zo xruti xruti)

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote:

> Anyway, I have changed the Spanish definition to read thus:
>
> xruti     xru       volver
> x1 vuelve/regresa/retorna a estado/lugar anterior/original x2 desde x3;
> [def. oficial: x1 devuelve/regresa x2 a persona/estado/lugar
> anterior/original x3 desde x4]
>
> This way the official definition is acknowledged, while presenting
> the other one as preferred.


This is something that belongs in commentary, rather than the official
dictionary. No gismu list should deviate in place structure: that is too
blatant a violation, and cannot be justified as difference of translation
opinion!




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