[lojban] Re: typo in etymology

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Saturday 19 November 2005 14:24, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> That page lists the inputs to the gismu making algorithm. It is a known
> fact that there were a few transcription errors and typos in it. While
> "pebionak" might be a wrong transcription of Russian (is that the language
> in column 5?), it is "correct" in the sense that it *is* one of the
> strings that was used to generate "verba".

Yes it is Russian. Another point about that word is that "-yonok" is a suffix 
used mostly to form the young of animals (an exception is "bochka" "barrel", 
whose little one "bochonok" was not born or hatched), and its plural is 
"-yata". Generally declensional endings were chopped off before a word was 
used to make a Lojban word.

> What I suggest you do, is to create a new page, called something like
> "gismu etymology errata", where you collect this kind of mistakes. I
> believe it is commonly mentioned that due to a transcription error of
> Chinese, "gismu" should really have been "gicmu". Knowing no Chinese, I
> can't think of a replacement for the etymology that's in the list.

There are some typos noted on the page, such as {spofu}, which should have 
been {spotu} (there is no 'f' in any of the etymology words), and "monbre", 
one of the words used to make {cmene}, which should have been "nombre".

phma


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