[lojban] Re: typo in etymology

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> I noticed a typo in the "gismu Etymology" page on the wiki: "pebionak" should
> be "rebionak". I was going to make a note of it, but the page is marked
> "official". Where should I put the note?

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".

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.

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