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[lojban] etymology tome
In a message dated 4/13/2008 04:22:13 AM Central Daylight Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:
My wife helped me find and dig out the great Tome of Etymology from
where it was buried. I spent a few minutes comparing what you had with
what was in the book, and had no complaints about the dozen odd words I
looked up.
Alas, a serious effort to use the book to solve your problems will take
much time. The hundreds of sheets are not ordered in any way and are
not indexed. There are 4 words to the typical page in no particular
order, and thus the pages couldn't be ordered if I wanted to. The only
way I will find the missing and problem words is pretty much to go
through a page at a time.
I still have the Russian dictionary we used for the original work as well.
I'll see if I can make an effort on it in the next week or two.
lojbab
How much trouble would it be to photograph or scan all those pages and post them on a site or email them? Or mail the whole thing? How hard is it to read the handwriting?
I'm offering to type the whole thing if it's deemed worthy of the effort.
stevo