From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Sun Apr 22 20:29:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 23 Apr 2001 03:29:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 76101 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2001 03:29:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Apr 2001 03:29:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2 with SMTP; 23 Apr 2001 03:29:00 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f3N3SwZ23831 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:28:58 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:28:58 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] The Translation Site for Normal Users In-Reply-To: <20010422183614.H734@digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Ah, important point. > > I think that people should _absolutely_ edit other people's work. > Hopefully things will eventually settle on the 'best' translation. So > please, read what other people have done! Maybe you should write up some editing guidelines to stick in the README. It would seem reasonable, to me, for them to be something along the lines of: 1) If there is a grammatical error where the correction is obvious, then fix it. No need to make a note of anything. 2) If there is a grammatical error where the correction isn't obvious, then fix it, and make a little note. 3) If you think that some grmmatical form was poorly chosen, make a note, but don't do anything. 4) If you think a word is really badly chosen, make a note. 5) If you think a word is poorly chosen, (because you don't like some cmavo, or when gismu are similar. 'drink' vs 'eat' for something ambigous, like gelatin), then just make a mental note of it to discuss when translation is nearing completion and the whole thing has to be made consistent. Worrying about consistency during the initial phase of a group translation project seems like it might be premature. (Though something to keep in the back of your mind.) A final pass for consistency will be needed no matter wait. - Jay Kominek Waiting Is.