tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 27 12:27:51 1994
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Re: Errors and inconsistencies in the dictionary
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Errors and inconsistencies in the dictionary
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 94 0:23:52 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Richard Kennaway" at Aug 27, 94 7:31 pm
According to Richard Kennaway:
>
> I just scanned in the whole dictionary (for personal use only, for the
> obvious copyright reasons I can't send anyone a copy). As a result, I've
> been able to easily search for inconsistencies, e.g. words defined in the
> K-E section but not in the E-K section...
Including a few that I had missed and a few are not
inconsistencies at all.
> What should be done about the inconsistencies? I suggest the following.
>
> Hu/Hur: take KE1 to be correct and EK1 wrong.
Are you considering the words "outside" and "zoo" to be the
same thing? My own interpretation is that {Hu} is simply a
missing entry in EK1, while {Hur} is a normal entry in both
sides.
> mojaq/mojaQ: One is a misprint, but which?
Guido argues that because of {moHaq}, we should consider
{mojaq} to be right. I suspect he is right, but will continue
to recognize both spellings.
> chaw', naw', roj: Allow these to be both nouns and verbs.
I think the noun definition for chaw' is just an omission from
the KE1. Thanks for pointing out naw'. I had missed that one.
As for roj, it is clearly marked as both noun and verb in both
sides of TKD. What is the problem?
> Obvious misprints:
>
> EK1 ghuHmoH (n) warn --- should be (v)
I missed THAT, too.
> tlhej (n) accompany --- should be (v)
Okrand pointed this out in his interview in HolQeD vol. 2 no. 4.
> Inconsistencies:
>
> KE1 Hu (n) zoo
> KE1 Hur (n) outside
> EK1 Hu (n) outside
Hmmm. MY copy of TKD EK1 shows Hur for "outside".
> KE1 roj (v) make peace
> EK1 roj (v) peace, make peace
> EK1 roj (n) peace
Check out KE1 again. It has two listings for roj. One is a noun.
> Omissions:
>
> Present in KE1, absent from EK1
>
> Hon (v) doubt
I'm afraid not. Hon/doubt is present in both sides of TKD.
> jIj (v) cooperate
jIj and yeq both mean cooperate. Unfortunately, each is listed
in only one side of TKD, making cooperation difficult...
> rIp (n) council, assembly
yej and rIp apparently both mean council or assembly.
> ___
> \X/ Richard Kennaway, [email protected], Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich
Overall, your list was impressive. Thank you for sharing. Now
MY list is a little bit more accurate. It is becoming rarer and
rarer for me to catch new things like this for my list, which
was much more painfully constructed, manually entering TKD
wordlist into my word processor.
charghwI'