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Various site update comments



On 6/16/05, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote:

> http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/gramintro3.html

Formatting typo:

go zu tomo ja parizo. >BR>I use car go Paris. (I go to Paris by car.) 

This chapter is overall fairly good, but it would be improved
(as would the earlier chapters) by giving true interlinear
glosses as well as the regular English glosses.
See
http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/files/morpheme.html

Also, in the earlier chapters it seems that you never
explicitly described ceqli's word order.  The examples you
give make it mostly clear, but it would make sense 
to explicitly describe the word order rules early on.

Are there any extended texts in ceqli besides the 
dialogue between the two ladies (which doesn't
seem to be on the site anymore)?

The site navigation leaves a lot to be desired -
several of the subpages have no links in them
to the main page or other pages.
At a minimum, every page on the site should link
up to the main page, and probably each
grammar page should link to the glossary
and the succeeding chapter of the grammar.

At the bottom of 
http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm
there is a 1999 copyright notice, which might misleadingly
suggest the page hasn't been updated in ages and
the languag development is dormant.  Better:

(c) 1997-2005 Rex F. May. Main page last 
updated on [date]; subpages may have
been updated more recently.

-- 
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm