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Re: [ceqli] Various site update comments



on 7/2/05 9:29 AM, Jim Henry at jimhenry1973@hidden.email wrote:

> 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.)

Fixed
> 
> 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

I will study up on this and try to get it done.
> 
> 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.

Added a word-order section right before the Imperative here
http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/gramintro.html
> 
> Are there any extended texts in ceqli besides the
> dialogue between the two ladies (which doesn't
> seem to be on the site anymore)?

Not yet.  Any suggestions about any public domain thing that would be good
to translate for this purpose.   Oh, I redid the dubolka to refect the new
use of zo for names and restored it.
> 
> 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.

I did a bit of that and will try to add more.
> 
> 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.

Got it.  Many thanks!



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