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Re: [ceqli] Various site update comments



On 7/4/05, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@hidden.email> wrote:
> Just dug up an old Babel text I'd forgotten about, redid it, and posted it
> here
> http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/babel.html
> 
> Appreciate proofreading and critique.

The HTML document has the title "Untitled".
And as a heading I would prefer "The Tower of Babel story,
from Genesis 11:1-9" to "The Babel Text" -- the latter 
is common jargon in the conlang community but not
outside it.

There's a misplaced <I> tag before Verse 7,
so everything in the document from there on is in italics.

It's generally better to use heading elements
(<H1>, <H2> etc.) and regular paragraph elements
(<P>, <LI>, etc.) rather than specify particular font
sizes for different parts of the document.  Then if it's 
inconveniently large or small for a particular reader he
can adjust his browser instead of being stuck with
your specified font sizes.  (This goes for some other
pages on the site as well.)

Here, and on other pages, the "click here to..."
is repetitive and unnecessary.  People navigating
the ceqli site are probably not so new to the web
that they can't tell a hyperlink when they see one.
Just "The ceqli main page" would be fine
as link text.

>...kai duelho cu.

I searched for an explanation of how the -ho suffix works and 
could not find it.  Maybe it's just a matter of the Google index
being out of date and not having indexed your latest updates.

>hi tu jino ......

How does "jin" become "jino"?  The gloss doesn't indicate
the presence of a suffix.

The first time "jun" occurs it's glossed as "they";
the next time it occurs it seems to be glossed as 
"letter-pronoun-j" - maybe the latter should be used consistently 
throughout.

I've got to go -- more comments later, maybe.

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