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Add missing words for Old Burmish? #41

Closed LinguList closed 8 years ago

LinguList commented 8 years ago

Currently, there are some 130 items for Old Burmish.

The question is: is it feasible to add the full 250 words, potentially with help from experts?

If so, there are different ways to do it:

  1. via spreadsheet that I prepare along with concept definitions, in order to make sure that the translations are as close as possible (I'll base it on this sheet), or
  2. via the EDICTOR app, where I have the possibility to create "templates", in which empty slots are automatically created and can then be filled in.
nh36 commented 8 years ago

Partly it depends on how you wish to proceed. In principle, if there is a 'Written Burmese' then this can mechanically be changed into Burmese. This in turn, can also be mechanically changed into Old Burmese. But I often times found myself uncomfortable doing this, but in any case, I can make an effort to add Burmese and Old Burmese. I suggest that the best way is through the Edictor system.

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On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Johann-Mattis List < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Currently, there are some 130 items for Old Burmish.

The question is: is it feasible to add the full 250 words, potentially with help from experts?

If so, there are different ways to do it:

  1. via spreadsheet that I prepare along with concept definitions, in order to make sure that the translations are as close as possible (I'll base it on this sheet https://github.com/digling/burmish/blob/master/tsv/STDB-2016-250.tsv), or
  2. via the EDICTOR app, where I have the possibility to create "templates", in which empty slots are automatically created and can then be filled in.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/digling/burmish/issues/41.

LinguList commented 8 years ago

Allright. As I just said in #43, this will require to have the web-app updated (I mean the interface for selection of languages at http://dighl.github.io/burmese/), so that we can then just use the "template" flag in the Edictor. I'll try to prepare this quickly.