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Ilayde
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« on: Mar 10 2010, 05:12:38 »

What about making a page with basic linguistic terms translated into a number of languages? Things like parts of speech, names of cases, phoneme features etc...

This idea was mostly inspired by my own anger when I realized I had no idea how to say "bilabial stop" in neither Polish nor Swedish and bemoaned the lack of such a list on the great internets.  Speechless
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« Reply #1 on: Mar 10 2010, 09:19:01 »

I think a page under the general pages in the wiki would be a great idea. As for translations, I think it would be best to do it as the rest of the pages are done.
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« Reply #2 on: Mar 10 2010, 09:29:56 »

Yeah we should remove the translations for now. It doesn't make sense to translate something that hasn't yet been written.
Most translations link to English articles anyway.
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« Reply #3 on: Mar 10 2010, 09:32:24 »

I think a page under the general pages in the wiki would be a great idea. As for translations, I think it would be best to do it as the rest of the pages are done.

These pages have been started, but incomplete. Check under the menu "help" and go to language basics (don't ask why it was put there..)
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« Reply #4 on: Mar 10 2010, 09:43:48 »

Ah, my sentence was too ambiguous there, you have misunderstood. I mean instead of having just a large list in a number of languages, we have the list only in one language, but we have the same list translated for all the other languages, like the main page is. So it would be like Basics:Terms, SV:Basics:Terms, GD:Basics:Terms etc.
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