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#123327 - 09/17/04 06:13 PM Re: Useful language links
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#123328 - 09/17/04 08:17 PM Re: D'ya ken this link?
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#123329 - 09/23/04 06:07 PM Re: D'ya ken this link?
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Posts: 13667 Another one from the gold mine that is aldiboronti of wordorigins:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html
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#123330 - 09/23/04 07:24 PM Re: D'ya ken this link?
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Loc: Te Ika a Maui Thanks, F. Do you happen to know if there is any review of the user editing that is done? It's a little wiki-ish. In the case of wikipedia, there is no review of the user editing at all, so I could edit the page on Hannukkah to describe it as a Mayan blood sacrifice ritual, dedicated to the God Zarniwoop. I am loathe to point to a resource as easily invalidated.
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#123331 - 09/23/04 08:48 PM Re: D'ya ken this link?
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Posts: 13667 I suggested it for the wealth of old Germanic dictionaries, editing of which is all done and gone lo these many years hence. Might not be the latest research, but
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#123332 - 09/24/04 12:57 AM Re: D'ya ken this link?
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Loc: Te Ika a Maui Good enough. I was just a little concerned by this:
"The Volunteer page contains a sophisticated web-based system which allows you to reserve a dictionary page, correct it, and submit the corrections. Please volunteer!"
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#123333 - 09/29/04 09:13 PM Re: Useful language links
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Posts: 13667 I don't think you have this one, Max:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/
But beware. There's quicksand in there.
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#123334 - 12/24/04 02:40 PM Re: Useful language links
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Loc: Te Ika a Maui Just a note to say that the address of my list has changed slightly
http://maxqnzs.com/References.html
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#123335 - 02/18/05 07:58 PM Re: Useful language links
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#123336 - 02/25/05 06:41 PM Re: Useful language links
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Posts: 4757 Thanks to Lizzie on w/origins for pointing out the BBC site element:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/C54721
Lots of interesting specific topics summarised – for example, see: Alphabets and writing systems / The development of the Western Alphabet.
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