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Author: Hela Faulks
Date: 2007-06-24 14:06:26
Subject: Re: German Nouns
> > In the Old Icelandic Lexicon the German nouns are written entirely
> > in lower case. What to do with those nouns? Insert ERROR or correct
> > it or just let it as it is?
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> That was an accepted practice at the time the dictionary was written. I wouldn't mark it as an ERROR because it can't be said that the author made a mistake; the author was following the accepted German orthography of the time.
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> So the question is whether to modernize it by changing the initial letter to uppercase, or leave it as it is. I would say to leave it as it is.
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> One practical issue is that I don't think all volunteers would update it consistently, so we'd end up with some pages modernized, and others not.
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> Then there's the question of what the ideal solution would be. Do we modernize the work of these 19th century scholars? This is a thorny problem because there are good reasons to want the online text to be an exact reflection of the printed text, but there are also good reasons to want the information to reflect what a modern scholar would create.
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> In the final XML version, one way we can achieve both goals by denoting the original and changed versions: <original>haus</original> <updated>Haus</updated>. So we show what is tampered and untampered.
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> --Sean
Ok, thanx. I let it as it is.
But for a better understanding it would be absolutely great if the final version shows the original and the modernized versions.
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| German Nouns |
Hela Faulks |
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2007-06-22 18:51:23 |
| Re: German Nouns |
Sean Crist |
Nuance communications |
2007-06-23 00:30:37 |
| Re: German Nouns |
Hela Faulks |
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2007-06-24 14:06:26 |