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22 March 2011

Entry 7 - Editing Latin Wikipedia

I've contributed two articles to Vicipaedia: I created the "esraj" article, and I created the "gay literature" article. It's quite hard to translate English articles to Latin. I would use the Italian as a guide, but some of these articles are only available in English or Russian. Thus, my translations oft-times make no sense.

Using Vicipaedia and Wikipedia has made me wonder: what is the standard way of adopting foreign words? The phonology and gender is hard to logically determine.  Should the new word be masculine, feminine, or neuter? Should the word keep its spelling mostly unchanged, or should the sound be mimicked? If we should write the words as they sound, then how should we annotate the dzh sound in Latin orthography? If anyone knows anything about this, I'd like to hear your words!

Here are the articles I started:

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litteratura_homophylophilia

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esraja

Ugh... I hope somebody corrects these: the grammar and spelling is horrible!

17 March 2011

Entry 3 - Ngifuna Ukufunda isiZulu Manje

Sawubona. Igama lami nguCaleb na ngiphuma eKansas City. Ngithanda ukuyizwa imuzika iJazz, kodwa Jazz anguphuma eKansas City manje. Ngicela hhayi ngibonela iJazz eKansas City, kodwa mina angibona eBaba lami.

Thina asikhonela iJazz eKansas City. Asiqala ukubonela iJazz: Baba akuthanda iJazz muzika, ukuthi angibona.

Salani amakahle, amantu emhlaba!

Hi. My name is Caleb and I come from Kansas City. I like listening to Jazz music, but Jazz isn't in Kansas City now. I think, sadly, I do not see Jazz in Kansas City, but I do not see it around my father.

We're not in Kansas City for the Jazz. We will not begin seeing Jazz: Dad doesn't like Jazz music, that I don't see it.

Stay well, people of the world!