Re: Yivrian Lexicon Online!

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:39:13 -0700, JS Bangs <jaspax@...> wrote:

>Jeff Jones sikyal:
>
>> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:25:23 -0700, JS Bangs <jaspax@...>
wrote:
>>
>> >Conlangers:
>> >
>> >After teaching myself Perl and CGI basics, I was able to get a
>> >preliminary version of the Yivrian lexicon online. Rejoice! The lexicon
>> >may be found at: http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/scripts/lex.cgi
>>
>> It's very fast, but, um, it doesn't seem do actually _do_ anything.
>> Perhaps you could add a little explanation to the page.
>
>This is probably because you're searching the wrong way.  I realized that
>the way the page is designed is confusing to some people--if you select to
>search through "Yivrian", the program looks through the Yivrian head
>entries and tries to find a match.  If you put an English word in and
>select that option, nothing will come up (probably). To search for, say,
>the Yivrian word for "dog," you must put "dog" in the search field and
>select "English."
I figured that, so I tried it both ways.

>I should probably put this explanation on the page itself, along with a
>nice note to say when you haven't gotten any matches. Off I go . . .
I just tried the newer version.
fountain (E2Y) -- no matches
dog (your example) (E2Y) -- suk, soko
suk (Y2E) -- dog (same entry as before)
so far so good, but then I put in cat (E2Y) and rat (E2Y) and got half a
dozen irrelevent entries each.

Jeff J.

>Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
>http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/
>
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>perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in
>frightful danger of seeing it for the first time."
>--G.K. Chesterton

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