Re: A question regarding dictionary entries
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 17:19 |
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Hallo!
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:01:45 -0700, Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am redesigning my dictinary for Kelen (yet again), and I am planning
> on having short glosses (one word, maybe two) for each stem or base
> word, and also longer definitions for each fully formed and inflected
> word. My question: given that Kelen has a base 8 counting system,
> should I gloss 'āllōr' as 32 or 40? It has the functional equivalent
> of 40 in the language, being 8x4, but refers to 32 things.
You should gloss it as 32, or better, 4*8, but *not* as 40 because
it is a different number.
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