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Linguistics - Japanese
PageType: Path   Difficulty: Expert   Keywords: Go term

The pages linked from here have linguistic (rather than technical go) discussion as their main content.

Charles I think now a better way of handling this all is to recognize a category of Talk pages. So we might have pages aji (what it is, tending to an encyclopedic master edit), aji discussion? for overflow thread discussion about aji as go term/jargon, and aji talk?, meaning 'talk about the Japanese word aji'.

(Sebastian:) Question: Since this is a path, does it make sense if it's sorted alphabetically or can we find some other logical order?

Charles Alphabetical isn't good?

(Sebastian:) It is good for this page. And it was OK going along the path while it went from agehama to hataraki. But since I squeezed byo-yomin and gaijin in there, it is not a walk along a nice garden path anymore, but a locomotion of abrupt jumps.

I'll start to implement the use of page titles such as KikashiTalk (was LinguisticMeaningOfKikashi) in a more systematic way. In general terms, this means

  • KikashiTalk addresses kikashi semantically, as a Japanese word;

while

  • KikashiDiscussion

would address it as a go term, in a discussion thread.

Of course there is a difficulty here: a term such as kikashi that resists easy translation into English, quite probably does so because a clear separation of the two sides isn't available. The translation problem is roughly to boil down KikashiDiscussion to the point where KikashiTalk is no longer needed ...

(Sebastian:) Now that you created the Talk pages page (and I won't thank you for all your effort, as promised), there is a big overlap. Maybe this page has become obsolete? Or would it be desirable to keep this non-go topic as a special path?

Charles I'm probably done with this page; on the other hand, as you can see at Metadiscussion, there isn't consensus about my 'solution' (to my own definition of a 'problem'). I expect to rename pages currently listed here, in the near future.


[1] Bill: I disagree. Work is about go.

Charles: Discussion sparked off by this listing now at editing pages - discussion


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