Anglyn

First Declension Masculine Nouns

As any elementary Latin grammar will tell you, there are a few of these (the example usually given is nauta). Please check your facts before you "correct" any more entries. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:30, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Entry formatting and copyright

I noticed that you're taking definitions from another dictionary. Unless that dictionary is available under a Wiktionary-compatible licence, you shouldn't take entries directly from it as that is a copyright violation.

Secondly, I'd like to ask you to check the formatting of the content you add, to make sure it fits with Wiktionary's practices. I noticed that you have added many definitions with context labels formatted as (<em> ... </em>), while labels should use the {{label}} or {{context}} templates. There is also no "Phrases" header, so please don't add it to entries. See WT:ELE for more information on entry layout. —CodeCat 17:16, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

I agree with CodeCat on using copyrighted definitions. Let me suggest that, if you copy, you use Lewis and Short, which is out of copyright and is conveniently available online. DCDuring TALK 20:03, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Anglyn (talk) 23:51, 16 January 2015 (UTC) I am sure a carbon copy of a pre-existing on-line repository would be most helpful indeed. Did you know that when I was translating Vergilius' Aeneid that the noun 'ius' came up with in Lewis and Short defined as, "the juice of a purple fish". Two dozen people voted for it. This is an incorrect definition. I happen to have the Freund's (Charlton T.Lewis and Charles Short) original hard copy Latin-English Dictionary (which runs into etymologies of ancient Greek and is over two thousand pages long, along with another half a dozen dictionaries in my possession), and the definitions it comes up with on the computer are sometimes - but not often - completely the opposite of what the word actually means or have a skewed signification. Furthermore, I am not sure if you are aware, but phrases are an essential part of culture. If you translate in what is known in Higher Educational linguistic anthropology as "Translationese" taking too literal an interpretation, you completely miss the point and are therefore unaware of what groups of words mean, beyond the meaning of the individual words themselves. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. By not allowing modern definitions or phrases, you will not bring to light the true signification of any culture. That, is the truth, like it or lump it.

What you linked to isn't the L & S dictionary, but the Word Study Tool. The actual entry is here (there actually is an entry that has the "juice of the purple fish" definition). The problem is that the people who created the Word Study Tool weren't very careful about the keywords they used to summarize definitions (they might even have been done by a program). I only use the Word Study Tool to confirm a given inflected form, not to get definitions. The address I start from is this one Chuck Entz (talk) 03:43, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Anglyn (talk) 22:10, 19 January 2015 (UTC) Totally Chuck Entz. I must confess for using it for the same purpose. I should have the declensions and conjugations memorised for my examination though. Where do you suggest we get definitions from whilst staying within the lawful boundaries and not infringing copyright law? (I have only two of seven dictionaries which are dated prior to the seventy year constraint).

A belated welcome

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Chuck Entz (talk) 05:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Anglyn (talk) 14:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC) Thanks Chuck. Sincerely.