Heil öll, Can any of you describe for me your experience with finding ON material? I've heard lots of it before, and I have the general impression of it (of...
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Alfta Reginleif
alfta_reginleif@...
Feb 27, 2001 4:26 am
Heil! First I want to say thank you to those who volunteered to help with OCR/transcribing. As it turns out we probably will not have to worry about that now....
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birgit001@...
Feb 27, 2001 6:30 am
In a message dated 2/26/01 4:54:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... My girlfriend and I read somewhere last year that Björk is half Chinese and half Icelandic....
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Feb 27, 2001 9:47 am
... That's some very good news. I hope it recognises them all. I have been and still am working on an index for the ... I looked at it, it's terrific! Now you...
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xigung@...
Feb 27, 2001 2:40 pm
Hail Hawk! I'll have to return briefly to the word *laugh". You definitely have a point there, that way back, "to laugh" may have started with an "H" -- maybe ...
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Christian Bartel
christian.bartel@...
Feb 27, 2001 3:21 pm
Heill Haukur! ... I would suggest to just write the lessons in Word (and thus use the text-formating skills of that tool) and save them as html. If you use...
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xigung@...
Feb 27, 2001 3:55 pm
Hei List! I now did an experiment with Zoega's dictionary: I copied some of the pages of Zoega's Dictionary of OLD ICELANDIC on a Xerox copier. Then I used ...
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Weyland
weyland@...
Feb 27, 2001 4:11 pm
Awright, guys, I see a dog and pony show coming... Here's how it works: When I OCR it, I create an output file that goes to just about anything I want. I...
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Óskar Guđlaugsson
hr_oskar@...
Feb 27, 2001 4:38 pm
... "Dises"? You're not the first one I see who, lacking an English cognate, simply projects one, or digs up an extremely archaic, long-forgotten one :) A Word...
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mdehners@...
Feb 27, 2001 5:29 pm
In a message dated 2/27/01 8:40:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, hr_oskar@... writes: << When I translate, I usually prefer to use words that educated...
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Alfta Reginleif
alfta_reginleif@...
Feb 27, 2001 6:34 pm
... Yes, I will be doing that. It's a good idea and I'll have a link at the bottom of each page to the original .GIF files so they can be double checked. I...
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xigung@...
Feb 27, 2001 6:50 pm
HAil Oskar! ... I think I saw Susan Granquist was on the list, who has made a special study of the "Disir" over many years. Maybe, like "Ćsir" it will one day...
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Selvarv Stigard
selvarv@...
Feb 27, 2001 6:51 pm
... This is generally called "transliteration" as opposed to translation, and there are the alternate schools of thoughtregarding it. I think the one you...
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xigung@...
Feb 27, 2001 7:23 pm
Hei List! I'd like to report about my experiences with typing up the dictionary. In the file area you will now find the Zoëga dictionary <page one> uploaded....
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xigung@...
Feb 27, 2001 9:14 pm
Hello again Dictionary Enthusiasts! After I posted page 1, I corrected a couple of typing errors. I believe there are very few typos now. The file can be now ...
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Medhal Mikit Stór-...
MahaMayuri@...
Feb 28, 2001 3:28 am
Heill All It is Medhal here. Hope this tips would be useful to someone. Message: 8 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:48:35 -0500 (EST) From: longgren@... ...
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Hannah Schroeter
uk1o@...
Feb 28, 2001 11:28 am
Hello! ... I found three worthwhile books in a local library (Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe): "Altnordisches Elementarbuch" by Friedrich Ranke, Dietrich...
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Hild
hild@...
Feb 28, 2001 11:31 am
... Hi Medhal! ;P ... writing's easy but hey i can't SEE what is written! Especially Something that i guess stands for dh but i read like > But there are some...
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gwiddon8@...
Feb 28, 2001 2:40 pm
Greetings just checking to see which are the most recent files we students should be using. The Homepage( which I think looks great, by the way) does not have...
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keth@...
Feb 28, 2001 3:17 pm
Hello Haukur, I am a bit uncertain if you want my files or not. I offered the files in the hope they would be useful. Yesterday I also wrote that you were...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Feb 28, 2001 3:19 pm
... The homepage is supposed to contain the most updated files but lesson 6 is only available in the files section - so if you want it you will have to get it...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Feb 28, 2001 3:31 pm
... I am very sorry for all the mail I haven't answered; I am drowning in work - both at this course, at school and at my job (teaching physics at a...
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Craig Davis
craigd@...
Feb 28, 2001 3:34 pm
Haukur, I think you said you knew some people using an Icelandic localized version of Linux. I've found a few things that are localized but not a distribution...
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keth@...
Feb 28, 2001 3:56 pm
... Hail Hawk! ... It happens to the best... I can easily understand that you have a lot of work. I even find it amazing that you have found time to do as much...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Feb 28, 2001 3:58 pm
... Hmm... I don't think the project is finished. The archives of the "Translate KDE to Icelandic" mailing list are at: ...
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longgren@...
Feb 28, 2001 4:14 pm
I don't know if this helps, but I had an analogous problem. At first, I discovered that if I pressed Alt and o I got ř. But how to get an umlauted o? I...
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keth@...
Feb 28, 2001 7:14 pm
Hello Lindgren and everybody, I made a small html example file, that shows you what html codes you can use to put the special characters that are frequently...
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Susan Granquist
susan_granquist@...
Feb 28, 2001 8:17 pm
... Why not just leave it as "dísir?" I'd probably translate it or gloss it as matrons or ladies if I had to, although technically I understand that it's ...
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Alfta Reginleif
alfta_reginleif@...
Feb 28, 2001 8:33 pm
... Well if you have read my posts you would have seen that though I will be posting the dictionary at Midhnott Sol, I have offered to give all the files we...
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Susan Granquist
susan_granquist@...
Feb 28, 2001 8:41 pm
Back when we were on the old BBS networks and had only ASCII, we had a fairly simple "coding" that worked pretty well. Thorn = TH Edh = dh dicritical marks...
