On 12/07/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey
<jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
Oldak Quill wrote:
Most Wikimedia projects don't translate
"Wikipedia", "Wiktionary", and
"Wikimedia", they transliterate them. Even non-Latin alphabets do
this: Russian Wikipedia is called "Википедию" which transliterates as
Ve-I-Ka-I-Pe-Ye-De-I-Ya (those are the names of the letters, at
least). Does Cherokee have some kind of formal transliteration system?
On 12/07/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
>The name should be:
>
>ᏗᎪᏪᎵ ᎦᏣᏄᎳ
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>(digoweli gatsanula)
>"the books = pedia " " that are fast = wiki "
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>to match the actual meanings of the words "wiki" and "pedia".
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>The current name of the site, while catchy, is not accurate for the
>language, and was synthesized.
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>Just a suggestion...
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Yes. it does have one for words like this, but taking potshots at the
name can create something you do not intend.
Let's look at it:
Wi-gi-que-di-ya
wi - (negative imperfect past tense)
gi - to combine
que - incomplete verb root about an animal
di - plural for a non living object
ya - broad area of concern (means "pertains to or covers a broad area or
topic)
Not to mention "di" is always at the start of a pural word, "gi" is a
modifier always at the end of a word, que isn't a word at all, and "wi"
is a tense modifer always at the end of word.
Translation:
"Something very negative in the past was put together for (??? -
something that resembles a contraction of the word nesgi which means
keep your hands off of it) , and there were a bunch of them (di) that
dwell in a large area.
In other words, its current name implies "negative place to keep your
hands off of and there's a whole bunch of us here".
Based on the edit history of the site, seems to have been the course
followed. Perhaps we should change its name?
Jeff
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