Comments on: Did you mean “matrilineal”?

By: sybil amber

sybil amber — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:34:06 +0000

yes, thank you for this very useful project. i´ve lost my .dic´s so often, because of known windows setup and re – setup.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:22:08 +0000

It’s not just “patrilineal” that is frustrating with MS Word, but grammar. Having grown up in the British system, I still apply older rules of grammar when writing. But of late, I have noticed jounral publications coming out with obvious Americanisms. Is this in part a product of MS Word? What MS Word “tells” me is not only my age, hanging onto out-of-date syntax, but that I am “out” of the language loop. Very frustrating.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:28:46 +0000

The idea is to have a list of academic jargon that everyone can use, so it should be in English.

I\’d be willing to host lists in other languages on my wiki if there is an interest in doing so – but the idea is academic terms, not terms specific to your fieldwork.

By: Comet Jo

Comet Jo — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:56:18 +0000

or should I say, kastom dictionaries …

By: Comet Jo

Comet Jo — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:55:25 +0000

The one problem I see with this is that most of our customd dictionaries probably also contain vast lists of words in our areal languages that might (especially cumulatively) impede the ability of the dictionary to catch typos–do you want such word lists, or would you prefer them edited to exclude non english words?

By: Kerim

Kerim — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 05:12:11 +0000

Using a wiki is easy – just hit the “edit” tab at the top of the screen and type away. When done, save your changes.

By: Grad Student Guy

Grad Student Guy — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:15:15 +0000

Ignore the grammar mistakes in the last sentence.

By: Grad Student Guy

Grad Student Guy — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:14:24 +0000

For some strange reason the word globalized is not in their dictionary (despite it being such a common word). You would think after all of the discussions of the “globalized world” in the media that it would be there.

Most words beginning with neo such as neoliberalism or neotraditionalism are also not in the dictionary as well.

By: J. Todd Ormsbee

J. Todd Ormsbee — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:57:16 +0000

I don’t know if anthropologists do much with political economic theory, but “commodify” and “commodification” are rejected by MS Word, and it suggests the grating “commoditize” and “commoditization” (which are common in American business English). [sorry for posting this here; I’ve never used a wiki before.]