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TO-DO of English-Interlingue Dictionary

Building fixes and improvements

• Fix: <make/add_letter_headings.vim> does not work fine in ex mode.

• Fix: make sure "OUT OF:" is sorted before "OUT OF x:", and similar cases.

Content fixes and improvements

• Fix colon/semicolon after English uppercase expressions.

• Homogenize the usage of commas and semicolons.

• Add "COME ON", which was at the end of "COME", without translation.

• Add a list of abbreviations used in the dictionary.

• Split the different meanings of the same type into independent headwords, in order to make it easy to reuse and manipulate the data.

• Fix: "punte" is mentioned in "SCORE", but not in "POINT".

• Fix "TO LOOK UP TO", which was at the end of "LOOK" without translation.

• Improve notation of "OFF".

• Duplicate example expressions as entries. The original does it, e.g. "CHEST OF DRAWERS" is an entry, but also part of of "DRAWER". Also "INLAID FLOOR". Candidates: "WHITE OF EGG", "ERE LONG"…​

• Fix : In the original transcription "BOOKMARK" was at the end of "BOOK" without translation.

• Fix notation . "AT ONE’S WITS' END esser al fine de su Latin, plu ne saver quo far", because the English expression is not a verb.

• Add "(num.)" to "ONE". Maybe other cases.

• Fix: "STILL ancor" is missing. "ancor" is mentioned only in "YET".

• Add adv. usages to "NEVERTHELESS" and "HOWEVER".

• Homogenize usage of "!" in all of the interjections.

• "THIS WAY|adv.|a ci|" is incomplete: it can mean also "by this method".

• Fix/improve "BESIDE" and "BESIDES".

• Fix: "questionar" is missing in "QUESTION (v.)", but mentioned as a derivate in "QUESTION (n.)".

• Update the list of programs used.

• Update the list of changes done in this edition.

• Fix "-ente" → "-nte", etc.

• Check that participies are mentioned in the verbal roots.

• Fix "ad. circa" in "ROUNDABOUT".

• Sort the data file at the start of the conversions.

• Copy entries with more than one word to their main word, e.g. "calculating machine" to "machine", "white ant" to "ant".

• Complete "COUNT" with nouns: "total number counted" and "the act of counting".

• Complete "SAINT santo (-itá)".

• Move/copy "TAKE CARE: atention!, garda vos!" from "TAKE" to "TAKE CARE".

• In "REFRACTORY (n.) infusibile" is missing meaning "A refractory person".

• Add "(-ie)" to "impertinent" and others.

• Split translations that include internal parens, e.g. BOOZE#v.trine(ach)ar.

• Finish "CROW OVER".

• Mark or copy as example expressions the entries containing more than one word.

• Fix: "TO FORCE UPON" is given two different translations.

• Add "descargar" to "decargar".

• Add "WILL (v.aux.)".

• Homogenize "(flag)" and "(flags)".

• Add the missing meanings of "AWAY (adv.)".

• Replace commas and semicolons with other characters in order to allow commas in the translations, e.g. ANYTHING BUT#prep.omnicos, exceptet

• Link compound words to their headwords, e.g. "JACK-IN-THE-BOX".

• Add "min" to "minu".

• Homogenize "midi-" and "midí-".

• Notation of "(inter-ation)" (for "interpunctuation") and "(in-ar)" (for "inebriar").

• Mark examples that look translations, e.g. CATA#prefix#catacombe, catafalco, catalog, catapulte, etc.#.

• Specifiy telephone number in "NUMBER".

Doubts

• Confirm entry "fro, to and".

• Confirm "BEATITUD beatitá. BEATITUDES: \~".

• Confirm "(the small intestine) ileum". The small intestine consists of three parts: the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.

• Confirm: comma before "etc".

• Confirm certain compound headwors, e.g. "GOOD-FELLOWSHIP".

• Confirm "PLATING, ARMOUR * curasse" is "PLATING or ARMOUR" ("ARMOUR" already has its own entry) or "ARMOUR PLATING".

• Confirm "TO GET OFF SCOT FREE: escapar sin vúlneres".

• Confirm and fix "blond(a)" → "a. blond; n. blonda".

• Consult "ebri, ebriat (in-ar)".

• Consult "LOG bloc, trunc; (logbook) diarium; (naut.) logg (-lin)".

• Consult "RIPP-RAPF canallia".

• Consult "BOARD …​ (put up) albergar".

• Consult: "TO TELL ON: haver su efecte". But "{To tell on}, to inform against. [Archaic & Colloq.] [1913 Webster]".

• Consult "rococo/ó"

• Consult "CIRCUMAMBIENT".

• Consult "LEGERDEMAIN jongleríe, escamotage. LEGERDEMAINLEGGED: -gambat"

• Consult "HATCH OUT: covar, inventer; (in drawing) *sgraffir"

• Consult about compound headwords like "WELL-BEING" and many others.

• Consult "ENTHUSIASM = entusiasme (-ar, -ast, -astic)".

• Confirm "UNLESS = si…​ne"

• Confirm and homogenize notations "(v.a)/(v.n)" and "(tr.)/(intr.)".

• Consult: Make one-word expressions independent headwords: SOUPTERN from SOUP, SOLOIST from SOLO, SOLDIERY from SOLDIER, HELPFULLESS from HELPFUL, HIMSELF from HIM…​

• Consult: Move headwords that contain spaces into other headwords.

• Confirm "-gambat".

• BUTTEND, BUTT END.

• Confirm "recoleer se"

• Confirm whether "(take care) atenter" belongs to "WATCH" or to "WATCH OVER".

• Confirm "COCK A GUH (v.) tender li clave".

• Confirm "TO FALL DUE (v.) (on exchange) scader", or maybe "(on exchange)" was part of "FALL OUT".

• Notation of verb "AS LEAF".

• Separate "A CLOSE FIGHT"

• Notation to separate terms with articles, e.g. "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS".

• Expressions "adjective+noun" are no converted to independent entries, but sometimes they are not in entry "noun", but in entry "adjective", e.g. "FAIRY TAIL".

• "(THE) GENERAL PUBLIC".

• "LAMP SHADE covri lampe; (manes) manes" (was the end of "SHADE".

• "THREE DAYS RUNNING tri dies successivmen". There was typo: "successiv men".

• "COWEE (v.) ahoccar se; horrer (avan)".

• Consult "(ent.)".

• "SHAPED (suffix) -form" should be "-formi".

• "HATCH OUT" was "HATCH (OUT)" in the original transcription.

• Consulta "BEATEN TRACK trantran".

• "BUBBLE (n.) bul; vessic; (comm.) fraude". vessic → vessica?

• "CONTINGENT dependent de".

• "COSMETIC grime, cosmetic".

• "FORTH (prep.) ex, fro" and "FORTH for" (prep. "for" in Interlingue, but a prep. or an adverb in English?.

• Type of "WHILE durante que", "WHILST durante que".

• "AS (adv. conj.) (because) proque; (manner) quam".

• "ALTO alto", also n./adj. in Interlingue?

• "ANARCHY anarchic (-ist)".

• "BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK rácket e volante".

• "AFT detra; in li stern", adj./adv. → prep./adv.

• "BAROQUE baroc" adj./n.?

• "BEACON fares turre lucent; (on a hill) fanale; (at sea) boye, signal-marca, mar-signe"

• Meaning of "(rel.)".

• Confirm correction "contra" → "contra unaltru" in "FACE TO FACE".

• Why note "(in comp.)" (in compounds?) is used in sufixes "CENTI" and "COUNTER"?

• Confirm translation of adverb "VICE VERSA": "vice versa" is also used in Cosmoglotta. Add "VICE VERSA|adv.|inversmen, inversimen|".

• Confirm "vi" as translation of "THERE IS/ARE" — word-type is "v.".

• Confirm difference: "RED TAPE" and "RED-TAPE".

• Confirm «parol pro parol» or «parol por parol».

• Confirm «star» in «STAR GAZER n.#astrologo; (stage etc.) star».

• Confirm "concernent" in "ABOUT".

• Confirm "circa tam mult" in "THEREABOUTS".

• Confirm "shell" in "SKIN (n.): pelle, pellicul; membrane, derma; shell, cortice". Maybe it’s English in the original.

• UMBRELLA#n.parapluvie, ombrel: "ombrel"?!

• Consultar: "ANNUITY" = "annuitá" vice "annuage"? Ambi ne es usat in Cosmoglotta.

• Why "si" in HAVE A MIND TO v.#inclinar, it vell pleser … si?

• Confirm SIGHT#v.mirar.

Missing words

• "automatic/men".

• "SUPER-".

• "COHERENT".

• "gramofon" (but "fonograf" is included).

• "DIFFERENT".

• "ME".

• "CLASSROOM": "aula", used only once in Cosmoglotta.

• "JAPAN": substantive.

• "CONFIGURATE (v.)".

• "WANT (v.) …​ voler".

• "SORRY" in the sense "pardon".

• "AKIMBO" (used in "WITH ARMS AKIMBO").

• "CLIENTELE/CLIENTÈLE", "clientité, clientela".

• "ABEYANCE" (used in "IN ABEYANCE").

• "ADVISED" (used in "ILL-ADVISED").

• "YORE" (used in "OF YORE").

• "BACTERIUM".

• "BOXING" = box, boxada, pugilism.

• "CENTENNIAL" (=1. (n.) centenarie; 2. (adj.) centenari, centenal).

• "ARCHIVE", shares a meaning with "ARCHIVES".

• "sí".

• "HIGHWAY".

• "implementar".

• "FLOCK" (v.tr.).

• "CAN" (v.), "(possibility) posser; (power) potter".

• "HERSELF", etc.

• Add "deputate" to "DEPUTY".

• "BOARDING SCHOOL", "internatoria"?

• "BILL", "billete de moné".

• "WHEELCHAIR", rot(e)-stul.

• "AGGRESS (v.)".

• "ATELAR".

• "MASOCHIST".

• "tresor/e".

• "CATALOGUE".