>Is there a feeling that the IUF, USA or any other unicycling body would be
>inclined to sanction a thesaurus of unicycling terminology? (I know depends
>on how good it is). I have had it in the back of my mind for a while to
>apply the experience I’ve had at work building a thesaurus for
>telecommunications to creating one for unicycling.
How interesting! Actually, I am a lexicographer by profession (see www.cjk.org)
and quite a number of years ago started compiling a multilingual dictionary of
unicycling terminology in English, Japanese, German, Chinese, Spanish and some
other languages. I have distributed some of these materials and have the facilities
and will, but not the time, to compile and publish such a dictionary. It would
include many cross-references, functioning as a thesaurus as well.
I am extremely busy running my company but if you and some others volunteers
can help I can coordinate the project and manage the database. I suggested
this a couple of times before, but work pressure always prevented me from going
ahead. Maybe I will assign one of our staff to it… I am not promising anything
right away – maybe we can discuss it in UXI – bud I do have a strong interest
in this.
>“Jack Halpern” <jack@kanji.org> wrote in message
>news:mailman.1021478236.27202.rsu@unicycling.org…
>> Greetings
>>
>> In message “RE: Running giraffe mount”,
>> John Foss wrote…[color=darkred]
>> >> John Foss or soneone else please correct me if I am wrong.
>> >> Is not the “official term” for this RUNNING JUMP MOUNT?
>> >
>> >Official according to whom? As yet there is no recognized governing body
>of
>> >unicycle trick/skill/mount names.
>>
>> Of course, that is why I said [“official term”] and not [official term]
>:-)
>> My point is what is establised by usage.
>
>I do enjoy observing the current President and Vice President of the IUF
>debate unicycling terminology. Of course, John is correct that there is no
>official document
>that enumerates unicycle terms in any official capacity. And Jack correctly
>used quotes to indicate that he understands this.
>
>Based on what I’ve seen it seems to me though that “running mount” is more
>accurate since I thought that a “jumping mount” of any kind involved more of
>a vertical jump than a push off. Never having done either, this is just an
>impression.
>
>
>Raphael Lasar
>Matawan, NJ
>
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Regards, Jack Halpern
President, The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc. http://www.cjk.org Phone: +81-48-473-3508
Re: Multilingual Dictionary of UNicycling (was:Running giraffe mount)
I would be very happy and interested in volunteering and helping out with a project
like this. When you’re ready to start coordinating this, please contact me. Hmm, maybe
we can discuss it at the LBI Unithon, which is about as far as I’ll be getting this summer.
You’re coming, right, Jack?
Cheers,
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ (Exit 120 on the Garden State Parkway - LBI is Exit 63)
> I am extremely busy running my company but if you and some others volunteers
> can help I can coordinate the project and manage the database. I suggested
> this a couple of times before, but work pressure always prevented me from going
> ahead. Maybe I will assign one of our staff to it… I am not promising anything
> right away – maybe we can discuss it in UXI – bud I do have a strong interest
> in this.
I’ve said this before: While not willing to take up a
leading/coordinating role, I am interested to contribute to the Dutch
department for the dictionary/thesaurus. Communications should go via
the group or private e-mail, as I currently have no plans to go to UXI
or any other convention.
Klaas Bil
In the best of Dutch traditions, the Echelon-thingy has been
euthanasia’ed.
To relieve your heart-felt pain, you may be interested to know that
version 1 of the software is still available for download on
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/echelon.htm>.
Klaas Bil
In the best of Dutch traditions, the Echelon-thingy has been
euthanasia’ed.