tla:n vs. titlan

John Sullivan jsullivan at prodigy.net.mx
Tue Aug 15 18:25:04 UTC 2000


Hi Fran,
    The error is also on page 18 of Vol. 2: vocabulary and key.
John

on 8/14/00 7:38 PM, Frances Karttunen at karttu at nantucket.net wrote:

> Oh my gosh!  Previously it was posted to the list that I had reversed these
> things in a dashed-off message to a listero.  I was embarrassed and pointed
> out to everyone that the published dictionary is the one to trust.  Now it
> turns out that the reversal also appears on p. 43 of the Foundation Course.
> Please, please, please trust the dictionary.
>
> In the Foundation course, what has been reversed is the glosses.  Where it
> reads "-tlan 'near' and -tla:n 'below'" it should read "-tlan 'below' and
> -tla:n 'near.'  The following business about the ligature -ti- being used
> with -tlan is correct, but then the glosses are reversed again in the two
> examples.
>
> It's bizarre that so many classes have gone through the Foundation Course
> without this particular glitch coming to our attention.  Thanks, John, for
> finally spotting it!
>
> Fran
>
> ----------
>> From: John Sullivan <jsullivan at prodigy.net.mx>
>> To: nahuat-l <nahuat-l at server2.umt.edu>
>> Subject: tla:n vs. titlan
>> Date: Mon, Aug 14, 2000, 2:50 PM
>>
>
>> I'm sorry, I know this has been answered before, but as far as tla:n vs
>> ti+tlan, which is correct, the Analytical Dictionary or the Foundation
>> Course?
>> Techtlapopolhuica
>> John Sullivan
>> Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
>>



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