User talk:Pemberton

Hi Pemberton, thanks; you were right: quite easy! hitherandthithering Hermes ps: thanks again (mädchen in uniform)

Hi Pemberton, do you know if it's possible to add comments to an image? I'm thinking of the diagram of ALP on page 293 http://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Image:ALPGeometry.JPG

Thanks,

JoeG

Hi Joe,

Sure, just click on the image, and then click on edit as usual. The only problem is that an image with comments is less obvious than the other links.

Steven

Hi Steven,

oh ok. i was going to try that but didn't want to mess it up. when i clicked 'preview' the image didn't show.

Joe

3/8/06

goed werk, pemberton-

do you know what happened to the site last week(s)? -tip

5/31/06

Thanks for the help. -Goose

Abbreviations

Hi Pemberton

Thanks for the message and the encouragement:

Dictionaries use abbreviations for languages in order to save space, but it's not clear the advantage of using them here. If I see an explanation with a language abbreviation, I now have to go and look it up, whereas if it is spelled out, I know it immediately.

(1) It certainly saves time for the poor annotator! :)

(2) The abbreviations I use are taken from Roland McHugh's standard reference work Annotations to Finnegans Wake. I find that I don't have to look them up everytime I come across them in that text.

(3) I think it's fair to assume that anyone reading FW is well read and quite intelligent. They probably don't need to have German, French, Latin, etc, spelt out for them all the time.

Eroica 06:56, 23 Jun 2006 (EDT)