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[Jerry Jacka]

Dear John,

Great work. I concur with Piet's first three comments, the links are very 
nice, but the frames don't work so well with my 15 inch screen (lots of text 
disappearing and I have to use the horizontal scroll). The arrows indicating 
synonyms were confusing, perhaps it would be better to put "syn." in italics 
to keep it consistent with regular dictionaries?

Jerry

>===== Original Message From Piet Lincoln <linc at hawaii.rr.com> =====
>John,
>
>Thanks for the look at the site.   A good start.
>
>1)  I like link to the original .
>
>2)  I like link to discussion thread.
>
>3)  I hate frames!  Lose them if at all possible.
>
>4)  Post some real entries.  For example, the entry for /skin/  was so
>abbreviated that I didn't know where my addition:  /skinim kok/  'retract
>foreskin'  would go.
>
>5)  /biras/   'brass'    was under /bras/  M75,  revision has the gloss for
>latter as 'mate, brother.'  Surely you don't want to imply with these
>spellings that we now have this minimal pair??  Are there individuals using
>both /bras/ and /bada/ as roughly synonyms both from E brother?   What does
>that say about their sound system?  I don't know either word.
>
>6) What happened to /brata/  'sibling of same sex'?  Has it been bleached of
>its Melanesian meaning?
>
>7)  Are you keeping Mihalic's layout?    Good choice, I like it.
>    Please keep making claims of etymology but reduce the visual impact i.e.
>"(E brother)"     is better than  "English brother."   Perhaps a smaller
>font too?
>
>hoping these comments are helpful,
>
>cheers
>
>Piet Lincoln

Jerry Jacka
Department of Anthropology
1218 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403 USA
fax: (541) 346-0668
jacka at oregon.uoregon.edu