Talk:Gloss (transliteration)

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Pages with use of gloss as "transliteration"
The following pages use the term gloss as the definition or 'dictionary meaning' of the word/phrase/syllable:
 * –Anglo-Saxon Futhorc
 * –Cherem
 * –Tamoanchan
 * –Teotihuacán
 * –The Irish Pages
 * –Werewolf
 * –William L. Moran

as of start of article "Gloss (transliteration)"... Mmcannis 04:36, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Confusing?
I could be the only one, but I was thoroughly confused by this article. If I knew enough about this particular subject, I would have tried to clear things up, but unfortunately I do not. For example, I cannot decipher what is meant by some of the hyphenations, and it seems as though the parenthetical comments could be restructured. Also, gloss seems to be used as both a noun and a verb here. These issues are small on their own, but, when combined with what (to me) seem to be rather awkward wordings, I find myself very confused. I believe, after reading the article a few times, that I more or less "get" what a gloss is, I still don't feel like I can clear up the article without running a strong risk of misinterpreting something and writing something that is wholly inaccurate. Nihixul 16:19, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The origins for creating Gloss (margin text), and Gloss (transliteration), is this: I was doing the "Amarna letters", in the Akkadian language, with a lot of Canaanite. The NOTES, are often talking about how a word is "glossed". --(Numerous, and sometimes complex Notes.)
 * The origin of "Glossaries" got here because of people writing notes on 'what definitions were'. However sometimes "margin notes" were paragraphs. If you look at all the linked articles: 1 Gloss, 2 Margin text 3 Transliteration ,,,, (Don't gloss-over this now), even Shortfin mako shark used the word gloss; I put it into gloss (transliteration). (And I don't know about the word "mako", the word glossed(?))
 * One musician apparently was notable for his Gloss (margin notes). Anyway, this hardly relates to the Canaanite, and Semitic languages, and the Cuneiform of the Amarna letters, but, BUT, there are even: SUMEROGRAMS from Babylonian language still that were used in the 1350 BC Amarna letters. Gloss just didn't fulfill the large timespan for all the usages of gloss: (Now, again, don't gloss-over this ...lol.) anyway thanks for cogent comments.-(and Sumerogram, or SUMEROGRAM still doesn't have an Article)(..I tried 2 years ago)--to (Nihixul)...(from the SonoranDesert ofArizona) ...-15:10, 20 May 2007 (UTC)