05-16-2006, 05:31 PM
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| new glossary
Just added a feature that will allow forum members to add to a glossary of fencing terms. I can create multiple categories, so as we get more terms in we can class those out to specific sections (forum specific terms, weapon, armory, etc.)
Here is the framework with a few terms placed in: http://www.fencing.net/forums/glossa...stglossary&c=1
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05-16-2006, 05:50 PM
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| Is this going to be a Wikipedia type thing?
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05-16-2006, 06:09 PM
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| Something like that. Any user can input the terms and then the administrator (me) can moderate them as needed.
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05-16-2006, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Craig Something like that. Any user can input the terms and then the administrator (me) can moderate them as needed. | OK, I just envisioned a bit of abuse either by or aimed at some of the members who have fencing terms for handles. 
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05-16-2006, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Morion OK, I just envisioned a bit of abuse either by or aimed at some of the members who have fencing terms for handles. | You leave Mr Epee out of this! 
Is this supposed to be just "official fencing terms" or would it include commonly used slang / phrases? ex. Black Card Cowboy - which is generally understood phrase that I had to define earlier today.
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05-16-2006, 06:22 PM
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| Craig,
Is there a way to make it multi-lingual?
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05-16-2006, 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by needle Craig,
Is there a way to make it multi-lingual? | Add the terms in the other language.
Testing glossary crosslinking: parry quarte crosslinks, but Parry Quarte does not. The code is case specific. (I'll have to look into that.) Also need to change the CSS for the link to make it look like a "wiki" type crosslink.
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05-16-2006, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr Epee You leave Mr Epee out of this!
[/i] | I was thinking more along the lines of ReverseLunge 
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05-17-2006, 04:57 AM
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| I'm not sure I like the sound of this at all, at all... 
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05-17-2006, 05:17 AM
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| There will be a problem in that certain terms have different meanings depending on where (and by whom) they're being used.
The classic example is, of course, stop-hit vs. time-hit (though, of course, in the American fencing lexicon™, "time-hit" is fairly archaic and rarely used).
Other terms, like counter-time, are often defined in ways that are subtle linguistically, but substantial practically (the antiquated definition of counter-time requires that it be premeditated, the contemporary one does not).
Terminology is a big problem in fencing because off these discrepancies.
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05-17-2006, 08:37 AM
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| I like the idea, but I'm already wondering about one of the definitions:
Advance is defined as a movement forward by step, cross, or balestra.
Normally, I think an advance (noun) is a single step (non-cross over, non jump) forward. And a balestra, depending on who you talk to, can either be a jump, or a jump-lunge.
To advance (verb) can be any movement forward, except (again more by common usage than anything else) a lunge or fleche....
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