Talk:Prologue
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"The Greeks use a word ???, which included the modern meaning of the prologue, but was of wider significance, embracing any kind of preface, like the Latin praefatio." What are the ??? supposed to mean? Is the greek writing missing? or do you not know the word ? In the latter case: what about de:Prolegomena, which seems to mean "say beforehand", which in turn would match the meaning of preafatio/preface ? MartinBiely 14:55, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
- I deleted this sentence for now. It's from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, so a printed version will have the correct Greek, but none of the online copies do because they're OCR scanned and the scanner doesn't read Greek. If somebody can get ahold of a paper copy and knows how to type Greek, then we can get the actual Greek... - furrykef (Talk at me) 17:06, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
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- A friend figured it out from the OCR text. It turns out the word is prologos, which we already have transcribed, so I'm just rewriting it to fit this new context. - furrykef (Talk at me) 17:12, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup Tag
While I recognise this content originated from an encyclopaedia, to read, it seems to jump around between an 'essay-esque' tone and the more usual 'formal' tone. I suspect this incongruity reflects that some parts of the text are still as written in the original 1911 edition, while other parts are new. Additionally, the most recent sustained work on this article was about 18 months ago; the majority of edits since that time have been link, category and spelling/grammar/character adjustments, interspersed with vandalism (and subsequent reversions). There are also no indications that this editing pattern will change in the near future.
Using the above as the rationale, I've now added a cleanup tag to the main article page. I can't work further on the article right now, but have noted it on my page to work on further as time permits. — digitaleon • talk @ 15:11, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
