Comments on: Kids' Corner 01

By: Randy Alexander

Randy Alexander — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:31:42 +0000

It may be that some HTML can only be used by administrators in comments. I don’t actually know that much about HTML.

By: manjuniyalma

manjuniyalma — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:50:22 +0000

They should be at the bottom of the post (if you mean comments like this one. (a test on html codes)
For some reason, those comments can not be displayed in IE. but can be seen in Firefox.

By: Randy Alexander

Randy Alexander — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:55:22 +0000

1. how do you make letters in the comment field of different colour and italic/bold style?

I did that with HTML.

2. where can I find the comments on your entry “The Book of the Nisan Shaman 01″?

They should be at the bottom of the post (if you mean comments like this one).

By: manjuniyalma

manjuniyalma — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:18:43 +0000

You are welcome, Randy! BTW, I just stumbled upon your blog and like it very much.
I’d like to ask two questions here:
1. how do you make letters in the comment field of different colour and italic/bold style?
2. where can I find the comments on your entry “The Book of the Nisan Shaman 01″?

Thanks!

By: Randy Alexander

Randy Alexander — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:37:24 +0000

Thanks, manjuniyalma! I hadn’t thought to look in Gertraude Roth Li’s Manchu: A Textbook for Reading Documents, where there are a couple of Xibo (Sibe) stories. But now that I do, I find that on p310 there is a note about ci, saying it has two directional meanings in Xibo.

In the preface to the book that the story in this post is taken from, it says that these stories were taken from Xibo elementary school textbooks.

By: manjuniyalma

manjuniyalma — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:29:34 +0000

“bira ci tuheke” is a Xibo usage. In Xibo, “ci” is often used in place of “de”, for expample “bi tacikv ci genembi” is the same as “bi tacikv de genembi”, meaning “I am on my way to shool (now)”.
Though in Xibo, “ci” can mean either TO or FROM depending on the context, it should cause no confusion, as it is illogical to say “I GO FROM school” or “(The two goats both) FELL FROM the river”.
In other words, the context will make it clear whether “ci” means TO or FROM.
I am not sure if this is the case in Sanjiazi Manchu.

By: manjuniyalma

manjuniyalma — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:15:23 +0000

“niman” means goat, the Manchu word for sheep is “honin”.

[Thanks! Fixed. --RA]