help, flist

Feb. 4th, 2013 02:47 pm
silverflight8: bee on rose  (Bee)
I have a stupid question.

You know how Project Gutenberg lists all these works by author? They go like this:

[Author] [Birth & Death dates]
[Title] (Language) (as [something])


I've been using that site for years, and I still can't figure out what the heck the (English) (as Author) [or, you know, (Catalan) (as Editor)] next to each book means. I...I don't get it. At first I thought they were translations, indicating something?? Sometimes you get (English) (as Translator). I read through all the FAQs, but you guys, some of the FAQs sound like they haven't been updated since 2004. They don't appear on the Bookshelf browse pages, but do on LoC pages, which is further confusing - on the Bookshelf pages, they're just (Language).

Anyone else know? Or want to take a crack at puzzling? Here, have some links to random pages:
LoC PC classification (Literature of Romance Languages), and novels added within the last 24 hours, and LoC PD (Germanic & Scandinavian languages) which has (as Author of introduction) lower down (????).

Help! The question's driving me bonkers.
silverflight8: Different shades of blue flowing on a white background like waves (Fractal)
dear flist:

Anyone know of interesting journals/blogs that write in either French or Chinese? LJ, DW, off-site entirely: I am looking for reading material. Things I am interested in: (erm) books-reading-language-literature-words. Anyone who you think has really good writing. About themselves or the world or anything you find interesting, really; I can always pick and choose. I'd just rather not have image-heavy ones, if possible, since I'm after the words and reading comprehension :)

*puts plate of cookies out*

I saw a robin red-breast yesterday and I've heard the geese honking (and the seagulls crying, which always makes me think of the sea, poor landlocked-city!). Also today there was ten centimeters of snow and equal parts of slush. :P

I've also got a flamingo. From 750words, I mean; that's one of the badges you get when you write for ten days in a row. A flamingo! Sadly, the next one will take another twenty days (the amazing albatross) so there's time yet for me to accidentally miss a day. Or for OpenID authentication to go down, which amounts to the same thing.
silverflight8: Barcode with silverflight8 on top and userid underneath (Barcode)
Mainly to avoid spamming denise on dw_docs. Things got more organized the more I typed. THINGS ARE LINKED LIKE EVERYWHERE BECAUSE OTHERWISE THIS WOULD BE WILDLY OUT OF HAND.

Things I noticed: (also I have come from LJ and have extensively used the FAQ for support and typed these up as notes, so if it's incomprehensible, tell me and I'll clarify) (also is quite long) )

And the FAQs to be edited )

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