LINGUIST List 4.482

Sat 19 Jun 1993

Qs: German, Tibetan & Chinese, Acronyms

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1. Toni Badia, Query on German Terminological Data-Bases
2. Janet Upton, Tibetan and Chinese Word Processing?
3. , acronym definition

A colleague of mine is working in the translation of SPL documents from
German to Catalan. Her work would be much faster if she could access
some terminological database.

Could you inform her of any existing terminological database in German?
And particularly of any such database which can be accessed
eletronically?

Please reply to the address above.

Thanks in advance.

Toni Badia

I am searching for programs that will allow me to do word processing in
Tibetan and/or Chinese. I am currently using a 486dx/33mhz IBM compatible
laptop computer with a 130mb hard drive and equipped with DOS 6.0 and
Windows 3.1. I'm printing with a IBM portable printer, but I do have
access to HP laser printers as well. I am particularly interested in a
Chinese program that will allow me to enter the pinyin and produce both
complex and simplified characters. I am also interested in a Tibetan
program that will allow me to make entries phonetically. I would
appreciate any information anyone out there has about possible resources.
Thanks!

It has long bothered me that the term <acronym> is used not only for initials
which form a pronounceable string like NATO, GAT, UNESCO, etc., but also for
commonly repeated initials like PTA, TG, GB, etc. Granted, the latter take on
an identity or unity beyond a simple string of initial consonants, there should
be some terminological difference between a string of letters and a word that
is the the result of treating the string of letters as graphemes
representing phonemes.
Am I alone in this opinion? I'd like to hear what others think.