| Wiktionary:Requests for verification Dec 21st 2012, 06:23 jádí dághaaʼígíí: | ← Older revision | Revision as of 06:23, 21 December 2012 | | Line 1,752: | Line 1,752: | | | ::::@Stephen: If Navajo is essentially unwritten, then how do we know that this entry is accurate? If you said it to a native speaker, would they know what you were talking about? | | ::::@Stephen: If Navajo is essentially unwritten, then how do we know that this entry is accurate? If you said it to a native speaker, would they know what you were talking about? | | | ::::@DTLHS: I'm sorry, I don't understand your question or who it was aimed at. —[[User:Metaknowledge|Μετάknowledge]]<small><sup>''[[User talk:Metaknowledge|discuss]]/[[Special:Contributions/Metaknowledge|deeds]]''</sup></small> 06:15, 21 December 2012 (UTC) | | ::::@DTLHS: I'm sorry, I don't understand your question or who it was aimed at. —[[User:Metaknowledge|Μετάknowledge]]<small><sup>''[[User talk:Metaknowledge|discuss]]/[[Special:Contributions/Metaknowledge|deeds]]''</sup></small> 06:15, 21 December 2012 (UTC) | | | + | | | | + | :::::A native speaker would understand it much better than many English speakers would understand northern hawk owl, echidna, or [[yowie]]. Northern hawk owl is three simple words, but it is really meaningless to the vast majority of people, except for the word [[owl]]. Navajo is a transparent language and people understand words even if they have not encountered them before. [[User:Stephen G. Brown|—Stephen]] <sup>([[User talk:Stephen G. Brown|Talk]])</sup> 06:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC) | |  |
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