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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Weird errors on Numen? This is how to fix them.

Today I modified the code that Google Analytics uses to keep track of traffic on this site.

That was a major change. Because of the way the internet works, some of Numen's old data might be cached in your browser -- causing weird errors like "AJAX could not be loaded" and other such nonsense.

Fear not -- the fix is easy.

Here are several steps you can take to fix the problem in your web browser:

  1. Log out of Numen and log back in. 
  2. Close your web browser and reopen it.
  3. Reload the Numen page you're on by holding the SHIFT key on your keyboard while clicking the refresh button on your browser's address bar.
  4. Reload the Numen page you're on by holding the CTRL key on your keyboard while clicking the refresh button on your browser's address bar.
  5. Reload the Numen page you're on by holding BOTH the SHIFT and CTRL keys on your keyboard (at the same time) while clicking the refresh button on your browser's address bar.
  6. Clear your web browser's cache and then restart it.
  7. Try another web browser (just to see if it's happening there, too).
  8. Contact me at admin@latinlexicon.org.
Hopefully this won't affect too many people but if does, I apologize in advance!

Monday, October 20, 2014

Pronoun Paradigms

Many of you know that Numen provides a beta paradigm feature. The paradigms of most nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns are available. Generally, they work very well with a couple of well known exceptions (Greek nouns, certain verbal forms, and some irregular forms).

Once upon a time, the pronouns were working fairly well but not so much recently. Over the past few months there has been an uptick in the number of reports of bad pronoun paradigms. After a thorough review, I must note that all pronoun paradigms were broken. Honestly, I'm not sure how that happened. Nonetheless, I took some corrective action this weekend and fixed most of the pronoun paradigms -- with the exception of the personal pronouns. Those will take a bit more work because as you probably know, personal pronouns are the only nominal forms in Latin that don't have explicit gender (i.e., tu does not code for masculine, feminine, or neuter).

So in the meantime, please feel free to spot-check the paradigms for your favorite pronouns and please feel free to report errors. PS, it's always helpful to cite your source if you believe that a paradigm has an incorrect form. Sources do vary!

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