Thread:Ben 1,000,911/@comment-26489755-20161104140834

Ben,

I need to talk to you about the change you made to the translation for "malkompaktan". I don't want to get into a back and forth editing battle over this so I'll explain my reasoning:

You say "it probably means feathery" and "Blue is poorly-translated Esperanto, not perfect". I disagree. If you look for the word in an Esperanto dictionary, you'll find that "malkompacta" translates to "loose, sandy" (example: http://www.denisowski.org/Esperanto/ESPDIC/espdic.txt). Adding an 'n' to the end of a word in Esperanto makes it accusative (example: http://lernu.net/en/gramatiko/akuzativo). I have a hard time beleiving this was an accident/typo since any word meaning "feathery" usually starts with "plum/plumo" of some form. Google translate doesn't correctly translate "malkompaktan" or "hundino" in this case but they are there in the dictionary ("hundino" actually translates to "bitch", not dog).

Please change the translation back to "loose" unless you have a different explanation for why it should be "feathery".

Thanks. 