Page talk:Aleksander Głowacki - O odkryciach i wynalazkach.djvu/28


 * Ping User:Piotrus. Ping User:Xover. I have removed the added boldfacings, Wikipedia links, and translator's notes from my English translation of Prus' lecture. These were, until now, present on pages 12 [8], 16 [12], 17 [13], 21 [17], 22 [18], 28 [24].
 * I look forward to any further critiques and suggestions.
 * Thank you!
 * Nihil novi (talk) 01:16, 17 July 2020 (UTC)


 * As I got to the final page, I have one remark here: maybe 'rysunki' - 'technical writing' instead of 'drafting'? Btw, AG said that this is a sketch for a longer work. Do you know if he ever finished it? --Piotrus (talk) 03:18, 5 September 2020 (UTC) PS. Re-sign for ping. --Piotrus (talk) 03:18, 5 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for reviewing and validating Prus's pp. 19–23.
 * "Rysunek", mentioned by Prus on p. 24, is in this context "technical drawing", otherwise known as "drafting" (please see definition #1 of the Wiktionary "drafting" entry). Hence I used the word "drafting".
 * Admittedly "drafting" could be confused with the word's use in the sense of "drafting" (preparing) a text; but Prus's context makes sufficiently clear, I think, that he means "rysunek" as "technical drawing", commonly referred to as "drafting".
 * In writings by and about Prus, regrettably, I haven't come upon anything suggesting that he returned to the subject of "On Discoveries and Inventions". (Another project that he never brought to fruition was a study on the theory of literary composition; his notes from 1886–1912 on the subject are discussed in a 1963 book by Stefan Melkowski, Poglądy estetyczne i działalność krytycznoliteracka Bolesława Prusa.)
 * Poland and her citizens could, I think, benefit substantially from a closer acquaintance with Prus's writings beyond "Kamizelka" and "Katarynka". Sometimes even what he did not write conveyed wisdom.
 * Nihil novi (talk) 05:58, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Would you object to me changing 'drafting' to 'technical drawing' which I think is less ambiguous? --Piotrus (talk) 03:17, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I've made the change, "drafting" ---> "technical drawing", though in this context an educated Anglophone would know that the former is the latter.
 * Your pings on Wikisource have not been reaching me. Have you, by any chance, been placing pings on other pages of Prus's lecture, that I may have missed?
 * Another piece of Prus's writing that I would like to look up, if time permitted, is his The Most General Life Ideals (Najogólniejsze ideały życiowe, his 1905 system of social ethics).
 * Nihil novi (talk) 06:47, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Nihil novi (talk) 06:47, 12 September 2020 (UTC)