New Entries/Amendments for 2008-09-25

These are the submissions received via the WWW forms for this day. I (Jim Breen) will annotate the submission if I think it needs to be amended or rejected or if I have a question about it. Otherwise it can be assumed that it has been accepted. You can see how it will look in EDICT by looking at the "diffs" file for this day or the next in the diffs directory.
Annotations completed: 25 Sep.
Headword 1彝語
Reading 1いご
Part-of-speechn
English 1Yi language
Reference彝語(いご)とは主に中国雲南省・四川省・貴州省・広西チワン族自治区に居住する彝族によって話される言語。

シナ・チベット語族チベット・ビルマ語派ロロ・ビルマ語支に属する。彝語は6方言25下位方言に分類される。異なった方言話者の間での意思の疎通は困難である。話者数は650万人程度。

表記にはロロ文字を使用。四川省では涼山規範彝文が使われる。

Commentfound in wikipedia article.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/綵茯
NameName
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entry学園祭 [がくえんさい] /(n) school festival/ (1206580)
Headword 1学園祭
Reading 1がくえんさい
Part-of-speechn
English 1school festival
Commentto Francis:

I don't know if anybody else uses this but I use edict through a program called Wakan (http://wakan.manga.cz/). Besides being faster than wwwjdic and not needing web access, this program has a feature to search for all words that begin in a certain way (A+ icon). So, you could just type gakuen and gakuensai would show up. Furthermore, if you can manage to find just one kanji in the word that you are looking for, you can copy it to the clipboard and then search for all words that use this kanji. And there's much more...
Namescott
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment


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Current Entry電炉 [でんろ] /(?) ???/RH/
Headword 1電炉
Reading 1でんろ
Part-of-speechn
English 1electric furnace
English 2electric oven
Reference大辞林 (http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=電炉&kind=jn&mode=0&base=1&row=0)
CommentSame as 電気炉 (大辞林).
NameAlex
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1カリスマ先生
Reading 1カリスマせんせい
Part-of-speechn
Misccol
English 1Charismatic Teacher
English 2Charming Professor
NameName
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Current Entry傾国傾城 [けいこくけいせい] /(n) (See 傾城傾国) woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty/femme fatale/ (2030670)
Headword 1傾国傾城
Reading 1けいこくけいせい
English 1Country
NameName
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment ???

Headword 1御母様
Reading 1おたあさま
Reading 2おたたさま
Part-of-speechn
English 1(hon) mother (used by children of court nobles and noble families)
ReferenceSuper Daijirin.
Mishima Yukio. "Haru no yuki". Shinchobunko, 68th edition.
CommentI was doubting whether I should amend the entry for お母さん instead of suggesting a new entry, but figured that the distinct readings and usage warrant a separate entry. The same goes for 御父様 (おもうさま), which I will suggest next.
NameRob Smit
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment I agree with the new entry. I have added xrefs.

Headword 1御父様
Reading 1おもうさま
Part-of-speechn
English 1(hon) father (used by children of court nobles and noble families)
ReferenceSuper Daijirin.
Mishima Yukio. "Haru no yuki". Shinchobunko, 68th edition.
CommentSee comment for new entry "御母様 (おたあさま)"
NameRob Smit
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entry一昨年 [いっさくねん(P);おととし(P)] /(n-adv,n-t) year before last/(P)/ (1576060)
Headword 1一昨年
Headword 1おと年
Reading 1いっさくねん
Reading 2おととし
Part-of-speechn-adv,n-t
English 1year before last
ReferenceKawabata Yasunari. "Yama no oto". Shinchobunko, 94th edition. p. 193.
19,100 Google hits.
NameRob Smit
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry茶筅;茶せん;茶筌 [ちゃせん] /(n) tea whisk/bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea/ (1422590)
Headword 1茶筅
Headword 2茶せん
Headword 3茶筌
Reading 1ちゃせん
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) tea whisk
English 2bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea
English 2(2) hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)
ReferenceKawabata Yasunari. "Yama no oto". Shinchosha bunko, 94th edition. p. 202-3.
NameRob Smit
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment