The Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreiils in Practice: A User's View after Two Years of Use. A language practitioner takes a critical look at the eighth improved edition of the Afrikaanse Woorde/ys en ...Spe/reii/s, the authoritative Afrikaanc; spelling list and spelling rules, after using it intensively for two years. The first impression contains many confusing typographical errors, but these have for the most part been corrected in the second. In many respects the Eighth Edition is an improvement on its predecessor; the rules are explained more comprehensively and the spelling list and abbreviations list are greatly expanded. The spelling list contains more information for the user, for example more diminutives, degrees of comparison, attributive past participles and certain compounds the styling of which often presents problems for writers of Afrikaans. However, some of these rules create problems: they complicate established usage unnecessarily, are formulated inadequately and are difficult to apply in practice, and the examples are too simplistic. The list also .contains many apparent inconsistencies the ordinary user may find incomprehensible and confusing. The conclusion is that, while the publication is in many respects more user:friendly than its predecessor, it lacks the necessary consistency and cohesion. Many shortcomings could have been eliminated if the complete draft had been submitted to language practitioners to use and evaluate in practice.
We analyze the psychological factors of high-sensation-of-reality sequences for the HDTV and stereoscopic (3-D) HDTV. We discuss the applicability of a 1-D quality grading scale, which is used in the ...evaluation of picture quality, to the evaluation of their overall impressions. First, HDTV and 3-D HDTV sequences were analyzed with the semantic differential technique and factor analysis. Eight psychological factors were obtained separately for each television, and it was confirmed that naturalness extracted from the 3-D HDTV sequences was closely related to the disparity. Next, we examine whether the relationship between the opinion scores obtained using a seven-grade quality scale and the factor scores could be represented by multiple regression models. Consequently, the regression model was found to be applicable to scores for the HDTV sequences and inapplicable to those for the 3-D HDTV ones. The factor scores for naturalness (sense of naturalness) obtained from the 3-D HDTV sequences were found to have strong negative correlations with the disparities between sequences for right- and left-channels.
