Talk:Akira Yoshizawa

Verification tag

Anybody know exactly what type of verification is wanted by the tag at the top? The tribute and obituary referenced at the bottom seem to confirm most of what is there. Dmcq (talk) 09:43, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Tag has been removed. Dmcq (talk) 09:32, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Spelling Error

Hi. I don't have an account, and probably won't remember this when the protection's lifted on the 21st. In the "Early Life" section, the title Atarashi Origami Geijutsu is misspelled. The "atarashi" should be spelled "atarashii", as the hiragana for that word is "あたらしい" (a-ta-ra-shi-i). Could someone please fix that when the protection's lifted? Thank you! (Also, Google led me here, and origami is awesome. I actually started a charity based on the story of Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. It's at the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk, VA. Go origami!) 152.33.12.48 (talk) 04:18, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Well I checked by looking that up in a dictionary and the ii form was the one that appeared. So much for the title in Google books but they might have copied from here for all I know! Okay will do that. Dmcq (talk) 09:29, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

"diagrammed" ?

First paragraph says that "...he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were diagrammed in his 18 books..". I am not sure what the verb "to diagram" means but I do not think this is a standard English expression. I have changed it to the more standard English "...designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books". Please feel free to change if I have accidentally changed the meaning of this sentence. --mgaved (talk) 13:05, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

See dictionary definition at [1] but I'll leave that as it is. You can google (another word to look up!) things like that by entering 'dictionary' and the word in a query. Dmcq (talk) 13:19, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Hmm. I was speculative about the word as well. Looking it up in the OED, it shows it's been in use (as verb) since at least 1841, though it does categorize it as "Chiefly U.S.". Killiondude (talk) 00:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)