Round-2 review questions for Adisankar (functions): six word choices, the exercise rule, and the web font

[mmcky]

@adisankarmt — these are the open questions from your round-2 review of functions (#7), moved here so they do not get lost when that PR merges. All 118 of your suggestions are already applied on the PR; nothing here changes the page — your answers decide what the translation engine learns for the next lectures (tracked in QuantEcon/action-translation#296). No deadline; one word per row is plenty, and a reply comment here is all we need.

1. Six places where the same word went both ways. We want to encode the rule you intend rather than guess.

#	Item	You chose English at	You kept Malayalam at	Our guess
1	sentence-initial For example,	247, 371, 376, 402	ഉദാഹരണത്തിന്, at 49, 430	English
2	the noun example(s)	103, 208, 238	ഉദാഹരണം at 105, 137, 466	not sure — your call
3	already	70, 72, 78, 139	ഇതിനകം at 49	English
4	work ("does it work?")	159 (work ചെയ്യുന്നുണ്ടോ)	പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നു at 127, 402	Malayalam
5	name	153, 335, 371, 400, 413	പേരിട്ടു at 68, പേരും at 276	English for the noun (an identifier's name), Malayalam for the act of naming
6	line 159 reads call ചെയ്ത നോക്കാം — should that be call ചെയ്ത് നോക്കാം?			typo — we will fix it if you say so

(Line numbers are those of the PR as you reviewed it.)

2. Your exercise retentions — is this the rule? We read the pattern as: an exercise statement whose content is probability or mathematics (the coin-flip device in Exercise 3, the binomial sentence in Exercise 2) stays in English; a mixed sentence keeps its mathematical clause in English and its programming instruction in Malayalam (your line 484: factorial എന്ന് പേരുള്ള ഒരു function എഴുതുക, such that factorial(n) returns $n!$ …); and a purely programming exercise (Exercise 5) is translated as normal. Matt has adopted this as policy alongside your earlier Hint/Solution rule, so later lectures will follow it — if the boundary is somewhere else, a sentence on where would help. One small thing on our side: lines kept in English stay byte-for-byte identical to the English source (so future updates diff cleanly), which is why we left off the colons you added at 557 and 563 — the punctuation rule applies to the Malayalam lines.

3. The Malayalam web font. Whenever you are next on the rendered preview: does the Noto Malayalam font from #9 sit at a comfortable size beside the English? It can be nudged a few percent either way.

Thank you again — this round taught the engine a great deal.

[adisankarmt]

1 - 1) ഉദാഹരണത്തിന് means 'for example'. this can be retained in english itself.
2) ഉദാഹരണം means 'example'. this can again be retained in english. if any modifications is required, I will let you know in the upcoming reviews.
3) ഇതിനകം means 'already'. keep in english.
4) Keep it as - work ചെയ്യുന്നുണ്ടോ
5) English for the noun (an identifier's name), Malayalam for the act of naming
6) typo

2 - Regarding exercises, I have not made a final decision yet. For now, please retain all exercise-related content in English and keep it byte-for-byte identical to the source. I will review each exercise individually and decide later which parts, if any, should be translated into Malayalam.

3- The Malayalam font is comfortable. No change needed

[mmcky]

Thank you @adisankarmt — every row is answered and all of it is being encoded now. A short read-back so you can correct anything I have misunderstood:

Word choices. For example, / example(s) / already stay in English; work keeps the light-verb form work ചെയ്യുന്നുണ്ടോ; name is English for an identifier's name and Malayalam (പേരിട്ടു, പേരും) for the act of naming; line 159 becomes call ചെയ്ത് നോക്കാം. These go into the engine's Malayalam glossary and rules so the next lectures come out that way without your having to flag them again.

Exercises. Understood: until you have ruled on each exercise individually, every exercise block — the exercise statement and its hint and solution text — stays in English, byte-for-byte identical to the source. Because that rule has no judgement in it, we are encoding it as a mechanical copy step rather than an instruction to the model, so it cannot drift. Two consequences I am assuming, please say if either is wrong:

1. It applies to the two lectures already merged as well as to new ones. functions and python_by_example both still carry Malayalam inside some exercise blocks (the hybrid sentences in functions exercises 1 and 2, and the exercise statements in python_by_example). I will open one small PR that restores those blocks to the English source, for you to approve — that PR is also a natural place for your per-exercise decisions later, whenever you get to them.
2. matplotlib (Malayalam translation: matplotlib — calibration review round 3 (v0.27.0 engine) #13) already has its single exercise and solution byte-identical to the source, so you can skip those lines when reviewing it.

Font. Noted, no change.

I will leave this issue open until the restoration PR is up, then close it with links to what was encoded.