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Silvo Torkar

Silvo Torkar is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Silvo Torkar rather than just read about it. In short: Silvo Torkar (born October 1, 1954), is a Slovenian linguist, lexicographer, onomastician, translator. Education In 1978, he graduated from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the university of Ljubljana in Russian and Literature and in Sociology.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Silvo Torkar (born October 1, 1954), is a Slovenian linguist, lexicographer, onomastician, translator.

Education In 1978, he graduated from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the university of Ljubljana in Russian and Literature and in Sociology. In the 1984/85 academic year, he studied Georgian language, literature and culture as a Zamtes scholarship holder at the Tbilisi State University, and in 1990, he also attended a one-and-a-half month Georgian language, literature and culture course there. In 1997, through the Ceepus program, he studied for a month at the Institute of the Polish Language in Krakow.

Career Since 1990, Torkar has been a full-time employee at the Fran Ramovš Institute for the Slovene Language of the ZRC SAZU, where he devotes himself to the problems of Slovene and Slavic diachronic nomenclature and questions of the historical folklore of the Baška Valley and Tolmin. In 2004, he obtained his master's degree at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana with the thesis Historical anthroponymy of eastern Tolmin, and in 2011 he submitted his doctoral dissertation, Formation of Slovenian Geographical Names from Slavic Anthroponyms: Identification, Reconstruction and Standardization. In scientific articles, he wrote about the inflectional derivation in Slovenian place names (linguistic-historical aspect), Slovenian geographical names derived from Slavic anthroponyms, the toponym Preserje and the Slavic-Romance interweaving of the suffixes -jane and -anum, the origin and meaning of some geographical names in the Baška Valley and about Slovenian surnames. In the years 2000–2002, he participated in the international project Encyclopedia of Slavic Onomastics (Warsaw-Krakow). Since 2003, he has been a member of the commission for onomastics at the International Slavic Committee. As a co-editor, he participated in the thematic issue of the magazine Kronika, dedicated to Tolminski (1994), the onomastic monograph by Pavle Merkù Regional nomenclature in the Slovenian west (2006), the local studies Baška proceedings (2006) and the linguistics proceedings of Pavle Merkù (2007). In the years 2001 to 2003, he was the professional secretary of the 13th International Congress of Slavic Studies (Ljubljana 2003). He translated books from Russian and Georgian authors.

References

External links Silvo Torkar - Personal information page at the Fran Ramovš Institute for the Slovene language

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Silvo Torkar

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Silvo Torkar claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Silvo Torkar before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Silvo Torkar ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Silvo Torkar

In research: Silvo Torkar appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Silvo Torkar in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Silvo Torkar is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1954 births, Linguists from Slovenia, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Silvo Torkar outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Silvo Torkar in simple terms?

Silvo Torkar (born October 1, 1954), is a Slovenian linguist, lexicographer, onomastician, translator. Education In 1978, he graduated from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the university of Ljubljana in Russian and Literature and in Sociology.

Why does Silvo Torkar matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Silvo Torkar?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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