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User talk:KarikaSlayer

Welcome! (belated)
--Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 04:54, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

genitori
Sei tu asiatico? -- Romanophile ♞ (contributions) 01:25, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

aviri
Olá. Ti piacerebbe attualizzare questa entrata? Merci beaucoup, -- Romanophile ♞ (contributions) 04:26, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Conjugation tables
Thank you for creating these! But please see this and fix the other tables accordingly. Thanks! —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:17, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Icelandic adjectives
Hello. I'm here to ask if you would like to modify the templates at Category:Icelandic adjective inflection-table templates so they could have the function to make links. Thank you. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 02:01, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅. KarikaSlayer (talk) 03:04, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Now how about the templates at Category:Faroese noun inflection-table templates? --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 17:21, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
 * 174 different declension templates? That looks like a good candidate for Lua conversion. KarikaSlayer (talk) 17:42, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Don't forget to consult for any changes. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 18:45, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I dunno why I need to be consulted but yes, please, if you can make the Faroese noun inflection-table templates into ones with links... that'd be great. Mulder1982 (talk) 19:23, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

gaon
How is the term inherited from PIE? —CodeCat 16:49, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It isn't, I just got the templates mixed up. Thanks for catching that! KarikaSlayer (talk) 16:52, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Transliteration in inflections tables
Having sent a quick thanks, I am having second thoughts! Is it possible for transliterations to appear as a popup/hint (if they're the words)? Some inflection tables are liable to become exceeding cluttered! (I seem to remember popup-transliteration being discussed some years ago.)   — Saltmarsh συζήτηση-talk 05:45, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Not that I'm aware of, unfortunately. and   don't override the MW-provided link tooltips. KarikaSlayer (talk) 13:54, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I know that we usually aim to show translits. for all non-Roman entries. There is a problem (which I didn't initially realise) that some tables, particularly those with multiple forms and long words, will be too bus - leading to more confusion than we want (users can always look at the headword or follow the link to get a translit.). The amended layout will be a problem with small screens on mobile phones. I would therefore like to remove your changes.   — Saltmarsh συζήτηση-talk 05:26, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Feel free. I'll try to find some way to do link tooltip translits. KarikaSlayer (talk) 11:27, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you!   — Saltmarsh συζήτηση-talk 04:40, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * thanks again - sorry, but I'm afraid that the tooltip is showing the Greek characters not Roman.   — Saltmarsh συζήτηση-talk 05:05, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * For some reason, templates don't work with . I suspect it's a Mediawiki bug. KarikaSlayer (talk) 12:37, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Well thanks for trying  — Saltmarsh συζήτηση-talk 20:14, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

VL Module Errors
Given the amount of time you spent on this, I can understand how you might not want to look at anything VL-related ever again, but there are still three VL entries in CAT:E with module errors. Would you please fix them? Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 22:25, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
 * All . Thanks! KarikaSlayer (talk) 00:40, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:58, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Here's another one: Reconstruction:Latin/visaticum. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 04:17, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ! KarikaSlayer (talk) 18:42, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 03:27, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Westrobothnian
Hello. I see you have added a few Westrobothnian words. I am wondering where from you get them, and which spelling convention they follow?
 * I don't remember adding any Westrobothnian words (just fixing the links in Proto-Germanic entries). I believe has been adding most of them. KarikaSlayer (talk) 02:58, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

smagrir
This has had a module error for a couple of days, so it's probably due to your edits at Module:vec-conj. Would you be so kind as to fix it? Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 05:28, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
 * by . KarikaSlayer (talk) 01:13, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Module:VL-adj
There are a couple of VL-adj templates in CAT:E, apparently because the module isn't getting the parameter it's expecting when it's invoked from the template namespace. Please fix. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 03:49, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * . KarikaSlayer (talk) 04:53, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Chuck Entz (talk) 04:56, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Reconstructed Latin Words
Hi there. I love your work on this category, and as someone interested in the same topic I have a number of ideas for it:

For reference, let's take this entry: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Latin/excadeo

- The name of the language. It's currently marked Latin/Vulgar Latin, which I don't think is quite what we need. The words reconstructed here are unattested in Classical Latin and may not have existed yet in (Early-Mid) Vulgar Latin, after all. Since they are reconstructed from comparisons of modern and medieval Romance Languages, what they really reflect is Proto-Romance (alternately, Late Vulgar Latin), their last common stage. So why don't we name the category Proto-Romance ?

- Macrons. In keeping with the Proto-Romance theme, they are misleading since the Classical Latin vowel length system was gone by that point. In P-R it's word stress and syllable structure that determine vowel length (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages#Stressed_vowels). For distinguishing lax vowels from tense ones, < ę ǫ > and analogous < į ų > could do.

- Spelling. Instead of e.g. excadeo, we could instead have escadio, reflecting the P-R pronunciation.

In the long-term, I don't see why we couldn't expand this category to cover most Latin-derived Romance words. E.g. the ancestors of French mois would show as OFr meis < PR mese < CL mensem.

I say 'we' because I'd like to help as well. But before I start anything, please let me know what you think. --Excelsius (talk) 08:34, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

A couple more things:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Latin/festizo As can be seen from the deriv's, intervocalic < z > indicates a [dʲ], which later develops into [j], which becomes [dd͡ʒ, dd͡z] in Italian and stays as-is in French. The palatalization of the t is unlikely, as none of the derivatives show the expected outcomes [dd͡ʒ, tt͡s] for It. and [z] for Fr., as in titionem > tizzone, tison and rationem > ragione, raison. The first e was long in the Classical Latin word, so it should be [e] not [ɛ]. The second < e >, if we're going by Proto-Romance pronunciation instead of later Italo-Western or Eastern Romance, should still be [ɪ].

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Latin/desidium PR didn't have nasalized vowels. Intervocalic consonants weren't lenited yet ( ð definitely did not exist yet, and vita still had its [t]). Also the auto-generated pronunciation for desidium didn't palatalize the second d, for some reason. The PR pronunciation would be [deˈsɪ.dʲʊ].
 * Hello! In response to your points:

 * As for Proto-Romance, there is at least one comprehensive reconstruction of Proto-Romance that I'm aware of, but as far as I know, the idea that Proto-Romance represents a discrete entity from Latin or Vulgar Latin is a minority position in Romance linguistics. If we did decide to implement it (by consensus), it would probably have a new orthography like you said, as well as a new language code. (The conjugation templates are a good example for the former.)

 * The IPA thing uses Module:la-pronunc as its backend, and I definitely agree that it needs to be reworked some (palatalization, like you said, has always worked funny). A general pre-vowel lowering state would probably work.KarikaSlayer (talk) 16:46, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the reply.

So it may not have been clear why I was suggesting Proto-Romance as the name. Vulgar Latin is a fairly unspecific term, it's often used to cover anything from Plautus' speech to that of some lower-class romans in the Satyricon, to Pompeii inscriptions, etc. It's just a very broad term. Proto-Romance does fit into the category of Vulgar Latin, but it specifically covers the period right before languages like Proto-Sardinian and Proto-Romanian split off. So the comparative method when applied to all/most rom-langs reveals words (e.g. the ones you've been posting) and phonological characteristics reflecting the last time they were all one language. Which was Proto-Romance, by definition. So that's what we're working with here (as far as I can tell).

This gives us a specific period in time to work with, which lets us know what sort of pronunciation we should use, e.g. we know that at that stage there were no consonants yet like ð, and Latin's [ʊ] had yet to merge into [o], considering that it went on to become [u] in Romanian/Sardinian. (Btw, I'm very interested in seeing the comprehensive reconstruction of PR that you mentioned.)

I think a nice idea would be having each Proto-Romance 'umbrella' entry contain the various Italo-Western, Sardinian, and Eastern Romance versions that spun off later. You already seem to have something similar going on here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Latin/mulgo although it doesn't work perfectly IMO because the 'vulgar' pronunciation given there reflects only the [o] of Italo-Western, not the [u] of Sardinian/Eastern Rom. Wouldn't it make sense to have the main pronunciation reflect the last common ancestor [ʊ] ?

Speaking of consensus, is there some place we could take this discussion ? Excelsius (talk) 05:28, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

 * That reconstruction of Proto-Romance is Proto-Romance Morphology by Robert A. Hall Jr. There's a similar Proto-Romance Phonology, but I can't find much info about it on the web. If you want to try to get consensus, the beer parlour would be your best bet. KarikaSlayer (talk) 20:44, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

 * So I've ordered and received Hall's Proto-Romance Phonology. No luck with the Beer Parlour, though- maybe the topic's too esoteric ? Anyway, the Vulgar Latin about page states that we're considering the "latest common ancestor of the Romance languages" so yeah, it's Proto-Rom. If I come up with an orthography, etc. based on Hall, would you implement it all or alternately not stop me from implementing it ?

Module:fo-noun/data-m
Wintry greetings from Idaho, Karika.

In case you have decided to return to updating the Faroese noun inflection tables, I made myself this module for Template:fo-decl-noun-m1 and its pluralia tanta and singularia tanta, just for you with copying—of course. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 07:45, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Now I added data for Template:fo-decl-noun-m2. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 09:35, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

 * Having created a prototype module for neuter nouns, how can I add information for Template:fo-decl-noun-n4 in regards to Template:fo-decl-noun-n3? --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 06:28, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * For patterns with parentheses, I usually split it into two table entries (otherwise, making it link properly is a big pain). Thanks for doing all this, by the way. KarikaSlayer (talk) 16:35, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I wish to see a demonstration of that. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 17:43, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * P.S. You may, however, add to the module for neuter nouns the information for the declension pattern "n4" to show what you mean. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 17:49, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I added it to your sandbox module (hope you don't mind). KarikaSlayer (talk) 19:05, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, now I would like to know how the information for Template:fo-decl-noun-n4-s is added. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 23:42, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Integrating the data in Module:fo-noun/data-n
How can Module:fo-noun be updated to include information from Module:fo-noun/data-n? --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 09:40, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I rewrote a few lines to let it auto-detect the data modules. KarikaSlayer (talk) 15:12, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, now I can move the mentioned neuter noun declension templates over to Lua. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 02:42, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Now I need help with Template:fo-decl-noun-n4-s. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 07:03, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed (n4-s was calling a function n4.singular that didn't exist). KarikaSlayer (talk) 00:58, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

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which causes the nom_sg to display as *ingangaz instead of *inngangaz. Is this intended? --kc_kennylau (talk) 13:15, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * , No, and I have no idea what that code is there for. Either way, it's been removed. KarikaSlayer (talk) 14:20, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Re: *strikiz
Penultimate light syllable should indicate j? --kc_kennylau (talk) 21:15, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, or preferably just leave it off; Module:gem-pronunc can figure it out. KarikaSlayer (talk) 22:25, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I asked because I did not discount the possibility of this being an exception. Are *-skapiz and *frijōndiskapiz exceptions? --kc_kennylau (talk) 05:45, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * isn't, but is. KarikaSlayer (talk) 14:11, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Why is not? --kc_kennylau (talk) 14:16, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Actually, you're right, is an exception, because it's morphologically two words, and the stem of the suffix (actually another word) is a light syllable. KarikaSlayer (talk) 14:22, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

How do we know that the genitive plural of *frijōndiskapiz is *frijōndiskapijǫ̂ but not *frijōndiskapjǫ̂? --kc_kennylau (talk) 08:34, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * That was my fault. I thought I'd fixed that. It's fixed now. KarikaSlayer (talk) 16:42, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Lua Module
Lua module? What in the world is this "Lua module"? Now I can't edit or look at any of the templates here, the declensions of many Proto-Germanic nouns are locked in a brocken position e.g. I had to manually mark the nom. sg. of magaþs beause the s-wasn't appearing. And now nor can I or any casual visitor look at the inflection tables just for casual reverence. What is this so-called "Lua Module"? Why are the inflections for many Proto-Germanic nouns locked with the template "gem-decl-noun" so that nobody can edit the data through the regular edit page, and why are the inflections for so many of these nouns damaged from the transfer over to this so-called "Lua-Module" I'm getting frustrated and am having a herd time cleaning up the mess created by this ridiculous switch. Whoever is responsible for this confusing switch so that I cannot edit inflection tables normally please speak to me on my talk page Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 18:31, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The Template for Has "ij" frozen from the previous edit before the switch over to "Lua Module" Where Don Ringe on Page-270 has "j" variant for Sievers' Law. There are other annoying cases frozen from the switch over to "Lua Module", but I cannot think of any other examples right now.
 * I was under the impression that Sievers' Law gave -ij- for polysyllables, but maybe not. KarikaSlayer (talk) 19:44, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Another example is where before the Proto-Germanic templates were switched over to "Lua Module", I could easily edit the data in them and look at the template themselves for references, but now, after the switch over to "Lua Module", the templates are hidden and now nobody can edit the data normally or use the templates as a basis reference for grammar.Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 18:55, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The idea behind the Lua module is that for most cases, entry creators can just use by itself and have the Lua module fill in the inflection automatically. It can also figure out i-mutation. KarikaSlayer (talk) 19:44, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * That all sounds nice and I wish that had been visible somewhere on the documentation page for the templates, but now none of the templates for gem-pro-decl are visible for reference like they were prior to your May 28, 2017 edits.
 * Also, I have no idea how the new "Lua Module" could possibly automatically fill in the data for irregular nouns as the current edit pages suggest for, , , , , etc. Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 15:07, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Could you please list all the changes that need to be made to the module. For irregular nouns, we have a module that gives the irregular declension. Please do not go around changing them back to the old declensions. — JohnC5 16:21, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The following are the main changes needed for the new "Lua Module" template for the Proto-Germanic conjugation tables in descending priority:

 * 1) Allow the templates to be visible like they were prior to the may 28, 2017 edits and as the conjugation template for Proto-Germanic still are
 * 2) Fix Template:gem-decl-ijo-f so that Sievers' Variant "j" appears after all instances of light syllables "VC" as Don Ringe has on page 270 of his book for  unless counter- references can be explicitly provided and cited.
 * 3) Allow the new "Lua Module" parameters to be manually overridden lest it make another stupid mistake like it did for  (The new "Lua module" thought the stem for the word was "magaþs" and it declined it like magaþsiz, magaþsi, magaþsų etc. Even after I changed the noun back to the old template, the noun would not show the final-s for the nominative singular unless I manually specified nomsg=magaþs.)
 * 4) Alow the new "Lua Module" template to show transclusions like it used to prior to the May 28, 2017 edits and as the conjugation templates for Proto-Germanic still do.
 * 5) Include instructions for the new "Lua Module" templates so that editors unfamiliar with the template cam use it.
 * These are the main changes that I am aware of that are needed for the new "Lua Module" templates for Proto-Germanic declension, but if I notice any further errors with the current declension templates, I will post them here on this talk page.Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 17:28, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It's awfully strange the way you keep putting the term Lua module in quotes. Are you doing it out of disgust for the concept, or are you just unclear what it is? It is a module (a modular piece of code) written in the programming language Lua. As for the requests:
 * Are you asking for the old templates to be restored? If so, I would say no. We can make an appendix for people to reference, but having two sets of templates causes confusion.
 * You are right that Karika has coded Siever's law wrong. Polysyllables do not matter. That needs to be changed.
 * Manual overrides are not necessary at this point. This is just an error with that needs to be fixed.
 * No (see 1)
 * The template has instructions at gem-decl-noun.
 * — JohnC5 17:51, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The Sievers' law thing and the error with *magaþs have been fixed. There's also an existing (now out of date) reference page at Appendix:Proto-Germanic nouns that I've been meaning to work on. KarikaSlayer (talk) 23:18, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I apologize for any confusions caused by putting Lua Module in quotations. I was not sure what had been changed with the new Proto-Germanic conjugation templates. All that I know is that after May 20, 2017, all the original noun inflection templates say "Now uses Lua module" in the edit description. I am not sure what is Lua module so I put it in quotationsNayrb Rellimer (talk) 00:04, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm still having problems with this new template though. I tried using it for the entry for and the Lua Module keeps changing the stem to "andaulitja-" even though the entry headword is "andawlitją" and since it is a compound word, the initial-w from the second member shouldn't have formed a diphthong (The force of analogy would have restored the "w").Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 00:44, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I recently just now tried looking at the code for "Module:gem-decl-noun". I have no idea what most of it means. I find it odd that there is no "local endings_reverse =" parameter for "cons-mf" since there are a handful of regular consonant stem nouns that might benefit from such a parameter (If I am understanding this foreign computer language correctly). I cannot either find any setting in the code that looks like it controls Sievers' variants for "j" or "ij", nor can I find any setting that automatically changes all instances of "aw" or "Vw" to "au" that would need to be changed to make an exception between the components of compound words.Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 15:34, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Another issue recently I had with the new Proto-Germanic declension template was with the paradigm for . It had the reverse problem with . The template apparently thought that the stem for the word was gan- and so declined it ganiz, gani, ganų etc. I had to manually specify nomsg=gans and use the older template. I don't know how this could be fixed with the newer template.Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 15:59, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * *gans and *andawlitją should be working normally now. KarikaSlayer (talk) 18:56, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I am reporting further issues. Apparently the changes you made to the template generalized all closing diphthongs in all positions to "aw", "aj" etc. I tried using the template on and it gave me "coda error [jr]"Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 14:22, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Just now I checked the declension for and it seems to be working fine.  also is working fine.Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 14:27, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It was a problem with the sequence -jr- specifically. Should be fixed. KarikaSlayer (talk) 01:04, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, I just want to check if you could still fix the issues with Sievers' Law in the template.Nayrb Rellimer (talk) 19:18, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * What specific errors do you mean? I fixed polysyllables if that's what you're asking. KarikaSlayer (talk) 19:43, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * How in the world do you use the new template on neuter þ-stems? I'm trying to create an inflection table for with a stem *aiginþ- but the template won't work rightNayrb Rellimer (talk) 19:48, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * For now, I have to add an exception manually to Module:gem-decl-noun/data/irreg. Should be fixed now. KarikaSlayer (talk) 19:43, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Old High German modules
Hello KarikaSlayer,

Can you please add jō- stem to the noun declension module please?

Thanks. Leornendeealdenglisc (talk) 16:21, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

osx-conj-wk3
Hi KarikaSlayer ! Now that template osx-conj-wk3 is using a Lua module, how can it be edited ? I need to make a change to this template for the 2nd and 3rd person singular indicative forms Leasnam (talk) 03:38, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The individual forms are in Module:osx-conj/data. It's set up pretty much the same as the template was IIRC, with args[1] and args[2] corresponding to the arguments for the template if that's any help. KarikaSlayer (talk) 17:18, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Old Frisian declension tables
Hello KarikaSlayer,

I hope you're doing well. I have changed the feminine n-stem to reflect the weak feminine declension of tunge. I had trouble putting the strong feminine o-stem in the module. Could you please help put it in?

Thank you, Cefin Leornendeealdenglisc (talk) 16:19, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

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anthrosylvan

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to the relationship between humans and forest ecosystems.
 * By examining the complete anthrosylvan system, the entire situation can be more carefully assessed.

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text: Torrey

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オリーブ

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) an olive fruit

title: オリーブ


text:
올리브

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) olive

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text: Pērkons

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감람

Noun

 * 1) Chinese olive

Noun

 * 1) cabbage

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podnieks

Noun

 * 1) potter

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Lyman

Proper noun

 * 1) A placename.
 * 1) A placename.
 * 1) A placename.

Etymology 2
From.

Translations

 * Armenian: Լիման
 * Belarusian: Ліма́н, Лыма́н
 * Bulgarian: Лима́н
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 利曼
 * French:
 * Georgian: ლიმანი
 * German: Lyman
 * Hungarian: Liman
 * Japanese: リマン
 * Korean: ^리만
 * Marathi: लिमान
 * Polish: Łyman
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian:

 * Ukrainian: Лима́нський райо́н

 * Ukrainian: Лима́нська міська́ грома́да

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priede

Noun

 * 1) pine (tree)

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Etymology
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 * 1) chữ Nôm

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ラプサン・スーチョン

Noun

 * 1)  lapsang souchong tea

title: ラプサン・スーチョン


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せいさんしょうしゅ

Noun

 * 1)  lapsang souchong tea

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text: jìnxíngqǔ

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辯護人

Noun

 * 1)  defender ; advocate

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防守者

Noun

 * 1) defender

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kreemi

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) pastry cream
 * 2)  cream, lotion

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ศก

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with Modern 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) headhair.

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , ; Modern 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) era.
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ἱστορία
Please stop undoing my corrections on this word. I am a Greek student and I should know that widstor is not Proto-IndoEuropean (the stem is probably, but not the word). I wrote a whole essay about the history of this word. You should look it up. Selasco (talk) 20:41, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

s > z misspellings
Just so you know, some of these may be valid archaic forms (17th Century or whatever). But I think it's okay to strike them without removing them. Removing anything is dubious unless it's patently invalid (no Google hits or something like that). Mglovesfun (talk) 11:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Spanish plurals
Please use with nocat=1 for Spanish, this is because we use Category:Spanish noun forms not Category:Spanish plurals. It's an unusual and fairly unique case, so don't worry about it too much. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:58, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Don't worry about correcting me- that's how I learn. Chuck Entz 13:25, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

A couple of minor things
Hi Chuck, just a few minor things. 1) The alternative forms heading needs to go before the part of speech heading as per WT:ELE; you might want to look through that (again) anyway. 2) When you insert a Wikipedia link, the best place to put it is just below the language heading. Some put it just before the part of speech heading, which is also fine. Just not at the bottom of the entry. It's just, well, ugly :). Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 05:52, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Taxonomic names
I noticed your edit to Basella. If you like doing taxonomic names, take a look at. It offers an approach for achieving some uniformity in such entries. I have only recently started using it, but appreciate the approach. I'm not sure what further improvements it should have, if any. DCDuring TALK 23:50, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I have edited to eliminate the display of (taxonomy) before the definition, while retaining the categorization. A context like  or  can be added as appropriate. Are there other changes that would improve this template? I have been trying to standardize taxonomic entries by adding links to WP and wikispecies, "etymology" (often just suffixation, as with -aceae,  -oidae, etc,), and an image from wikicommons. There is some disagreement about including binomial species names and whether we should treat species epithets used only in New Latin as Latin or Translingual. Personally, I favor leaving binomial species names to WP and wikispecies and treating New Latin words as Latin, but always including all taxons or rank genus or above as Translingual. There isn't any practical value to adding a Latin lowercase entry for a capitalized Translingual taxon either, IMHO. Thoughts? DCDuring TALK  14:16, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

 * I am hoping you could help with some questions I have raised at Wiktionary talk:About Translingual. DCDuring TALK 14:59, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

cordaite
Could you check this entry for me (I am no botanist) and correct if you find anything wrong? Thanks. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 02:05, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Ancient Greek
There's not a ton of folks working on this language, so I try to at least say stop by and say 'hi' whenever I see someone doing so. Thanks for your help with the Ancient Greek request page; clearing it is rather a large task. Let me know if you have any questions or thoughts. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 01:17, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

 * Could I be really whiny and ask that you use noun/adjective form instead of noun/adjective in, as I've done on ? It's not that big of a deal at the moment, but when someone starts autogenerating inflected forms (no idea when that will actually happen, but it'll happen), it'll start flooding pages like Category:Ancient Greek nouns unless we separate them.  -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 00:30, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

New verb template
Since you've been adding transliterations, I assume you're aware that Maro rewrote. Just thought I'd let you know that, if you like, you can remove the principle parts, as long as they're represented in the inflection tables. If you don't care to, you are of course not obligated to do so. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 22:48, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

 * I don't know if you noticed or not, but your most recently edits to γνωρίζω were reverted, rightly in my opinion. We really shouldn't take out the principle parts if they're not represented by inflection tables.  Cheers.  -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 11:26, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I've stopped doing those, mostly because it's less efficient doing two things at once, but also because I had the uncomfortable feeling I was doing some of them wrong. I don't know the verbs well enough to do those right.Chuck Entz (talk) 12:30, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

WT:AGRC
As a newish Ancient Greek editor you would be the ideal guinea pig for the new version of this page. I wrote it several years ago, and it had since gotten so stale that I had simply stopped referring people to it. I'm hoping the refreshed version is a bit more coherent, comprehensive, and up-to-date. When you have some free time, would you be willing to give it a read, and let me know what you think? I'm especially looking for questions that you have/had which are not answered by the page, things which are unclear, or advice which seems contrary to actual practice. Many thanks. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 08:22, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Circumflex
Fulfilling my job as an administrator, I thought I'd berate you about a minor breach of format. Accents aren't supposed to be reflected in transliterations. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 07:19, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Could you tell me where I did that? I seriously can't find it. I haven't been editing Greek much lately, and the few examples in my contributions log are mostly without a circumflex in the Greek.The only time I remember using circumflex in Latin letters was reproducing Old English passages in 19th century sources that used a circumflex instead of a macron. I certainly know better than to use circumflex in transliterations, but absent-mindedness is always a possibility. Chuck Entz (talk) 08:05, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
 * χοῖρος. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 08:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

 * Wow. I didn't realize how long ago that was.  I guess I just noticed it because of the edit to requested entries.  -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 09:37, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

admin?
Hi there Chuck. I notice that you do a lot of vandalism fighting. Would you be prepared to be a sysop - then you could use the "revert" function instead of "undo" (this also marks the edits as patrolled so the edits don't need to be looked at again by another sysop). You could also block vandals if you wanted to. If so, I can start a vote. SemperBlotto (talk) 21:10, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't mind that, but I don't know a lot about all the other stuff an admin does, and I would have to learn the rules behind blocking or deleting before I would want to start doing it.
 * As for reverting, I've mostly been undoing the obvious stuff and leaving the tough judgment calls for others. I find it a good way to use the time where I've gotten tired of one thing and haven't decided what I want to work on next. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:23, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I have started a vote at Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2012-04/User:Chuck Entz for admin. Adminship doesn't force you to do anything that you don't want to do. Many sysops have never blocked a user or deleted an entry ever. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:03, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It is widely known that SB is bitter about the inactivity of other admins. --Itkilledthecat (talk) 08:10, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to sysophood. Please add an entry at Wiktionary:Administrators.

May I ask that you always have a second session open on Recent Changes whenever you are editing Wiktionary. You may mark good edits as "patrolled", revert vandalism and stupidity by either deleting new entries or by using the "rollback" function. You may block vandals at your own discretion.

Note: As there are times when no sysop is active, it would be useful if you start your patrolling from the time you last left the system. Cheers. SemperBlotto (talk) 07:14, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

time of asking
I don't see how this fails WT:CFI - it's an idiomatic construction, surely? In general, when the phrase is used there's no act of "asking" involved. 81.142.107.230 14:31, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I may have deleted that one by accident. It's restored, anyway. Sorry for the inconvenience. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:54, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

* in nl-noun
The template no longer supports * as a parameter. It was removed because it was often misused to mean both 'I don't know what this form is' and 'there is no such form'. Now, leaving the parameter empty means 'I don't know' and adds the entry to a cleanup category, while using - means 'I know for certain there is none'. 18:02, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

torc torque
Please before mindlessly reverting changes, either do some research or talk to the changing party, unless of course it seems like vandalism. I have already had a long discussion with semperBlotto about the torc/torque problems and he agreed with me fixing it. I don't feel like having the same discussion with each new admin who doesn't understand the rules of reverting. See Revert Speednat (talk) 20:02, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * On the contrary. As discussed before, your (Speednat's) edit gives three meanings to where there are only two. I have reverted your edits. SemperBlotto (talk) 21:12, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Charlie Brown
Greetings. Thanks for the Peanuts reference, it is much appreciated. Also, well done on achieving sysophood. --WF's Lucy (talk) 03:51, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

deities
so those entries were encyclopedic and they were either duplicates of properly capitalized entries or miscapitalized. I have edited them accordingly and nominated the misspelled versions for deletion.Lucifer (talk) 23:48, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

They don't meet the CFI, but I presumed you may want to defend that as their creator therefore I left the possibility open to discussion. I am an inclusionist and perhaps it is salvageable so I think it's best that the community review it.Lucifer (talk) 00:07, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

ἄπυρος
Thanks for the correction of "<" to "From". Regarding my request at WT:RE:grc that ἄπυρος be added, please note that I added the request (01:18, 28 May 2012) before you created the entry (02:08, 28 May 2012), for which I thank you. I'm so meta even this acronym (talk) 12:38, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Kamboj
Hi, I couldn't help but see that anon readding stuff to this entry, for the second time even! So, I've protected the entry so it can't be edited by newbies and unregistered users for 3 months or so. 50 Xylophone Players talk 23:13, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Good thinking. I have a feeling, though, that this anon will be back, absent the sun imploding or the End of Civilization As We Know It... Chuck Entz (talk) 05:03, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Heh...maybe, maybe. In that case I might just ban their ass...though three months kind of is a long time. We can but hope they're just gone off in a fit of rage perhaps hating the site, never to return. Also, a fair observation to make is all their bickering about us not being a Kamboj authority or whatever was in the edit summaries with not a single thing posted to your talk page here so perhaps they may not even really be all that wiki-savvy. 50 Xylophone Players talk 14:38, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

More Polynesian linguistics!
I spent a while constructing Proto-Polynesian out of boredom, and when I got back home I compared my chart against Wikipedia and it matched up quite well! So now I've decided to fill up Category:Proto-Polynesian language with some terms, but I feel like I'm forgetting a lot of descendants (especially with languages like Tongan that don't fit as well). If you're interested, please add descendants and link to the appendix pages in Polynesian etymologies. For an example of a good entry (in my mind, at least), see Appendix:Proto-Polynesian/qariki. Thanks --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 18:13, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, would you mind taking a look at User:Metaknowledge/Proto-Polynesian personal pronouns? The fact that no extant Polynesian language that I'm aware of still has the trial made this a little hard, because the old trial forms replaced the plurals, and thus the plurals are basically guesswork. Thanks! --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:36, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I can't help you with the pronouns. My main focus has always been the nouns, and more specifically plant and animal names. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:19, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah well. In any case, if you want to work with those, that would be welcome. I was trying to find the Proto-Polynesian form of tapa/kapa, but the siapo/hiapo forms threw me off. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 04:34, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

'Okina standardization
Just to notify you, unless any concerns are raised, I intend to switch all Hawaiian and Tongan entries that are not already done from 'okina/fakau'a to ʻokina/fakauʻa. This is because only the US and Tonga have made any official effort to standardize; all other Polynesian languages will remain with 'okina. Thanks --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 18:36, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:28, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of a scientifically recognised word
I'm afraid you deleted the word araneicide. However, this word has been found in a scientific journal, the Coleopterists Bulletin, specifically referring to a toxin that kills spiders. It was not a misprint and its etymology can be traced. See here. Likewise, it was found in a PhD thesis entitled The life history of and behavior of the subsocial amaurobid spider Badumna candida, which can be found here. I did not make up the word.—Giant SquidTalk 08:21, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I've restored it, but your cites don't match your definitions: the cites refer to a substance that kills spiders, and I don't buy referring to a substance as "one". The "killing of spiders" sense is plausible, but you would need to cite it. Chuck Entz (talk) 08:37, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, understood.—Giant SquidTalk 21:14, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

thank you
thank you for welcome. i am trying to develop the sanskrti wiktionary. in that way i came to english wiktionary. any hopw i am impressed the systamatic presentation of words. but i cannot copy them as many facilities are absent in our wiktionary. if you can help me we and that classic language will be blessed. for example in english wiktionary sanskrit words declensions are automatically getting. if i can copy to sanskrit wiktionary it will be a good help. do what you can do thanking you --Dvellakat (talk) 14:21, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

tops
I noticed that you reverted my addition without comment. Care to comment? Specifically, I added usable content for the end user. --JBrown23 (talk) 02:56, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. The fatal problem was having a an entry in katakana on the page for a word in the roman alphabet. In general, we organize our entries by spelling, with all entries with the same spelling on the same page. We even have separate pages for the same term spelled with a hyphen as opposed to a space- including an entry in a completely different writing system massively violates that. You need to read WT:AJA to see how we do Japanese entries. I'm also going to put our standard welcome message on your talk page so you can read the introductory information about editing on Wiktionary. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:50, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

sanskrit
hope you know that i am working in mostly in Sanskrit. though i cannot understood fully what you meant, i stopped the silly corrections like visarga and etc in en. Wiktionary. there are many to correct in English. i am concerned about the rich language of Sanskrit where very few works. so be free about my interventions in English. i am here for some helps in sanskrit wiktionary. are you able do that? --Dvellakat (talk) 05:25, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Kine vs Shoon
Hi Chuck,

Given your revert of my changes to Kine, please consider Shoon, shouldn't a similar change be made there too?

Thanks.

WilliamKF (talk) 13:18, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

 * (after edit conflict) Done, though it's not as straightforward here, since the suffix is still in a recognizable form. Even the revert was a judgment call, with which others might disagree.

 * At any rate, please remember that reverting isn't a punishment, it's only a variation on normal editing. I could have just edited the entry and removed the template, but I reverted to save time.

 * This particular revert wasn't an official admin action prompted by a violation, just an edit reflecting my judgment as a fellow contributor. I don't feel strongly enough about this to edit war over it, and I certainly wouldn't block you for changing it back. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:25, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

shoon
Hi! I saw that you removed the suffix categorisation for. ?? Leasnam (talk) 14:05, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * See above. It seemed like a good idea at the time, though it's looking less so on second thought. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:25, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok. Was the reasoning because it deviates from the strict "-en" form? Leasnam (talk) 14:44, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes. I reverted an edit that put kine in the category because the suffixation was in early stages of the language and no longer present in a recognizable form, so presumably not morphologically significant to (early) modern English.

 * The editor who made that edit pointed out that shoon could be interpreted the same way, and I changed it, in order to be consistent. Thinking further, though, the loss of the vowel isn't enough for one to make the argument that the morpheme is no longer present, since it's quite likely a regular, productive change that would be recognizable to speakers. As I said above, the edit on kine was a judgment call which I don't feel that strongly about, and the the edit on shoon far less so. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:00, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I would tend to agree. Although it is orthographically written differently, it is morphologically identical, and still analysed as an -(e)n plural. Leasnam (talk) 15:11, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Would you mind if I return the cats to both kine and shoon? Leasnam (talk) 14:24, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * shoon- not at all. kine- I can live with it, Chuck Entz (talk) 14:26, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

'uri
You know you can't do this, right? Mglovesfun (talk) 23:09, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * If I did, I forgot. I stopped once I realized you were deleting them Chuck Entz (talk) 23:12, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Talk:屯/Korean
Please undelete this many-day hard work. This way of sandboxing on the Talk subpage was agreed with User:Eirikr at the end of Talk:城. BTW, are you an admin. concerning Hanja edits? --KYPark (talk) 08:21, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Turkish-speaker advice needed on whether to delete some categories and templates
I recently nominated for deletion a block of categories and templates. These were for grammatical categories that would be wrong for most languages. I don't speak Turkish, however.

Your Babel box says you're a native speaker of Turkish, and you've been active on Wiktionary recently. I would appreciate it if you could look at the sections for the categories and for the templates and comment on whether they're useful, whether they should be deleted, and why (or why not). Chuck Entz (talk) 01:59, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually I'm not totally active but it's not a problem. Thanks for reminding. However, I'm uncertain at 2nd topic... Best regards...--Sabri76' talk 17:50, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Etymological assurance
Both Proto-Polynesian *taŋata and mean "man". This is just a really weird coincidence, right? (I can't find the Proto-Austronesian or Proto-Uto-Aztecan forms for either of those right now, so this is the best I can do.) Thanks! --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 04:37, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Yep. a coincidence. There are Takic reflexes of the same root, and Pollex traces the root to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, so any borrowing would have to have been thousands of years ago, before there was any chance for contact. I thought we had some Cahuilla entries, but I'm having trouble finding them. I guess I'll have to dig some more books out of boxes in storage and enter some Chuck Entz (talk) 05:46, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * That makes me feel better. It's still... unnerving. Like mama and mama. It just feels... too right to be wrong, even though I can't believe it to be true in my rational mind. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:57, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Mama is a special case: labial consonants are among the first sounds that babies are physically/neurologically able to make, so they're heavily represented in the words for parents in the languages of the world: "ma" in Mandarin may mean horse and hemp, depending on the tone, but it also means the same as English "ma".

 * Another one that gave me pause is the Uto-Aztecan root for tobacco: something like *pipa. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:13, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * That explains a lot. Is pa the next sound, then? That's a little striking, but not quite as bad, I should think. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 06:16, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know that there's a hierarchy. The sounds babies make aren't really classifiable beyond the major part of the mouth where they're made, and a lot happens to sounds as languages change. M, p, f, v, and b all show up a lot, though m and p seem to be the most common in words for parents. I think the phenomenon also carries over into words for infants, such as baby or bebé, and even, secondarily, to grandparents, such as baba (though probably not as much). I believe there are later stages where the infants' babbling progresses to include d-like and g-like sounds- and this is all before they have control over things like voicing and nasalization, and before they combine different consonants near each other. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:02, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * If only Freud was a linguist... Do you know where I can read up on this? --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 07:04, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know. This is all from a Child Language Acquisition class I took at UCLA a quarter century ago. I'm sure understanding has advanced quite a bit since then. It's important for linguistic theory, though. Language acquisition is a major factor in the mechanics of language change: For instance, the most stable forms are usually the ones that are typically learned directly from parents. If you look at all the irregular and strong inflections, they're usually basic, common household vocabulary. The stuff that isn't learned in childhood is much more likely to be regularized as the gaps are filled in by guesswork, or to be borrowed. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:18, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

In reply to tagging specific senses
This Grease_pit might be what you described here? Grease_pit_archive/2012/May SebastianHellmann (talk) 00:46, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Actually, the whole senseid thing was about what I was thinking of, and I was surprised that I hadn't seen it in use. I'll have to look at your system, though. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:39, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It is not a system, but simply an html anchor + css highlighting. SebastianHellmann (talk) 08:15, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

βαπτισμῶν and τὴν
Thanks for your helpful comments last month on WT:RE:grc. I have a couple of questions I hope you can help me with. I'm so meta even this acronym (talk) 11:32, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Is  just a short form of  (the genitive plural of ), or is it a different inflection?
 * 2) What does  mean? Τηνάλλως seems to be derived from it.

 * Good catch! I should have referred to, a second declension noun, rather than , a third declension noun (we already have both). As for , it's just the feminine accusative singular of the definite article (see for the whole declension). I created an entry for , just to round things out. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:13, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

 * Great, thank you. One thing though: Why, in this sentence: "Τὴν δικαιοσύνην, id est κατά τὴν δικαιωσύνην.", do both the uses of (with the acute accent) have grave accents? I'm so meta even this acronym (talk) 14:31, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

 * Oh, also, in that same sentence, what is the difference between and ? I assume that they're the accusative singular forms of  and, respectively, but are they ultimately equivalent? I'm so meta even this acronym (talk) 14:37, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Got my foot stuck!
Hi Chuck, I added some etymology to Myrmecophagy, which you then reverted. OK, but I am at the moment adding several related terms (stenophagy, termitophagy and more) out of a need for them in Wikipedia. I encounter a need for such refs in WP, and I feel more comfortable in explaining their meaning with refs to their etymology. Do you recommend that I omit the Greek in all cases (perhaps half a dozen or so?) Cheers,

Jon

 * When you have live entries for the parts of the compound, it's better to have the etymology on those page. That way there's no inconsistancy between etymologies. Let's say I make a change to the etymology for the -phagy suffix. I'd rather not have to look for all the instances of that suffix in other entries in order to update them. It's unfortunately not all that uncommon for there to be multiple etymologies for the same thing that disagree with each other, which can only be confusing to Witktionary users. By the way, my computer is in the shop and I'm using some extra vacation time to check in from work, so I may not be very prompt in responding for the next few days. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:40, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Ah. Hmmm... I see. Okay. I certainly am thoroughly familiar with the multiple-maintenance problem. However, perhaps I am missing something; I am after all very naive about the facilities and the skills necessary for dealing with Wiktionary, so please be patient with me. Am I to understand that there are independent etymological entries for particular roots (steno-, termito-, etc)? If so, how does one look them up? (Especially if one is not a Latinophone or Hellenophone, as in my case.)

No problem about delays; here too I am on familiar territory, particularly at the moment! ;-) Good luck with your situation! JonRichfield (talk) 14:24, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The roots were already there in the etymology section: and . Both of them were blue links, which means there were already entries for both of them. If you click on either link, it takes you to the entry, which, as you will see, already has an etymology (both do). As for which prefixes and suffixes have entries: you can type myrmeco- into the search box, or if you already have a link to a prefix or suffix, you can go to the entry and look for categories at the bottom of the entry. Clicking on the name of the category will take you to the main page for that category. As it turns out, whoever created the entry for myrmeco- didn't use a template, so it wasn't in Category:English prefixes. I fixed that. -phagy is in the correct category, though (Category:English suffixes). I have my computer back, so things should be back to normal (as soon as I catch up on my watchlist, anyway). Chuck Entz (talk) 04:44, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

staple
When undoing edits, please remember to mark them as patrolled. (This happens automatically when you click "rollback", but not when you use other revert mechanisms.)

Thanks in advance!

—Ruakh TALK 20:31, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

rhetorical question
Why did you revert my edit there? I explained why in both the talk page and edit summary. The least you can do is respond.
 * And now you're just reverting me for no reason. I wrote the sentence at akilter and then reworded it like five minutes later. Are you just reverting everything I do?
 * In both cases, the new sentences were no better than the originals- actually worse. "Are your parents leprechauns, or just really short?" reads like a meaningless insult, even if it is technically a rhetorical question. The akilter sentence doesn't look right (the one reverted to isn't all that great either). As for reverting everything you do: when I see a suspect edit, I check other edits by the same editor to see if there's a pattern that might indicate trouble. So far I don't see such a pattern, just a few mistakes. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:02, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't understand, "Are your parents leprechauns, or just really short?" is an insult, that's perfectly consistent with being a rhetorical question. Rhetorical questions are often insults. And I think the replacement sentence is much more natural than what you reverted to. 76.100.115.189 02:06, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Why revert?
Hi Chuck, I would like to learn what was wrong with this edit? --Trofobi (talk) 09:18, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure. If you click the wikipedia link where it says "Wikipedia has an article about crossbones", it goes to a disambiguation page for several articles that aren't about the subject of the entry. At Wiktionary, a rollback isn't necessarily a disciplinary action, it also can just mean that, in the opinion of the person doing it, the entry is better without the edit in question. I had no doubt your edit was in good faith, it was just mistaken. Chuck Entz (talk) 13:06, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Stupidity
Hi,

I saw you had blocked some people and given the reason as "Stupidity". I've been reading up over at Wikipedia, and doesn't this go against the spirit of "no personal attacks" and "do not feed the trolls"? It seems like it would be better to just say "Vandalism".

Fast Clear (talk) 07:15, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, it's admittedly a complex issue. First of all, we're not Wikipedia, so none of those pages or policies necessarily apply here. Secondly, we have a lot more vandalism to cope with (in terms of ratio of active patrollers to vandals), and less good faith contribution from IPs (as a percentage of total good faith contributions) than Wikipedia. This makes our anti-vandalism gameplan a lot different. Sometimes, calling a vandal a vandal or their actions vandalism is in fact "feeding the trolls", and becomes a badge of honour. I use "stupidity" as a reason because I expect that nobody will boast about being called "stupid", whereas they will boast about being a "vandal" (you must know how adolescents are...). --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 07:21, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, I've only used that reason ten times out of all the blocks I've done. There was a case involving three individuals to whom I gave three identical blocks, and that skewed the numbers quite a bit. As Μετάknowledge said, it can be useful in taking the bad-boy/girl mystique out of acts by young vandals. You have no idea how often we see edits inserting "poop" and "so-and-so is gay". It doesn't seem right to equate those with filling pages full of hate speech and/or profanities, or with some of the more vicious acts of sabotage. Chuck Entz (talk) 08:16, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Interesting points. I'll say this: your system makes more sense than requiring multiple templated warnings as Wikipedia seems to do (and obviously there's less likelihood that someone will contribute positively anyway). Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me. Cheers, Fast Clear (talk) 10:13, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

 * It may not seem right, but in guaging your response and personalising it you make it interesting. Human beings will not amuse themselves with things that are not intellectually stimulating or physically engaging, and no matter how dumb and slobby we are, that remains true as it is what we are.  The best worded response might be the closest equation to *error*, as machinely cold and unresponsive as possible rather than humanly responsive, but then I don't see me reverting ten vandals in a row and if they were writing poop or something was it smart or what?  RTG (talk) 14:56, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

wih
What's up with the Cahuilla section? --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 04:23, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Sometimes when I keep editing when I'm tired, I forget things. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:40, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It's OK. Actually, that's the only Cahuilla word you forgot a definition for. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:57, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

recons
Why are you doing this? Why are you removing the lang parameter? --Vahag (talk) 12:47, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I was cleaning up the entries where tags an error due to etymology-only templates not having scripts.  was the most convenient way of doing that. After I converted all of them, I realized that they were creating redlinks to a non-existant appendix, so I'm removing the lang parameter- which is how the "cons" documentation suggests to avoid the redlinks (it looks like you were using an empty parameter in  for similar reasons). Since these are all accompanied by an  with the correct language code, no information is lost, and since there's no link, there's no need to worry about which language section is linked to. I'm just trying to arrive at the best solution to avoid cluttering up cleanup categories without messing up the way it looks and works in the entry. I'm sorry if I've cluttered up your watchlist with cryptic edits, and I'm willing to redo all of them to address any other problems- I consider it my responsibility to fix my mistakes. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't understand. creates a link to an appendix, which will be red until someone creates an entry.  has the same behaviour. We do want the links, with a correct language parameter. What's the purpose of recons if it doesn't create links? --Vahag (talk) 17:05, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The problem is that it creates to a link to an appendix called "Iranian", because it's a family and not a proto-language. If you think we should have an appendix with that name, I'll be happy to go and put back all the lang parameters. Chuck Entz (talk) 17:11, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * No I'm OK with removing lang=ira and other family parameters, but not lang=xpr or lang=xcl, as those appendices may some day exist. Indeed, I have thought of making a couple of appendices for some unattested Old Armenian terms. --Vahag (talk) 17:17, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Would they exist with the same names as the mainspace language categories? This seems to be a bit of a gray area, since it doesn't seem like a good idea to create a code just for the purpose of having the right name for an appendix. Chuck Entz (talk) 17:30, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, they will exist with the same name. It doesn't seem like a good idea to create a code just for the purpose of having the right name for an appendix: the sole purpose of is to create links with the right appendix name. What else does it do? Italicize the term and add an asterisk? I could do that without a template. --Vahag (talk) 17:58, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe we should see about adding a switch to so it would otionally add something like "- Unattested Forms" to the appendix name. I don't think anyone has thought about how to treat unattested forms of attested languages. Chuck Entz (talk) 17:37, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * If the etymology says that the word comes from a family called 'Iranian', then it really means 'Proto-Iranian', the reconstructed ancestor of that family. A family by definition can't have any words, whereas a reconstructed ancestor can. 17:45, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Not always. It can also mean 'an Iranian language, but we don't know which one, maybe Parthian, maybe Middle Persian, maybe Median, maybe Old Persian'. --Vahag (talk) 17:58, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * There is Appendix:Vulgar Latin/montanea, an unattested form of an attested language — Latin. No switch is necessary. Everything works fine, just don't remove lang parameters for non-family languages. --Vahag (talk) 17:58, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. I'm almost finished removing the "lang=ira", so I can go back and re-add the other lang parameters I took out. Chuck Entz (talk) 18:01, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Vahag (talk) 18:03, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

new user of the year
I'd like to nominate you as new user of the year. If you accept, push the red button. If you have no red button, push the zit on your face. If you have no zit, or not enough strength to push things, click on "Edit" and mash the keyboard.
 * What- no lacerating wit, no double entendres? If this is all you've got for me in the way of invective, I should feel insulted! Chuck Entz (talk) 07:22, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Protection
I was just wondering...why did you move-protect wallet and a bunch of other pages? I mean, they obviously shouldn't ever be moved, but there wasn't any indication that anybody was going to move them Purplebackpack89  (Notes Taken) (Locker) 21:11, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Refer to WT:GP. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:19, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Alligator . ..

 * 1) The so-called 美洲鱷 (Měizhōu è), literary "American crocodile" (maybe refer to Alligator mississippiensis?), is not equivalent to alligator.
 * 2) It should be noted that alligator (鼉, tuó) is completely different from crocodile (鱷, è).
 * 3) If your knowledge is poor, please don't edit it. All right?　　——119.131.7.83 18:59, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I reverted you because you deleted the Min Nan section, not because of the details of the Mandarin or Cantonese edits. If you put back the Min Nan section- or at least explain adequately why it deserved to be deleted- I'll leave it to our Chinese-speaking admins to decide whether you're right or not about the rest of it. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:24, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Humane
You invited me to discuss this diff. I'll assume you are a natural English speaker or well versed. Think about it carefully, the word humane is synonymous in almost all modern usage with diminished suffering. True regard for health and well being does not actually include the imposition of suffering, unless specifically to promote health and well being, and that is so often not the case. Practically, and I mean that literally in practice almost all rather than in rhetoric and philosophy, all instances of use refer to diminished suffering wether truly compassionate or not. It is unfair, in that it is tainted information, not to make this clear. Excuses not to make it clear: don't feel like it, others don't and that's all. The facts remain. What say you? Examples, I'll go into references if you'd like but these are common knowledge, humane ways to *deal* with a criminal. Humane ways to experiment on or kill animals. These are the most common practices synonymous with usage of the word humane and in all cases they are about inflicting suffering and not at all about health and well being. Is there some reason not to make this clear in a short simple way? Sugar coated is an almost perfect synonym for this definition of the word humane. Should we deny it as though it weren't so? Or what? Is it not about all that? Are you merely insisting that we stick to what other dictionaries have provided? That's a copyright issue, or a reliance on outdated information. So, I doubt you reverted for spelling mistakes or formatting errors, what says you? RTG (talk) 14:35, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I think you're making a special case for those who abuse the term, when, in fact, they're not creating a new sense but just mis-applying the original one. Also, we try to maintain a neutral point of view in our definitions- "murderous" is as emotionally-charged as it gets. By the way, we use rather than "sugar-coating", since that's the technical term. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:49, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I find misuse of the term to be prolific and significant. Do you not yourself?  When you see execution methods refered to as humane, do you equate it as abuse or even error?  I doubt it...  It's just common usage today.  And so, it's there, and it is somewhat obscure here.  I can't see any incorrectedness in this although wording and formatting may be debatable.  Maybe it is some form of slang, but it is there and it is prolific, significant and therefore ought to be acknowledged.  It's too comonplace to completely ignore is it not?  So let's do something then at least?  Do we define the word or describe it's definition?  See what I done there?  RTG (talk) 15:05, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Seems like a straight-forward revert, as the first and second part of the definition contradict each other. Sugar-coated does not mean murderous or injurious. Injurious (which you spelled wrong) is a rare words with two different definitions, so using that is inappropriate. Finally both definitions (murderous and sugar-coated) seem really unlikely; can you provide an example of this? Mglovesfun (talk) 16:07, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

 * It means bad things are happening to a lesser degree, not ensuredly bad things are not happening. The current entry does nothing to imply this. Nothing.  My intention is to correct that.  Care to help, or care less?  RTG (talk) 20:14, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I think the problem has more to do with the part of the definition having to do with "health" and "well-being". I've always seen it as avoiding pain and suffering. This is highlighted best in the case of an animal with an incurably painful condition: the humane thing to do may be to gently put it to sleep, even though this is obviously not at all good for its health or its physical well-being. I've changed the definition accordingly. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:27, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree with your change to the definition. - -sche (discuss) 21:40, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Well those changes are a lot more subtle than I had in mind but I think I sort of appreciate them too. Maybe the word "regard" (having regard for) was a little too noncommittal as well, in that regard is merely a view rather than a concern. And in current practice the quality is too often a beheading in between trials by fire.  Good stuff cheers.  RTG (talk) 23:58, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

edits
Hello,

Please don't edit historical talk pages, closed or active discussions, no matter what templates they use(d). It's what other people said in the past. --Anatoli (обсудить/вклад) 05:39, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Interlingua
Re. the Swadesh list for Romance languages: Interlingua is not a Romance language. It is a constructed language, intended as a simpler form fo Latin (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua). It is no more a "Romance language" than Esperanto. Since it doesn't belong in this Swadesh list, I have eliminated it.Mwidunn (talk) 03:07, 5 November 2012 (UTC)mwidunn

Revert at bürgerlich
Hello Chuck Entz,

why have you reverted my edit of the entry on bürgerlich? Kind regards. --212.255.255.112 12:17, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I'm not sure. It must have been a mistake. Feel free to revert my revert, with my apologies. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:21, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Revert Rhymes Depart
The ending pronunciation for the word depart matches the other rhymes -ɑː(ɹ)t, but you have reverted its inclusion. Why is that?
 * Look again: it's still there. I removed a couple of others that didn't match. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:09, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

A few phonology questions
Not just when I'm speaking my dialect of English, but in any language, I've found that there are a few common sounds I'm having a lot of trouble telling apart. I was wondering if you could help me distinguish them when I hear them or say them. They are: /ai/ vs /aj/ vs /aɪ/; /ei/ vs /ej/ vs /eɪ/; /nj/ vs /ɲ/; /a/ vs /ɑ/. Thanks! —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 04:35, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Those are some tricky ones. The problem is that everyone has a different phonetic realization of these phoneme combinations- not uncommonly the same person will pronounce them differently within a sentence or two of the same utterance. It's also true that sounds aren't as discrete and tidily separated as we'd like to think.

 * With the diphthongs, you start with the mouth in one position, and it moves to the other position- with lots of intermediate stuff in between. There's enough blurring there that there are different schools of thought on how to spell the same diphthongs: one person's /aɪ/ may be the exact same sound as someone else's /aj/. Semivowel approximants are tricky, because they almost cut off the flow of air, so they can vary from almost a vowel to almost a consonant. If you're starting with /a/ and ending with /j/, you'll probably have short /ai/ in between. To complicate things more, some people have more of a central articulation on the second sound, almost like /aɨ/. Basically, our brain is trained to take this vague sloshing from one sound to another and turn it into recognizable individual sounds. It takes training to overcome that and be able to recognize which sounds are really there (I'm not all that great at phonetic transcription, myself). I would recommend taking sound files and surgically cutting out different parts to hear how they process through the different sounds. I used to be able to do this with a cassette player: if you stop it at the exact end of the sibilance in the word "spin", it will sound like "bin" when you hit "play".
 * Now to some details:

 * /a/ vs /ɑ/: Think of a Bostonian saying "park the car". That "ar" is a very pure /a/. You can confirm this by lopping off the second half of sound files for the words "I" and "ow": it should sound the same (unless the speaker is from the South- you can hear all the vowel sounds of Europe in endless combinations by listening to different Southerners pronouncing a few words with "monophthongs", such as "spoon"). Now think of "open your mouth and say ah". That "ah" should be a very pure /ɑ/.
 * /nj/ vs /ɲ/: /nj/ is two sounds in different places of articulation, while /ɲ/ starts and ends in the same place. For most people, /nj/ tends to blur into /ɲ/ in rapid speech unless they're trying hard to enunciate precisely. Try saying "un" as it "sun", followed by "usual", first carefully enunciating the sounds with a pause between the words, then progressively shorten the pause until you're saying "unusual". If you're like me, you'll start out with /nj/ and end up with /ɲ/. The most iconic /ɲ/ in popular culture is courtesy of Curly from the Three Stooges- it's generally spelled "nyuk nyuk nyuk", but it's really something like /ɲəʔ/ /ɲəʔ/ /ɲəʔ/ (the /ɲ/ is somewhat syllabic, though, so it's hard to be sure what the vowel is). And of course, there's Russian . Chuck Entz (talk) 06:53, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Thank you! I'm a little confused on the topic of /a/, though - did you make a typo or two there? As for the semivowels, does that mean that it's impossible to say /ea/ without accidentally saying [eja] along the way? And with /nj/, I was brought up in perfect IPA-cloud-cuckoo-land where monophthongs and dphthongs are separate things, not on a continuum. Is that fantasy wholly mistaken? —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 07:30, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Contributing to developing the Bosnian Wiktionary and related
Hello,

I am a new registered user. So greetings to all. I have a specific question. I went through the Help pages, FAQs, etc. but couldn't find an answer to my specific question (Maybe I missed it somewhere). I have also gone to the Bosnian Wiki page but didn't find an answer either. Probably because I am not familiar enough with the way Wiki works. While visiting Dicts's website (http://www.dicts.info/uddl.php), I saw that Bosnian is available in the list of languages of the Wiktionary database. I have translated/localized several websites into Bosnian and have wide language related resources at my disposal.

My question is: is there anything that I could do to contribute develop/help on that Wiktionary?

I would be glad to contribute. Thanks in advance for your help and advice and best, Senad
 * First of all, welcome! Second of all this is a wiki. We accept and encourage assistance from everyone, as long as it's up to the standards agreed upon by the community. If nobody has done so yet, I'll go put our welcome template on your talk page, which gives links to several useful documents explaining how and why things are done here. There are quite a few things about formatting that one has to know before being able to make good Wiktionary entries.
 * As regards Bosnian, there's one very important thing you should know: after considerable debate, the community decided to treat Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, etc. as a single language under the name of Serbo-Croatian, but with two alphabets- Cyrillic and Roman. The reasoning was that, in spite of the use of the issue for all kinds of political and other agendas, the languages are simply too close together to be realistically treated as separate for practical purposes. It turns out that the most vehement arguments for this came from our main Croatian contributors, who had every reason to take the other side. I wasn't around when the decision was made, but I understand it got quite heated. The truth is, whatever was decided, someone was going to hate us to the death over it, so I assume the decision was to go with what made the most sense from a linguistic point of view.
 * If you don't want to participate in an operation that treats Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian and Montenegrin as regional variants in the same way as we treat UK, US, Australian as variants of English, I'll certainly understand, though we certainly could use you. I don't know if we have any regular Bosnian contributors, but we can always use all the help we can get in every language. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:20, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, that's not quite true. The English edition of Wiktionary treats them as the same language, but I'm assuming you want to contribute to the Bosnian Wiktionary, right, Senad? Over there, they consider Bosnian to be a separate language. You can any questions you have about contributing there in Bosnian at this talkpage. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:33, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * (after edit conflicts)I just noticed, after writing all of that, that you were talking about the Bosnian Wiktionary. Since they're a separate wiki with a separate community, their policy regarding the separation of the language(s) is quite different from ours. I have no information about participating there that you couldn't get easier by just going over their. Their address would be bs.wiktionary.org instead of en.wiktionary.org. If you want to contribute to English-language entries about Bosnian words and phrases, you would do that here. For Bosnian-language entries about Bosnian words and phrases, you would do that there. I'm sure you would be welcome either or both places- you're certainly welcome here.Chuck Entz (talk) 21:37, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

United States National Forces
Hello, you just deleted a new entry for United States National Forces, generally citing WT:CFI, but failing to specify a particular reason.

The phrase is both attested and idiomatic.

Kindly specify your objections or re-create the entry.

Thanks.

(Please respond on this page, as I will monitor it.) Infoman99 (talk) 05:15, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It's neither attested nor idiomatic. Please don't waste our time without even bothering to read the link presented to you first. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:21, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Lampooning problems
Hi Chuck, I was a bit nonplussed by your categorical reversion of the edits I had made to lampoon. Could you drop a hint at the major problems that motivated you, so that I could have a go at cleaning them up? The sense that I added was in fact relevant to a WP link I had made to the WK entry, so it does seem to me worth a bit of effort to fix it. Cheers for now. JonRichfield (talk) 15:07, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Some of the problems stemmed from applying Wikipedia methods and standards to a Wiktionary entry: first of all, citations aren't the same thing here. We don't use citations to reference works to verify content. We're a descriptive dictionary, so for us citations point to examples of the term in use that show it's used in the way the definitions say it's used. The template is not the same as the Wikipedia version- it's used to display a properly labeled and formatted sample of text.
 * The other problems had to do with not paying attention to what was already in the entry: you added an unnecessary second etymology section, and your definition overlapped with the existing ones. There was an edit that fixed the etymology-section error, but the other ones remained.
 * This entry has problems with the definitions that need to be fixed by more drastic surgery than just adding another one, and it would have been too involved correcting the problems with your additions and restructuring the entry at the same time. A revert or a rollback here is more routine and less of a stigma than it might be on Wikipedia: we have fewer people here, so we don't have as much time to spend fixing problematic edits. I'm certainly not criticizing your sincere efforts to improve the entry- you just need to read up more on the differences between Wikipedia and Wiktionary, and on how we do things here. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:49, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * WT:WFW might be helpful? 14:59, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * OK, thanks. I'll take it from there. Cheers, JonRichfield (talk) 18:32, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Various H-droppin' words: etymology
'I there, just thought I'd let you know that the etymology I added for those words that 'ave an H-droppin' wasn't directly by me as I copy+pasted from 'ave (In which I 'appen to find this revision was added by an admin). Thankyou :) Tony6ty4ur (talk) 14:47, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

 * To an English speaker who has heard words like 'ave pronounced, the fact that the ' means the h sound has been dropped because the speaker's dialect always drops it (rather than that the word is merely elided like whate'er or prolly) may be clear... but especially if, as Angr contends on RFV, "eye dialect" means "spellings which indicate a standard pronunciation", it's probably opaque to non-native speakers. It also seems no less helpful than [[droid]]'s note that it represents android without the an, or the notes in a lot of hyphenated compounds that they represent part1+part2. However, I now see that the note applies to enough entries that it should be templatised. - -sche (discuss) 16:09, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Superbus stress
I would argue that stress on the second syllable is in error; if the penult syllable is short, then surely the stress must fall on the antepenult syllable according to Dreimorengesetz (the three mora rule). As it is, superbus is written with no long syllables and therefore has its stress on the first syllable: /'su.per.bus/ - 60.240.63.244 01:11, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh nevermind, I just realised the r constituted an extra mora. - 60.240.63.244 01:12, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Your revert in page דעת
Hi, why did you revert my edit in https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%AA&diff=19034748&oldid=19034078 ? I added full niqqud (vowels) and you reverted it without explanation. --Thv (talk) 08:19, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Honestly, I don't know. It must have been an error, because I don't see anything wrong with your edit, and can't remember why I reverted it. My apologies! Chuck Entz (talk) 08:29, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

title: User talk:Chuck Entz/2012


text: Category:Vietnamese nouns classified by vị


text:
kreikanmaakilpikonna

Noun

 * 1) Hermann's tortoise,

Usage notes

 * The, is called  in Finnish, which would literally translate as "Spanish tortoise" into English.

title: kreikanmaakilpikonna


text: พ.ศ.

title: พ.ศ.


text:
พุทธศักราช

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) Buddhist Era.

Usage notes
In old documents, it was used as พระพุทธศักราช.

title: พุทธศักราช


text: Priedītis

title: Priedītis


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Thread:User talk:Kephir/hi-noun and ur-noun/reply (3)

I do not get it. If emboldening hurts legibility, why allow it anywhere? And if it does not, why make an exception for script variants?


text:
συντεχνίτισσα

Noun

 * 1) fellow-craftswoman

title: συντεχνίτισσα