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Alternation (linguistics)

Hello again Angr. Awhile back, you helped with finding resources about the IPA. Now, I'm trying to clean up the article on Alternation, and I need some help finding references about it. Do you know of any good resources on the topic? The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 21:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:RM

Hi Angr: thanks for helping out at WP:RM a bit (with the Amish School Shooting). Just letting you know that when you do complete something from the list, just remove it, don't strike it out: we don't archive proposals or anything. — Mets501  (talk)  18:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Honshu is an English word

I found out that Honshū ought to be at "Honshu"; it's in the dictionary!

See WhisperToMe 03:46, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Whatever. Just because there's a place name in an English-language dictionary doesn't make it an English word. Angr 04:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Lyric Suite

Berg may be long dead, but George Perle has not been dead for 70 years, and thus the PD tag seems inappropriate. Hyacinth 07:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

But surely the creative aspect of those sets are Berg's, not Perle's, don't you think? Angr 07:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Austronesian languages

Hi Angr,

My first post to this page was an embarrassing faux pas. Now I'd like to thank you for your post to Austronesian languages. I also sympathize with some of your arguments on User:Angr/Reasons to leave. Have you been reading Misplaced Pages talk:Schools? Thanks --Ling.Nut 12:43, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

oops, you included the Chamic languages. Did you see the last sentence of the Homeland section? "." The Chamic languages are late & reverse-migrants. --Ling.Nut 14:59, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, well, but how recent? One could say English is a recent arrival to the island of Great Britain since it didn't get there till the mid-5th century AD! Angr 15:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Mmmmmmm. Point taken. Since your point is only that these Austronesian languages are currently spoken on continental Asia, and not that continental Asia is the linguistic homeland of the Austronesian languages, I withdraw my reservation/comment. Thanks.--Ling.Nut 15:15, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany

Hi Angr,

User:Badbilltucker has proposed creating a WikiProject for articles related to Germany. Since you contribute to WP:GSWN and seem to speak German pretty well and to contribute to Germany-related articles such as Konzerthausorchester Berlin, I was wondering if you would be interested in helping with this project. If you want to know more about the proposal you can check the temporary project page or the List of proposed projects.--CarabinieriTalk 10:43, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Berlin Ostkreuz

Hey angr! I would be grateful if you could take a look at Talk:Ostkreuz and at the points I've made there. Deine Meinung ist gefragt! --IsarSteve 13:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

IPA

Hi, Angr! I noticed that you are busy with updating IPA symbols in the Irish language-related articles. I see that the articles become more precise (and useful!) after your edits, but I am having helluva time sorting out a good portion of the new transcriptions, and I probably am not alone.

Would it be too much to ask you to write an article similar to International Phonetic Alphabet for English, only for Irish? Or is there another place where I can look just for Irish-specific symbols without having to filter through loads of IPA symbols that are irrelevant to the Irish language?

I understand that to write International Phonetic Alphabet for Irish is going to be a lot of work, but once it's up there, it will be invaluable to learners like me.--Ag Foghlaim 15:03, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd rather keep information like that at Irish phonology. In fact, everything I can think of that might go onto a potential International Phonetic Alphabet for Irish page already is at Irish phonology. Is there anything more specific you'd like? There's a to-do list at Talk:Irish phonology/to do you could add to. Angr 15:08, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I see your point. I'd better come back when I can formulate my questions better. While I know that there is something missing at Irish phonology--something that I need for better understanding of Irish IPA transcription--I for some reason can't pinpoint what it is. I guess I'd better go back to the drawing board, brush up on my linguistic terminology skills (or, rather, lack thereof), and figure out what exactly is that which I so desperately need :) Thanks for the to-do list clue, though; I'll keep it in mind.--Ag Foghlaim 15:19, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

This might just be it! Figuring out the difference between bˠ and b wasn't terribly hard, but some of the other symbols were more elusive. If you could compile a table in image of the prototype above, you would have my eternal gratitude... or wait, did I already promise that to you in the past? :)

As for location, Misplaced Pages namespace should probably do fine, although I am not sure where exactly is the best place to put it. Wherever it's going to be, once it's ready, I'm going to print it out and meditate on it for the next few days :)--Ag Foghlaim 18:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

IP block on User:70.123.133.131

Hi. This user sent a complaint to unblock-en-l that they hadn't done anything wrong and didn't understand what they were blocked for. I do not understand enough of the topics of the stuff they were editing recently to see if any of it might have been false information, but none of it seems blatantly bad or vandalistic. Can you elaborate on what the problem was that led you to block them?

Thank you.

Georgewilliamherbert 18:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, there was this total blanking of a page. However, after AntiVandalBot reverted that, the user went on to make normal edits, although AVB reverted that too, presumably because it came from the same IP as the blanking. I blocked when I saw that AVB had had to revert the same IP twice, but I confess I didn't meticulously check all the edits. Anyway, it was only a 3-hour block and it's long since expired. Angr 19:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I've pinged AVB about not autoblocking them. Georgewilliamherbert 20:22, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Arbcom

As you know, a dispute has been going on for some while between me and User:Ulritz. I feel you are also involved and invite you to say you share. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#User:Ulritz Rex 13:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)