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đó

I noticed you created the article đó. There you wrote:

===Etymology===

{{vi-etym-sino|妬|[[that]]; [[there]]; [[those]]}}

This is a shocking claim for me. As far as I know, Sino-Xenic "妬" means jealous. Do you have source to proof what you have writen? Thanks. Dokurrat (talk) 07:21, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

@Dokurrat Hi. I cannot find my source any more. One of the senses of "đó" is indeed "this, that; there" but it may not be Sino-Vietnamese or the character is not 妬. I'll check again when I get home.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:34, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

PPT

Why did you delete this? ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:25, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

How is this or any other English abbreviation a Chinese term? Bring up an RFD restore discussion if you wish. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:46, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Some English abbreviations are commonly used in Chinese, and are even listed in official dictionaries. PPT is the most common way of saying "PowerPoint presentation", and would be easily citable. See also WTO, WHO, etc. ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:20, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

You can restore it yourself if you cite a Chinese dictionary. Sorry to be a pain but I've sent all other romanised Chinese terms to RFV. This one will need citations too if restored. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:30, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

@Tooironic I've restored it with three citations. It shouldn't be a problem now. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 06:36, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Good job, thanks! --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:37, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Informal translations

Hi, Anatoli. How's the life under an Armenian prime minister? I notice that you often add informal Armenian translations to English words. I think that this is a bad idea. As you probably know, Armenians often use Russian words in everyday speech. I am not sure if those are Russian borrowings into Armenian or if people are simply temporarily code-switching. I am not sure if words like տորմուզ (tormuz) should even be included in Wiktionary. But certainly they should not be given in translations, as you would not list "Russian" мазган (mazgan) under air conditioner. --Vahag (talk) 07:27, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Ah, OK. Since you added this as an entry and a link in the decendants, I thought it qualifies as a valid translation. տորմուզ is pronounced differently from Russian. However, I don't see any hits in Google books. Which Armenian prime minister do you mean? Does it have to do with the term? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:33, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

@Vahagn Petrosyan BTW, is it considered too bad to include words that are used in spoken Armenian but hardly used in the written? I'm personally curious about such words, especially the numerous Russian loanwords. Perhaps a special category and CFI should be given to them, given the diglossia? No, I'm not a proponent of "the Russian world" ;) --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:38, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

I suspect that -u- in տորմուզ (tormuz) is an Azeri influence, which tries to approximate Russian [ə] with Azeri [ɯ] to which corresponds Armenian [u].

I was referring to Gladys Berejiklian. Aren't you from Sydney?

I too think that documenting the colloquial speech is important, but where do we stop? Some people may say entire sentences in Russian and now also in English. Since that is never written, often I do not know what orthography to use. Many words often preserve foreign phonemes. For now I include in Wiktionary only those words which entered the language long ago, are inflected as Armenian words and often form inner-Armenian compounds and idioms. --Vahag (talk) 07:50, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

No, I'm from Melbourne. I didn't know about G. Berejiklian, congratulations! This kind of diglossia is not unique for Armenian but words like प्लीज़ (plīz, “please”) are often used in Bollywood movies, even if they are avoided in published dictionaries, so people will want to know what characters are saying, even if it's obvious for English speakers. I did come across some of these anglicisms in Hindi textbooks. I can imagine words like "տորմուզ" can be frequent in Armenian TV shows, even if they are avoided in formal programs. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:57, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

OK, I'll be more tolerant towards including these words. գայկա (gayka) is from the same series. --Vahag (talk) 13:15, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll leave it to your judgement. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:08, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Template:my-num

I didn't realize you had created "Template:my-num" when I created {{my-numeral}}. Since Template:my-num was only used on one page, I've deleted it. {{my-numeral}} takes parameters for the digit and for categorizing the numeral as cardinal or ordinal. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:15, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

@Angr No problem but I have converted it to a redirect, so that {{my-new}} worked. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:14, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Module:sh-translit deletions

Hi Atitarev. CodeCat tagged Module:sh-translit/testcases/documentation and, therefore, Module:sh-translit/testcases for speedy deletion. You created them both, so do you want them deleted? — I.S.M.E.T.A. 21:25, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

I think she's got a solution for SH transliterations both ways, so these may be obsolete. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:28, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks for letting me know. I've deleted those two pages. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 21:31, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

স্বামী (śami) pronunciation

Hi, just letting you know that I've seen your question that you sent a week ago on Wikipedia. I'm just going to repeat to what I've replied on that page, in case you haven't seen it yet:

From my lame experience স্ব is probably an irregular consonant cluster that should always pronounced as ʃ. It should be similar to the Hindi ज्ञ (gy) which is really the letters jñ

— AWESOME meeos ！ * ([nʲɪ‿bʲɪ.spɐˈko.ɪtʲ]) 22:22, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

It seems too lame to me and I don't see a similarity with "ज्ञ". --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:03, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Oh well, it was my guess anyway. What I meant by the similarity with ज्ञ was that it was an irregular cluster, just like the Bengali — AWESOME meeos ！ * ([nʲɪ‿bʲɪ.spɐˈko.ɪtʲ]) 01:21, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

It's not an irregular cluster, it's quite common. However, in স্ব, the "b" is always silent. Whenever the letter ‍্ব follows another consonant without a vowel, the "b" is always silent in Bengali, so স্ব is pronounced /ʃ/. —Stephen ^(Talk) 04:10, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

@Stephen G. Brown Thank you, Stephen! We regularly transliterate স (śo) as "s", even if it's pronounced /ʃ/. Now, how should we transliterate স্ব (śo)? "sb" or "s" before I add it to the test cases module? My Bengali phrasebook transliterates স্বামী (śami) as "shaami". I couldn't find any standard regarding this digraph. I think we should use "s", unless there are objections. Also calling @Aryamanarora, DerekWinters, Wyang, Kc_kennylau.

The other thing, I'd like to discuss is, whether we should ignore shwa dropping for Bengali altogether, like Nepali and provide manual transliterations when the inherent vowel is silent. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:27, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

I remember that the way Nepali dealt with schwa dropping was putting < > in words that dropped the schwa. For Bengali however, we should use < > for words that keep the ô, and there are much more words that drop the ô and it would be more efficient if we could use less of < >. — AWESOME meeos ！ * ([nʲɪ‿bʲɪ.spɐˈko.ɪtʲ]) 08:39, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Actually, let's use "sb" for that diagraph. I did actually ask kc_kennylau to improve the Bengali translit module, just like he did for the Hindi one — AWESOME meeos ！ * ([nʲɪ‿bʲɪ.spɐˈko.ɪtʲ]) 08:41, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

No, we should be descriptive in our transliteraterations. It's pronounced śami so let's transliterate it like that. We can't expect readers to know that sb = ś. —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 12:15, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

I agree with Aryamanarora. I don't really care much about the underlying orthography. There are so many languages and scripts, with so many rules, and people can't be expected to know about ‍্ব being silent. I would transcribe clusters with the silent ‍্ব by dropping the "b" from the transcription. The same with ত্ব ("t" instead of "tb"), and so on. I also prefer schwa-dropping, as we do in Hindi. Some languages such as Bengali are (like English) not very phonetic, so a Lua module cannot be expected to get Bengali correct every time. The module is very helpful, but not always perfect. That's good enough for me in most cases. —Stephen ^(Talk) 13:02, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

@Stephen G. Brown: Nepali also has irregular pronunciation. Probably more than Bengali. What Wyang was able to do was to rewrite it phonetically in the Nepali script and use the transliteration for the phonetic and the orthographic versions. C.f. गाई [gāī] (गाइ (gāi)), for example. We can use both romanisations, perhaps? — AWESOME meeos ！ * ([nʲɪ‿bʲɪ.spɐˈko.ɪtʲ]) 13:15, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

I don't think I would like to see double romanizations. It places too much emphasis on the romanizations. Respelling with phonetic script is very helpful, but it's also a pain to implement. It would be nice to have the capability, but I would not use it myself. I would hope that some other enterprising editor would take on the job of phonetic respelling. Some dictionaries include phonetic respellings, at least on some entries, which is nice. —Stephen ^(Talk) 13:25, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

We should also be mindful that the pronunciation /ʃ/ is West Bengal Bengali, and not Bangladeshi Bengali, which tends more towards /s/. DerekWinters (talk) 19:24, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

I have added স্বামী (śami) and ত্বক (tok) to Module:bn-translit/testcases with the expected readings "sami" and "tôk". The pronunciation of ত্বক is confirmed at Forvo. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:31, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

@DerekWinters: I've put in both pronunciations in the entry, are they accurate? —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 20:52, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Question about short adjectives in poetry

You have said before that the occurrence of short adjectives in poetry doesn't really count because this is a special usage. Can you explain it?

For example, the word дательный should probably not have short forms, as it's non-comparable. Yet in a poem I find this (see [1]):

Иногда мы слишком винительны,

Оскорбительны и невнимательны,

Хорошо еще, что родительны,

Потому что тогда мы – дательны.

The adjectives here are definitely in predicate position, and the rest of them (except родительный) seem reasonable as short forms.

Another example (see [2]):

Ласкайся взахлеб, за живое

Юлой напряженье держи,

Бери, где сошлось без припоя

И дательны все падежи.

Yet another example, which isn't formatted as a poem but may be one anyway (see [3]):

Мы станем добродетельны Мы станем тихонравны Мы станем безусловно родительны и дательны

Thanks. Benwing2 (talk) 02:44, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

@Benwing2 The usage in the poetry, especially in the examples above is definitely a special and rare case. It sounds funny and the words are used not in their normal sense, e.g. "мы дательны" means here "we give", "we are the giving", "we are the ones who give". да́тельный (dátelʹnyj) doesn't have this sense (in the normal usage) and has no short forms but the theoretical forms are used here. If we add short forms without any notes, it would be misleading to learners. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:51, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

@Benwing2 I would also this usage is deliberately incorrect to add a humorous effect.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:48, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

There's also a vulgar piece of prose for describing Russian cases, no short forms but used in a funny way;)--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:50, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Email

Hi, I got an email from you today that looks fishy. Did you actually send me anything? --WikiTiki89 02:49, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

@Wikitiki89 Hmm, it's a worry no. Could you forward it back to me, please? I hope you don't have to block my email address. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:51, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

I don't want to proliferate it because Gmail is warning me that "it contains content typically used to steal personal information". But it basically says that you shared something with me on DropBox and wants me to click on some links. The subject is "Kindly view". You should check your sent mail if it shows up there to see if you sent it to anyone else. --WikiTiki89 02:57, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

No, I don't have anything of the kind in the sent items. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:00, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Either way, you should have your system checked for viruses. Whatever it is has access to your address book, and is at least spoofing your email address, if not using your actual email account. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:35, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

It's a Yahoo account, which was compromised. I have applied a recommended security setting. I hope it fixes it.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:16, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

What you said at my page is insulting and groundless for the most part

You can always say "I'm sorry". d1g (talk) 07:53, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

What part of "collaborating with you is disgusting" should be taken as a sign that you're trying to reach a consensus? You've created large numbers of bare-bones, incomplete entries, with "etymologies" taken from a grammar and implemented with a bunch of slap-dash improvised templates- I would say "not impressive" is being generous. The fact that you've pretty much stopped for the moment is good, but you've switched to heaping abuse on everyone within range, which isn't. Choosing someone who stood up for you against another admin as the main target for that abuse isn't exactly a stroke of brilliance, either.

I'm sure you don't care what any of us think, but someday you're going to have to learn to work with other people. Chuck Entz (talk) 09:42, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Javanese script in lemmas

Hello. You told me something earlier today, so I just wanted to see what you think about this. As you may or may not know, Javanese is currently written in both the Latin and Javanese scripts. When I was looking at Javanese lemmas, I realised that some Latin-script words seem to say 'Romanised form of [insert javanese script here]'. However, there is the opposite way around, where the Latin-script is the main entry and the Javanese is a red link. What do you think of having everything the same? ** laki-laki keren itu (yang terbaik dalam segala hal) ** 07:56, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

@TatCoolBoy Hello. I know almost nothing about Javanese but according Module:languages/data2 (search for m["jv"]) both Roman and Javanese are equal and I don't know, which script is considered standard, official or most common. It seems editors choose themselves, what script to use for main entries and which entry becomes secondary. We don't have a policy on Javanese, which would be in Wiktionary:About Javanese. It's a good idea to make a choice, which should be the main entry and make a soft redirect or alt form for the other. Opinions on this may differ among editors. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:45, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Concerning about the bahasa entries, I'm going to redirect them to its root form, if you don't mind. Also with orang. ** laki-laki keren itu (yang terbaik dalam segala hal) ** 04:19, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

That's good, thanks. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:31, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

阿爾山

Do you have any experience with Mongolian? I tried to fix the etymology according to the Wikipedia page for Arxan, but I can't be sure of course. ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:20, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

@Tooironic Not much, apart from being able to read the Cyrillic Mongolian. I have tried to improve the entry. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:32, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:41, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

• Here's another entry that I'm having trouble with: 白玉. Could you take a look when you get time? Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 15:04, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

@Tooironic I don't know Tibetan. The entry lacks etymology or term templates. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:18, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

people's republic

I don't know much about the etymology of this term, but when I encountered the etymology, it was very hard to read, and some of the cognates mentioned do not look as appealing as the other, better formatted etymologies. It seems that you handle with these things well (according to your babel), so would you mind if you could review it? Thanks! ** laki-laki keren itu (yang terbaik dalam segala hal) ** 09:50, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

@TatCoolBoy Thanks but you're exaggerating my skills in etymologies, besides this is an English entry, I don't normally work on them. You have already RFC'ed it, so let's see what people are going to do about it but please be patient. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:54, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Okay, no worries! ** laki-laki keren itu (yang terbaik dalam segala hal) ** 09:55, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Almost 40,000 Russian lemmas

I remember awhile ago when you noted that we had hit 30,000 lemmas. We're now at 39,944. Benwing2 (talk) 18:26, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Great! Good work! --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 19:35, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

See Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/智慧

Ordinarilly I would ask Erikir but he seems to be extremely busy these days and I am still waiting for responses to a couple other things I've asked him about, so I decided I'd pose this question to you. I found that my source for quotations has an obvious printing error, so I decided to add a "Citation note" to this page which quotes the verse in which this error is found. I corrected the error in the quotation, but the reference still points to the online copy which has the misprint. Is this a satisfactory solution? What whould you recommend? 馬太阿房 (talk) 20:41, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, your solution seems satisfactory to me.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:07, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your response! 馬太阿房 (talk) 04:51, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Робин

Privet! I created the item Робин a few days ago and I wasn't sure if I used the declension templates correctly. Could you verify the article for me? Robin van der Vliet (talk) (contribs) 19:24, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

@Robin van der Vliet Yes, it's correct, although I don't encourage making Russian entries, if you're not familiar with the grammar, etc. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:53, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

best Russian-English dictionary

What is the best Russian-English dictionary available on the web? I have a pretty good paper dictionary but I'm having difficulty finding a good electronic one. I often use the translation component of [4], which gives the output of various dictionaries, but it isn't always reliable. In this case, for example, I'm trying to figure out the translation of невыезд, which seems to mean approximately "prohibition on leaving a given city or country". Google Translate offers up the translations house arrest and recognizance, but these are not the same things, and neither is correctly described as a prohibition on traveling. Benwing2 (talk) 14:25, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

You can try 1. [5], which is a bit annoying. It keeps shouting at you to log on. May give lots of example with English translations (other languages are available). 2. [6]. Be careful with users' additions in multitran, which can be either useful and misleading.

Monolingual (Russian): 3. [7] and 4. [8] (the latter doesn't perform quite well, it doesn't load 100% for me, I have to make it stop loading). In gramota.ru you can tick dictionaries you want to look up in. Nothing's perfect. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 14:52, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

dic.academic.ru also searches bilingual dictionaries. I would say it's probably the best source since what it does is search real published dictionaries. --WikiTiki89 15:30, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

User:Benwing2/ru-hard-e-disagreement

I wonder if you could take a look at this. This page includes words where we disagree with ruwikt about whether to have е, э or both. Last year you got up through д or so. I looked up the words up through п in Ivanova and added notes as to what she says; I trust her more than Avanesov (old-fashioned) or Reznichenko (inaccurate). The possible notations to add are ok = keep our pronunciation, ru = use ruwikt's pronunciation (the other one listed), е = е only, э = э only, еэ = list е then э, эе = list э then е. Thanks! Benwing2 (talk) 04:17, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

I finished adding Ivanova notations. You can use the notation Iv to indicate that we should use Ivanova's pronunciation(s). Benwing2 (talk) 05:04, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

уйти and уходить as abstract and concrete verbs

You reverted my change to уйти which removed the reference to it being a concrete verb. It is not in fact a concrete verb. Уходить is also not an abstract word. Both of these words are pre-fixed verbs of motion and they do not contain direction as part of their semantic definition. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_grammar#Prefixed_verbs_of_motion. Please reverse your last edit to reflect my correct changes. Willwsharp (talk) 01:46, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

So what? уйти and уходить form a pair - the former is concrete but the latter is abstract. Prefixes show the direction but it's not only the direction that determines whether a verb is concrete or abstract. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:19, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

English is a beautiful language

Hello. I created English is a beautiful language, based on Appendix:X is a beautiful language. As you may remember, the appendix deviates a bit from the normal entry format. But don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. The idea behind the appendix is great and appendices tend to be formatted in random ways, so it's normal. Anyway, I attempted to do these changes in the new entry: 1) used {{t}} rather than {{l}} for all translations, 2) removed full stops from the end of sentences and 3) un-capitalized the capital letter in the beginning of sentences except when applicable.

I see that you have added a number of translations in the appendix since you created it in 2011. If you have the time, please check if the entry is A-OK. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 14:45, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but it can't be A-OK since they all wrong. Do you expect me to translate all those to use "English"? Otherwise, what's the value of this duplication? It was a good exercise in the appendix but I agree with commenters in the RFD that it's not a very useful phrase in a phrasebook. We can change the style of the appendix.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:43, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Alright, naturally I'll accept if that entry fails RFD. However, there's another "keep" vote besides myself. The translations are not wrong (as in, I believe you and others added the correct translations with the current language instead of "English") It's more valuable to be able to say "X is a beautiful language" in the current language than to say "English is a beautiful language" in all languages so I don't think we should not translate them to use "English". That is the same with the 2nd translation table of do you speak English and I don't speak English. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 21:55, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

куча

Please explain your revert of my edit. The word has a very specific English translation in the context of data structures and memory management. If you attempt to follow the generic translation ("heap or pile") and call the data structure a "pile", you will be laughed at. Tetromino (talk) 01:13, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

@Tetromino Sorry, I misread your edit diff in a hurry. I thought you have added sum of parts фибона́ччиева ку́ча (fibonáččijeva kúča), not as a usage example. I have reinstated your edit. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:18, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. But for reference, a Fibonacci heap is not a sum of parts. If you disagree, try to derive the algorithms from knowing only that they use Fibonacci numbers somewhere :) Tetromino (talk) 01:29, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

When an English entry for Fibonacci heap is created and not deleted (passes RFD), we can revisit. We're dealing with words, not concepts, no matter how important they are. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:33, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

дубненец

Cinemantique's noun list includes the noun дубненец, which I can't find in any dictionary. It appears to be a colloquial term for an inhabitant of Dubna, but I don't know if this is correct or where the stress is. Can you help? Thanks! Benwing2 (talk) 20:18, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Yes, correct. Not colloquial, normal. 1st syllable stressed.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:35, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Somehow I got the impression that Дубна (Dubna) was stressed Дубна́; at least, this is what ruwiki says. If so, it would be interesting that ду́бненец has stress on the first syllable. Is ruwiki wrong, or are there multiple possible stresses of Дубна or something? Benwing2 (talk) 22:28, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

OK. I created ду́бненец (dúbnenec) and Дубна́ (Dubná). You might want to check the stresses of the entries for Дубна́ (Dubná), дубне́нский (dubnénskij) and ду́бненец (dúbnenec) and make sure they're all correct. Benwing2 (talk) 22:35, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

After checking some sources, дубне́нец is the correct version. I actually thought it was pronounced Ду́бна, that's why my confusion. It's how the citizens of Duban pronounce it (дубне́нец). There are various forms, claimed by Gramota.ru, most of them are disputed. It seems дубне́нец and дубне́нский are preferred over others. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:24, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

pleyt

Do you know of a Russian source for this word? DTLHS (talk) 00:06, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

@DTLHS Done.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:16, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

скучно

Please unprotect the article. NightShadow23 (talk) 16:58, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

No. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 17:08, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Why? I will not delete skut͡ɕnə. I need to add sources from the dictionaries. NightShadow23 (talk) 19:22, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

How do I know what you are going to do you and how well you are going to do it? You don't inspire trusts. You see, your first and the only contributions are removing info from скучно, edit-warring and my talk page. A blank user page with no info on languages you know and how well you speak them. That entry doesn't need much improvement but you can post the info on the talk page or a sandbox first. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:42, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

There are errors in the article. See ru:скучно. Correct the English article:

• IPA^(key): [ˈskuʂnə] (phonetic respelling: ску́шно)
• IPA^(key): [ˈskut͡ɕnə]

• Audio (Saint Petersburg, now proscribed):

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  NightShadow23 (talk) 11:55, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Errors? You didn't like North Urals and Siberia? By all means. There's no error, the information is correct but those regional contexts are not referenced. Providing references for each pronunciation is an overkill. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:08, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Only St. Petersburg, not North Urals & Siberia. This is one of the mistakes. Remove (Moscow) from [skuʂnə], this is a literary language, which is used in Russian (1, 2). NightShadow23 (talk) 16:32, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

You don't understand. There are defined standards - Moscow and Saint Petersburg|, even though "Moscow" is the default standard. When there are differences between the two, these labels are used. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 19:48, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

I wonder, nevertheless, how relevant are these regional marks today, aren’t they a bit misleading. Pronouncing чн as шн was, of course, considered a feature of the old Moscow dialect, but it is long dead as a whole. Today the variation is probably for the most part idiolectal. I think it would indeed be better to look for sources covering current regional distribution, if it still exists. Older descriptions are irrelevant since virtually nobody nowadays says either конечно (konečno) or мушной (mušnoj), as they presume. Otherwise I’d just label [ˈskut͡ɕnə] as a spelling pronunciation; note how this modern dictionary, apparently prescriptional, doesn’t consider it regional, but just gaining ground among youths. Guldrelokk (talk) 05:57, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Guldrelokk: I agree that "Moscow" and "Saint Petersburg" labels are no longer current but this is how I found them and I find the background interesting. Perhaps those labels can be linked and described in an appendix. I started Appendix:Russian pronunciation but didn't have the will or interest to complete. BTW, [ˈskut͡ɕnə] is quite alive and many of my relatives use it. I hear "конечно" occasionally. BTW, fill up your user page a bit, it looks as if you're here temporarily. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:51, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Bug: Devanagari and Arabic combining character handling

Hey Anatoli, @Stephen G. Brown, @Wikitiki89, @ObsequiousNewt;

Just in case you are not subscribed to the ticket, the devs have closed the now years-old ticket about combining characters in search. Since it was filed the search has changed a bunch, it would be great if those of you who had insight about this issue could comment on whether or not you feel the issue has been fully resolved or still needs work. - [The]DaveRoss 18:08, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

At least here on Wiktionary it's already been resolved for a few months. I am very satisfied with it and have not found any bugs. PS: Your ping didn't work for some reason. Did you sign with ~~~~? --WikiTiki89 18:44, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

@TheDaveRoss Thank you very much! It's great that it finally happened. Yes, it has been fully resolved. I'd like to personally thank TJones (Trey Jones) for fixing it.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:00, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

@Wikitiki89 For some reason I always forget to capitalize the "T" in your name, I am guessing that is why the ping didn't work. My bad. Glad the issue is resolved. - [The]DaveRoss 22:46, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Nope, I was right the first time, no idea why the ping didn't ping. I did sign with tildes. - [The]DaveRoss 22:47, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Добавление родов в венецском

Добрый вечер, я видел ваше изменение [9] и заметил что одно такое же нужное для венецкого языка (код. vec). Прошу вас тоже добавить, вроде на строке 2467. Спасибо --Tn4196 (talk) 16:58, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Добавил. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:11, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Спасибо --Tn4196 (talk) 15:37, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Magic words

Why are you reverting edits to include RFC magic words? They will break in upcoming versions MediaWiki. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:17, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, how will a string "RFC 2229" break anything? Why does it create a link? Anyway, Robert Ullmann died many years ago and his pages should probably stay as they are and be protected from editing, unless they really cause some errors. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:22, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

If Robert Ullman intended these to be links and the links will no longer be supported, we should try to ensure that his pages display as they did before. That also means that "RFC 2229" should be changed to RFC 2229 rather than to rfc:2229. --WikiTiki89 11:42, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

@Atitarev: Strings like that create magic words but those are deprecated. If you would like a link to the discussion, I can find one. @Wikitiki89: I agree that if the original author was trying to make a link, it's worth trying to preserve that. The exact form is not as important to me but making it look the same is probably better. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:50, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

OK, I've undone my edit. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 20:53, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Unrelated to this discussion, but the discussion has inspired me to create the MediaWiki sense of magic word. PseudoSkull (talk) 23:23, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

software malicioso etc

Hi there. Back in June you deleted this and several other similar ones in several languages (I'm not sure why). The plurals are still hanging around and can be found in Category:Plurals with a red link for singular. Would you like them to be deleted as well? (or you can do it yourself) SemperBlotto (talk) 07:03, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

You can delete them, they are all SoP. They will probably be deleted by a bot later. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:05, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

пододеяльник

At least in US English, a blanket cover is a particular type of покрывало, while a duvet cover is a particular type of пододеяльник. It makes no sense, but that's the English language for you. I corrected пододеяльник accordingly. Tetromino (talk) 19:54, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

I don't see it a big deal. The term is usually translated as both "blanket cover"and "duvet cover" but there are always local nuances. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:04, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Duvet is one of those "official" terms found on products in stores, but no one on the streets really knows what it means. --WikiTiki89 21:42, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Really? I always thought that a duvet is understood to be a composite blanket: a sort of sandwich panel with down or other thermal insulating material in the middle. While a non-duvet blanket can be homogeneous, e.g. just thick wool. Tetromino (talk) 12:16, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Our statements do not contradict each other. You might be right about what duvet means, but I think the average American does not know or care, and even if they do, they don't use this word at home. --WikiTiki89 14:24, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

New Hindi dictionary online

[10] If you ever need to add Hindi. It's the best one of recent times. Apparently it's been up since 2012, but there are no links to it anywhere, not even on the DSAL homepage! —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 22:35, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

@Aryamanarora: Wow, looks good, thanks! BTW, have you worked out any reliable tricks to determine the gender of Hindi proper nouns? I do use some for Arabic but there are some issues, especially considering that plurals of inanimate nouns=feminine singular in Arabic. With Hindi, I use adjectives in masculine or feminine form but the hits are not numerous enough to be sure one way or another. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:59, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

@Atitarev: I do the same thing, usually with अच्छा (acchā). {{R:hi:Dasa}} also has genders for some proper nouns. But no, there is no reliable method. —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 10:01, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

مݣانة

For pronounciation, I do not use /æ/ for schwa (indifferent vowel = vowel which is NOT written as alif (ا). In all such cases, I use /ə/.

Plural is "mwagən" /'mwæ.gən/ (For transliteration, I would not use "e" in English, this letter having a pronounciation tending to /i/. I use it in Walloon, where, as in French, it can be easily read /ə/.

Here, and in 95 % of cases, ݣ is pronounced /g/. In some words, there can be a "classical" (rural?) pronounciation with /g/ and a "modern" (citadine?) with /q/ (عقد عڭد) (to bound); ڭفّة / قفّة (basket). I prefer the "g" type as reference word, the "q" being classical Arabic pronounciation.

--Lucyin (talk) 13:35, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Indef Block of anon

Looks like you indefinitely blocked an IP address (Special:Block/50.125.252.64) can you review and shorten that block? Thanks - TheDaveRoss 12:58, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, OK. Is it being recycled? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:08, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

The theory is that all IPs are recycled eventually, so very long blocks are OK but indefinite blocks are to be avoided. - TheDaveRoss 13:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

188.225.75.121

188.225.75.121 (talk • contribs • whois • deleted contribs • nuke • abuse filter log • block • block log • active blocks • global blocks)

Is a 3 month block normal for two edits? (btw: only one was rolled back, and I do not know enough to judge the second.) - Amgine/ ^t·e 20:48, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

They have been acting under other IP's and adding various software related SoP's. No other useful edits are seen.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I was indulging my curiousity. Thanks! - Amgine/ ^t·e 21:17, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, but if they switch IPs so frequently, then blocking any individual IP for three months is pointless. I wouldn't given an IP address such a long block unless this editor was repeatedly coming back from the block and editing under that same IP address. I find that in most cases, if you block an IP for three days or so, that's usually enough. But it doesn't matter that much I suppose, unless someone new is assigned the blocked IP and wants to edit. --WikiTiki89 21:27, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

I prefer shorter, more frequent and consistent blocks. Unless you resort to range blocks, they can always get around the block by switching IPs- but there's enough hassle involved that they get discouraged after a while. When I'm trying to get rid of a persistent IP-switcher, I block them for 2 weeks every time I recognize them, regardless of the quality of their edits. With the shorter blocks, I don't have to worry as much about collateral damage, so I can be more thorough.

One oddity about this case: the IP mentioned here is Russian, but the main perpetrator seems to be Polish. They both edit the same kind of entries, and I've found edits by the Russian IP on Basque, Azeri, Hindi and Armenian entries as well as the usual Slavic languages, so they're not that much more responsible than the Polish one (for the Hindi entry,सॉफ़्टवेयर, the Polish IP created the entry and the Russian one tinkered with it afterward). I suppose that since they both have the same problematic approach, it probably doesn't natter if they're the same person or not as far as whether to block them. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:30, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Добавление родов в ладинском

Здравствуйте, я заметил, что так же, как в венецком, еще и в ладинском языке (код. lld) не хватает родов в автоматической системы добавления переводов. Я б вас спросил, и в том языке это добавить. Спасибо --Tn4196 (talk) 12:03, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

@Tn4196: User:Dixtosa and/or User:JohnC5 have significantly changed the code, so I don't know where the gender data is handled now. Normally, it should be requested at WT:GP. @Dixtosa/JohnC5, are you able to add genders to language code "lld", similar to the way I did in diff? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:15, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

@Dixtosa/JohnC5 Thank you all. --Tn4196 (talk) 12:24, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

• The data is now located at hereDixtosa (talk) 17:11, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
• FYI, my JS changes are just autoformatting. —JohnC5 04:32, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

high, fashion, et al

Was there a vote not to include Chinese terms written in Latin alphabet? ---> Tooironic (talk) 05:11, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

No, I don't remember we needed a vote to state the obvious - that Chinese is written in Chinese characters. However, a vote is not a bad idea. We need to have CFI rules for Chinese and update the policies in Wiktionary:About_Chinese. Some terms have passed CFI, after citations were provided. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:17, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Words like these are often used in running Chinese text with meanings that differ from remarkably from that of their English counterparts. Surely this merits inclusion. ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:25, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Words like part-time#Chinese have gone through RFV. I'm afraid you'll have to provide citations for non-standard words. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:31, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Why not use {{lb|en|China}} on the English entry then? It looks silly to have a Chinese entry at a Latin-script word... —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 23:57, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Because they're used in Chinese, not English. And I repeat: they are used in running Chinese text with meanings that differ from remarkably from that of their English counterparts. If you want to delete them, that's fine, but we should at least include them somewhere e.g. in an appendix. ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:39, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Stop harassment at my user page and everywhere

Since it wasn't clear to you in May...

I don't have so much time as I used to and Benwing2 is unavailable to kindergarten D1gggg, so I don't know. I am OK to let the community decide.

stress added by ip Bullying questions about stress

d1g (talk) 05:24, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

• I've tangentially followed up on your talk page after seeing the Tea Room discussion. From what I've seen, Anatoli's actions do not comprise harassment. He may have made a mistake, but that's a different matter, which could have been resolved more quickly by simply pointing out the misunderstanding. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 05:38, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

I agree with @Eirikr, but it doesn't help that Atitarev makes so many personal comments as if that was their some strange goal.

Stress is easy to fix or nearly impossible to fix when word is dead?.. d1g (talk) 06:02, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

The comments are not personal, sorry if they sound personal. It's all about how you can manage editing independently, without having to heavily rely on others to check and fix your edits. If you don't have the time to look back at your own edits and learn from the current standards, then maybe you can try somewhere where the requirements are more relaxed, such as Glosbe or help Russian learners at Master Russian, Word Reference, Unilang, etc? You see, you can't expect that you edit in a language and everyone be just happy about it. If you worked in a rare or exotic language then perhaps yes, to some extent. Yes, I made a mistake but I didn't bother checking thoroughly because you made some controversial edits in the past and you were not welcome in the Russian Wiktionary and Benwing2 had a hard time with you. Anyway, I was never keen to block you but everything can change. It's not a threat. I just don't have time to mentor. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:16, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

I have no interest in other projects if mistakes occur here.

edit in April from @Benwing2

today edit by @Rua

I would be a happy person not to deal with self-learners over what Grammar book says :-) d1g (talk) 06:46, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Apologies are accepted.

Dear @Atitarev please remind yourself about

do not agonize over making mistakes and pillars 3-5 overall.

You spent considerable amount of time why mistakes are mistakes, far more than I spend time fixing them.

Recent example: застреха, застрека

And nobody ever complained about my translations, example: 1 d1g (talk) 14:13, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

It's a shame, he probably could have made good contributions in Russian, if he hadn't been so obsessed with his suffixes... --Barytonesis (talk) 07:44, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

The suffixes were just the tip of the iceberg. Just about everything they did required cleanup, and that kind of abusive arrogance has no place in a wiki, regardless of quality of content. Chuck Entz (talk) 13:56, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

The guy caused a lot of unneeded trouble and has horrible manners, but I think indef is not required. A year would be more than enough, perhaps even a month, given that, before the indef, he had received only a single, week long block. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:38, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

I am OK if someone changes the block to 1 year as a minimum. @Barytonesis, I don't think he could become a good contributor. He was blocked at the Russian Wikipedia as well, expressed his dislike at the Russian Wiktionary and said "see you at the English Wiktionary", now he's got blocked here. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:29, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

So....

I was away for 5 months due to work-related issues. Any changes? Do other Russian editors still dislike me due to me making too many empty entries? --KoreanQuoter (talk) 13:43, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, I don't know what to say, Teho. Nobody dislikes you! Benwing2 has unfortunately disappeared, if you are worried about him. I still encourage you to add only the words you know, understand, know how to stress and inflect, not exotic or rare words, things you can verify from other sources. I only add what I can sort of guarantee. The less I know a language, the simpler my entries are. My Korean is worse than your Russian but I seldom go wrong not only because there is less room to go wrong with Korean than with Russian but because I only add entries I can find elsewhere - Naver, Daum or some electronic dictionaries - usually important and frequently used words or words I come across or look familiar because they have Chinese or Japanese cognates, loanwords from English. I am a native Russian speaker but I stay away from Russian entries for which I can't find translations, stress or inflection, which does happen. If I really need to, I will ask other Russians, check on the forums, post questions but I don;t do it often. I can afford much less time on Wiktionary. Why don't you want to treat your edits seriously? Please don't add empty entries, it's obvious you don't know those words and we don't have people to monitor edits. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:22, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Vietnamese Tbot

Hey! You work a lot of many languages. Can you check a few of the Vietnamese entries in Category:Tbot entries (Vietnamese)? There's 46 at the moment. --P5Nd2 (talk) 10:18, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

So I wanted to create my first Russian entry and to look at a good example

It being linked from أَسِير (ʔasīr), I decided to created ясы́рь (jasýrʹ). I opened the entry коса́рь (kosárʹ) because it has the same accent pattern. I looked at the declension tables. And there is an awful lot to delete. Palaestrator verborum (loquier) 20:55, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

@Palaestrator verborum: Good job! It is correct but I have simplified the {{der}} call. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:11, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

You did not understand. Look at the declension table of коса́рь (kosárʹ)! The forms there are wrong and have their own pages already that need to be deleted. That is why I write you (because who else does know Russian and is admin?). Palaestrator verborum (loquier) 12:36, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Fixed the declension, I will fix the forms later.—Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 20:25, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

: @Palaestrator verborum: Moved and fixed wrong inflection forms. Since User:Benwing2 has become inactive, it's now a manual process. He generated the forms and had a way of re-generating them if they needed a fix. This hasn't been handed over, so, I'd rather stay away from inflected forms. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:48, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

харей

Is this also a noun lemma? It seems to have been borrowed into the Sami languages with a meaning of "stick to spur on reindeer". —Rua (mew) 19:43, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes. See хорей (xorej). There is a lot of additional information in Аникин А. Е., Хелимский Е. А., Самодийско-тунгусо-маньчжурские лексические связи, 2007, pages 130—131. --Vahag (talk) 21:19, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Ah, the spelling is different. It's funny how it ultimately came from another Uralic language. —Rua (mew) 22:14, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Vahag, I am not familiar with the term. @Rua: Sorry for the late reply but Vahagn has answered the question. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:31, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

widespread

Hey Anatoli, could you check the Arabic translation here, it looks dodgy. Cheers. ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:13, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Removed the obvious BS. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:50, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

hospital

Your edit to hospital added a translation in the wrong place in the wrong format, modified an existing translation without any explanation in the edit summary, and deleted an accurate transliteration. I assumed it was vandalism or a mistake so I reverted it. Gorobay (talk) 19:35, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

What? Vandalism? Wrong place? I was thinking of blocking you for the vandalism. I’ll let you figure out jourself first why I have removed the Oriya transliteration and removed the macron on the Moroccan Arabic. The 2nd point can still be argued but the first one should be no-brainer. —Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 19:50, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

@Gorobay: The Oriya transliteration was inaccurate actually. It's ḍaktôrkhana. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 00:00, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

@AryamanA: Thanks, and since we may not not be too concerned about the error-prone shwa-dropping implementations, which are hay-wire in Indic modules, "ḍaktôrôkhana" is close enough. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:22, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, this is even less of an issue because it's a compound of two borrowed words (English and Persian), which are pretty hard to transliterate correctly. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 00:37, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

@AryamanA: Bengali module works the worst. It drops the final shwa, even if they follow complex clusters but doesn't drop mid-word. It's best to remove shwa-dropping altogether then. The Hindi module works the best way. When it doesn't produce what is considered right, is when it's really unpredictable, as in अलार्म क्लॉक (alārm klŏk) but I've got a feeling that this pronunciation ("alārma klŏk") is more natural for native speakers not familiar with English and we don't use the light or optional shwa-dropping rules. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад)

No, the uneducated pronunciation (which is become marginalized, only really seen in older generations and in rural areas) is alāram klāk or alāram klauk, never alārma. Word-final a is always dropped or very short in pretty much all Hindi sociolects (even in terms like हुस्न (husna)), and I've made MOD:hi-IPA reflect this. Speaking of which, it is probably a good time to start making some IPA modules for the languages whose translit modules are working, like Gujarati and Nepali.

I agree, the Bengali module definitely needs to be reworked, it doesn't work well for consonant clusters at all. Same for the Punjabi module, it mistakenly adds the schwa in words like ਵਿੱਚ (vicca). —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 02:12, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

@AryamanA: 'alāram' vs 'alārma' doesn't make sense to me with my limited knowledge but anyway. Keep up the good work and more common lemmas, please! ;) --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:01, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

You're right, it doesn't correspond with the spelling, it's just a way to break up the difficult cluster while trying to match the English pronunciation. And thanks, Hindi will cruise past 10,000 lemmas in no time! :) —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 03:05, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Appendix:Korean Swadesh list

I was putting the information from the online antique book http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/186982 to it. Why did you rollback it? Effficientvegetarianpc16 (talk) 20:58, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

@Effficientvegetarianpc16: There are a few issues here. The IPA used in the appendix is not the standard we use at Wiktionary. See appropriate entries. Most of them have IPA. The other issue is, if anywhere, these dialectal IPA belong to the entries, not the Appendix, which should be a very simple presentation of a common vocabulary in a given language. Before adding them, a discussion should happen about the format. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:11, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

@Effficientvegetarianpc16: Why are you doing this? Swadesh lists aren't meant for this. Please stop and pursue the discussion you had begun with Eirikr at Appendix talk:Japanese Swadesh list (extended), or your additions will keep getting reverted. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 22:21, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for explanation. I just copied those words from the book and I also don't understand the non-standard IPA, for example the u with two dots on it.Effficientvegetarianpc16 (talk) 03:16, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

We need to organize translations for draft animal equipment

There is vocabulary even the most advanced learners miss, quite likely even in their native tongues. There are on the one hand words for single horse parts, on the other hand words for multiple-animal drafts. Category:Translation table appendices needs an overview page, for even if the English translation sections are full the whole picture is thrilling. Possibly we find some charts from old books. I suppose you have some better understanding of those parts? The question has arisen on Talk:arış because it turns out that we (or just I?) are so clueless. Palaestrator verborum ^{sis loquier 🗣} 18:15, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

There's no shortage of special areas that we are insufficiently informed about: building trades, sewing/textiles, entertainment, statistics, aerospace, biotech, psychology, biophysics, silviculture. I think all we can do is work on them one at a time, preferably leveraging our own interests and resources. I've picked up various references in some of these fields, but haven't felt up to the task of systematic efforts in any of them. DCDuring (talk) 20:20, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

You are right, but those are mostly really hard and always have been special, as well as possibly voluminous, whereas animal equipment once was at least to a certain extent vocabulary that everybody knew and has roughly foreseeable ends, and also the former has more inventions in each language while the latter has realistic chances to back up etymological studies. And considering the not too unfortunate categorizations on Commons it is probably even possible to acquire more expert HR. At some moment in this context I was just baffled how much knowledge has been buried by oblivion – those topics are specialist. Palaestrator verborum ^{sis loquier 🗣} 20:35, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

We have a bunch of translation appendices. Not sure if they are popular with users but they are currently not looked after well enough. I've taken part in some of them. You can always start one by looking at existing ones. The areas in need of improvement are never-ending and I don't know if we strive to be a specialised dictionary - just any word in any language. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:15, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

خودرو

LissanX made a mistake in the transliteration. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 22:52, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Thanks. I have only replaced "kh" with the standard "x" for letter "خ". When you fix, could you also please check if the entry is linked and the same (wrong) transliteration is used elsewhere? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:00, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Guys, I see this transliteration page as well as Category:Transliteration policies the first time, now I know why bad transliterations are so widespread. Those pages look poorly cared for and about. I am facing a kind of a dilemma now concerning when to use Transliteration policy pages and when About pages. It is also unclear why some things are in WT:FA TR and others in WT:AFA. To state a controversial claim I do not yet know arguments against except the work, I think all transliteration policies should be merged into the About pages. Proto-language entries do not use transcription policy pages either. It’s something different of course, but the form wherewith the matters are dealt with is the same. Or I just do not find the transcription policies for Proto-languages that do exist? There would be a naming conflict surely, as some people might like to create transcription policies for proto-languages but cannot use the transliteration pages. Palaestrator verborum ^{sis loquier 🗣} 00:37, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

@Palaestrator verborum: The policies can be a little haywire but you need to be aware of a few things here:

1. Transliterations are best looked at an individual language level. The situations can be very different, although there are commonalities. It depends on active contributors, previous votes, existing policies, including WT:ELE.
2. For languages with a 100% automated transliterations (by 100% I mean languages where manual transliterations are overridden with the automatic) the policy is now just a reflection what modules do but they are sometimes, out of sync. It is important that the module is kept working and redundant/incorrect transliterations can be safely removed manually or by a bot.
3. For mostly automated transliterations, it is important to mention when the manual should override the automatic and the redundant/incorrect transliterations are removed or corrected by knowledgeable editors. Thai is a special case at the moment.
4. Languages, such as Persian and Hebrew, currently and probably always will require care from the contributors in terms of transliterations. There are unfortunately, two many standards and no 100%-agreement, consistency, knowledge, skills and thoroughness from contributors.

Let's just talk about Persian. Issues at hand:

1. Normally, it's "Wiktionary:LANGUAGE transliteration", so Persian Wiktionary:Persian transliteration is correct. Ideally, pages like Wiktionary:About Persian should only mention and link to transliteration policies. The page Wiktionary:About Arabic is not used correctly for transliteration purposes.
2. Wiktionary:Persian transliteration is currently pretty good and should be followed but even native speakers and regular contributors sometimes replace use macrons instead of circumflexes - (ā vs â) and the diphthong "ou" is rendered as "ow". The correct form is "ou", e.g. نوروز (nouruz). We need to correct cases like فرعون, خودرو to use "ou" or agree on the policy change.
3. Common mistakes include 1. treating غ and ق as the same letter and transliterating as "gh" but they should be "ğ" and "q" accordingly., 2. failure to use háčeks, e.g. digraphs "ch", "zh", "sh" instead of "č", "ž" and "š". --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:10, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

It's not true to say that 'ou' is the correct form and to imply that 'ow' is incorrect. 'Ou' represents a 'u' sound which causes confusion. That is what caused Lissanx to put the wrong transliteration at 'xodro'. He saw that it was 'xodrou' and thought that someone was confusing 'xodru' (khodroo) the plant with 'xodrow' (khodro) the car. That was purely because of the 'ou' transliteration. It is also why President Rouhani is called Roohani all the time.

This is an issue that can be decided upon by regular Persian editors. User:Atitarev, I don't want to discuss policy issues with because of how you behaved in incorrectly reverting me on 'terrorism' in the past and another occasion when you protected a page to stop me from editing it.

Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 10:09, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: It may be confusing but "ou" actually stands for [ow], not for [uː], which is normally transliterated by a single "u" without any diacritic. In my observation, regular users use "ou", not "ow" and that's why the policy page states so - WT:FA TR, see letter "و‏". We either have to change the policy and stick to it or change the entries and translations to match the policy, which is a much bigger task and best be done by a bot, if there is an agreement. The surname روحانی‎ is transliterated as "rouhâni" by our standards, not to be confused with popular romanisation or Anglicisations used in the media. IMO, "Roohani" is just wrong, so is "Ahmadinejad" for احمدی‌نژاد (WT standard: "ahmadi-nežâd").--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 10:22, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

I am not confused in the slightest, I am not sure what makes you think I would be. I thought you were confused because you put the wrong transliteration at فرعون and then when I corrected it, you had to ask for an explanation on the help page.Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 10:38, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

I can see now you haven't understood my point. President روحانی‎ gets called 'Roohani' incorrectly in English because of the 'Rouhani' transliteration. The 'ou' looks like it should be pronounced 'oo', it is misleading (not to me, to users).

I am OK with either "ow" or "ou", as long as it's consistent and is reflected in the policy and followed by editors. Any combination could confusing or misleading, that's why we have transliteration pages. "ow" is never mentioned. I wouldn't and nobody wouldn't know your knowledge and experience if you refuse to make a Babel table on your user page. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:15, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

You're confused about whether Anatoli said you were confused (he didn't). The multitude of ways that English phonetic spelling is different from everyone else's phonetic spelling guarantees that there can be no perfectly intuitive transliteration- there's going to be a problem with any system. What's important is being consistent. If you're going around changing things one way, and someone else is changing things another way, there's no way to tell how any given transliteration is to be interpreted. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:03, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

thank you

i think russian entries are the cleanest and most beautiful of all wiktionary. спасибо --2A02:2788:A4:F44:E9DA:AF34:53E6:DD2F 02:46, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

I don't know if it's true that the Russian entries are "the cleanest and most beautiful of all" but thank you for your feedback. I won't take credit for all the work with Russian at Wiktionary, though. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:47, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

總人口

Hey Anatoli, when you get time could you help me fix the pinyin for the example sentence here? Thanks. ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:59, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

@Tooironic: I have only suppressed the linking of the number, otherwise it was perfect. The numbers or non-Chinese symbols don't get the pinyin, as you know. Otherwise, you have to respell the numbers in words. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:35, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Ideally we should display the pinyin readings for numbers, since that's the whole point of having the pinyin there in the first place. We display pinyin for number entries too like 0.5, 69, etc. ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:00, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Request for help

Could you possibly help by checking 'hand job' (NSFW or risqué) please? I don't know Russian at all but the translation appears a bit off. Thanks. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 22:43, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

The first one means "manual stimulation of the penis"; looks more like a gloss than a real translation. And the register would probably be wrong anyway. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 22:47, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

OK, thank you. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 22:53, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

I think the translations are OK, not perfect but acceptable. The SoP translation is linked with separate words, which is the normal way of doing it when no idiomatic word or expression exists. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:38, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, the longer translation only had 9 results on Google which made me suspicious but I can see now that only related to whether or not it had an acute accent on the 'e'. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 10:26, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

polyna

Guessing this is from Russian- can you confirm? DTLHS (talk) 03:24, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

@DTLHS: Yes, it's an alt form of polynya from полынья́ (polynʹjá), which we already have and is closer in the spelling and pronunciation to the original. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:33, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

You should read "n" in "polyna" as ñ, he-he. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:35, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. DTLHS (talk) 03:36, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

151.255.69.66 (talk)

Sorry to bother you again, but there are a lot of big edits to Arabic verb forms. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 00:11, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Thanks for letting me know. We need handle this in the community. The anonymous editor makes substantial edits with no edit summaries and refuses to communicate. You can post in WT:RFC, if I don't do it earlier but I might only do it withing a day or two. I will spot-check a few edits before posting. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:28, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I've been wondering about that, but they geolocate to Saudi Arabia, and I can barely read the script, let alone check the finer points of the morphology. If they're just editing the Arabic, there's always the possibility that they aren't comfortable communicating in English (though we've also had a number of bad editors who just pretended not to understand). Chuck Entz (talk) 14:40, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I raise your attention and @Benwing2’s to the habit of this IP trying for three years furtively to undermine the parallelism of {{ar-coll-noun}} and {{ar-decl-coll-noun}} and {{ar-sing-noun}} and {{ar-decl-sing-noun}}, so on عِنَب (ʕinab), عِنَبَة (ʕinaba), وَرَق (waraq), وَرَقَة (waraqa), ثَمَر (ṯamar), نَوًى (nawan) and many more. The purpose of the named declension templates has the clear use in showing declensions of both singulative and collective in one table. This IP is unable to discern the real relations between the words of singulative, collective, paucal and plural of variety, since he apparently thinks that وَرَقَات (waraqāt) is the جَمْع (jamʕ) of وَرَقَة (waraqa) but أَوْرَاق (ʔawrāq) the one of وَرَق (waraq) or something like that, separating conceptionally wrong by assigning the paucal to the singulative and the plural of variety to the collective and making undue distinction here, confused by his impotence in English language and discourse and the insufficiency of the categories used in Arabic discourse about the forms; the edits are also not consistent, sometimes only the table is changed, sometimes also the header, or maybe sometimes only the header. It is always the same person, never speaks, never translates usex etc., mostly only removes forms. I remember @Robbie SWE having enquired about the quality of that IP’s edits but I cannot find the thread anymore. Fay Freak (talk) 12:44, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

@Fay Freak, Benwing2: It is a problem. It's hard to filter through good and bad edits. You might want to bulk-revert edits of non-cooperative editors. Post in WT:BP if you're not sure or seeking more opinions. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:51, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Transliterations

Can you please help me in removing transliterations of Urdu, Persian & Arabic languages from Urdu Wiktionary?— Bukhari (Talk!) 04:11, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

I am back for now

Hi Anatoli ... I am back for now. I have a bunch of Russian words to add. Let me know if you need anything done. Benwing2 (talk)

@Benwing2: Welcome back, mate! It's been a while. I'm glad you're back.

We might need your help with Belarusian transliterations - make "ё" in monosyllabic words unstressed but there's no need to produce "o", it's always "jo", unlike Russian.

You skills might be helpful in Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2018/March#Automatic_transliteration_of_Biblical_Hebrew, if you're interested.

Before you disappear again, LOL, could you make something we can run to delete, create and recreate inflected forms if there are any changes to inflections? No rush, just joking. :) --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:37, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Let me know if YOU need help with anything. I am much busier on weekdays, though. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:39, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Discord server verification

Hi. I just wanted to verify that it was indeed you who joined the English Wiktionary Discord server under the username Anatoli#3617. If you reply here that it was, I'll give you the administrator role there. PseudoSkull (talk) 04:11, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes, please. I am not sure I will be online today, though. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:27, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

دستکش, дасткаш, дастпӯшак

Hello, would know whether 'дасткаш' really exists (apart from in meanings other than 'glove')? I can only see it in one Russian-Tajiki dictionary. I can see more usage of 'дастпӯшак' but even then there are not many results, so I just deleted the 'fa-regional' template because the person who added 'дасткаш' made some unreliable edits, apparently. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 11:17, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Hello. My only source for Tajik, which you're probably referring to is [11]] where it's given in the form дастпушак (dastpušak) as "gloves. дасткаш (dastkaš) is also there, translated into English and Russian. The Russian translation is also 1. wages. 2. captive 3. beggar 4. same as дастпушак (dastpušak). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

@Atitarev: Thank you. I saw it in Google Books but that could be the same dictionary as your site. I am a bit wary as there are so few results. I will try and find out more before restoring it. I find that alphabet quite difficult, though. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 11:49, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Thank you. If it can't be verified, then maybe it should be deleted but perhaps Tajik belongs to badly documented languages? Do you mean Tajik Cyrillic script is difficult? But it's very phonetic. You can use {{m|tg|TAJIK TERM}} to help you pronounce it. Occasionally you may see letter "ц" (c) used in that dictionary, which is not transliterated by the Tajik module, mainly in loanwords from/via Russian. The modern or correct spelling seems to be "тс" (ts). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:00, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

@Atitarev: I don't know whether Tajiki Persian is badly documented, but if it is then I think it is only insofar as it broke away and used a different script. If they return to the Perso-Arabic script then wouldn't they be re-connected with the rest of their literature and documentation? But that is a political issue and I don't know anything about it.

I think I can verify дастпӯшак, but as for дасткаш, I don't know if you noticed but the first result for it is a Facebook post asking what it is, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 15:16, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

TBH I think I'm going to leave this for now, so just restore дасткаш and дастпӯшак to the fa-regional template at دستکش if you feel like it. Maybe there is a Russian word, too. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 15:32, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Sorry, somehow I forgot to answer but I don't know. I'll leave it up to you. We are not supposed to have words, which we can't confirm but there is a possibility that this word is only used in spoken Tajik and is never written down or is a regional word. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:11, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Vocalised Persian

Hello, there is a template for this somethere. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 14:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Thanks. Let me know if you find it. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 14:38, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Atitarev: سوازیلند has the vocalisation for another word. Also, I'm not sure that vocalisations are that important, but it's up to you. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 14:40, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Sorry, it happens when trying to edit in multiple tabs. Fixed now. BTW, "و" as a consonant is normally transliterated as "v", even if it leans on /w/ but there seems to be no desire to standardise the transliteration among Persian editors or no consensus on how to. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 14:46, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

As for vocalisations, they can serve as a base for a semi-automated transliteration and IPA for Persian and another, native method how to indicate the pronunciation. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 14:48, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Atitarev: I meant I would have pronounced it like this: 'soo-aa-zee-land', that is why I changed 'svâziland' to 'suâziland' (sorry I don't know the IPA). 'Sv' can't really occur at the beginning of a word. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 14:58, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Atitarev: Someone else will have to check it. But if it's a hard 'v', then I would guess something like 'sevâziland'. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 14:59, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Atitarev: If you think about Suárez, he is 'soo-aa-rez' (in Persian), for example. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 15:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: You don't have to ping me on my talk page, I'll get notified, anyway:) I see. There are hits for "savâziland", not "sevâziland" - suggesting that some people pronounce it that way but it makes more sense for "sevâziland" and the pronunciation resources for Persian, especially loanwords are not reliable. For "suâziland" is the respelling still سوازیلَند? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 15:05, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Never mind, don't get distracted from what you are doing, because it's important. I will put it on my list of things to check. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 15:08, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

I don't like the name of it, but: {{harakat-fa}}. I knew I had seen it somewhere. In Persian, you don't put all those sokuns etc., though, in the way it has been used already. This kind of thing is for children's books in Persian. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 00:32, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Thanks. Yes, I know, Persian vocalisation is simpler but also different from Arabic, short vowels are "e" and "o", not "i" and "u", as in Arabic and بی is "bi" بِی is "bey", بو is "bu" and بُو is "bou". I'll check the template. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:10, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Question

Are you now editing 'asshole' etc. as an indirect way of calling me an 'asshole'? If so, then just call me it 'to my face', please. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 13:45, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Ha-ha, you're silly, not at all! First of all, I don't think bad about you - I have no reason, even if you seem a bit impulsive or over-sensitive (no offense!) and the edits were inspired by Wiktionary:Requests_for_verification/Non-English#គូត I took part in several times today and I do edit ALL words, including vulgar and abusive. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:57, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Just want to say again that your assumption was wrong. It's late here, I'm going to bed. Happy editing. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 14:24, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

載道

Hi Anatoli. Is there a way to fix this entry so it links to the Confucianism category? ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:21, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

@Tooironic. Hi Carl. Done. I searched modules for "Taoism". Module:labels/data/topical caters for topical categories. In diff I've modelled "Confucianism" on "Taoism". --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks! ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:17, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Would you mind doing the same for the calligraphy category, e.g. at 法書? Sorry I'm hopeless with coding things. ---> Tooironic (talk) 07:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

@Tooironic  Done. :) You can also use the label "Chinese calligraphy". Wyang (talk) 08:03, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Gfarnab entries

Hello, as I've been 'banned' from discussing things with him on his talk page, if possible could you ensure that his entries are either formatted or deleted instead of building up, that would be great. Thank you. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 16:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Please also conclude the capitalisations 'issue', and 'ou'/'ow' if you can. Someone has to ask ZxxZxxZ if he would be OK with it changing to lower case. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 16:36, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: You're not banned from discussions but I don't know why you're enabling him by communicating with him. Gfarnab is out of control, his edits are maybe 80-90% right, depending on the language and the source he's copying from but he completely disregarded all warnings, so he got blocked. I'll leave it up to you - mass-revert, fix his edits or ignore them. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:06, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

How is it up to me? Whatever happened with him is nothing to do with me. All I cared about was whether the Persian entries were being maintained. There is no-one available to fix his edits in Persian. I don't agree with the Persian entries being allowed either as they can only be copied from other sources. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 00:34, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: Let me explain. The situation with Persian entries edited by Gfarnab and his numerous sock-puppets is no different from entries in other languages he has edited or vandalised. He was blocked for bad edits but he's bypassing all blocks, coming back and laughing at us. @Chuck Entz, Wyang, Wikitiki89 and others have blocked him but he doesn't stop. What do you want me to do? We don't have a tool to mass-undo his edits (but we do have a mass-delete of new creations) at the moment and we don't want to punish other honest editors because of one abuser. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:51, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

176.223.101.175

As far as I can tell, this isn't Gfarnab. To start with, this doesn't seem to be an anonymous proxy. Also, the other technical details also don't match. Unless they're using a different device and the IP address is a proxy that the geolocation databases don't know about this is apparently an actual Kazakhi mobile user. Of course, both of the above are entirely possible, but the straightforward expression is more likely. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:00, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

mass rollback

I don't know if it works but w:User:Writ_Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js seems to exist. (I figured that someone on Wikipedia must have created something like this...) —Suzukaze-c◆◆ 00:27, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Suzukaze-c: Great stuff! I'll check if I can access it later. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:22, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Suzukaze-c: Hi. Have you figured out how to use it? I tried to create my own and after the hard refresh, I don't see the new feature. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

It seems like the rollback link should appear in the bar on the left as "rollback all", and it only shows up on "Contributions" pages, and only if there are edits that can be rollbacked. I can't actually test the functionality because I'm not a rollbacker. :p —Suzukaze-c◆◆ 17:52, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Awesomemeeos is back

His 1-year block has expired, and within 24 minutes of its expiration he has already started editing. He needs to be watched. Also @Metaknowledge. --WikiTiki89 22:03, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I know and I am. Also @Wyang probably knows as well. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:59, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Mass edits in all possible languages are already happening. Also @Chuck Entz. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:01, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

here you go in French

Hi. Have you got an example of je t'en prie or je vous en prie in the sense of here you go? [12] — I cannot imagine any, but maybe there is? Regards, — Automatik (talk) 00:48, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@Automatik here you go = here you are:

1. Puis-je avoir du café ? - Can I have some coffee?
2. Bien sûr, je vous en prie. - Of course, here you are (i.e. please go ahead, I beg you).

Tu es en accord avec cet usage ? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:00, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Effectivement ! Thanks for your answer :-) — Automatik (talk) 01:01, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

De rien ! Je t'en prie. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:18, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Oh… I think I was a bit tired… Je voulais parler de s'il te plait et s'il vous plait… Désolé pour la confusion. Are there examples for these ones? — Automatik (talk) 03:00, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Quels examples cherches-tu ? Du sens "please" ? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:24, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Pour le sens "here you go" [13] — Automatik (talk) 10:28, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

I've heard it's a Belgian thing. [14] --Per utramque cavernam 11:09, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm not clear: I know it's used in Belgium, and I've heard recently that it's only used in Belgium. --Per utramque cavernam 11:11, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

In this forum, the example — Merci. — S'il vous plait. is given, which means basically that s'il vous plaît is used in the sense of you're welcome. Is you're welcome a synonym of here you go then? Do you say “— Thank you. — Here you go.”? (I'd say rather “— Here you go. — Thank you.”). — Automatik (talk) 11:22, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

You're right; that forum example is slightly strange actually, precisely because of that reversal you're pointing out. Je dirais plus volontiers : "Tu saurais me passer le sel ? – S'il-te-plaît. – Merci."

Un autre lien : [15], où "s'il-vous-plaît" est explicitement glosé par "voici". --Per utramque cavernam 11:31, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) If you read the definition and the gloss for "here you are", it says: is said when you hand something over. English words for this are not very clear but in many languages, there is a specific idiomatic word for when you're offering something to someone or hand over something to someone. Cf. German bitte (interjection, sense #3), Russian пожа́луйста (požálujsta) (interjection, sense #3), Japanese どうぞ (dōzo) (sense #2). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:34, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes, even though here you are is used not only when handing something over to someone, whereas s'il vous plaît seems to be used only in such a case. Anyways, I've added the mention Belgium for these translations. — Automatik (talk) 17:12, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Empty definition lines

I slightly prefer having a basic gloss, but empty is fine too if you're unsure about the meaning. Thanks for expanding Mongolian, are you learning it currently? Crom daba (talk) 21:49, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@Crom daba: I will do my best and add basic glosses. No, I am not learning Mongolian, although I should. I served in a Mongolian desert for two years in the Soviet army with very little exposure to locals. I've got some interest in learning basic Mongolian. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:30, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Bulgarian < OCS

Wiktionary:Etymology scriptorium/2017/July § нужда --Per utramque cavernam 08:18, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@Per utramque cavernam: Thanks for that! --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:20, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Category:Entry creation templates

Hmm, it seems like Category:Entry templates by language is for the same thing... —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 06:18, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Suzukaze-c: Hmm, indeed. I might recategorise the templates then and delete this one. I've looked at a few and they don't have much documention. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:24, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

I like Anatoli's name much better. We could just merge them (or send it to RFM if anyone raises a fuss). —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:22, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@Metaknowledge: Thanks, I'm not familiar with any of templates in Category:Entry creation templates, except for those I have already included. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:24, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Belarusian translations

Hello. Do you keep track of Category:Requests for translations into Belarusian? I've only added one request so far (at adolescent), but I might do more if you take care of them. --Per utramque cavernam 14:51, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

@Per utramque cavernam: No problem, I will add some translations I can handle but I don't feel like adding for terms like sustainable development just to legitimise an SoP or on the border. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 10:03, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

@Atitarev: Nice, thanks! Yes, I'll focus on single words, we're still missing a lot of those. Per utramque cavernam 10:12, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Awesome job. Please let me know what a reasonable rhythm of requests would be; I don't want to flood the category, as it can become discouraging. Per utramque cavernam 10:18, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

@Per utramque cavernam: Hi. No problem so far. I don't want to set any rhythm yet. I've been always adding translations into languages I can handle and I will now keep in mind that Belarusian translations are wanted. I will do other things I have planned and like doing in Wiktionary as well, though, when I'm active. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:07, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks again for filling those. I don't want to use Category:Requests for translations into Russian as it's full of cruft, but I've noticed we lack Russian translations for necessary condition and sufficient condition. Is it all right if I add {{t-needed|be}} to some entries, and just assume you'll add the Russian translations too if they're missing? (and in the case of more technical terms, possibly only the Russian ones; Belarusian might not have them) Per utramque cavernam 18:04, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

@Per utramque cavernam: Hi. I don't mind adding Russian, Belarusian or other translations and I've been doing that but sorry, necessary condition and sufficient condition is the kind of cruft I have been trying to stay away from, well, mostly. We need more translations to necessary, sufficient and condition and all the important and basic words and they are endless but any combinations, no matter how important the concepts are, are not so important for a dictionary and to language learners. You need to know the basic components to translate combinations. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:53, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

@Atitarev: Looking back on it, yes, I agree it's the same kind of cruft I was dissing :p How ironic!

So, as I was saying in one of my previous messages, I'll focus on single words, and stay away from that kind of entries. Per utramque cavernam 07:43, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

@Per utramque cavernam: Hi. I think I have overestimated my ability/desire to fill all requests for Belarusian translations quickly. Please slow down. :) I will continue adding them, but over longer time. I should have set some limits when you asked about the rhythm. I would also encourage you to maybe do some work yourself on very basic Belarusian, so that you learn and show that your interest is genuine, not just for the sake of filling those translations and forget about them. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:07, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

СдравствуйтеЗдравствуйте, Анатолий. Категория снова заполняется. Вы можете её опорожнять, пожалуйста? Но если вы не хотите, нет проблемы. Спасибо заранее, thanks in advance. Per utramque cavernam 15:38, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

@Per utramque cavernam: I completed some today. I have some major commitments, so I have to heavily reduce my Wiktionary work at the moment. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:04, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

No probs, and thanks again! Per utramque cavernam 11:26, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Anatoli. Could you have another go at it? It would help me with my goal of reaching 3000 Belarusian lemma entries. (some pretty important words are missing translations in other languages you're interested in, so I think it could help you as well) Chignon – Пучок 12:54, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

OK, I'll pay more attention but I also have some goals. Do you target just new translations? There is a load of red-linked basic Belarusian words. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:58, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Where? Something such as Wiktionary:Frequency lists/Hindi 1900 or User:DTLHS/cleanup/french t missing would be of help, but I don't know of any such list. Chignon – Пучок 13:37, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

I don't think the list exists for Belarusian. I just happen to visit frequently used words over and over again to add/check translations, I just know. You can use English or Russian frequency list to check cognates or translations but it takes time. I don't know if you keep track of words you add requests for but they disappear from the list once the request is filled. I noticed in the past that many requests stayed red-linked, so you didn;t do anything with them :) I also feed discouraged to translate some words requiring SoP translations (impressionable), too many senses (encouragement) or some are just a bit too difficult to translate (exasperating). I am not fluent in BE, I just find it easy.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:52, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

@Chignon Heya, I have been adding dozens of Belarusian translations but (if your target is to create those red-linked entries), I am not sure you tracked them well. Many are from CAT:Requests for translations into Belarusian but many are not. I don't necessarily fill the oldest but often the oldest request. Once the request is filled, it goes away from the category, so if it's not on top of your Watchlist, then you won't notice. That's my observation. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:53, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for your additions. I've found a way to keep track of them, though it doesn't distinguish between red and blue links, unfortunately. Chignon – Пучок 23:55, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

@Chignon: Useful tool, thanks, pity it doesn't show red links and won't trap my additions if I add them in the edit mode - when copying from a more common synonym's translation. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:24, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

moob

I didn't change my mind, I suggested this idea at the Beer Parlour and no-one supported it. Kaixinguo~enwiktionary (talk) 09:35, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

@Kaixinguo~enwiktionary: It's OK. No-one cancelled {{qualifier}} template yet, so it's legal. I've been working with multilingual word translations for years and used a similar method every now and again and seen others doing the same. If no equivalent exists in your language, what do you do?

1. Give a descriptive SoP translation with each word separated in square brackets.
2. Ignore - not always good - missing translation may mean nobody bothered or knows the right translation.
3. Tell users that no equivalent exist in the target language. You can phrase the way you want but it would be better if we had a unified approach. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:47, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

UkraineCityNameRepository

This seems to be a sock of a user blocked for bad editing in Semitic languages, but I want to know if their Ukrainian edits have similar problems before deciding what to do about it, and all of their edits are unpatrolled, as yet. Their info: UkraineCityNameRepository (talk • contribs • global account info • deleted contribs • nuke • abuse filter log • page moves • block • block log • active blocks). Chuck Entz (talk) 17:59, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz, what I can see for Yiddish and Hebrew looks terribly uncareful. Is there a reason to abandon our usual MO of deleting it all on sight? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 22:28, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz: UkraineCityNameRepository (talk • contribs) is clueless/sloppy. The etymology of the Ukrainian term Залі́сся (Zalíssja) they described with Russian words за (za, “behind”) + лес (les, “forest”), which is for the Russian cognate Зале́сье (Zalésʹje). The Ukrainian Залісся is obviously derived from Ukrainian words за (za) + ліс (lis) + gemination + -я. No brainer but they stuffed it up. The English proper noun entries are OK but lacking some stress marks on Slavic terms in etymologies, which are required. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:18, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

When you're talking about extreme measures like we use for them, a reality check is good every once in a while. I had no clue whether their bad editing carried over into their Ukrainian edits, but they obviously do. I've now blocked them as a sock-puppet and mass-deleted or reverted all their edits. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:35, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

I'm OK with that. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:39, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

I think the reality check is that he is incapable of being a good editor. Anyway, I've notified 'Pedia. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:14, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

оловок

The IP insists on creating it; it should probably be deleted and protected against creation. SURJECTION _{·talk·contr·log·} 18:47, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Do you know how to protect against creation? —20:46, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

I have no admin experience, but it is certainly possible, as I have seen it happening. I guess it's done where you would normally protect a page, but you protect against creation instead of editing or moving. SURJECTION _{·talk·contr·log·} 20:48, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I've seen @Chuck Entz do that on several occasions (with "inherently unsuitable as an entry" or something to that effect given as a rationale). Per utramque cavernam 22:59, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Yes

малай#Etymology --Werveru (talk) 12:58, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

So? Some Turkic languages borrowed the Russian word, not the other way around. Russian ма́лый (mályj) is of Proto-Slavic origin. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:31, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Source of Singaparean Hokkien IPA?

In a page like the one below, what was the source of IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore): /pa⁴⁴⁻²² sat̚³²/ ? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B7%B4%E5%89%8E

--Nusaybah (talk) 01:41, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@Nusaybah: My original edit picked the Min Nan reading automatically from the data collected by User:Wyang, for the exact regional reading User:Justinrleung is most likely a better person to ask. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:01, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@Nusaybah: The phonology of Singaporean Hokkien is from 新加坡闽南话概说 by 周长楫 and 周清海. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 03:02, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

모국어

The Korean noun '모국어' has also meaning of 'the language(s) of one's own nation'. Please see link: #. --Nuevo Paso (talk) 09:53, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

@Nuevo Paso: It's all covered by the definition "mother tongue" and the gloss "one's native tongue". It's not a different or new sense. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:58, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

For most of people, their first language(L1) and their nation's official language are same. So, people can easily confuse these concepts. But academically, it's a little bit diffrent.

Let me give you an example. Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, German. If a man who has Dutch-speaking parents was born in the Flemish, Dutch-speaking region, this baby's mother tongue(모어) will be Dutch. But the French is also can be his '모국어'. Because, he's a Belgian, it means that Belgium is his '모국'(母國). --Nuevo Paso (talk) 10:16, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

OK then. I've changed it back. To me, these additional nuances should be done on the same definition line. I don't think it's a different sense. See also 母国語(ぼこくご) (bokokugo). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:23, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. It is a same mistake in Japanese. A large number of Japanese people don't distinguish these concepts properly. I think you might be helped with this article: 母語と母国語はどう違う？ --Nuevo Paso (talk) 11:42, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

@Nuevo Paso: Thanks, that's definitely helpful. @Eirikr: you might be interested in refining Japanese definitions of 母国語(ぼこくご) (bokokugo) and 母語(ぼご) (bogo). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:50, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

@Anatoli, thanks for the ping -- done.  :) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 18:30, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

សិរិ

Anatolii, I am trying to add pronunciation to សិរិ, but without success. It is both a verb and a noun. The verb and noun have different pronunciations. I added the two pronunciations, but it ignores the second pronunciation and uses the 1st pronunciation for both. —Stephen ^(Talk) 21:29, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

@Stephen G. Brown: Stephen, I think there's no way around it at the moment, rather than to manually transliterate the second (third, etc.) pronunciation. It's the same issue with Thai entries, I believe. In multiple pronunciations, comma-separated or in separate sections, the first one is default. @Wyang, Octahedron80: Am I right, is there another way?

BTW, Stephen, I've changed the respellings (removed spaces) and I think unstressed syllables lose ʾ in these positions. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:40, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

The tr= parameter is actually ignored, which needs to be fixed for such cases. —Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:51, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

There is a way in multi-pronunciation entries: |phon= can be used in the headword templates to specify the phonetic respelling for that headword line. Wyang (talk) 08:35, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, Frank. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:38, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

(Solved)About how to input transliterations/pinyin

Hi Atitarev,

Thank you for your reminder about transliterations. I have just figured out how to reply to you, a bitter more familiar to Wiki-Systems now.

Well, as a native speaker of Chinese, we/I actually don't use pinyin in daily life. I don't know how to input them.

Do you have any idea about IME, since you are using them correctly, besides finding a table to copy and paste?

Please reply to my talk page.

L-native (talk) 08:58, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

@L-native: I will answer here, not on your talk page but I'm sure you will be notified, since I am using {{ping|L-native}} with your user name and my signature in the same edit. I was using some a pinyin IME from chinese-forums.com for years, then Wenlin dictionary, which automatically converts pinyin to tone marks when tone numbers are entered. Everyone does it differently, finding their own way. We don't really have a tool designed to enter pinyin but Chinese editors get by without it. You can copy from https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary, Google translate (watch for wrong pinyin and capitalisation) or Latin/Roman template at the bottom of your edit window in the edit mode here, at Wiktionary. Many modules and templates automatically transliterate, unfortunately not for translations, e.g. 減輕／减轻 (zh) (jiǎnqīng) doesn't transliterate but 減輕／减轻 (jiǎnqīng) does and provides a simplified form.

In User_talk:L-native#Translations_into_Chinese you called me Justin but Justin is the person I mentioned who fixed your edit, it's not me:) Maybe @Wyang, Justinrleung, Tooironic, Suzukaze-c could suggest a tool to enter pinyin transliteration? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 10:24, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Atitarev,

Thank you for your reply. Actually I got an alert rather than a notice.

This is very helpful. I find the mdbg.net website can simply solve my problem, so I simply bookmarked it. Google Translate is not a good choice, because it is blocked in China. Using a VPN can cause other problems, for example the IPs are already blockede by some Wikipedia versions.

It seems there are still a lot for me to learn in order to use WikiMedia sites in a efficient and proper way. The templates and modules seem to be not available cross versions, don't they?

I did realize that was not your name, a bitter late after my response. Sorry for the misunderstanding. :)

Something not related to this topic. Is there a way to fix a broken Template? I find a Template has been edited into a page. It is not here in wiktionary, but in a version of wikibooks. I am tryting to contact someone who seems to be administrating it.

--L-native (talk) 13:35, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

• @L-native Actually you can access https://translate.google.cn/ from within mainland China. ---> Tooironic (talk) 14:58, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
  • @Tooironic So true. Even the google.cn can be accessed now, again. I didn't know this. L-native (talk) 08:46, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
    • @Tooironic & @Atitarev Well indeed, translate.google.cn can be accessed and used, but it is not good enough. One of the reasons can be that Google Translation is not built in a top-down way, but adjusted by users. The more people use it, the better it get. Due to the block of Google services, its user group becomes very limited in Mainland China or Chinese-speaking people. Sadly. And google.cn is just a dummy site. --L-native (talk) 09:09, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
• @L-native You can reach all the characters with international keyboard layouts, without an IME – X11/xkb/symbols/us(intl) for example or de(basic). Also trans(ipa) is a layout that contains all combining characters. X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8 is the file which lists the dead key combinations with which you can type in the accented characters. Fay Freak (talk) 15:33, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
  • @Fay Freak Well, I realize it is possible and I do know how to type in German umlauts directly, without an IME. However after screening the source codes you provide, I still don't have an idea how to input Chinese pinyin characters. Is there a specific tutorial? L-native (talk) 08:46, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
    • @L-native, I give you examples:
    • The compose file contains: <dead_caron> <u> : "ǔ" U01D4 # LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CARON.
      • de(basic) contains: key <AC11> { [adiaeresis, Adiaeresis, dead_circumflex, dead_caron ] };
      • Which means you press the fourth level of the key AC11 (i. e. the eleventh key of the ASDFG row) – because there is dead_caron – and the the first level of the U key to obtain ǔ.
    • Assuming you need characters with breves, not with carons:
    • The compose file contains: <dead_breve> <u> : "ŭ" U016D # LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH BREVE.
      • de(basic) contains: key <BKSL> { [numbersign, apostrophe, rightsinglequotemark, dead_breve ] };
      • Which means you press the fourth level of the key BKSL (i. e. on physical keyboards spread in Germany the twelfth key of the ASDFG row but on some physical keyboards elsewhere – called BKSL because the Anglo-Saxon layout has the backslash there) – and the first level of the U key to obtain ŭ.
    • The compose file contains: <dead_macron> <o> : "ō" U014D # LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH MACRON.
      • de(deadtilde) contains: key <AD12> { [ plus, asterisk, dead_tilde, dead_macron ] };
      • Which means you press the fourth level of the key AD12 (i. e. the twelfth key of the QWERTZ/QWERTY row) and the first level of the O key to obtain ō.
      • This is a small amendment to what I previously suggested: Don’t used de(basic) if you use the German layout but de(deadtilde) because de(basic) contains “asciitilde, macron” instead of “dead_tilde, dead_macron” (which latter you need for one of the tones) after someone coming from Windows complained that it is not like on Windows so they changed the default. de(deadtilde) is the same as de(basic) but replaces the AD12 key, as you see in the code of the de file. You can see yourself now, I think, the other combinations and what needs to be pressed if you use us(intl). The data files are pretty legible. Fay Freak (talk) 19:29, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
      • @Fay Freak Err, I must say it needs much tech knowledge to understand what you are talking about. Eventually, I figure out how to type in them. Thank you for your explanations. --L-native (talk) 11:30, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi all, Let me summarize with two simple solutions.

• 1. You can use websites, e.g. https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary or Google Translation to type in Chinese once and then copy the pinyin and the Chinese characters and paste.
• 2. Using a extened keyboard layout. Here it is English(US, intl. with dead keys) layout with a compact standard English Keyboard(only the left part) under Linux/Ubuntu.
  • This layout of keyboard has four levels of keys, usually two levels with shift to switch. To use the third level, hold the right-alt. To use the fourth level, hold the right-alt and shift.
  • For pinyin, there are four tones for one vowel. For example for o, there are ō, ó, ǒ, ò.
    • ō: first tone with a macron, right-alt + right-shift + 3/fourth key in the second row, release and then press o.
    • ó: second tone with a acute, right-alt + o.
    • ǒ: third tone with a caron (not a breve, which is round), right-alt + right-shift + ./period, release and then press o.
    • ò: fourth tone with a grave, `/first key in the second row + o.
  • References:
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin#Tones
    • https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/tree/symbols/us
  • ...It is so complicated and easy to make mistakes, so I suggest you to use the first method.

• Thank all hands here for answering my question.

--L-native (talk) 11:30, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Further suggestions for Pinyin & Mandarin

Hi Anatoli,

I have several additional suggestions for pinyin and Mandarin,

1. Chinese Mandarin is called 官话 in Wiktionary:Babel. This sounds strange to me. Although its meaning is totally correct, I haven't read this in other places. Can you change this into 普通话, which is typically used for Standard Chinese/Mandarin in Mainland China? 官话 itself sounds also historical.
2. Now the pinyin is suggested to be added in a continous manner. The example is zìmǔ for 字母. Since it is possible to have a translation of five or more Chinese words for one English word, isn't it better to use a separated way?
3. Inputting pinyin is still a very tedious work. Is it possible to write some script, which can convert the tones. For example, after I input zi2 mu3, it will be automatically converted into zì mǔ.

-- Mr. L (Talk / Contrib) 16:57, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

ประชาธิปัตย์

Hello. The word "democracy" in Thai language is ประชาธิปไตย. And พรรคประชาธิปัตย์ (พรรค + ประชาธิปัตย์) is Democrat Party in Thai language. Thanks. --Garam (talk) 09:21, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

@Garam: Do you have an evidence? I am just using dictionaries. To my knowledge ประชาธิปัตย์ (bprà-chaa-tí-bpàt) is also "democracy" or "democratic" in the attributive usage. A "democrat" must be นักประชาธิปไตย(nák bprà-chaa-tí-bpà-dtai), according to thai2english.com. @Octahedron80: Could you help us here, please? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

My source is HUGS's Thai-Korean language dictionary. Thanks. --Garam (talk) 09:37, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Repeating the ping. @Octahedron80: Does ประชาธิปัตย์ (bprà-chaa-tí-bpàt) mean "democrat" (person)? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:00, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

The word is not included in any dictionary; it is only found as the party's name (proper noun). I think this cannot be kept. FYI: -อธิปไตย is derived from Pali whereas -อธิปัตย์ is derived from Sanskrit. --Octahedron80 (talk) 01:17, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

@Octahedron80: Thanks. If the term is attested as used in the party name only (never separately), we could use something like {{only used in|พรรคประชาธิปัตย์|lang=th}}. Please see ру́сски (rússki) for a Russian example. You can add usage notes/labels, if you want.

@Garam: Hi. Notifying you that Octahedron80 (a native Thai speaker) has responded. I will make an entry for นักประชาธิปไตย (nák-bprà-chaa-tí-bpà-dtai, “democrat”), which I have as a Thai translation for democrat. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:24, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks. --Garam (talk) 03:27, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

@Octahedron80: Hmm, then, are you think เดโมแครต also correct? Thanks. --Garam (talk) 02:28, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

เดโมแครต is the transcription of the US party's name either. No use for common democrat. --Octahedron80 (talk) 02:31, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. --Garam (talk) 03:27, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

@Octahedron80, Garam: I have created นักประชาธิปไตย (nák-bprà-chaa-tí-bpà-dtai, “democrat”) and modified ประชาธิปัตย์ (bprà-chaa-tí-bpàt) per my earlier suggestion. IMO, it still merits an entry, even if it's only used in a combination but it seems attestable. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:11, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

• Note: th:w:คุยกับผู้ใช้:Taweetham#Translation of democrat. --Garam (talk) 22:41, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

  @Garam, Octahedron80, Taweethaも: I have added usage examples at ผู้สนับสนุน (pûu-sà-nàp-sà-nǔn): "ผู้สนับสนุนประชาธิปไตย" and at สมาชิก (sà-maa-chík): "สมาชิกประชาธิปไตย" but these are sums of parts. นักประชาธิปไตย (nák-bprà-chaa-tí-bpà-dtai) seems also attestable in the sense "democrat". I hope native speakers will clarify. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:11, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

• User name Taweetham is correct, not Taweethaも. Thanks. --Garam (talk) 01:16, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks, repeating the ping @Taweetham. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:18, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

A couple of phrases

Hey comrade. I was talking to a Russian guy and he mentioned a couple of things that you may be able to enlighten me on:

• In Russia we say "British scientists discovered..." to describe something totally unscientific. (LOL. Do ya? Should we have an entry?)
• rise with the lark, get up with the chickens = вставать с петухами [or something?] or вставать ни свет, ни заря ?
• (after I mentioned "matryoshka doll" as a synonym for complex situations in English) "we don't use матрёшка as a synonym for complexity; we use 'чёрт ногу сломит' = devil would crack himself? devil will break his leg?"

Sorry for the possible idiocy of my post because I don't speak Russian. But I feel like we might be able to get a proverb or two out of this. Equinox ◑ 23:44, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

@Equinox: Hi, sorry for the late reply. Pls don't call me comrade, just Anatoli.

• It's a joke about people who try to justify their theories, no matter how stupid or unrealistic, with statements about some unknown/imaginary British scientists who already that point. No entry is required, it's not a very linguistic feature.
• Yes, встава́ть с петуха́ми (vstavátʹ s petuxámi) is idiomatic and ни свет, ни заря́ (ni svet, ni zarjá) (the 2nd part only) are idiomatic.
• Yes, чёрт но́гу сло́мит (čort nógu slómit) is also idiomatic. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:14, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

ပညာ

1. According to {{my-IPA}}, Minor respellings are preferred over major respellings, when they are feasible.
2. This loan word has alternative spellings, MLCTS of its alternative respelling should be presented as well, thus two {{my-IPA}}. --173.68.165.114 06:40, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

I think you misused of the template my-IPA. The respelling is just used to describe how to read, and then to convert into IPA, not how to spell. You can make other pages for alternative spellings. --Octahedron80 (talk) 03:47, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Octahedron80, I didn't have time to respond to this then. Calling on the editor @173.68.165.114: your edit has been reverted. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:41, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

BTW, he may not appear as this IP any more, due to IP reusing. --Octahedron80 (talk) 04:53, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! Get it. However, I still prefer the minimalized respellings ပျဉ္ဉာ. A respelling should indeed inform the dictionary used how this word should irregularly pronounced this way, as effective as possible. If possible, I'd like to add a symbol to mark Pali ည to make it a ဉ္ဉ instead of processing it in the Burmese way. --173.68.165.114 05:32, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

• @Octahedron80: Do you know the Rakhine pronunciation of ပညာ? Would it be Pr- or Py-? --173.68.165.114 05:35, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Sorry. I am not familiar with dialectual pronunciation. I just stick to the standard one. --Octahedron80 (talk) 06:40, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

@173.68.165.114: The idea of the phonetic respelling is to show the phonetics, i.e. how to say the word, which affect the two phonetic romanisations. So, different letters with identical pronunciations (including their effect on the tone) should be merged into one letter. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:40, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

South Korean Spelling ㄹ

ㄹ is neither L nor R, it's in between. It is best to put both L and R spelling.

@211.198.112.251: I don't need to listen. Everybody knows it and I know how to pronounce it. We follow Revised Romanization of Korean. For the pronunciation we have pronunciation sections. We use {{ko-IPA}}. 리 (ri) is pronounced [ɾi]. [ɾ] is described at Korean phonology. I've added the pronunciation section to 리 (ri). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:08, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Report vandalism

Special:Contributions/119.75.194.114. --Xiplus (talk) 03:20, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Xiplus: Thanks, blocked. Not 100% sure about the policy for one-time IP users. I blocked for 3 months. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:30, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Russian pronunciations

Hi, at паяльник (pajalʹnik), писклявый (piskljavyj) and трухлявый (truxljavyj) you accidentally introduced U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK between the vertical bar and the beginning of the Russian word serving as the first positional parameter of {{ru-IPA}}. I caught it because the entries landed in Category:IPA pronunciations with invalid IPA characters. —Mahāgaja · talk 15:33, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

@Mahagaja: Thanks for fixing! I don’t know how it happened. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 21:01, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Stalin, Lenin

Hi! Stalin (and Ста́лин (Stálin)) is defined as "a surname", but is it? I thought it was just a codename that Josef made by combining сталь + -ин; does anyone (else) bear it as a last name? (Did anyone have it as a last name prior to Josef?) Relatedly, is Lenin a surname? The English entry defines it as only referring to Vladimir Ilyich's codename derived from the Lena river, but then the etymology mentions him borrowing a passport from a Nikolay Lenin, suggesting it's also a surname some people have... - -sche (discuss) 23:42, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

@-sche: Yes, they are considered code names or what they called in the USSR, "pseudonyms". псевдони́м (psevdoním) = nom de guerre, pseudonym. There are various theories about why these names in particular. Ле́нин (Lénin) has two or three: 1 and 2 Solidarity with Lena massacre, which happen on the Lena river and Lena river itself, 3. A real person named N. Lenin. I'm not really sure, if these don't qualify as surnames. Let me think about, meanwhile, you can start a topic in WT:TR and invite Russian speakers and other interested people. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад)

Entries based on Wikipedia

I sincerely advise you against creating entries based on Wikipedia articles only. While Wikipedia is a great source for getting an idea for certain words, the editors of certain Wikipedias (like Min Nan and Zhuang) seem to have particular tendencies in their language use. As I've also mentioned before, there may also be one-off translations, which would not fit WT:CFI. I'm ok with using Wikipedia for pronunciations, but making entries is different. For example, many of the country names in the Zhuang Wikipedia don't look "right" (or "standard"). I'm not sure if those country names are actually used in certain dialects of Zhuang, but this dictionary from the Translation Bureau gives very different names, e.g. Ngozlozswh vs. Ezlozswh, Audaliya vs. Audaihleihya. I think we should stick with the Translation Bureau's recommendations for now, especially because they are used in 广西民族报. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 23:39, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Thanks, point taken. I haven't found yet a reliable source for Zhuang but I will use your link. Moved the entries just now. For Min Nan, I now rely on [16] for the lack of a better source. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:33, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. The Min Nan source is pretty good and usually reliable. I would suggest this one, which is an easy way to check several Min Nan dictionaries. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 00:35, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Thanks. I've also got a big Japanese-Mandarin-Min Nan phrasebook at home with Min Nan audio recording. Bought it in Japan. More like a textbook. Interesting that it doesn't have a single word, which is not in Chinese characters. I'll share the title with you later, if you wish. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:42, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

It's very possible to not have any word not in Chinese characters. I'm interested in knowing what the title is. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 05:47, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: It's called 台湾語会話(たいわんごかいわ)フレーズブック

taiwango kaiwa furēzubukku

Taiwanese conversation phrasebook

Ships with three CD's. [17]. It has Min Nan in Chinese characters, POJ, Mandarin Chinese, pinyin and Japanese. You can learn three languages! JP¥3,132 + delivery. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:06, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

This resource would be impressive for someone who wants to learn Min Nan - even if there is not much explanation of the grammar one has to figure out based on the translation and other examples. I am not actively learning it but I thought I'll invest in it. I cannot judge the accuracy of each Min Nan translation but it looks like a lot of effort was put into it. The recordings must be done by native Min Nan speakers. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:10, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Russian text I can't figure out

I came across this bit of text and I'm having difficulty translating it properly: Когда тебе уже лень играть, но ты не можешь остановиться. I'm not sure what уже (uže) means in this context. The literal translation of the first half seems to be "When you already have laziness to play" which doesn't make any sense. —Rua (mew) 21:26, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

@Rua: You can translate it as “When you no longer want to play but you can’t stop”. “Лень” is impersonal here and “уже” can mean “no more” in a negative sentence. Мне лень/неохота писать - I don’t want to write, я уже не могу бежать - I can’t run any more. I will check if our entries cover these senses. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:50, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

hey Anatoli

Hi Anatoli, how have you been? Today a professor mentioned in class a Russian man as the only translator of 史記 into a European language (Russian). He said his name was something like Rudolph Vyatian (sp.?) but I can't find him online. Could you help me have a look? He must be pretty famous, at least in Russia. ---> Tooironic (talk) 02:38, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

@Tooironic: I am good, thanks for asking and you? 史記／史记 (Shǐjì) was indeed translated into Russian. Here's the Russian text in full: Исторические Записки (Сыма Цянь), 1956. The translators are Rudolf Vyatkin Ру́дольф Вя́ткин (Rúdolʹf Vjátkin) and Vsevolod Taskin Все́волод Та́скин (Vsévolod Táskin). They are both Sinologists. Vsevolod Taskin was a Russian expat in Harbin for many years.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:16, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Wow, many thanks for that! I've been well, just busy with my research. At the moment I am focusing on translations of Chinese classics into Western languages, and was surprised to find that none of the 二十四史 has a full translation into English. Obviously, they're huge texts, but they're also very important texts. I hope one day I can lead a team to translate one of them in full. Also, the 三禮 texts, which will probably be the focus of my doctorate thesis. 禮記 and 儀禮 have translations but they are over a hundred years old, and 周禮 has none at all. ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:13, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

mug → гуртка

you've added a Uk: translation as uk:гуртка at mug article. What is the word source ° meaning. Sum.in.ua does not nkow nothing about it. and my G-books search also. Please, if such word exists, to write an uk article--Albedo (talk) 08:10, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

@Albedo: Here's the description what гу́ртка (húrtka) means: [18]. It's not a very common word but if you search for the combination "дві гуртки", you'll find many hits. In Google books it's harder to find, because "гуртка" is also the genitive of гурто́к (hurtók, “circle, club, workshop”). I added that translation in 2013, now I have a better Russian-Ukrainian dictionary, which only gives me these translations: ку́холь (kúxolʹ), ква́рта (kvárta), карва́тка (karvátka), кі́нва (kínva), коно́вка (konóvka). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 10:25, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

thank you for answer, it's interesting indeed. But I noticed, that moyaosvita is autotranslation which not prove accoracy of terms (не можна докладно вірити чи справді ці слова вживаються у властивому їм значенні), it is not aditor-proved text, and so I can belive|вірити| is the term correct or not. Are other sources to assure in reality of such word? I've try exact search, i.e. parenthesis |"гуртка"| for Gbooks in UK lang direction. --Albedo (talk) 12:43, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

@Albedo: Зараз я не можу знайти джерело від того часу, і я теж не можу знайти в словниках, якими я тепер користуюся. Це було дуже давно. Я вважаю, що цей переклад можна видалити, так як це слово рідкісне (якщо воно взагалі правильне) і можна додати більше вживані слова. Я не володію українською вільно, як видно за моїм профілем. Якщо ви бачите не зовсім ідеальні переклади українською, будь ласка, виправляйте! --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:19, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

the problem is not that. I'm native speaker, and I suppose, and I know more--less lexicology (+/-) but this word seems me interesting altough not verified (not seen) yet. And I seek appropriate translation for жбан (|mug | jar). І тут таке! (and here this!)--Albedo (talk) 13:29, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

@Albedo: Вам доведеться самому пошукати, так як я вже не можу підтвердити, що цей переклад правильний. Пошукайте в різних формах і контекстах. А я пізніше виправлю переклад mug. Успіхів! Нам потрібні українські учасники. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 13:43, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Ukrainian edits

See my response on my own page. Kevlar67 (talk) 17:40, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

вашскобродие

Wow, thanks so much for this! Do you happen to know what запотребно means? It was in this old text from like 1709 or so. 2001:1C02:1901:ED00:A500:571A:860E:DAD7 21:40, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

It’s the same as потре́бно (potrébno, “necessary”) but very rare. —Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 22:13, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Slovak for Sleeping Beauty

Heads up: I removed Slovak Spiaca kráska from Sleeping Beauty, added in diff, since it does not appear attested. I hope I did not get this wrong. Do you perhaps remember in which source you found Spiaca kráska? --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:06, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

@Dan Polansky: The Internet sources I used don't seem reliable and now I see it was a mistake. Thanks for fixing. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:43, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Thesaurus:眺望

Hey Anatoli, any idea how we can correct the simplified display of 瞭望 here? When 瞭 is read liào it is used in simplified, and should not be 了. ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:09, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Hey, Carl, you can use "/" to put the required simp. values, e.g. 瞭望／瞭望 (liàowàng) or 瞭望 (liàowàng), see also 臺灣／台灣／台湾 (Táiwān), which uses three forms. See Template:zh-l/documentation, basically it's {{zh-l|TRAD_FORM/SIMP_FORM/FORM3|Transliteration|Gloss}}.

You can suppress both simp. and transliterations altogether: 瞭望, I am not sure about suppressing just the simp. form. @Justinrleung, Suzukaze-c: Is there a way to display 瞭望 (liàowàng) without adding the manual "tr="? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:24, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I have made some changes. Let's see if there's a better way to do it. ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:40, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

problem with synonyms for 著手

Hi Anatoli. Check out the synonyms for 著手 and 入手 and you'll notice the former lists 5 while the latter lists 4. Is there a way to fix this bug? It seems to arise because the headword specifies a simplified form (著手/着手). ---> Tooironic (talk) 09:30, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

@Tooironic: This should be fixed now. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 17:02, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! ---> Tooironic (talk) 18:34, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Wrong Spellings of Kazakh

Please help to delete минөт for its wrong spelling. I marked it for deletion days ago. Vtgnoq7238rmqco (talk) 14:27, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

@Vtgnoq7238rmqco. If you don’t even tell why the spelling is wrong nobody will delete. Use the |1=. For those who read the template likely do not know Kazakh. Logical. Fay Freak (talk) 17:34, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

It was the wrong template anyway; for obvious mistakes you have to use {{d}}, not {{rfd}}. Canonicalization (talk) 17:36, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

@Vtgnoq7238rmqco, Fay Freak, Canonicalization, Mahagaja: deleted. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:57, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

@Canonicalization: {{d}} is for speedy deletion, i.e. deletion without discussion. The page was originally tagged with {{d}} for speedy deletion, which I declined because the entry had been around for many years and had been edited by several different editors, and I didn't feel qualified to summarily delete it just because one user says it's a misspelling. We do allow misspellings at Wiktionary if they're common (see CAT:Misspellings by language; and many things that one person considers a misspelling turn out later to be archaic spellings or eye dialect or something else that is actually keepable. In my opinion, this entry should have gone to RFV rather than RFD (and certainly not speedy deletion), but it's gone now so it doesn't matter anymore. —Mahāgaja · talk 09:57, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Церковнославянские термины

Как я пойму можно мне в итоге добавлять церковнославянские термины или нет? Сколько уйдёт времени на решение этого вопроса, а то у меня запал пропадёт. ПростаРечь (talk) 07:30, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Да и что в старославянском мене разве не генетив? (мене ради, тебе ради)

В общем я приношу прощения, но я продолжу пока добавлять термины, так как код как старославянского, так и для церковнославянкого един, а заголовки разные, если придут к мнению, что обойдутся без церковнославянского (всяко может быть, хотя на русском wiktionary два этих языка уживаются вместе), то сам и откачу. ПростаРечь (talk) 07:44, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

@ПростаРечь: Привет и добро пожаловать. Да, добавлять, только пожалуйста, используй принятые нормы, например, мы используем "Old Church Slavonic", а не "Church Slavonic", хотя если найдёшь примеры "Church Slavonic", нужно будет разобраться почему и принять решение. "Old Church Slavonic" в основном соответствует "церковнославянский" язык. Ты спрашивал у людей, какой шаблон использовать для новых статей. В основном, участники работают по существующим статьям и в режиме редакции, если выбрать "Templates and Headers", можно найти много распространённых шаблонов и заголовков. Обрати внимание, что в английском викисловаре много усилий потрачено на нормализацию глифов и букв, ведь многие источники непоследовательно их используют. Для церковнославянского смотри Appendix:Old Cyrillic script (для древнерусского Wiktionary:About Old East Slavic), Module:Cyrs-Glag-translit, конечно Category:Old Church Slavonic lemmas. Найдёшь интересными Category:Proto-Slavic lemmas. Надеюсь, что запал, если и пропадёт, то не так быстро :) --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 10:15, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Ок, но честно говоря не совсем понял, почему "Old Church Slavonic в основном соответствует церковнославянский язык."

Википедия говорит, что Church Slavonic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Slavonic_language) это Церковнославянский (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA)

тогда как Old Church Slavonic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic) это Старославянский (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA)

На письме они отличаются, например старославянское ѥ (оно) и церковнославянское (е) или старославянское ѩ (они) и церковнославянское (ѧ).

Все добавляемые мною термины взяты из Острожской библии.

Ну а так мне всё равно как и куда добавлять, лишь бы можно было, ок заменяю заголовки на Old Church Slavonic. ПростаРечь (talk) 10:53, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Хотя про нормализацию честно говоря я не особо понял и вообще мне это слово просто ужас преужасно не нравится, например в Острожской библии везде используется оу или Ꙋ, например блꙊдити, а тут https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Old_Church_Slavonic_lemmas указано блѫдити, блꙊдити в словарь добавлять запрещается? или же я должен везде старославянское Ꙋ подменять на оу? то есть вместо оригинала блꙊдити писать блоудити или последнее также запрещается?ПростаРечь (talk) 11:09, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Простите, но мне нужно понимание на конкретных примерах.

Ꙋ (U) - заглавная буква ꙋ (u). Я не могу решить, так как я лично не работал со старославянскими или церковнославянскими шрифтами. Правильно наверное будет блꙋдити (bluditi) - похоже это альтернативная, более новая форма блѫдити (blǫditi). За неимением кода, можно наверное давать ярлыки, типа {{lb|cu|New Church Slavonic}}. Если это станет серьёзной проблемой и есть поддержка сообщества, то можно инициировать Wiktionary:Requests for moves, mergers and splits - раздел "Old Church Slavonic" на "New Church Slavonic"/"Church Slavonic" -- вести новый код языка, напр. "chu". Пример "нормализации", чтобы тебе понятно было, это когда символ, которого нет на клавиатуре или для удобства, от незнания или лени заменяют на что-то другое, например кавказская палочка ӏ на символ на латинское "I", при нормализации такие символы приводят в норму, то есть пишут как положено, а не как в источнике (неправильно). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:33, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Попробовал вставить в шаблон "New Church Slavonic", но мне как-то это не очень визуально приглянулось, вроде сначала "Old Church Slavonic", а потом сразу "New Church Slavonic", на мой взгляд, это может привести читателей статьи в ступор или может быть я просто куда-то ни туда вставляю.

Old Church Slavonic

(New Church Slavonic)

ПростаРечь (talk) 19:41, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Относительно Old East Slavic, тут (http://dic.feb-web.ru/slavonic/) Острожская библия отнесена к корпусу церковнославянских текстов. ПростаРечь (talk) 20:44, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Хотя свойственные древневосточнославянскому языку изменения ѧ (ę) > ꙗ (ja), ѫ (ǫ) > у (u) действительно имеют место быть. ПростаРечь (talk) 22:10, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

+ Для старославянского пишут, что должен использоваться символ ꙑ, тогда как для древневосточнославянского он является предпочтительным, но не обязательным, в Острожской библии вместо него используется исключительно ы. + также использование в Острожской библии е вместо старославянской ѥ.

В общем, перевожу свои статьи в древневосточнославянский. ПростаРечь (talk) 22:35, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Old forms of быть

В статье про глагол «быть» так говорится :

Extremely rarely, Church Slavonic forms есмь

(jesmʹ), е́сь (jésʹ), еси́ (jesí), есмы́ (jesmý),

е́сте (jéste) appear in some styles of

literature. They are not understood by most

speakers and normally aren’t considered part

of the language.

If this is true, it means that these forms are rare and obsolete. You reverted my edit changing them from archaic to obsolete, which would mean that the above usage note about быть isn’t true. As a native speaker I imagine you would know how rare those forms are or aren’t, and whether they are understood by a typical modern Russian. I just think these two situations (the usage note and the archaic tags) are incompatible. Dylanvt (talk) 06:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

@Dylanvt: Sorry for simply reverting your edits. I think the label "archaic" describes best how these forms are now viewed and perceived. Most are not even understood or known by a typical modern Russian. BTW, you very seldom need to provide the manual transliterations for Russian terms, e.g. есмы́ (jesmý) or есмы́ (jesmý). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:31, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

@Atitarev: I see. But the glossary on Wiktionary says that obsolete means "No longer in use, and (of a term) no longer likely to be understood." If these forms "are not even understood or known by a typical modern Russian", wouldn't that make them obsolete? Archaic is defined as "No longer in general use, but still found in some contemporary texts that aim for an antique style." Dylanvt (talk) 06:42, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

@Dylanvt: You must be right and I was wrong. I perceived "archaic" to be stronger than "obsolete". --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:47, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

@Atitarev: Ничего страшного. Хорошего дня и все вам доброго. Dylanvt (talk) 06:49, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

@Dylanvt: И тебе всего доброго (Можно на «ты»). На моей странице обсуждения шаблоны {{re}} или {{ping}} не нужны. :) --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:55, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Спасибо. Я очень плохо разбираюсь в шаблонах и технике вообще, но стараюсь, поскольку хочу вносить сюда какой-то языковой вклад. Dylanvt (talk) 07:04, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Я тоже не так силён как хотелось бы. Научишься со временем. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:06, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

персть

х > с это стандартное старославянское чередование, дух > дуси, монах > монаси, грех ->греси, тряхнуть > трясти ПростаРечь (talk) 11:33, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

@ПростаРечь: Я не против, что они родственные, поэтому я добавил "Related to прах", но Фасмер об этом не говорит и этимология "прах + "ть" выглядит очень натянуто. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:46, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

@Atitarev: А если быть немного поточнее, то это Закон Педерсена (правило руки) "с" после букв р,у,к,и не перед "т", "п","к" переходит в "х" во всех сатемных языках (к коим, в том числе, относится и русский язык), а также по аналогии с шорох > шерсть , однако грамотнее это выносить на уровень праславянского https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/s%D1%8Crst%D1%8C ПростаРечь (talk) 23:40, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

@ПростаРечь: В данных примерах 2 изменения: *x⇒*ś (*duxъ-*duśi) и с⇒х (трясти-тряхнуть). Первое из-за 3-ей палатализации, второе неизвестно из-за чего (ср. ещё ужас-ужах). Примеры измения *porxъ (прах) в *pьrstь (персть) вряд ли можно найти, эти слова происходят от одного корня подобно мор (mor) и смерть (smertʹ). —Игорь Тълкачь (talk) 01:01, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

@Useigor: Русские шорох и шерсть также происходят от одного корня, родственного английскому hair английское h > русское с (ш) кентум сатем ПростаРечь (talk) 10:24, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Appendix:Mandarin Frequency lists

Dear Atitarev: Thank you so much with the editing on Appendix:Mandarin Frequency lists series. I am wondering whether it's possible for you to create the further lists from 10001 to 20000? Sincerely.--Lamchuhan (talk) 13:39, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

@Lamchuhan: I have loaded all there was from a Taiwanese site. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 07:59, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Creating an appendix for Kazakh verbs

I guess we have to give Kazakh verbs a sort-out, since many should be categorised as verb forms.

In the past I made many entries which were supposed to be categorised as reciprocal, passive, reflexive or causative voices. Besides, transitivity, persons, modes, aspects and tenses should also be considered altogether.

However, I do not know how to create an appendix for Kazakh verbs. Please offer me some instructions. Thank you! Vtgnoq7238rmqco (talk) 20:47, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

@Vtgnoq7238rmqco: Sorry for the late reply. Creating an appendix is actually easy, just Appendix:APPENDIX NAME and add meaningful categories for the right language and topic. You can always refer to existing appendices for other languages. As for verb entries, you can use labels, eg {{lb|kk|transitive}} and that will add a verb to the right category if it's already defined. If you find that a label doesn't add to the expected category, it doesn't exist or is red-linked, you can act depending on what it is. If you require new templates or modules, it may require more work and more people involved but try approaching it one thing at a time, eg start handling reflexive verbs if they exist in Kazakh. If it's a technical issue, you can ask at WT:GP, if it's a policy question, you can ask at WT:BP. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:17, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Countries and states in Mongolian

According to the Mongolian MFA website and also the Standardised Dictionary, sovereign states like Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, and Georgia (also Mongolia), which having no additional words clarified their types of polity in full name, are treated as countries as Румын (улс), Унгар (улс), Украин (улс), and Гүрж (улс); but as states with full name as Румын Улс, Унгар Улс, Украин Улс, and Гүрж Улс. Compounds in the latter form may also to be treated as proper nouns. LibCae (talk) 23:07, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

@LibCae: I understand but it's the same type of scenario we are having predictable qualifiers for many other languages with words for rivers, cities, countries, languages, mountaiuns, countries, etc. Thai: ภาษาสเปน (language + Spain), Vietnamese: người Nga (person + Russia), Chinese 泰晤士河 (Thames + river) or 北京市 (Beijing city), Japanese: 富士山 (Fuji + mountain), etc., etc. These qualifiers are important, no doubt but they add very little to the dictionary. So, Румын Улс is completely predictable. We can have entries for ภาษา (paa-sǎa, “language”) and สเปน (sà-bpeen, “Spain”) but there's no point for having a full-blown entry ภาษาสเปน (“the Spanish language”) (it's a redirect). Some cleanup has been carried out for major languages, Mongolian hasn't been discussed for obvious reasons.

"Румын Улс" can be added as a usage example or a generic usage notes can be added to each country name, e.g. to Румын (Rumyn):

Румын Улс ― Rumyn Uls ― Romania [sovereign state]

What do you think? --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:34, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Chinese dialectal pronunciations

Hi, I notice that you haven't been updating User:Atitarev/Chinese topolect entries to be checked. Maybe I haven't been checking on it as often as you want, but I still would like you to update that page so that I don't have to go through your edit history to check. If you still haven't noticed (with the pings I send you in edit summaries and the comments I put on your page of topolect entries), I don't think you've gotten the hang of it yet. There are still many mistakes in your edits. If you'd like me to send you additional resources, I'd be happy to send some more over to you. Just try to be a bit more careful with your edits. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 04:19, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Hi. I apologise again for the mistakes and thank you for your corrections. The mistakes were silly but not always necessarily made by the lack of understanding but by not focusing properly, as you probably guessed. I still want to continue adding a few dialectal readings myself but I won't persist if I make more mistakes.

I'd be happy to look at more resources but making it easier to follow and map the existing documentation would also be helpful. I will add the characters I edit, so nobody has to go through my edit history for checking and correcting.

I have recently edited these Chinese character entries (apart from the characters on my check page): 城, 市, 熱, 凊, 冷, 蠻, 真, 太, 很, 晚, 早, 雨, 筆, ‎畫, 買, 賣, 把, 吶, 拿, 鱉, 鼠, 等, 找, 找, 島, 兒, 久, 姓, 聲, 音, 輪, 藥.

You probably noticed, I mostly select the most used (or important) characters. I promise I won't insist on editing dialects I don't know much about if I continue to make mistakes. I do care about my reputation and I don't want to cause grief to anyone. I have worked on Wiktionary for many years and learned to deal with many complex scripts but I needed time and support before I got better and even efficient. Thank you for your understanding! --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 09:41, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for understanding. I do think we should do a better job with the documentation. What do you suggest we need to improve? — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 00:41, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Thanks. I think what can be done short-term, just the mapping to an online dictionary, similar to how WT:AZH/Wu has rather detailed mappings to the transcriptions used in the 吴音小字典·吴语小词典 (Minidict). If the 漢語多功能字庫 Multi-function Chinese Character Database is the best topolect dictionary, it can be used as a source and appropriate project pages could have the mappings. E.g. some of these differences in Jin confused me originally:

Jin (Taiyuan) (finals): /əŋ/ -> /ə̃ŋ/, /iəŋ/ -> /ĩŋ/, /uəŋ/ -> /ũŋ/.

Gan (Nanchang) (tones): 陽平乙45 -> 35 (dark departing (or light level B), etc. (Thanks for updating WT:GAN, I will post more confusing bits).

BTW, pages like WT:KM TR (Khmer) and Template:my-IPA/documentation (Burmese) make rather complicated scripts more available to regular editors with less advanced skills when it comes to phonetic respellings. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:29, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll add these later when I have more time. There are also some problems with our current IPA transcriptions - too much phonetic detail for phonemic transcriptions. For example, the nasalization on those Jin finals you listed are completely predictable from the following /ŋ/. I'll have to look into whether we should have both broad and narrow transcriptions. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 01:41, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Thanks. If they are broad vs narrow transcriptions, it's fine. I'll leave it up to you, which to choose. If we have a note (in a separate optional column), it will be easier to map and understand. Also with Gan /-t̚/ vs /-ʔ/ difference in the finals. Maybe occasional tone number divergence could be mentioned or clarified. I will add some more differences so that they can be collated later when you have more time. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:14, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

"To show off", in Russian

Hi Anatoli. Is there a verb something like выбражать in Russian that means to show off? Eric Kvaalen (talk) 10:54, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Eric Kvaalen: It's вообража́ть (voobražátʹ) in the sense "to be or act conceipted, to show off". --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 11:43, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Ah, all right, thanks! Eric Kvaalen (talk) 11:53, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Tbot entries

Hi. Can you help check the remaining 34 Bulgarian entries in Category:Tbot entries (Bulgarian)? Then we will have another Tbot category empty. --Gorgehater (talk) 03:34, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Gorgehater: I'm aware of the category. I'll clean them when I can. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:39, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Excellent work! That's a good half dozen Tbot categories deleted this year already! And Category:Tbot entries (Indonesian)‎ is slowly being whittled down. The monster category is Category:Tbot entries (Kurdish)‎, with 343 entries. I don't suppose you know any Kurdish, do you? --Gorgehater (talk) 11:16, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Calak does. PUC – 11:18, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia article on Ozerki

Hallo, I wonder if you are also active on en.Wikipedia, or know someone who is? I see that the map at Ozerki is of Africa! I am not sure how to fix it. PJTraill (talk) 23:37, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@PJTraill: Sorry, I have no idea about this problem. It may not be anything to do with Wikipedia editing but how this GeoHack tool works. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 01:22, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

I recommend you ask w:User talk:MusikAnimal. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:24, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I have just asked on their talk page. PJTraill (talk) 15:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

那個 as nèige only when a filler

Are you sure that is the case? Do you have a source? ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:47, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

@Tooironic: No, I don't have a source. "nèige" is a more colloquial form of "nàge" and this filler only happens in the colloquial speech. That's my experience but you had more exposure. I question "nàge" in the filler sense, since I never heard it used that way but let me know if you did or have a source. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:51, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Help

Hello. Can you check the edits of Special:Contributions/QhrimmySock? Thanks. Minorax (talk) 08:04, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

@Minorax:  Done --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 08:17, 5 April 2020 (UTC)