User talk:CMEHalverson

από πού κι ως πού

I have replaced the Turkish etymology you entered for the above, but will amend if you have any supporting evidence for the original! —Saltmarsh^{απάντηση} 16:57, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Kostas Kazazis "The Status of Turkisms in the Present-Day Balkan Languages" in Aspects of the Balkan: Continuity and Change, pg. 97: "Thus, the Macedonian expression od kade na kade? 'why, for what reason?…' (literally 'from where to where?') is modelled on Turkish nereden nereye 'for some reason or other; I don't quite know why' … also … Greek από πού κι ως πού …"

But I am not sure how, if something has a meaning which is the same as its literal meaning, it can be said to be etymologically derived from something which seems phonetically totally different. How do you do? could be said to be modelled on τι κάνετε; but is that the same as being etymologically derived from it?

Shouldn't there be a phonetic chain of changes showing how the word/phrase has been arrived at? —Saltmarsh^{απάντηση} 05:22, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

It's called a 'calque' or 'loan translation'. A famous example of this is the French gratte-ciel (lit. scrape-sky), meaning 'skyscraper', which is a calque of the English. Gratte-ciel, for example, does list the English 'model' as it's etymological origin. Not only is listing the calqued model traditional, it is extremely helpful when one considers that the purpose of etymology is to describe the social history of a word. CMEHalverson 14:19, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

I have added your old etym to the literal translation. As regards the calque derivation - since it is made up of such everyday words - and means what it says - I suspect that linguists might argue the point. Anyway thanks - and I hope that honour is satisfied! —Saltmarsh^{απάντηση} 14:32, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

lieu de mémoire

Were you planning to provide English citations for this? I'm currently cleaning out that month of RFV's, but I can hold off on this one for a bit if you want.

Thanks,
—Ruakh_TALK 19:26, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Template:de-noun

Could you possibly use {{de-noun}} for German nouns? Also German nouns start with capital letters. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:49, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

This is something to be careful about. This is what should go under ===Noun===. {{de-noun-m}} is for use under ====Declension==== and requires more parameters to work properly. (Martin, adding g=m didn't fix it either. The plural shown is incorrect.)

You've gotta watch what you're doing, Halverson, you're not a newbie so there's no reason to be formatting shit poorly. If it continues (because there's been a not insignificant bit of it recently) you'll probably be banned. — [ R·I·C ] Laurent — 15:22, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Excuse me? I'm going to be banned because I 'format shit poorly'? I changed all of my work as soon as I was notified I was doing it incorrectly. It 'continued' because I added about twenty words or something yesterday in one sitting. Back the fuck off. I'm adding to Wiktionary's pool of information, trying to follow the caprices of each language I add words under. Some of these words, btw, are not even in leo, making them extremely useful for non-native speakers. I'm going to be banned after I went back and fixed everything? Try to be constructive instead of offensive if you want people's attitudes to change. CMEHalverson 16:36, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

A marked improvement, well done! Mglovesfun (talk) 20:30, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

contents?

where is your table of contents?

Mopan Maya loan words from Spanish

Hello CMEHalverson, please see the following discussions:

• Wiktionary:RFV#paade
• Wiktionary:RFV#kostuumbre
• Wiktionary:RFV#alkaalde

If you have sources for these, please let me know. Cheers. Kaldari (talk) 23:32, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the Swahili verbs

I did have to fix your formatting on kwa kawaida, so take a look at my changes there. Otherwise, the only issue is that they're missing conjugation templates, but that's honestly my fault, because I haven't gotten around to making good ones yet. So in the mean time, thank you! —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 16:32, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Meta. CHalverson (talk) 16:38, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Formatting

Just a note, I have fixed this entry but I would appreciate if you could fix your [Special:Contributions/CMEHalverson|other contributions]] accordingly; most importantly, every entry needs a headword-line template (like {{head|wo|noun}}). Also we observe the distinction between proper nouns and common nouns here, hence my changes at Amerik. Thank you for the work on Wolof, and ask if you have any further questions! —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 04:09, 12 November 2015 (UTC)