User talk:Roisterer

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Again, welcome! Razorflame 02:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Ngarrindjeri

Are you sure that this is a language? I went onto the English Wikipedia, and Ngarrindjeri language redirects to Yardinian language or something close to that. Also, {{nay}} lists this language is being spelling Narriyeri, instead of what you have written. Which is the right one? Razorflame 02:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

• Yes - you must confirm that this language is real before adding any more entries. Ideally add a definition at Ngarrindjeri (and by the way, Category:nouns doesn't exist - you have to say what language the nouns is in). SemperBlotto 11:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
• Please also find out what your languages' ISO code is. It is usually a two or three letter abbreviation of it. For example, eo is the ISO code for Esperanto, de is the ISO code for German and so on. Cheers, Razorflame 03:42, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Are you absolutely positive that nay is the ISO code for this language? The English Wikipedia article on this language does not list an ISO code, so I cannot be to sure. Razorflame 06:37, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

• Hi there. Did you know that you can get the language index updated automatically? You need to ask at the talk page of User:Conrad.Bot. Indexes get updated every time a dump of the system is taken - about once a month. Cheers. SemperBlotto 11:27, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Adding new entries

Hi. When you add a new entry, could you leave the "edit summary" box blank? That way, the actual content of the entry shows up in the Recent Changes, which is a bit more useful than something like "new entry". Thanks! Equinox ◑ 00:30, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello there!

Hello there Roisterer! I just wanted to commend you for how good your contributions are so far here! Also, most users have something called a Babel userbox on their userpages that show what languages they are able to speak. If you would like help on putting some on your userpage, feel free to let me know. Be sure to include what languages you speak and how well you speak them. You can use this guide to determine how well you speak them:

• -0 = You can't speak or write in it, or you understand a little of the language.
• -1 = You understand the basics of the language and can read and write easy sentences.
• -2 = You understand enough of the language that you can start writing sentences using more complex words and verb conjugations; you speak and write it at an intermediate level.
• -3 = You understand enough of the language that you can write full paragraphs of the language including many verb conjugations in the past, future, imperative, and subjunctive conjugations; you can speak and write it at an advanced level.
• -4 = You understand the language almost as well as any native speaker of this language.
• -N = You understand the language as well as any native speaker of this language, or you are a native speaker of this language, or you grew up learning this language (I.E. your first language)

Hope this helps! Kanpai, Razorflame 14:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Translations

Hello. Translations which begin with two alphanumeric characters and then a colon do not work, because they are interpreted by our software as links to the different language editions of Wiktionary. (see, for example, water). For those words, a workaround is to use the similar looking colon of the International Phonetic Alphabet, which can be found in the special characters box when you edit a page (use the drop-down box and select IPA). -- Prince Kassad 16:57, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

User language boxes

Hi there. The text of these boxes has to be in the language specified, not in English. Cheers. SemperBlotto 12:25, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Native is just {{Babel|en}} Conrad.Irwin 01:26, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Ngarrindjeri templates

Hi. In case you didn't know, most languages have standard templates for the inflection line (rather than just typing out the page name in bold and adding the category manually). At the moment, we don't have any Ngarrindjeri templates, but if you could explain which inflections Ngarrindjeri words have, (Plurals? Masculine/feminine forms? Past/present/future tense? Participles?) and any other information that should go in the inflection line, I could make some templates, which would make it easier for adding Ngarrindjeri words. What do you think? --Yair rand 07:10, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

yayun

Hi there. Does this word mean the verb to eat or doing it mean eating? Thanks for clearing this up :) Razorflame 01:04, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

minor technicality

Hi, please note that the correct category to use for all languages is Category:Foods not *Category:Foods. Hence, for Ngarrinjeri we have Category:nay:Foods and not *Category:nay:Foods. 50 Xylophone Players talk 00:53, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Index:Ngarrindjeri

Hi, I maintain most of the indexes with an automated bot that runs every week or so. Would you like me to do Index:Ngarrindjeri too? The only problem is that it would put it all onto one page until there are a few more entries (over a thousand). If you're happy doing it, don't let me intrude, otherwise let me know if there are any specific sorting difficulties. Conrad.Irwin 18:27, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

katal

This entry that you added ages ago is being RFVed. Nowadays, for smaller languages a mention from a trustworthy linguistic resource (i.e. a dictionary or grammar) is enough. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 12:34, 6 August 2013 (UTC)