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Talk:List of ISO romanizations

message: Does the list describe the ISO standards used in modern Italy? Are the ISO standards used across all Romance languages uniformly? "Romanization" refers to Ancient Rome, but the ISO to modern Latin? Does "romanization" mean transliteration into modern Latin alphabet or any latinised alphabet?--mrg3105 (comms) If you're not taking any flak, you're not over the target. 03:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Romanization" refers to transliteration into the Latin alphabet. Romance languages, ancient Rome and modern Italy are of no specific relevance. ZackMartin (talk) 09:14, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where used
Talk:Celebrity Blackjack

message: Starting this for results of the two series. I'm only planning on putting the final table in the article but if someone wants the whole tournament feel free to whack away.
Table 1 winner Shannon Elizabeth playing for Animal Avengers. Otto4711 15:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Results 

message: Why is this a stub? From viewing quite a number of other GSN games, this would be almost as sufficient as it stands. 
Why is this in Gambling? While Blackjack can be considered a gambling game, there are no real stakes for the contestants. This is simply playing with producer money... 
According to a press release:
"In the second season, the first ten episodes will feature four celebrities playing tournament-style blackjack with each respective winner advancing to the semi-finals. Each player will receive $10,000 for their charity, with the winner of each game receiving $25,000 and a place in the semi-finals, which will consists of two games with five players each."
It is sufficient to note that the players have no risk of loss or potential for personal gain, with the use of "money" as solely a scorekeeping device to determine who "wins." All participants have a guaranteed minimum return on time spent playing the game and the winner has a predetermined payout for that charity. It can be argued that the mere fact that the game is played with bets and with a game known for being a "gambling" game that this show can be part of gambling. However, it can be offered as a counterpoint that any game show that offers the ability to lose current "winnings" based upon a [calculated?] risk should also be considered "gambling"
--Crythias 18:52, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Discussion
Talk:Ɯ

message: I removed the bold from ɯ and Ɯ, because they do not render properly in some browsers. --horsedreamer 20:34, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Ɯ (minuscule: ɯ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, ...." No it isn't. It may originate as a funny way of writing "W" for purposes of expanding the character set available for purposes like IPA, but it isn't itself a distinct letter of the Latin alphabet. Largoplazo (talk) 21:36, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you're wrong. It certainly is not part of the alphabet of the Latin language, but it is a letter of the extended Latin script, much like Þ (and like W originally). Just because it is no longer in active use in a current Latin-script orthography nor has it been used as part of the orthography of a language relatively known in the Western world (the way Þ is used in current Icelandic orthography and was used historically in Old English), does not make it any less valid as a Latin-script letter. And no, it is not just an IPA character nor “a funny way of writing W”; it is a full-fledged Latin-script letter, with its own distinct identity and its own lowercase and uppercase forms and its own Unicode points, that was used and considered a perfectly normal letter in the Latin-script alphabet of the Zhuang language for decades. 92.178.80.48 (talk) 22:07, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: You're conflating "letter added to an alphabet that was mostly the Latin alphabet" with "part of the Latin alphabet". Largoplazo (talk) 23:12, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Having just published that remark, it occurred to me that maybe one could say the same about J and W. Hmmm. Largoplazo (talk) 23:14, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Letter of the Latin alphabet?
Talk:Maghrebi script

message: The first external link, "Islamic calligraphy", is broken. — Tonymec (talk) 19:54, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 404 Page not found
Talk:Mandombe script

message: The Unicode document cited on the article shows how the basic shapes for the language are not the same as the ones showcased in it. Also, the updated document from 2016 explains even more gramatical features displayed with the characters, and a whole list of syllable blocks accepted in the language. The whole page need to be redone, from the basic images to the description of consonant, vowels, diacritics and so. Here is the updated article I mention: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16077-mandombe.pdf.
I could change it myself but I'd like to get an opinion before hand. Chromarrays (talk) 22:49, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The base shapes for the syllables are wrongly defined
Talk:Mashq

message: Is Mashq really a script in its own right, or just a technique typically associated with Kufic? This article itself seems to imply the latter, and the Metropolitan Museum seems to agree: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/byzantium-and-islam/blog/topical-essays/posts/script  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banukhaldun (talk • contribs) 12:48, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  A script, or just a technique/stylization 
Talk:Alan Sullivan

message: I'm surprised this author didn't already have a Wikipedia entry. I accidentally stumbled across "Under the Northern Lights" after following a trail of Bayes poison in some spam which I was investigating more closely to determine how well spamassassin was coping. It is amusing that a spammer actually led me to something worthwhile! Anyway, read them (it's a collection of short stories), it's quite good. --greenmoss 04:06, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Or so Justin's page claims. Can anyone verify this? ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 16:32, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Grandfather of [[Justin Sullivan]]?
Talk:Mo (kana)

message: How can anyone know the difference between any of those モ symbols? --71.224.19.29 15:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For the Hiragana Mo, the third stroke curves more than the Katakana Mo.Moocowsrule (talk) 05:38, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I've seen another stroke order for the hiragana, with the two horizontal lines first. For example in "Nihongo e Youkoso. Lehrbuch: Japanischkurs für Anfänger", ISBN-10: 3125520010. Is that an error or a common variant?--ospalh (talk) 21:24, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stroke order
Talk:Mu (kana)

message: The む and ム characters' images look really wrong.. is it only me? 71.128.143.13 23:42, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see anything wrong with them... Moocowsrule (talk) 05:35, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

text: No, it's not just you. The む looks very oddly sunken.
The article states that "Both hiragana and katakana are made with three strokes" but the image showing the stroke order for ム shows only two strokes. 81.170.236.9 (talk) 12:22, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:N̈

message: There is no precomposed character for "N̈", therefore the title is correct. Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)[1] 19:36, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  A note on the article title 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved per request – uncontested and uncontroversial.  Favonian (talk) 10:20, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: N-diaeresis →  – consistency with all other pages 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 17:36, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 25 April 2023
Talk:N (kana)

message: According to the source I cited in the article (a comic essay co-authored by a linguistics expert), ん is pronounced /n/ before /s/, but the Japanese phonology article says it's a nasalized vowel, so I put up the contradiction template in both articles. Is one right and the other wrong? Can it be pronounced either way? Spacecat2 00:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's pronounced as nasalization on the vowel before /s/. I've changed the article accordingly.LeeWilson 14:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation before /s/ 

message: I see the IPA ũ͍ used for ん before vowel with no link or explanation. Can this be elaborated more? Also, doesn't it affect neighboring vowels by way of nasalization? Terse reference to vowel nasalization caused by ん is referenced here: Japanese phonology#Nasalization.--Saledomo (talk) 10:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ũ͍ 

message: This page says that, before consonants that start with ch and j (E.g. ちゃ and じゃ), ん is pronounced as [n] but the Japanese phonology page says that it's pronounced as [ɲ] in this situation. Can anyone explain to me why this is as it is? -GinormousBuildings (talk • contribs) 14:45, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounciation of ん before ch and j 

message: I can't find any information on 'kipedia about the /m/ kana, I know it used to exist.. it was written almost exactly like /n/ and used in words like 'kimbun' and such, but became obsolete sometime after the 60s. Unless it was completely invented by this old learning-Nihongo textbook, which I suppose is totally possible. But if that is the case, there should at least be some reference to how /n/ before /b/ glosses into /m/ in pronunciation sometimes.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.94.57.191 (talk) 09:21, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  M kana
Talk:Emperor Sutoku

message: I asked for help from Fg2:
:Will you please comment or edit the "box" in the Genealogy section of Emperor Sutoku?  
:Also, please look at a similar "box" in the Genealogy sectoin of Emperor Go-Fukakusa ≠ Prince Hisahito of Akishino?  
:I wonder how better to have handled this ...? --Ooperhoofd 21:24, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I made a couple of small changes. It looks very informative. It anticipates a question a reader might have, and answers it succinctly. Fg2 06:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *(diff) (hist) . . Emperor Sutoku‎; 06:47 . . (-7) . . Fg2 (Talk | contribs) (→Genealogy - Removed "shinno" which means "Prince" and is thus a title rather than a name. Linked directly to article on romanization.)
By posting this here, I answer a few anticipated questions; and I invite further comment perhaps. --Ooperhoofd 20:51, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  For later reference 

message: Recently a well-meaning Wikipedian has been removing the section about Emperor Sutoku being included in the "Three Great Yokai of Japan" by citing that the information was not originally properly sourced on Japanese Wikipedia when it first appeared in 2005. Regardless of the original source, since then, the term has become widespread on the Japanese internet. The fact that the source of the term is not identified should be included in this article, however as the term is now widely used I don't believe that it's appropriate to remove it entirely. The fact of the matter is that the term does exist today, with almost 1 million Google results for "日本三大妖怪." This is folklore after all, and the definitions change over the years. If an unsourced Wikipedia edit was responsible for the widespread use of the term, then perhaps that ought to be recognized in this article. Simply deleting the information from Wikipedia isn't going to make the term go away, and the lack of its mention on this page is only going to cause confusion. Osarusan (talk) 23:36, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of Three Great Yokai of Japan
Talk:Nanori

message: Surprisingly they do not have an entry for 名乗り (with this meaning). --93.220.16.76 (talk) 14:54, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to japanese wiki is wrong 

message: Hello @Jumbo T, regarding the derivation of the name Nozomi.
There is only one etymon for nozomi, and that is verb  ("to hope for", transitive; "to look out over; to be present; to face (a particular direction or issue)", intransitive).  The verb has two modern spellings,  and , distinguished primarily by transitivity.  Japanese references consistently note that the two spellings are cognate, as visible (in Japanese) at the Daijisen entry here at Kotobank.
While the transitive vs. intransitive senses are somewhat different, the underlying core meaning is the same: "to look out over or for something".  
: Side Note: This is very likely cognate with verb  ("to peek at; to peer at; to look over"), as described in my local copy of the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten (NKD):
(「のぞ」は「のぞむ(望)」「のぞむ(臨)」の「のぞ」と同じか)
: (Sadly, Kotobank's online version of the NKD tends to omit etymological information at the start of entries ever since they did a site redesign a couple years ago; I suspect a developer flubbed a script to import or convert data from a different format.)
There are a few sites that describe name origins.  This one discusses Nozomi with the  spelling, and explicitly calls out the "hope for" sense as the origin.  Notably, this site also explicitly states that this name with this spelling is unisex.
These two separate articles [1] and [2] about the naming of the Nozomi shinkansen also explicitly call out the "hope for" sense as the origin.
Leaving out the derivation entirely seems sub-optimal to me.  Would it be acceptable to use the more generic kana spelling? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 17:43, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey  - I undid your revision because it was uncited. My ramblings about whether it has that meaning attached to it or not in the edit summary were unnecessary and just confused things, sorry about that (and thanks for pointing out that both 望む and 臨む come from the same etymonm, I didn't know that). Please feel free to redo your edit with a citation to the website you mention. Happy editing — Jumbo T (talk) 18:04, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Nozomi" example name
Talk:Naskh (script)

message: The script sample included as an example of how computers use a Naskh/Naskh-inspired font, seems to be a tautological example: If a user has set his/her preferred script as something other than Naskh, then the text would not be presented in Naskh-font, and the text sample does not do what it is intended to do, namely give an example of Naskh being used on computers. V85 (talk) 18:02, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Script example
Talk:Nemeth Braille

message: This article needs a lot of work. I see efforts to add a list of symbols. This is good.
The reference source is a web page from India. One of the external links I just added is a pdf of the code book itself.
I can also add a link to the braille form of the code book for blind readers.
I would also like to see a history of the code in the main article, and a discussion on the main principles
of the Nemeth Code, which has made the braille code so popular.
A discussion of efforts to automate the production of Nemeth Code would also be useful.
Silver dot (talk) 15:03, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Sometimes when I am using a screen reader to read the contents of a cell the headers speak wrong in the beginning  of the third and fourth row. Also I think we should create an examples section with examples of how to write certain things.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.138.19.178 (talk) 20:47, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up screen reader flow. 
Talk:Son Goku Jr.

message: Just in case anyone was planning on it, I created redirects for the page. Goku Jr., Goku Junior, and Son Goku Junior.--KojiDude (viva la BAM!) 00:59, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, thank you. This article needs more publicity so that more users can help us make this article gain more value. SGFF 02:20, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects 

message: what this article NEEDS is to be merged with Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy. It's pretty much just a plot summary of that movie anyway.  Plough | talk to me 22:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? That's bascially the same as saying Goku should be merged with Dragon Ball Z.--KojiDude (viva la BAM!) 23:11, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would oppose the Merge if the article is re-written. I agree with Plough, the article does seem more like a summary of the movie rather than a brief history of the character. -- bulletproof 3:16 23:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

text: *Merge nullified/rejected - there is no consensus on this merge discussion, so now the merge proposition has been nullfied. SGFF(@) 22:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 

message: I don't seem to think so, however, due to his limited time that the audience observes him, it is not easy to tell. I believe that when he goes Super Saiya, his power increases drastically, but by observing his ability, he does not seem even nearly as strong as the original Super Saiyans in the series were (Goku, Vegeta, ect). This would make sense for his diluted Saiyan blood.Majinvegeta
:All POV and Original Research. You add that, it'll be reverted. I'm not trying to be mean, it's just the truth.--SUITHalloween? 04:40, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It really depends on what saga your looking at. For example, Goku's Super Saiyan form in the Buu Saga is probably a lot stronger than it was during the Freeza Saga when he first unleashed this form. Goku Jr is shown fighting for only a short time but based on the fight with Vegeta Jr, he doesn't seem to have as much power as Goku in his normal form. Then again, even though Goku Jr is only 1/16 Saiyan, it seems that a Saiyan-Human hybrid is almost as strong (if not stronger) than a full Saiyan (the perfect example would be Gohan or Goten). I'm just surprised that Goku Jr can even become a Super Saiyan due to his diluted Saiyan blood, as Majinvegeta said above. But, nonetheless, if you were to take the two Super Saiyans and pit them against each other, Goku Jr wouldn't even be a match for Goku. Either way, it's POV and Original Research and shouldn't be added. // Sasuke-kun27 22:25, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is Goku Jr as a Super Saiyan as strong as Goku as a Super Saiyan?
Talk:Ni (kana)

message: Is the character within the infobox correct?  I don't doubt the derivation and similarity, but shouldn't it be plain old に ? - Richard Cavell (talk) 01:11, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What are you talking about? VIWS talk 02:54, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hiragana に
Talk:Nion

message: ==Name==
Nion or nuin? There seem to be two schools of thought. What is the basis of each? Q·L·1968 ☿ 20:43, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Nion or nuin? There seem to be two schools of thought. What is the basis of each? Q·L·1968 ☿ 20:43, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Non-linear writing

message: I tried adding a few references to get rid of the ((unreferenced)) tag. I'll add more when I can.
--Cbdorsett 12:37, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

message: I am going to fix the top of the page as it is both out-of-date and looks like a Wiktionary entry instead of a Wikipedia entry. - PGSONIC 19:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update
Talk:Nordendorf fibulae

message: The image of Nordendorf II currently shown is unattributed.
A public domain drawing of Nordendorf I can be found here (1869).An unattributed image of the inscription is  here. --dab (𒁳) 08:20, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: images

message: The shown picture of the Nordendorf Fibula type I is wrong, indeed this here is the right one: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Fibula_Nordendorf_I_1889.jpg 2003:FD:3702:6700:C9E5:3638:7226:5BD5 (talk) 09:14, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong picture
Talk:Nu (letter)

message: What is this? Upon Googling this phrase, all I got were references back to this page (Nu). Upon seeing this, I'm deleting the section. Scoutersig 22:42, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ni ephelkustikon]] 

message: For the article "Nu (letter)",
I think the line "* The frequency of a wave in physics and other fields." should be replaced by "* The spatial frequency of a wave in physics and other fields.", which would be more accurate. Moreover, there is no reference to the letter nu in the "frequency" article.
Hugolemieux (talk) 16:41, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds reasonable, so I'll make the edit; if anyone objects, they can change it back and/or discuss it here. WP:BRD. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  09:29, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Hugolemieux, 19 January 2011 

message: Both Greek letters M (m) and N (n) ought to be pronounced Mi (mi) and Ni (ni) respectively. There are no letters Mu and Nu pronounced letters in the Greek alphabet. --Aristo Class (talk) 12:17, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Too much writing for a simple thing 

message: After a few minutes searching I'm none the wiser as to what 'BBX Mathematical Nu' means in this context.  Wikipedia doesn't seem to help either.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.184.178.218 (talk) 18:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  'BBX Mathematical Nu' 

message: In my computer (Windows 10, viewing the page with Firefox 94) I find that the Greek letter "ν" is confusingly similar to the English letter "v", which makes phrases like "the lower-case letter ν is used as a symbol for [...]" misleading. Unless I cut&paste the nu to check I just read it as "the lower-case letter vee". I know I'm not the only person who has been led astray by this: I have in fact seen people use a vee where a nu is required, e.g. in mathematical contexts.
Could we possibly use the  form of the letter so it doesn't get changed by rendering engines? I haven't made the change myself because there's probably some precedent about this; in any case I'd like to get some consensus.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joe in Australia (talk • contribs) 20:48, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The idea has some merit, but I am skeptical that it will get up.  The best compromise is going to be to include a note right near the start to say "variously rendered [...]".  I made such an edit at Greeks_(finance)#Vega, which has since been simplified by other editors to resemble your suggestion.  —DIV (49.195.177.247 (talk) 11:36, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we avoid visual confusion here? Suggestion 

message: The original introductory sentence did not properly distinguish the name of the letter from the letter itself.  I have tried to fix that here.  I also made a smaller change at Xi (letter) for the same reason.  I have not checked the remaining letters.  —DIV (49.195.177.247 (talk) 11:38, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinguish the name of the letter from the letter itself 

message: Nepali 27.34.22.126 (talk) 07:22, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  401151
Talk:Õ

message: A sound file would improve this page. —vivacissamamente 11:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sound file

message: ...and yet others use O followed by a tilde (O~) or the character ø."
:Being an Estonian myself I haven't encountered either. This claim needs verification. MarkkuP (talk) 21:46, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, I've never seen this either. I've marked the claim as dubious. Indrek (talk) 20:50, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No comments supporting that claim, so I've removed it. Indrek (talk) 23:28, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Estonian

message: 'In the Saaremaa dialect, Õ is pronounced the same as Ö'
Not quite correct. In Saaremaa dialect there is a vowel which sounds similar to mainland-Estonian Ö, but it is not the same. Saaremaa people have no difficulties to differ between Õ and Ö in writing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.191.166.248 (talk) 20:36, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article needs to explain the use of this letter in the !Xóõ (Taa) language. 176.223.186.19 (talk) 08:16, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in !Xóõ/Taa