Talk:Spoken language

message: Hey all! I am in a linguistics class, and I needed to do an evaluation on a Wikipedia article, and as such, I had chosen this article. At the end, I had to leave my feedback on the article's talk page. I noticed a lack of images on this page, and I wanted to get your thoughts on adding an image or two to boost the article.
Also I apologize in advance if I messed something up or if I wrote this in the wrong place. I've never edited Wikipedia before.
Thanks! Uncombed8701 (talk) 16:16, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding images or graphics

message: Hi, I am in a linguistics class and need to do a wiki edit for class credit. Would it be ok if I made some changes? I added a few wiki links to it already and am linking other pages to this one since it is a stub. I will be adding some more to the article if you are ok with it. Thanks Gansam12 (talk) 02:44, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that's fine. Anyone can edit. But this is a bit of an odd topic, almost more of a dictionary entry. But knock yourself out, see what you can make of it. — kwami (talk) 04:54, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

text: Unfortunately, the recent changes were a WP:content fork with language and its other subarticles. No particular reason they should be here, and I doubt anyone would think to look for them here. — kwami (talk) 04:32, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

text: Better. Part of it was still off topic, and part that was on topic was more concerned with Tannen than about the topic. I cut the addition down to a paragraph, which I hope captures the gist of it. I think it would be valuable to illustrate the various points you made with examples. — kwami (talk) 06:31, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Making some changes

message: The present version of the article seems to have a POV in discounting the 
language of deaf people: the phrase "Modern linguistics regards the spoken language as the natural or the primary medium of human language for some obvious reasons" is particularly strange and I will delete it. --Mathew5000 20:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they meant spoken as opposed to written, not oral as opposed to sign. It's now clear that that is what the stub is about. — kwami (talk) 04:33, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Contrast with sign language

message: I read the article, which is brief but reasonably detailed for its technical purpose, but still walked away not understnding the general nature of spoken langauge.  In other words, it does a great job of describing the concept, but almost does not at all describe spoken language. I was hoping to make a template of such a description from this article, but having come to the article itself I found only the technical detail. Does anyone else feel the article should characterize spoken language? — robbiemuﬃn page talk 17:49, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Character

message: I added a brief section which I believe increases the relevance of the page without over-padding it. Also I removed the paragraph about prosody in screenplays because its unrelated and not cited and the definition of diglossia because it is also uncited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cedmorris (talk • contribs) 03:53, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some more project-related changes. 

message: What is the rationale for keeping the spoken language article separate from the vocal language article? Is there any distinction between these two terms? Jarble (talk) 16:13, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Is there any difference between "spoken" and "vocal" language?

message: Please do not removed the word, Spokenology! It's a word the dictionary and in a textbook. Below is the references. Thanks for your understanding.You see Spokenology is the discipline of spoken language. 
*  Spokenology word on Kingsoft dictionary
*  Spokenology word on Youdao dictionary
*  Tsinghua University Press
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.108.246.122 (talk • contribs) 
:User generated translation app are not reliable sources, especially Youdao.  Youdao's dictionary thinks that "Neo-" means "more than," and gets the words "AIDS" and "vaccine" mixed up -- Youdao is a garbage service that is holding China back.
:The book does not demonstrate that anyone besides Luke Shen-Tien Chi (who made up the word) uses it.  That doesn't make it a proper word.  Ian.thomson (talk) 14:35, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spokenology 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Non-English speakers. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 6#Non-English speakers until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  (t · c) buidhe 16:01, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Non-English speakers" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Le Wi-Fi Ya-c50. (talk) 21:28, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Je peux tu vous parler en français