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Talk:Tetrameter

message: Are there such things as "dactylic tetrameter"s? I didn't see them listed. --maru   (talk)  contribs 00:09, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is indeed.  I've added an example from the dactyl article from The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".  Not poetry, I know, but I can't think of anything right off the top of my head.  -- the GREAT Gavini 19:08, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unlisted tetrameters 

message: The first line does not gel with the rest of the article and appears to have been added later. While the information it provides it clear, it is not written in "encyclopaedic" format, whatever that means (basically, it doesn't look like the rest of the article). I'm not game enough to venture a fix myself, though. Peace and love. 60.242.105.6 (talk) 03:28, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening section 

message: Surely "Long sounds move slow" is not a spondaic tetrameter, but a spondaic dimeter, since it consists of two spondees. Kanjuzi (talk) 18:13, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spondaic tetrameter
Talk:Ell

message: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ell1.htm
http://www.sizes.com/units/ell.htm
http://home.clara.net/brianp/quickref.html
The ell is first encountered as the Egyptian nibw or 2 feet, 8 palms, 600 mm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rktect (talk • contribs) 17:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  nibw 

message: surely the photograph of a ell is in fact a cubit. two reasons (1) that is what a cubit is and (2) does not match the measurements in the diagram. A good useful article though, with thanks.
Edmund Patrick ( confer  work) 12:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  images 

message: If an English Ell is from the shoulder to the wrist as it says in the text - then why does the diagram show differently? Clarification is needed. Malick78 (talk) 12:06, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ?

message: This comment was removed by a bot as vandalism. I'm putting it here because I think it deserves some consideration. Certainly a man with arms 45 inches from the shoulder would be an unusual sight, perhaps more so than a man with a six-foot stretch, as postulated by the 'Vitruvian man' template, which I have proposed for deletion as misleading and factually incorrect, attractive though it may be. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:47, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Very few (if any) units of measure named after body parts were actually the length of the body part in question. In ancient times and through the Middle Ages, various civilizations had national prototype standards, like "the royal yard" (cubit, ulna, etc.). The standards were usually deposited in the royal palace or some such place. Copies were then made and distributed to the provinces, which made further copies and passed them down the line to localities, etc. All other units of linear measure, including the foot, inch, barley-corn, etc. were just fractions or multiples of the base unit. Just like the meter today. Zyxwv99 (talk) 20:57, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  I am slowly working through various measurement article cataloguing the various sizes of the unit in question in various European countries (see Foot (unit) and Stone (imperial mass) for typical tables) - the ell needs quite a bit of research before I can do much. Martinvl (talk) 21:10, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  That is completely absurd. How many men have you ever met in your entire life with arms as long as posited here? 

message: What is the reason to treat ell and cubit as different lemmata instead as synonyms?? Kipala (talk) 21:45, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Ell - cubit

message: Although the article states that the 45 inch ell is obsolete, fabric is still commonly manufactured and sold in widths of 45, 60 and 90 inches, 60 being one ell and one third. So although the term "ell" has vanished, its use as a measurement appears to be alive and well. 80.195.8.194 (talk) 14:21, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: 45 inches
Talk:Infoshop

message: :
I changed "portmanteau" to "contraction"; this was reverted with the comment "see portmanteau".  So I saw portmanteau.  In nearly every example there (or in List of portmanteaus), neither component word is wholly preserved.  The word in question could as easily be written info shop (info being a well established word) and no one would call that a portmanteau. —Tamfang (talk) 20:09, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hiya yes I suppose the question for me would be ... is portmanteau correct if only one word is contracted. Would you prefer to use compound? I don't think contraction is quite correct because of what it says at portmanteau:  Mujinga (talk) 19:31, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  portmanteau
Talk:David Broza

message: I belive the link to Neve Shalom is wrong, and should be linked to the page Oasis of Peace... maybe someone could double check? - HC
Nunquam, it does seem to have come directly from http://www.aviv2.com/broza/, a promo page for a record site.  Postcard Cathy 19:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Esperanto in popular culture

message: The Esperanto voices in the movie Gattaca are reportedly almost inaudible. Can anyone confirm this? If so, should this be noted in the article so readers don't strain their ears looking for it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Espermike  (talk • contribs) 06:40, 4 March 2005
Who said Mein Kampf is popular culture? Popular with you maybe, but not with me...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hobo chaplin (talk • contribs) 13:56, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: you can also add this in the music section :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_(album)
one song is in esperanto  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.220.146.135 (talk) 19:14, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Music
Talk:ATP hydrolysis

message: Does anyone know the rate on spontaneous ATP hydrolysis? --192.38.100.196 (talk) 09:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spontaneous hydrolysis? 

message: Does anyone know how much energy is stored in ATP? (In other words, what is the energy released in the equation ATP --> ADP + energy?)
the equation is false, the energy is not "stored" in the ATP itself  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.126.225.169 (talk) 08:34, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Energy released? 

message: Isn't the last structure wrong? According the drawing the O-atom that is bond with the H-atom has 10 elektrons (1 bond with H, 2 with P and 2 free elektron pairs). That isn't possible? http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/cronk/biochem/P-index.cfm?definition=phosphate  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.131.178.105 (talk) 19:39, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Drawing resonance structure

message: There is a sentence "In one particular study, to determine ΔG in vivo in humans, the concentration of ATP, ADP, and Pi was measured using nuclear magnetic resonance."  , the reference provided isn't the study. Darien0 (talk) 13:29, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  NMR related citation seems wrong
Talk:Krar

message: I've made an attempt at copyediting this.  I don't see the need in wikifying Amharic words -- assuming that any of these ever become Wikipedia articles, most of them would be in the Amharic Wikipedia.  I've translated (and un-wikified) the few words that I know (and will try and tackle more of them another time). -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 06:44, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: How old is the krar when was it invented is it from Amhara region blah blah blah.--Halaqah 01:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More info

message: See also Tanbura. The photo in New Grove Dictionary of Music shows an instrument that looks very much like (if not exactly identical to) a krar, and yet the photo was taken in Iraq.  Both instruments are found in East Africa. I won't go so far as to say that one influenced the development of the other - it's entirely possible these lyres were invented independently of one another. If they do have anything in common, though, it should be noted. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 22:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone had just added a reference to the Zaar article supporting the idea that Zaar spread to Southwest Asia via Ethiopian slaves. Perhaps they brought the krar as well (though this is still speculation on my part). -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 13:28, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tanbura 

message: Page 16: 
Along with the five-stringed bowl lyre krar or the single-stringed fiddle masinqo, the flute washint is also one of the most widespread and ubiquitous traditional musical instrumentsof the Amara. After confirming it, please restore it. Thanks
Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 00:41, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source
Talk:Wheatfield with Crows

message: Lower or upper case 'v' for Van Gogh when it is printed without Vincent in front of it? See Talk:Vincent van Gogh (capitalization). I have consulted four books: 2 have van Gogh and 2 have Van Gogh. However, the Van Gogh Museum uses Van Gogh, and presumably they should get it right.
Tyrenius 16:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See article  Tussenvoegsels for the correct Dutch rules. Bascially you use "Van Gogh" on its own and only write "van Gogh" when preced by his name "Vincent" or initial "V" as in "Vincent van Gogh" or "V. van Gogh" FightingMac (talk) 10:19, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  (added)Though many anglophone authors prefer 'van Gogh'. Dutch rule no doubt because of the infelicity of writing 'of van Gogh' as 'van van Gogh' (they don't really have a possessive consruction "van Gogh's", or at any rate one they use often). FightingMac (talk) 15:32, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization

message: I have removed a long personal interpretation from the article under Wikipedia:No original research, as there are no references given for it. It can be found in the history.
Tyrenius 15:42, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Essay

message: Most of the text in this article is identical with an essay here. Since the text on that page includes additional formatting, hyperlinks, and footnotes (which have been dumped, all on one line, in the Conclusion section), I am inclined to believe that Wikipedia's article is just a cut-and-paste job. Strad 23:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you ever got that right - the copyright page for the website is here.  I'm familiar with the site from some work back in college, and it's a reasonably good resource, but quite copyrighted.  I have reverted to the last good version prior to the copy and paste.  With that site as a reference, however, and the essay's sources (unattributed, I might add, in the copy over, so we'll need to get those), we can probably put together a better article.Cool moe dee 345 13:23, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Grenba just reintroduced the copyvio material (well, on October 23), and I removed it again and reverted to the last non-plagiarised version. I suggest someone watches this article to make sure it's not introduced again. In the meantime, I will post a warning on Grenba's talk page. Terraxos 20:07, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio 

message: Should the film be mentioned here? Anyone who has seen it won't forget the painting's place in VG's death scene, and I'm sure it did much to further the notion the painting was his last...--Chimino (talk) 14:32, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lust for Life
Talk:Pragmatic sanction

message: "Pragmatic Sanction of St. Louis X"? The canonized king of France is Louis IX, not Louis X. I'd guess that "St." is right and "X" is wrong, but could someone sort this out definitively? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:18, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
* Looks like this has now been fixed. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:26, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Which Louis?

message: "When used as a proper noun, not otherwise qualified, it usually refers to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a legal mechanism designed to ensure that the Austrian throne and Habsburg lands would be inherited by Emperor Charles VI's daughter, Maria Theresa."
This paragraph is quite funny and somewhat misleading I would say. While it is quite true that Maria Theresa's succession on the Austrian throne was based on the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, it can't be said that the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 was "designed to ensure that the Austrian throne and Habsburg lands would be inherited by Emperor Charles VI's daughter, Maria Theresa" as she was born only some four years later. 88.101.177.121 (talk) 00:06, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and Maria Theresa
Talk:Brussels sprout

message: Should I link the stuff I have happened upon anent the aforesaid Rijsel/Rijssel sprouts? 
Think the main difference is that Rijsel sprouts unlike Brussel sprouts are moreso yellow and black hued rather than green and lighter green. Also Rijsellers have a sharperlike (or is it duller?) smatch and crunchiness to them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:9C97:5D01:991E:F6A5:D997:DF11 (talk) 16:53, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about Rijssel sprouts? from Rijsel (Lille)? 

message: Why on earth would the aforesaid information be seemingly censored?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:9C97:5D01:F5DA:ADA6:7D3B:FDAE (talk) 22:53, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite.  I've never heard anyone say "Brussels sprouts" nor seen them write it; except on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia does seem to have a developed an annoying habit of trying to enforce standards that nobody uses.  For the record I'm in the UK, which I mention as someone in the archived talk suggested Brussels-with-an-S sprouts is the local usage here, which it's not, at least not IME. --Vometia (talk) 14:46, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is written in American English, and I suspect 'Brussels sprouts' is the more common term there. I agree 'Brussel' is standard in the UK. UK/US spats over common vegetable names occur frequently on WP. --Ef80 (talk) 19:22, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The Americans do not say Brussels sprouts. They say (and write) Brussel sprouts without the “s”. The native Dutch spelling for the capital of Belgium happens to be “Brussel” Englishspeaking Wikipedia leaves seem to have some kind of creepy inbuilt Francophone agenda going on hence the enforcing of “Brussels” as an tribute to Francophonism. 2A00:23C7:2B13:9001:45A1:F89B:B551:B329 (talk) 22:58, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  It is more often known and said as “Brussel sprouts” not “Brussels sprouts” 

message: Since many of your articles are cluttered up with seemingly useless Popular Culture sections in which the most trivial of references, especially being casually mentioned in passing on "The Simpsons", are listed as if they were tremendously important, would it not be in keeping with your policies regarding what is and is not useful information that belongs in a real encyclopedia to point out that the best-selling humorous author Robert Rankin has written numerous books which feature as a major character a sentient Brussels sprout called Barry? Not to mention quite a few which actually have "sprout" in their titles. Just saying. 86.130.233.165 (talk) 09:33, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Rankin
Talk:List of user interface markup languages

message: See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of user interface markup languages for a record of this article's nomination for deletion; the result was to keep.  Postdlf 02:22, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

message: I'm confused about the heading "Initiative".  What is it suppose to mean (in the context of this article)?
-- Charles Iliya Krempeaux
:The ones who defined the schema. Most of the others simply copy their ideas, e.g. MyXaml copies XAML. Any better classification? --Minghong 19:34, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Confused

message: Why are items categorized under "third-party" and "mainstream"? --logixoul 12:50, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed "third-party" to "non-mainstream". --logixoul 17:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification 

message: What is the xml called that asp.net uses? It uses the asp: prefix. (User:Narkstraws 15:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  asp.net 
Category talk:Dragons

message: Why is there a sub-category of fictional dragons here? Surely all dragons are fictional? Perhaps a better system would be to divide the category into two sub-categories, one for "fictional" and one for "mythological" dragons.Ayinyud 08:24, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What qualifies a monster as a dragon? Merely being mythical/fictional, large and reptilian? ··gracefool |☺ 07:56, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What ''is'' a dragon?
Talk:Phonemic differentiation

message: Please see Talk:Tense-lax neutralization. Benwing 03:07, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  planning on moving/merging parts of this page  

message: as you may notice, i am progressively eliminating much of the info on this page and putting it where it belongs, i.e. in the history sections of the languages described.
Benwing 06:52, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm just musing, but a Phonological history of the English language, with a list and short description of all the shifts, splits, and mergers, would be fascinating. Nohat 07:16, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  See the relevant parts of History of the English language. — Felix the Cassowary 13:49, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

text: When you've done this, please check the links.  I put several links to this page on pages such as English English where particular splits and mergers were relevant.--JHJ 09:15, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  To be clear on what the problem was, on pages such as English English there were several links to subsections of this page describing features found in the relevant dialects, for example Phonemic differentiation#Foot-strut split.  These links were broken by the changes, so (maybe as a temporary solution) I've restored the relevant sections to this page.  I considered getting the links to point to History of the English language instead, but I think that would have involved major changes to the structure of that page that I wasn't convinced I liked.  Another solution might be to move the relevant sections to a new page on English dialect phonology.  Please consider this problem before deleting sections from this page.--JHJ 19:41, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

text: Done, for foot-strut and father-bother.  It seems to me that you can do essentially the same thing for three of the remaining features on this page: lot-cloth, fern-fir-fur and the "fleece merger", all of which are discussed on History of the English language, but please try to check the links at the same time.--JHJ 16:50, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  partially decommissioning this page 

message: If the articles phonological change and Phonemic differentiation are kept separate, most of the redirects currently pointing to Phonemic differentiation should instead point either to phonological change or to one of the articles in :Category:Splits and mergers in English phonology. jnestorius(talk) 16:22, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tidy up
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bengal

message: :Category:Bengal articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Peaceray (talk) 06:19, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:Bengal articles needing expert attention]] has been nominated for discussion
Talk:Mande languages

message: I have requested a move of this article to Mande languages. The reason: this language family is most widely known as the Mande languages. Giving linguistic family Bla the article 'Bla languages ' is customary at Wikipedia; but note also the change from 'Mandé' to plain 'Mande', which is a far more common term. At Mande languages there is a redirect at present, so I can't move. 
 — mark ✎ 09:13, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: And it is done, thanks to Ta bu shi da yu. For the record: the former location of this article was Mandé, which is now (of course) a redirect.  — mark ✎ 14:04, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: It needs splitting. There is enough to write about either of the two to warrant two separate articles. — mark ✎ 13:52, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

text: And I see what caused the confusion: after the move a lot of material pertaining to Mandé but not to the language family per se was added. I'm moving this material to Mandé. — mark ✎ 09:55, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

message: Where does the name Mande come from? Is a word from some language within the family or probably a geographic term?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.59.206 (talk) 09:03, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does Mande mean? 
Talk:Mechanical calculator

message: I'd argue that a mech. calc. is a mech. calc. even if powered by electricity. It's the computation machinery that matters. So I changed the intro text to reflect this; a mech. calc. may be implemented with electricity but not by electronics. --Wernher 10:10, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Electrical mech. calcs?

message: Article needs additional text to either include or exclude such as there were both mechanical tabulators (that could add and subtract) and mechanical calculators.76.103.213.6 (talk) 07:18, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Unit record equipment]]

message: In this article, please add animations about how the part/ whole machine worked. Please add videos of operating these machines. Include machine-descriptions, explain mechanisms
This article is already a very good and precious article. But addition of more animated and video files would improve this article much more.
Rajarshi Rit 14:45, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add animation & video files. 

message: Shouldn't the Ramón Verea calculator be included in this article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.61.180.122 (talk) 08:29, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ramón Verea