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Talk:Hobart and William Smith Colleges

message: Frank Devaney (class of 1976) is a judge in the Superior Court of California - San Diego county - appointed by then Governor Arnold Swartznegger. I think he deserves addition in the Law/Govt section of Notable Alumni.
Suggested by John Boyle (class of 1975) 107.15.97.255 (talk) 03:53, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Frank Devaney to Notable Alumni 

message: PLease see the "First sentence is not up-to-date" section of the "Talk:" page for [the article about] "Joyce P. Jacobsen". 
In case this info helps, ... that ("Talk:" page section) was added recently, during an edit with this DIFF listing. Mike Schwartz (talk) 03:16, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The entry in the "Infobox" that says "[[Joyce P. Jacobsen]]" (for "[[University_president|President]]") is not up-to-date
Talk:Microelectronics Education Programme

message: :The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was used in a variety of situations, very often for control projects...
Is there a good reason why the Spectrum is the only micro named? The BBC was much more common in schools, and would be more likely to be used for control projects anyway because of its better I/O facilities. There's no mention of the Research Machines computers either. Loganberry (Talk) 02:06, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other micros?
Talk:ݭ

message: "Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article." - Yes, I get a square. Perhaps someone can upload a small image of the character? Greswik 11:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What is the name of this letter? Badagnani (talk) 18:04, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Ȳ

message: I don't Know much about technical stuff, but when I tried the unicode code for the lowercase version it didn't work. I had to instead use trial and error to figure out that it was alt 664 instead of alt 563 like the page said. Now I don't know if it was an error in what I was doing but the page may be wrong. 88.202.240.223 (talk) 14:39, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode issue
Talk:Qp ligature

message: Why do I see a funny character in the title line of the article and at point X in this sentence "The qp digraph X" ?   Looks like a tiny square with the numbers "0239" in it.  The large graphic looks OK.  The character also looks funny on this page :Category:Latin_alphabet_ligatures though all the others on that page look OK.  Do I need to install some special font?  (Windows XP on a Toshiba laptop) --Bookgrrl holler/lookee here 00:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, a new font could have this character for you. What you saw was actually a very good fallback glyph - it's a square that actually has the Unicode code point in it, so you can look up what the character should have been. Most fallback glyphs are just an empty square and don't give you any help. VIWS talk 04:01, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Funny character

message: It can't be interpreted as cp since c and q are differently rounded in Times New Roman. Who came up with this weird idea? ȸ is never interpreted as cb either. --2.245.215.41 (talk) 03:07, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed it as plain WP:OR. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:28, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  cp
Talk:Ă

message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot 22:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007-01-31 Automated pywikipediabot message 

message: I don't get it -- I often see this mention that, unlike English (among other languages), the schwa in Romanian and other languages can be stressed. But I've seen words in English, either monosyllabic or derived, which had the stress on a schwa (ə), such as "bone" (UK: [bəʊn], according to Wiktionary) and its derivatives.--Printz150 (talk) 09:31, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schwa unstressed in English? 

message: I oppose the merge as proposed. Although these two articles cover characters that look exactly the same, they are separate characters in the Unicode standard and represent different writing systems. The two characters are already reasonably disambiguated so it should not be a problem. - - mathmitch7 (talk/contribs) 17:26, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Merge with [[A with breve (Cyrillic)]]
Talk:Ahom alphabet

message: "It was discovered years later, by Professor Prasert na Nagara, that the translation was 
unreliable. Despite theses difficulties, along with the lack of native speakers..."
I think this is supposed to be these, but it seemed slightly probable that author truly intended to write the plural of thesis. Can the author correct this if necessary?
:You are correct. I am not the person who originally wrote that sentence, but I have fixed it. That's the beauty of Wikipedia, it's an encyclopedia anybody can edit. Feel free to be bold and make corrections/add content; competent editors are always welcome!--William Thweatt TalkContribs 02:59, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation Efforts Typo
Talk:Alexander Melville Bell

message: I've removed mention of this again.  Attributing speculation to unspecified 'Historians' doesn't go anywhere to verifying it.  And adding further cited information that actually contradicts the speculation just contributes to the case for saying it doesn't belong here.  No-one reading about Alexander Melville Bell cares who Professor Higgins was actually based on if there is no credible evidence given to connect Higgens to Bell in the first place.  --Escape Orbit (Talk) 14:55, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If you read the book that is cited, there is a direct connection to both Bell and Clark with the Professor Higgins of literature. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 23:44, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Professor Higgins
Talk:Alfred Vail

message: The Internet Archive has a volume titled "Early history of the electro-magnetic telegraph from letters and journals of Alfred Vail" published in 1914 by his son James Cummings Vail which may interest those editing this Wikipedia.org page. It largely consists of extracts from the Vail records in the Smithsonian. It presents the Vail perspective on the telegraph issue. Its Preface states: "It is not claimed that Vail invented the telegraph, but this work shows Morse invented 'A System of Telegraphs,' not 'The Telegraph'."
On the Morse Code issue, on its last page (p36), the book's author notes: "I find nothing in Vail's writings to show that either he or Morse claimed the Alphabet, which was not claimed in the original caveat."
Incidentally, the photo of Vail on the Wikipedia page:
* is a flipped version of the one in the above-mentioned Vail book (which of the two is the correct way round I have no idea!)
* comes from a source URL that no longer exists (it can, however, be found on the same website at "http://www.morrisparks.net/speedwell/Vail/Av1a300.GIF")
--42.241.125.195 (talk) 09:59, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Vail Point of View 
Talk:Algiz

message: Any idea why small capital ʀ, used in IPA for the uvular trill, is taken by the software to be identical with Ʀ and thus redirects users here? I suppose more people are likely to want to find out what the pronunciation symbol is, but fixing this is far beyond my computing literacy. --Thrissel (talk) 20:33, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small capital ʀ 

message: The word "desinence" is defined in the Wictionary as a technical term from linguistics. The word "suffix" is the standard word used in United States of America in teaching school children. The Wikipedia page "Desinence" is in fact a redirect page to the Wikipedia article "Suffix". Suffix is 150 times more common in use than desinence, according to the books.google.com/ngrams word count of words in over 1,000,000 books. The Wikipedia style page instructs editors to avoid technical language in favor of standard English words. So I made this change. Nick Beeson (talk) 19:14, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suffix 

message: This article currently reads like someone's personal essay rather than an objective and up-to-date survey of the matter in runology. There are lots of unsourced statements and, where they occur, frequently they're cited to a 19th century text. The article needs a total rewrite. Unfortunately, many of our articles on runes are in a similar state. :bloodofox: (talk) 04:03, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the case for 90% of the articles on ancient/medieval Germanic (and Celtic) cultures. I would need several lives to rewrite them all. Alcaios (talk) 21:29, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite and NPOV
Talk:Allograph

message: It seems to me that any attempt to make a list of something like "every English spelling of /k/" is doomed to drown and founder in questions of analysis of the phoneme-grapheme alignments in particular words.  So let me take the first gulp of seawater by objecting to forecastle.  It seems bizarre to group the re with the c here; seemingly much saner is to group the e with the o (oCe to spell a single sound /o/ is unquestionably a common allograph) and to take the r as silent (or for the nonrhotics, lump it in with the o and e).  Maybe on thinner ice I'd call this a silent a too, not one that goes with the c.  
Is the list here sourced from somewhere with a reason for the analysis reca = /k/?  4pq1injbok (talk) 06:05, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''forecastle''?! 

message: Are they synonymous? Are they used synonymously? Or is it just sloppy use of the words grapheme and glyph interchangeably in English because we don't have letters like  (one grapheme, two glyphs [unless I've got it reversed yet again].
Would any care to "compare and contrast" (set out similarities and differences), please? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:45, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allograph and [[homoglyph]] 

message: lk shouldn't be considered an allograph of k. If anything the 'al' are an allograph for /ɔː/ or /ɔ/. The <l> symbolises the lengthening and lowering. Kweca (talk) 21:07, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason for the correction is that a "phonemic orthography" is one where there is a one-to-one correspondence between phoneme and grapheme. A "defective script" is one where there is a many-to-one (or even a many-to-many) correspondence, which is (I think) what the author of the OR section had in mind. Neither is also known as allography. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 10:14, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  walk? 

message: The whole section ("Orthography") in which that assertion was made (one of multiple ways to represent the phoneme [k] in English) is uncited WP:original research. Nowhere that I can find easily (OED, Wikitionary) gives the word "allography" as meaning Phonemic orthography Defective script ways of writing a phoneme. According to the OED, the word allograph means (a) "two or more alternative forms of a grapheme" or (b) (in law) "something written by someone other than the person or persons concerned". Given its lack of supporting evidence and the number of well-founded challenges above (including yours), I have just deleted it. Of course if a wp:reliable source can be produced to support it, that decision can be reversed. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 19:42, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason for the correction is that a "phonemic orthography" is one where there is a one-to-one correspondence between phoneme and grapheme. A "defective script" is one where there is a many-to-one (or even a many-to-many) correspondence, which is (I think) what the author of the OR section had in mind. Neither is also known as allography. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 10:14, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Phonemic orthography
Talk:Anton Bezenšek

message: I've shortened the name of this stenographer in the lead from 'Anton Toma Bezenšek' to 'Anton Bezenšek'. Besides Wikipedia and its mirrors, I can't find a reliable source for 'Toma'. If one can cite one, please feel welcome to readd 'Toma' to the name. --Eleassar my talk 17:53, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anton Toma Bezenšek? 
Talk:Arborglyph

message: I think this is 'more detailed than a stub' (though capable of development). Jackiespeel (talk) 11:08, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Asahi characters

message: 臍 would be printed as 月斉 (The Asahi form exists in Unicode as 𦜝 but is not widely supported in fonts) and 齟齬 would likewise be printed as 歯且歯吾 (𪗱 and 𪘚)
This suggests that the characters are printed in double squares, but I thought that they were printed in a single cell like all others. If a character were printed in a double cell that would be sufficiently abnormal to make a note of it, otherwise it is better to use a little SVG image displaying the character. I can draw the image if needed. Shinobu (talk) 10:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They're all single-square. The reason they're written like that in the article is because, as the parenthesis explain, the Unicode form doesn't have wide font support. A helpful editor has added "⿰", which should make it clear now. Opencooper (talk) 02:44, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Single square or double square? 

message: I'm looking for a complete list of all the Asahi characters so far in Unicode. I would like to add this data to character articles in Wiktionary and also to make some library functions for Perl and JavaScript such as isAsahi() — Hippietrail (talk) 01:47, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seeking a complete list of Asahi characters in Unicode 

message: See the quoted passage from January 15, 2007: http://www.asahi.com/special/kotoba/archive2015/moji/2013042200012.html. Opencooper (talk) 02:59, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possibly discontinued 

message: The  states, of the policy of simplifying characters further, "". Issues: "typewriter-based printing",  of newspapers, wasn't really a thing, and Japanese wasn't written with typewriters anyway (too many characters for those keys; see Chinese typewriter). Now, the article has no sources in the first place, but I'm assuming the "typewriter" part is a mistranslation or misunderstanding, with a more correct rendition being something like "...in the age of hot metal typesetting...". Maybe someone who can read the Japanese version of this article has some input. — oatco (talk) 14:55, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typewriter-based printing?
Talk:ATOK

message: :It seems that ATOK is a little ahead of Microsoft IME in its precision.
What needs to be done is explain how it is ahead of Microsoft IME (using only objective statements) without actually saying that it is ahead (which is a subjective evaluation). It would be good to have a source of some kind, too. - furrykef (Talk at me) 21:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV remark removed 

message: I think Ichitaro only comes with the Windows version. Could someone verify that and update that paragraph? Mlewan (talk) 13:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ichitaro
Talk:Avestan alphabet

message: Is there no long ã corresponding to letter AAN, looking at the ipa column? Had they fallen together?CecilWard (talk) 02:02, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  long ã ? 

message: Are there any possible equivalents between the Avestan letters, and those in modern Persian? If so, why not include them? BlueBlurHog (talk) 01:48, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Persian equivalents
Talk:Ɓ

message: What is the history of this character (lower & upper case)? The question arises because the 1928/30 Africa Alphabet used a Ƃ for the uppercase rather than the Ɓ. Was the latter introduced later? See the Zulu sample text at the end of the document at http://www.bisharat.net/Documents/poal30.htm --A12n 16:05, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been suggested elsewhere that John Philips' book on the history of Hausa orthography, Spurious Arabic, might have more information on this.--A12n 19:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Story of Ɓ? 

message: I've made some revisions and reorganization of the info in this stub. Hopefully it is a little more clear and accurate. Of particular note:
*I have the very strong impression that the Cyrillic-style capital form is not in active use, at least not anywhere in West Africa (the Loma example being an exception, perhaps influenced by the old IIALC publication). Presenting it as an "alternative" may be misleading, but I used that and "obsolete" in a new heading.
*The intro is reworded to make the connection with IPA clearer. (I also did some work on the IPA article, which for its part had an insufficient mention of use in orthographies - a gap there that needs a little more attention.) --A12n 19:35, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisions & reorganization 

message: Without knowing the name of this letter, it's impossible to read the article aloud. DBlomgren (talk) 16:28, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, its Unicode name is LATIN {CAPITAL|SMALL} LETTER B WITH HOOK. —Tamfang (talk) 17:24, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: B-hook, B with hook or ɓe (if you can pronounce it). --Moyogo/ (talk) 19:54, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the name of this letter: Ɓ?
Talk:Basque alphabet

message: I suspect a sockpuppeteer is vandalizing the page.
Do we need to protect it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexlatham96 (talk • contribs) 06:09, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that this article should be protected against editions by IPs — its content has been once and again under attacks by IPs since last December. --Xabier Armendaritz(talk) 12:50, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Protection 

message: Should Souletin  be mentioned? -- Error (talk) 15:49, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ü
Talk:Batak script

message: I object VERY strongly to your moving of this article from its commonly-known English name to "Surat Batak" in which "surat" is (one must assume) just a word for alphabet or script. Please do not do this. I also object to what you have been doing to other scripts, and I will revert them and take this up with the wider community if necessary. Thank you. -- Evertype·✆ 18:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Batak script 

message: I do not understand what you write as from where you mention "bi".
Bi is made by adding a ° to the syllab (always bottom right for all these "anak surat", children of script).
What you write on "bang" is more or less correct. You add something above the syllab indeed, but that is jus t a simple -.
I miss "bo" (adding a x) and "bu" (adding a >).
Maarten van Thiel
The Netherlands  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.212.82.83 (talk) 12:02, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  bi, bo, bu
Talk:Belarusian Arabic alphabet

message: It would be very interesting to compare some text written using both alphabets. Some illustrating examples would be very appreciated. I think it won't be so difficult for those language specialists who created this article. Thank you in advance!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.50.205.173 (talk) 19:08, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded. I'm slightly annoyed by the lack of examples. Sol505000 (talk) 22:46, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some examples, please 

message: The Arabic character identified as ś  is the one normally used for ث /θ/. By analogy with the others, you'd expect the character for س /s/ to be used instead.  Benwing (talk) 20:55, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You should ASAP invent the time machine, return to the past and say this to the authors of the kitabs!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.114.147.20 (talk) 19:55, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Likely mistake 

message: http://crh2.ugu.pl/Belarusian%20Arabic%203.0.html
Transliterator from Taraškievica: http://crh2.ugu.pl/tarask-ar.html.zip  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.114.146.12 (talk) 11:40, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Belarusian arabic 

message: Looks like a freak-project by Maxime Seveleu-Dubrovnik seveleu.dubrovnik@fias.fr
E.g. the spelling of the caption differs from the equivalence chart. (That fragments of the kitabs I have seen don't differ...)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.114.148.87 (talk) 09:22, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  https://arabica.fias.fr/ 
Talk:Berkanan

message: I thought this Rune represented "Woman"? The two points, one for the pregnant belly, the other the breasts?2601:806:4301:C100:5C33:4753:4C10:618 (talk) 22:30, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Also the vulva.2601:806:4301:C100:5C33:4753:4C10:618 (talk) 22:33, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Woman? 

message: Should we mention  and  are use in the Bluetooth logo? I came here from that article, I wonder if it'd be worth having a connection the other way as well. 2601:806:4301:C100:5C33:4753:4C10:618 (talk) 22:33, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Bluetooth Logo
Talk:Beta Code

message: Instructions on the ordering of accents, diacritics, and breathings is needed. For example, do the breathings precede (as in Greek) or follow initial vowels? Where a letter bears more than one accent, in which order should they be written? I take it that ASCII parenthetical, exclamation, and question marks don't occur in Greek. True?74.233.121.213 (talk) 04:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: They have examples and the accents follow the letters. Not sure if the ordering is set. — LlywelynII 09:21, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

text: I added some info to the article, with references to the sources from which I inferred it.--Penflange (talk) 21:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Ordering

message: The page claimed this usage was depreciated but that claim is completely unsupported by the presumably official manual. Removed. — LlywelynII 09:21, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: S3
Talk:Bind rune

message: This article has been rated stub-class based on the Ancient Germanic studies quality scale. The article contains a single line of information, while the rest of the contents are examples and images. More actual information is needed; why were bind runes used, for what purposes, did they have some sort of magical importance? –Holt  T•C 12:06, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies/Assessment|WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:David Hand (bishop)

message: One wonders if this point is worth mentioning.Masalai (talk) 10:57, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: "His funeral was delayed, as his coffin was found to be too big for his grave."
Talk:Buckquoy spindle-whorl

message: All links in the references are broken  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.176.105.145 (talk) 15:33, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Those that remain are fixed. Ben MacDui 18:41, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

text: It is famous because of its Ogham inscription.  It is the only known example of a spindle whorl with such an inscription. BabelStone (talk) 12:34, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

text: Its claim to fame is, (I beleive) more to do with its role in understanding language development. Prior to Forsyth's 'interpretation' it was widely assumed that either Pictish or some pre-Pictish relict language spoken in Orkney may have been non-Indo-European. This was based on the apparently unintelligible nature of the Ogham. See also the Lunnasting stone. Ben MacDui 16:35, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Would something along the lines of 'It is significant for showing how language developed in the locality' be appropriate (and perhaps an indication of what proportion of spindle whorls have 'actual phrases and texts' and 'nice designs that someone calls letters' (ie there was no significance in the selection of letters - as with the pseudo-Arabic inscription coins in England in Dark Ages/Early Medieval England) Jackiespeel (talk) 17:00, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Something along the former lines (appropriately cited) would be fine. I am afraid I don't have any notion of the number or percentages you are asking about re spindle whorls. Ben MacDui 10:19, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Going by  a 'fair proportion' of spindle whorls were decorated 'in some manner' but the use of script (whether 'meaningful text' or 'decorative symbols) is uncommon. A very rough 'back of the envelope' calculation, but will have to do until 'the proverbial someone else's' to do list has reduced somewhat. :) Jackiespeel (talk) 22:43, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled