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Talk:Virama

message: The move to Patla was a vandalism; could you please undo it: , .--Imz 19:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move vandalism

message: What's the Kannada spelling of halant? Anatoli (talk) 03:50, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Found and added. Anatoli (talk) 03:55, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kannada 

message: These remarks about fonts don't make much sense.
First, there is no such thing as "the default font".  On which operating system?  Macintosh? Windows (which?), Linux (which)?  Guess what...on my Linux system, I'm seeing conjuncts in this text.  But it depends on the particular fonts installed.
Second, Some fonts *do* feature such conjuncts, especially those meant for Sanskrit.  Sometimes the user must somehow indicate the text is Sanskrit, in order to turn the conjunct feature on.
Third, I doubt that there is a "standard" Devanagari writing.  I know the use of conjuncts varies greatly in printing, especially in Hindi -- and recently the trend is toward fewer conjuncts.  If you said "standard Sanskrit", that might mean something (the letter ङ्क is I think used much more in Sanskrit than in Hindi -- correct me if I'm wrong.)
Stevan White (talk) 15:22, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fonts
Talk:Visible Speech

message: Hey Kara! Great page, I found it very informative. I think you did a great job adding content that was definitely required to get a full understanding of Visible Speech. It had great flow, and was an easy enough read (I didn't have to re-read it at all in order to understand). The only change I would consider making would be to maybe add in a few more headings, instead of just having 'Visible Speech'. Maybe something like 'History' or 'How Visible Speech Came to Be', or something along those lines. But other than that, I really liked it! Great work :)
Mazzy29 (talk) 14:30, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I decided that I did not want to add the pictures from the side into the text because they are not as relevant to the form of Visible Speech I chose to focus on. I chose to focus on Graham Bell's, rather than Melville Bell's system of Visible Speech, and I was unable to obtain photographs of the spectrograph patterns that were used in Graham Bell's system. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BearsBeatBattlestarGalactica (talk • contribs) 
Is there a difference between Graham's and Melville's?
Where is the text source for Graham's "improvement'?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.69.4.20 (talk) 23:53, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes From Kara's Final Edit

message: The link for the term --spectrograph-- links to a light spectrograph not the sound spectrograph of the article.  A disambiguation page and article about the device Bell used is needed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jambaugh (talk • contribs) 18:39, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Note:  Spectrograph Link Incorrect 

message: From a WikiProject writing systems perspective, this article is worse than the IPA article.
Sisima70 (talk) 20:13, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Make a comparison to the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]]

message: This excellent biopic has a sequence in which Melville Bell, promoting Visible Speech, invites three members of a skeptical group to suggest any words or speech sounds, which three other people (one of whom is Graham Bell) in another room will try to reproduce from Visible Speech notation. Needless to say, they succeed. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 19:54, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: ''The Sound and the Silence''

message: In the external links section Paradox (talk) 16:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link: American Memory: Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
Talk:Visigothic script

message: http://litteravisigothica.com/what-is-visigothic-script/ Not sure why they felt the need to blog about it instead of editing the article itself or engaging on the talk page, but there you go. --2.125.24.55 (talk) 12:32, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It moved. Some of the criticized lines are still in this Wikipedia article. Ainoa Castro Correa is the author of some of the references in the article. --Error (talk) 16:14, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone write a blogpost criticizing this article
Talk:VNI

message: Just like the title, in Vietnam, when talk about VNI, it could be a company, IME or character encoding.
My2ndAngelic (talk) 19:11, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  It should be named: VNI (Company) to avoid conflict with the IME or character encoding
Talk:Was-sceptre

message: Edited information that is unsubstantial and could mislead children studying Egypt forever, you should not put up one idea that is completely unfounded to be true as of today and not put them all up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.81.243 (talk) 00:56, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong

message: Editor TheLateDentarthurdent, with  suggests that the Egyptian spelling of was uses a numeral '3' in place of an aleph (ꜣ).  Editor points to Allen in support of this claim.  Note the search term: 'w3s' and compare that with the actual text in Allen where the character used is clearly not the Latin numeral '3'.  The search discrepancy is likely due to the limitations of OCR scanning of the original book.  Repeating the search with an aleph in place of the '3' fails.
Similarly, Editor TheLateDentarthurdent changes the parenthetical: '(called waset in Egyptian)' to '(called w3st in Egyptian)' again with the numeral '3' in place of the aleph.  Except for styling and punctuation, that parenthetical was word-for-word the same as the source cited before these changes were made.  Allen does support the wꜣst spelling with an aleph but not with the numeral '3'; see page 516.
Really?  A numeral '3' character in place of an alef character?
—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  w3s vs wꜣs 

message: I'm wondering if there has been speculation that 'was' scepter was actually a useful implement too.
I can think of a few off the top of my head.
˥ Ǝ Ʉ  H Ɔ I Ɯ (talk) 01:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Practical use as tool?

message: The article's opening calls it a symbol, which is misleading and makes it sound as if the physical items don't exist, but a cursory search online reveals several physical was scepters have been found in tombs etc.
47.50.104.82 (talk) 02:25, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "symbol" may be misleading
Talk:We (kana)

message: Even in the present day, when え (e) follows a mora containing the vowel "u", it is sometimes pronounced as "we" (such as 上 (ue) being pronounced as "uwe").
This statement needs to be sourced, if it isn't completely bogus. I hear no, nor have I ever seen any proper documentation of, modern-day rounding of the /u/ sound where it was historically written ゑ, and as it is this statement reeks of original research, presumably be an intermediate student of Japanese. In what phonetic system is "uwe" an understandable description of pronunciation? Please provide a reference. 222.159.203.158 04:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed statement

message: :
I do not understand this sentence (today).  Is "ゑ゙" itself not a W-column kana?  Can it combine with any W-column kana to make /ve/? —Tamfang (talk) 00:37, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  combinations
Talk:Westeremden yew-stick

message: Can whoever wrote the bit about Seebold's (1990) interpretation please please include the full reference in the references section? I would really like to take a look at that text, but I can't find anything when I search for Seebold 1990... 
Vindafarna (talk) 21:49, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  References
Talk:Wi (kana)

message: Though even in the present day, when い follows a mora containing the vowel "u", it is sometimes pronounced as "wi".
I have removed a similar statement from We (kana), so please refer to the talk page there for discussion. 222.159.203.158 04:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed statement

message: I'm beginning to translate the Japanese article on ゐ into English.  Can somebody advise me on how I should be handling transliteration for English-speaking readers?  Anything I should change? Bill Shillito (talk) 07:20, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Transliterations
Talk:Trimethylaminuria

message: The following comment by  was moved from Trimethylaminuria#Treatment
Should include how much of each supplements should be taken and also who do you get in contact with for more information.
- 2/0 (cont.) 22:57, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment 

message: The Incidence section I just deleted was lifted almost word-for-word, without attribution, from an ABC News Website.  That's plagiarism.— Preceding unsigned comment added by J M Rice (talk • contribs) 19:07, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted section 

message: I just landed here from a link from outside, read the lead, and didn't understand a word. -Roxy the dog™ (resonate) 03:29, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wow 

message: When you say rare, say how rare. Jidanni (talk) 01:41, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  1/1000 1/10000? 

message: Article would be better with a clear definition of the life cycle of tma in the body. A section about precursors, bacteria in the gut, direct tmao from seafood, etc. Also maybe move a bit of stuff from symptoms as I didn't have a good spot to put it.
I'll see if I can do something over the next few days. Brutalar (talk) 21:38, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs some metabolic pathway descriptions
Talk:Yi (Cyrillic)

message: there's no such letter in either Belarusian or Russian languages. "й" stands for the similar sound in those two languages. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.126.194.104 (talk • contribs).
:You are correct. I just corrected User:Korenyuk edit and did not look too closely into the subject. I will fix it now. —dmytro/s-ko/ 22:28, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, don't mix up Rusyn and Russian languages! Rusyn still has Ї letter (Belarusian and Russian don't, surely). So it should be returned. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.184.238.51 (talk) 23:46, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The letter was used in Russian in the past, a fact not acknowledged in the article.  For example, this coin of Peter the Great uses it, the first time in the place of the word "and."  Yet I can't seem to find any secondary sourcing on that.  The Russian version of this page explores it (without sourcing), saying it's an orthographic variant of the letter you'd expect used before vowels and Й ("употреблявшимися перед гласными и Й"), though, on the coin, it's not used in this way.  Any sources or clarification would be appreciated. Calbaer (talk) 03:43, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There was no one set of orthographic rules at the time, hence people wrote as they pleased. 178.69.208.70 (talk) 01:12, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:Haldiram's

message: Please check the validity of this claim! rakeshkestwal@yahoo.co.in  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.112.98.159 (talk) 09:07, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: (Comment)

message: Somebody should talk about Haldiram's Prabhuji and Nagpur etc. RachitTheGr8 (talk) 15:54, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haldiram split 

message: Vision and mission of haldiram franchise business 2409:4051:2D9E:299C:0:0:B488:8704 (talk) 09:38, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vision and mission of haldiram franchise business
Talk:Yodh

message: "It may be related to the Egyptian hieroglyphic of an arm (see Hieroglyphs)."
- Um, wouldn't it make more sense to it be related to the Hieroglpyph yod, ie Gardiner's M17 / i? Whats D36 / a got to do with yod? --220.239.15.104 03:44, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Double standard: So a citation is needed to mention that yod may be related to ancient Egypt but no citation is needed to mention that it may be connected to ancient semetic? That's blatantly biased against Egypt. To be consistent, at least both should require a citation. Very often bigoted editors use Wikipedia to spread their version of history and to white-wash the truth. --172.56.35.64 (talk) 13:23, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

text: The early Semitic forms are a drawing of a hand and variations on yad remain the word for "hand" in most modern Semitic languages, just as ʿayn is a drawing of an eye and means "eye" and the same goes with the rest of the entire script. The cite needed is because the Egyptian form might have been adapted but Ancient Egyptian is quite distant from the Semitic subfamily. There's no "whitewashing". Also, why is it "whitewashing", a term for the erasure of black identity and innovation? The Egyptians were Egyptian, not white or black, and the Semitic subfamily has an extremely wide range of peoples speaking it. Ogress 17:28, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled comments

message: Y does not belong on this page. It is derived from Waw, a.k.a. Vav.
47.187.192.67 (talk) 18:34, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed! AJD (talk) 21:02, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Y does not belong here.
Talk:Yu (Cyrillic)

message: Is there a reference for the omicron-iota origin of this letter?  Berdnikov 1999 says it is a iotated оу, with the у dropped, resulting in a I-О ligature. —Michael Z. 2006-11-17 06:36 Z
:That is what I have always understood, that Ю is a graphically simplified form of an iotified monograph uk. It seems a great deal more obvious than an mirror-imaged OI ligature, reflecting a supposed /y/ pronunciation for οι (not something I have heard of before), and with the /y/ subsequently developing to /ju/. I'm willing to be educated on this, but we really badly need some citations, as there are three things there which sound dubious, or at least (to me) surprising. Vilĉjo (talk) 00:42, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I at once correct myself on one point: Allen's Vox Graeca provides evidence that οι was indeed at one time probably pronounced /y/. I would still appreciate citations on the shift from /y/ to /ju/, and also on the priority of OI and its later mirroring. Vilĉjo (talk) 00:57, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, ю is is a graphically simplified form of an iotified monograph uk. Происхождение кириллической буквы — видоизменившееся греческое сочетание ΙΟΥ (→ IǑ → Ю):ru:Ю (кириллица). I'm not sure is that true what writed here about OI → Ю.--W.M.drossel (talk) 10:49, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is absolutely no evidence for this: it is pure speculation, and highly improbable.  The combination  (which in fact represents [iju], not [ju]) is not attested in MSS until a period well after ю became established in the alphabet (and indeed, ю is found in these very MSS), and reflects an orthographic norm that does not explicitly indicate [j] after [i]: the same scribes write .   However, it is noteworthy that at an early period Slavonic /u/ corresponds to non-Slavonic /o/, as seen in many loan-words in either direction, e.g. Russ. уксус < Gr. ὄξος, Cz. biskup < Old Saxon biscop, Hung. káposzta < Sl. kapusta, etc.  In this context Gk. ιο corresponds to Sl. [ju], and it is tempting to see the origin of the cyrillic letter here.Лудольф (talk) 13:37, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Ю́ redirects here. It′s not mentioned in the article. Is it simply a Yu with an acute? -- Gohnarch░ 20:02, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's no longer redirected. Ю́ now has its own article. Chiagozie Elobuike (talk) 15:41, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ю́ 

message: Should we give it that nickname? It looks like it (Ю). Chiagozie Elobuike (talk) 15:47, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iotated O
Talk:Ẓāʾ

message: Is there a correct pronunciation of it?
Yes, [ðˤ].  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.9.130.75 (talk) 14:49, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

message: Is more known to use as þ.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by הראש (talk • contribs) 22:41, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  ט'
Talk:Zhje

message: The letter is also used in Uyghur Cyrillic, pronounced the same as in Turkmen and Kalmyk Oirat. Wikipedia contributors. (2021, October 6). Uyghur Cyrillic alphabet. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:51, January 26, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uyghur_Cyrillic_alphabet&oldid=1048496045   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:588B:CA01:CF7:DD2A:7B8C:D6F3 (talk) 21:55, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uyghur
Talk:Ƹ

message: I am skeptical about the assertion that this is "a letter of the Latin alphabet".  Since when did Latin ever have pharyngeals?  Or voiced fricatives for that matter?  Unless I am very badly misinformed, someone must have added (or proposed adding) this letter at some later point in time for some purpose entirely unrelated to Latin.  The article really needs to clarify those details, as they seem like the most important thing to know about the character. --Jonadab, 2022 Nov 24  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonadab~enwiki (talk • contribs) 04:02, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin?  Really? 

message: How does one pronounce /Ƹ/, and in what language is/was it used? It seems like one of those "odd" latin letters that is used in African languages, or an IPA rejected letter. Is it a postalveolar consonant, like the voiced postalveolar plosive, or is it palatal? --bibliotheque (Talk) 02:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative. --Ptcamn 11:28, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Pharyngeals are notoriously difficult to learn to pronounce, for anyone who doesn't natively speak a language that has them.  (Most languages don't have them.)  Your best bet is to find a native speaker of Arabic (by far the best-known language that has both pharyngeals and native speakers), ideally one who is also a linguist and lives near you, and ask them to teach you. --Jonadab, 2022 Nov 24  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonadab~enwiki (talk • contribs) 04:13, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  PronunƸiation 

message: Ezh /Ʒ ʒ/ of lazian language is a IPA.
Phonetic speaking are [lɑːtɪŋ ʃmɔl lɛttɛːr ɛʒh wɪtɥ cʊrːl], [lɑːtɪŋ ʃmɔl lɛttɛːr ɛʒh wɪtɥ tɑɪl].
Are you doing letter a that was sound a [yɛːz], [dzɛːʃh]. 37.215.36.202 (talk) 06:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ezh reversed
Talk:Ng (Arabic letter)

message: Please add mention of this letter to the Arabic alphabet article. Badagnani (talk) 20:20, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Add to [[Arabic alphabet]]

message: This letter "is used to represent a velar /ŋ/ when writing Turkic languages. In Ottoman Turkish, it represented the palatal /ɲ/ which, before merging, was the velar /ŋ/."What does this mean? It seems to mean that older Turkic /ŋ/ merged with some other sound and changed to /ɲ/ in Ottoman. What sound did it merge with, and when? What is the evidence for this (or a reference, at least)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linguistatlunch (talk • contribs) 15:42, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The sound of this letter in Ottoman 

message: Does this letter have a name? The interwiki links indicate that it might be “ngaf” or “ngef”. Gorobay (talk) 19:06, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Letter name 

message: ﯓ is used in Morocco for [g].ﺀ (talk) 14:01, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  ﯓ is used in Morocco for [g].
Talk:Toxic Grind

message: Seems like alot of this article is copied from the GameSpot review:
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/sports/toxicgrind/review.html?tag=tabs;reviews
08:24  14 September 2008  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.237.236.10 (talk) 01:24, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: GameSpot copying?
Talk:Mesh (scale)

message: <Nmagedman> The "Sieve size conversion chart" has columns labeled BSS, Tyler, and US.  Tyler is described in the article, but BSS and US are not.  Could someone please describe those systems?  Further, the article describes FEPA scales, but they are not included in the chart.  Would someone please add them?  Thanks!  17:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Column Headers in the "Sieve size conversion chart" 

message: I have removed the sentence: "The openings of adjacent mesh sizes in this series differ by a factor of \sqrt{2}", because it is unclear whether this is correct and what exactly is meant by it. 7:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tyler mesh size 

message: I was missing grit sizes of 50000  and 100000? They seem to be explained here, although it's not a really good source, it was much less confusing to read than the article - I am still not sure how the information there goes together with the multitude of dimensions in the article Iridos (talk) 00:21, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  grit sizes? 

message: It would be helpful to have a list or a table of some common materials and their mesh sizes; for example, beach sand, household cleanser, etc.  In other words, what mesh sizes would these materials typically pass through, just to get a rough idea?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by WWriter (talk • contribs) 19:31, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for a table of typical grit sizes 
Talk:Five Towns College

message: *Billy Joel did not even graduate high school, let alone attend Five Towns. By the time Five Towns was founded, Billy Joel was already a very successful recording artist. Kevin F. Story 06:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: To all people who think Billy Joel attended Five Towns

message: Bob Cunningham, taught at FTC as well as several other distinguished Jazz musicians.  As I remember them I'll post them here. Nuwaubian Hotep 15:38, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Distinguished Faculty

message: I've been working on putting citations in the "Notable alumni" section, as there were basically none and it looks like there's been a template about it for 7 years. I have all but three sourced, if'n anyone wants to check those and make sure they're all on the up-and-up, cuz there seems to be some debate as to the reliability of sources like AllMusic for bios.
If anyone could find sources for Michael Portnoy n' Jared Evan's attendance, that'd be swell. Otherwise I'm gonna take them off the article, cuz there's no mention even on their own pages that they've attended, and my advanced searching's only brought up weird lists and bios that're sourced from...this Wikipedia article. A non-Facebook source for Doobie Duke Sims' attendance would also be mighty appreciated.~Janitor Judy (job requests) 03:22, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Finished the sourcing work, so I'm gonna remove the work template over "Notable alumni" section. Again, if anybody can find sources for Jared Evan's n' Michael Portnoy's attendance, feel free to put 'em back in. If anyone can find a non-Facebook source for Doobie Duke Sims' attendance, feel free to fix his list entry. If anyone has any idea whether Kota the Friend should be filed under "K" or "F" in alphabetical order by surname, please share your insight. ~Janitor Judy (job requests) 20:44, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Per this discussion I had with other editors, I removed Doobie Duke Sims from this list 'til a reliable source for his attendance could be found. ~Janitor Judy (job requests) 16:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I’m Doobie Duke Sims and I went to FTC from 2001 - 2005. Graduated in 2005. Big blessings ❤️ 2600:4041:43CE:CA00:FDE1:502:9349:D978 (talk) 02:53, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations for notable alumni
Talk:M26 grenade

message: Lots of obvious information is missing from this article: How big is it? How much does it weigh? What is it made of? How many were manufacturered and used in each war, by each country? And so on. -- Mikeblas 13:59, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  most basic information 