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Talk:Pluperfect tense

message: This article need rto be merged with Plupeffect!--Thomas Ruefner 23:04, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger with Pluperfect

message: It is true that the synthetic pluperfect is no longer used in spoken Portuguese. However, I would disagree that it is a strictly literary tense. The synthetic pluperfect is indeed very common in literature (novels and poetry), but, surprisingly, even in Brazil, it also appears in printed newspaper, especially in columns and editorials, and sometimes even in news articles. 201.52.32.9 10:32, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The terms literature and literary do not merely refer to novels and poetry, but to many other, if not all, written forms, such as drama, essays and newspapers. --Panda 15:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Synthetic Pluperfect in Portuguese

message: What is this?  It is a phrase that is not defined in A9/ref and which gets me sent to "perfective aspect" in Wik.  That article starts out with a very complicated introduction, concluding that there are two different meanings.  So, how can some-one reading the pluperfect tense article even begin to understand it, given such a tough term right at the beginning. (In fact, pluperfect isn't such a difficult concept, though.)Kdammers 00:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  perfective tense 

message: I don't understand the following excerpt:
:A pluperfect of state is, in association to the actual fact of the action, midway between the past tense (the door opened yesterday) and the predicate adjective that is the past participle (the door was open since yesterday).
I find the door was open since yesterday highly unidiomatic, if not ungrammatical.  I am aware that American English sometimes uses the preterite where British English uses the perfect, but I can't see this as an instance.  Perhaps it is meant to be:
*the door has been open since yesterday
*the door was opened yesterday
*the door was open yesterday
*something else?
It is also incorrect to describe open as "the predicate adjective that is the past participle", since the past particle of the verb open is opened.  The adjective open is not part of the verb's conjugation and most other English verbs have no analogue to it. jnestorius(talk) 14:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  pluperfect of state example 

message: I speak Romanian natively but I've never heard anything like "o fo' foastă" or something like that. Please somebody do some research or else I'll delete the following sentences in the days to come:
The pluperfect is expressed by combining the auxiliary verb fost or the short version "fo'" (= "was" in English or "war" in German) with the participle, which (quite difficult to explain) is stated in its feminine form. Examples: "o fost foastă" (or "o fo' foastă") = he had been; "am fost văzută" = I had seen; "or fost venită" = they had come.
-- Petru Dimitriu (talk) 16:35, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pluperfect tense in Romanian language 

message: What's that, plupluperfect? Or just illegal?--92.78.102.204 (talk) 12:25, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Had had been?
Talk:Entertainment Weekly

message: I've written descriptions for most of the features of the magazine. I think it still needs a fuller "history" section, and maybe a full list of current staff. The magazine is so light that there isn't really much you can say. Does this article even need anything else? Jon Seitz 06:09, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
Jeff Jarvis recently (12 June 2014) published the original proposal for Entertainment Weekly at his blog http://buzzmachine.com/2014/06/11/entertainment-weekly-genesis/ this could be used to expand the history section. Enoshd (talk) 11:17, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: "Due to its relatively short features (typical articles run only 1 to 2 pages) and light content, the magazine is very commonly used for bathroom and waiting room reading." --i don't know about the statement...is that really a common sense about the magazine? HoneyBee 06:05, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magazine 

message: I would like to think this would be obvious, but in case it's not, the article features the following wiki sins that require cleanup:
*tense/number mismatches
*misspellings
*imprecise colloquialisms ("wonky", etc.)
*informal tone
*too many red links that aren't likely to become articles anytime soon, mostly named individuals, and many other similarly named persons who aren't linked at all
*other items requiring links, like named publications
*"random" capitalization and words inexplicably in ALL CAPS
*improper rendering of publication titles
*lack of critical review, and any info that wouldn't have come directly from an EW marketing flack
-- Canonblack 16:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: I find it odd that there is no mention in this article to the fact that EW is published by a huge conglomerate that also happens to release movies, DVDs, TV shows, and albums that are critically reviewed - i.e. it's nothing more than ads for Time-Warner's own products.
yes I agree there is substantial evidence for this and it should be pretty easy to find a source saying so. this is the magazine that gave disaster movie a C. I mean come on, that's crazy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.195.65.254 (talk) 15:23, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bias?

message: http://www.theawl.com/2014/06/the-history-of-entertainment-weekly
Amethyst1234 (talk) 19:08, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  In depth article about EW 

message: So who founded Entertainment Weekly was it  Michael Klingensmith or David Morris?!? FM.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.224.198.189 (talk) 08:07, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  So who founded EW?
Talk:Cole Younger

message: Cole apparently had a daughter named Pearl, born c.1868 in Dallas, died 1925 in Ft. Smith, Ark. But I haven't found a wife named anywhere. Was the daughter perhaps illegitimate? Anybody know? --Michael K SmithTalk  04:24, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Wife & kids?

message: According to The Encyclopedia Britannica article on Myra Belle Shirley (aka "Belle Starr" at http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/563688/Belle-Starr#ref274841, Pearl "was probably fathered by Thomas C. ("Cole") Younger" as the James-Younger gang "occasionally sought refuge at the Shirley farm".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.142.237.229 (talk) 23:21, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Pearl
Talk:Khanbaliq

message: This city has more variations on its name than Gaddafi did. I've run into similar things before but is there any version of  available for places that lets us list and search for name variants without needing to include all of them in the running text? I don't really want to have to look at "Cambaliech" or "Khanbalykh" or "Ta-tou" or "Khān Bāliķ" but we should be able to list them somewhere in the metadata. — LlywelynII 09:07, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Chambalyech, my lord...

message: Pretty sure we can't use these for copyright reasons
* 1, apparently an installation at some Chinese museum
* 2, a good city plan from History of Far Eastern Art (5th Edition), although it lacks the canals and includes some Chinglish ("Temple to the God")
* 3, another city plan
* 4, claims to be the Yuan-era northern end of Taiye Lake
but the information certainly isn't so if someone has a friend on the map-drawing board, we might be able to mock up something more detailed and better-looking than what we're using now.
Similarly,
* 5 is a pretty good administrative map but currently all in Chinese
We should also be able to find some surviving art from the period or shots of the Tucheng. — LlywelynII 11:46, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: Although  has redirected here since 2006, no pages link to that and there is no basis for that name in the article – the term "metropolitan" is not used in the article. While Great capital is used, and that term is validated by the article text. "Great metropolitan" just strikes me as bad English. Good English would use "Great city" or "Great metropolitan area". Thus, I am redirecting  to Great Metropolitan Handicap. – Wbm1058 (talk) 14:15, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems very reasonable - thanks for doing that. --Bcp67 (talk) 16:37, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Great metropolitan"? 

message: Baliq means fish in Azeri (Azerbaijani). Isn't this the case in the etymology of the word Khanbaliq? (Based on the fact that Turkic languages were predominant in the region at that time.) Aminabzz (talk) 15:12, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Baliq
Talk:Royal Palace of Madrid

message: Someonw may want to fix the pictures.--ROASTYTOAST 01:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Layout 

message: Somebody really needs to go through this article and correct the grammatical errors which make reading and understanding this article difficult. Not only are there errors in sentence structure, but also in terms of past tense vs. present tense, and the general flow of logical language.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.217.96.229 (talk) 11:02, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar 
Talk:Russian phonology

message: Not a phonologist, but I think saying that those are the only exceptions, it's better to say "rare/few exceptions such as" -- After all, отсутствие has four consonant sounds in a cluster. Don't know if the morpheme includes that final в I guess... Or is сут the one morpheme and ств a derivational morpheme on top of that as in здравствовать WittyQuote (talk) 20:54, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct, as in Графство and any other case of a root ending with consonant + "ств" suffix. Tacit Murky (talk) 20:26, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listed exceptions to 3 consonant max
Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2005

message: Todays's?
:Be bold!  Fix it!  You say it's everywhere. Zerbey 02:11, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party

message: where have the rank insignias gone??Feeblezak 11:43, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed.  Looks like a clean-up resulted in the images being tagged and removed.--Koncorde (talk) 17:16, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  where did the insignias go? 

message: It certainly wasn't official, but where was this actually used or brought up initially to be sourced even as an idea? The term Hoheren Sinnestrager as per this source - ...The terminology is quite suggestive. To call God a Hoheren Sinnestrager meant linguistically to give him some place in the military hierarchy, since the Nazis had changed the military... 65.102.40.8 (talk) 06:47, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purely interesting facet: Hoheren Sinnestrager 

message: The swastika armband (Hakenkreuzarmbinde) was introduced in 1920 by the early National Socialists as a "combat armband" (Kampfbinde). In doing so, they took over the swastika from the anti-Semitically influenced Völkische Bewegung.
Initially, this armband was used to identify the party members of the NSDAP, as they were equipped with different street clothes and a wide variety of reworked uniform pieces from the First World War or the Freikorps, and were often indistinguishable from their political opponents.
Before the introduction of the badges of rank and shoulder pieces, since 1921 the rank of the wearer was represented in the NS organisations by means of different horizontal stripes and colours. For the "Jugendbund der NSDAP", founded on 13 May 1922, which wore an SA-like uniform, a separate armband was introduced in 1924. This was later adopted by the Hitler Youth.
From 1925 the armband was called "Sturmbinde" (storm armband), but until the unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945 both designations were used. Until then there were about 38 variations of this armband.
This armband was a significant characteristic of the National Socialist functionaries during the National Socialist era. In the last weeks of the war, the swastika armband also served in some cases as a uniform substitute for the Volkssturm, although the latter was characterized by its own armband.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:B00:4776:DDFF:757A:C708:A613 (talk) 16:26, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Armband History
Talk:Tite Kubo

message: i noticed that a photo of kubo sensei still hasn't been uploaded on his article.
http://www.animevice.com/tite-kubo/20-61550/   <-  on the right of this link is a new photo of kubo.
 unfortunately , i don't know how to put up the photo on his profile. so, anyone who has knowledge of putting up images on the his article can do so.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tej7war (talk • contribs) 10:28, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  a picture of tite kubo 

message: The biography can use some cleaning up. The grammar is poor and there are some redundant wording. Preferably someone who can also list a few citations as to the history of Kubo trying to get his manga, Zombie Powder, published.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.137.172 (talk) 13:13, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up 

message: Upon looking on Amazon, it seems, for many of the original Japanese copies of the Bleach volumes, Kubo is listed as "Obihito Kubo" rather than his usual pen name "Tite"/"Taito". The proper links can be found through Special:BookSources/4088732138 (the number is the ISBN of the original Japanese Bleach Volume 1). If someone can find a possible source on the name "Obihito" this would be helpful. Schiffy (Speak to me|What I've done) 16:39, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Scratch this, it's Amazon being stupid. The Kanji in his pen name can also be read as "Obihito" (帯人). Schiffy (Speak to me|What I've done) 16:43, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Obihito" 
Talk:The Sound of Perseverance

message: I added a citation for the rumor; I forgot to add an edit summary, so I am putting this here.69.110.78.11 (talk) 06:52, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Control Denied songs on TSoP
Talk:G3: Live in Concert

message: Somebody please upload album cover for this page ... thank you.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iwansw (talk • contribs) 08:21, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Album artwork
Talk:List of U. S. postal abbreviations

message: IWBRNI someone could research the history of this set of symbols and add a section to that effect.  There should also be a list of Coast Guard state symbols for boat registration; they seem to have been developed about the same time but are not the same (e.g., Maine => MA, Massachusetts => MS, Mississippi => MI, Michigan => MC).  I believe the postal series are the ones registered for ISO 3166-2.  (I believe, by the way, that the correct term for these is "codes" or "symbols"—not "abbreviations".) 18.26.0.18 01:08, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Does anyone know if there is an organized list of city abbreviations to document here?  E.g. "SF" for San Francisco" and "Phila" for Philadelphia? -- Beland 02:12, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cities

message: I am interested in the "Other Codes". Maybe some one can describe how such codes are used. For instance, how does one address mail to Guam? Is it something like
SomeName
SomeStreetAddress
SomeCity 00000-0000
Guam
where Guam is a country? Or is it
SomeName
SomeStreetAddress
SomeCity GU 00000-0000
United States
where "GU" is a state and the country is the U.S.?
Similar info on the armed forces codes would be helpful.
:This page lists United States postal codes; the country "United States" is always correct.   I'll update the article.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beland (talk • contribs) 18:50, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Codes 

message: The methodology section seems a little made up, considering AZ - not the second letter, last letter, or next consonant of Arizona - just a good abbreviation.  But then, it wouldn't sound much like an "encyclopedia" if we just said that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.97.64 (talk) 06:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AZ 

message: A number of abbreviations are listed in both the first/second and first/last lists.
This doesn't indicate a methodology, it's just an observation. 
Which approach was actually used to derive the abbreviation? 
Furthermore, how was it decided  which of the states with potentially the same abbreviations took precedence? For example, why is Alabama AL, not Alaska. It can't be just alpha order (unless someone made a mistake!), otherwise Arizona (not Arkansas) would be AR and Maine (not Massachusetts) would be MA.
--Ant (talk) 18:18, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Methodology
Talk:Hey, What's Wrong with This One?

message: This was listed as Judy Blume, but you can check Library of Congress record LCCN: 67014071.  Published in 1969, author is Maia Wojciechowska.  Plot summary from full bibliographic records confirms it is not just a coincidental title. --Tabor 01:30, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Allegorical interpretation of the Bible

message: :This page needs serious editing.  Whoever wrote this is a moron:
The page originally stated that Allegorical Interpretation referred "in particular [to] the Old Testament story"
:Is this true? ~ Dpr 01:35, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have in mind, that allegory is used in interpreting Bible and the earliest examples are from the milieu of judaism, then yes. The question is rather, is allegorical method strictly specific to the Bible? Or is it possible for other religions (islam) to have the same method? As far as I understand, allegorical interpretation presupposes canonical status of the text. What is a canonical status, is of course other matter -- Aethralis 11:27, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The only explanation here about what "allegorical interpretation" actually is calls it: "the approach which assigns a higher-than-literal interpretation to the contents of a text." What in the world does that mean? Propaniac (talk) 19:04, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition
Talk:Skywalker Ranch

message: This article sounds a bit like a fanboy's guess at what the ranch is like.  The props displayed in the main house are FAR from the majority of props.  The majority of the props are housed either off-site or in the prop and model archive on the ranch. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 159.37.7.254 (talk • contribs).
Apparently by 2011 this was all fixed. 01:25, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  majority? 

message: If the Ranch isn't open to the public why is there a restaurant there?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kardworx (talk • contribs) 01:46, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: General question

message: Please note that George Lucas purchased the first parcel in 1978... but no building was erected that year. Thus, the article doesn't stipulate yet the year when the first building was erected and, as a consequence, the following categories are wrong if fitted in this article:
* :Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1978
* :Category:1978 establishments in California
This should be addressed, but I don't know how. Kind regards. Kintaro (talk) 13:25, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong categories 

message: We should beware of WP:CIRCULAR references for this. The original source for the info is from http://george.lucas.net , which is in archive.org. The Perry writes that the WSJ article came out shortly before his trip. If I'm reading it correctly, then we're looking for an '86 WSJ article. --Hipal (talk) 16:41, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: 100 million attributed to WSJ
Talk:Villages of China

message: This should be returned to Village of China. While it is understandable that ostensibly the title "Village of China" seems highly unconventional or erroneous English language style, in fact it  fits the mold of the titles County of China, Province of China, used universally in the article series Political divisions of China. ~ Dpr 01:51, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  5 May 2005 

message: How many Ethnic Villages in China?--Kaiyr (talk) 11:43, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic Villages  
Talk:Girgaon

message: Forgive my ignorance, but what is Girgaon, exactly?  Is it a district or suburb of Mumbai, or a neighborhood of the city?
::Definition of suburb does not apply to Girgaon, as Mumbai has expanded a lot from a city of seven islands. For your purpose, Girgaon is a densely populated area of Mumbai. Mumbai itself is a district of Konkan Division. Npindia 15:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What is it?

message: Is this a different spelling of Gurgaon? ~ Booyabazooka 02:01, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No it is correct. I live near the area. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:25, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
One more thing I would like to highlight, Girgaum pincode is not unique 400004, many parts of pincode 400002 are also a part of Girgaum area. eg: Jitekar Wadi, Amar Wadi, Fanas Wadi, etc. have a pincode 400002, but still are Girgaum's part.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.199.54.121 (talk) 05:42, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: Shouldnt the name of the article read "Girgaum" - spelling used officially at the moment? Around The Globeसत्यमेव जयते 08:34, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name
Category talk:Black sitcoms

message: It is so bizarre that some guy has opposition against spliting the Sitcoms category into a subcategory Black sitcoms hence the overload in the sitcoms category. --SuperDude 02:07, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: People in the Wikipedia are, for some reason, highly scared of anything that acknowledges race. They prefer to not mention the subject at all, which I see as highly bizzare, especially in cases where a person is a major figure within their community. This category seems to serve a decent purpose...why isn't it populated?--FuriousFreddy 17:40, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm just guessing here, but I think political correctness probably plays a big role in that.  In the US, the media will bend over backwards to say that a famous person's black, and non-white people tend to emphasize their ethnicity/race much moreso than white people.  One hears a lot of things about black hockey players (there aren't many) but not about white running backs in the National Football League (to the best of my knowledge, there aren't any!).  Similarly with comedians, Chris Rock and several others are very up-front about being black, but there aren't many white comedians who include much race-related discussion in their routines.  So it's not really necessary to have categories like :Category:White hockey players, :Category:White NFL running backs, or :Category:White comedians, because others tend to associate those people's names with their professions rather than with their races or both.  However, some editors here think that it violates NPOV to give a subcategory of something to blacks but not to whites.  I tend to disagree with race-based categories and instead favor nationality-based categories myself. --Idont Havaname 21:16, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Gakgung

message: Gungdo refers to the practice of archery. This article seems to be about the Korean bow, which is called the Gakgung. I think it needs to be renamed so it does not cause confusion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.2.169.144 (talk) 18:36, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: title

message: "In Korea, the bow was used mainly as a military weapon."
As far as I'm aware, Korea still exists.  Author is obviously referring to a specific, but unmentioned, timeframe.  What is it? ~ Booyabazooka 02:42, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Presumably the Joseon Dynasty and previous periods. -- Visviva 15:13, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: verb tense

message: The fact that water buffalo horn is the main component of gakgung points to its foreign origin. Water Buffalo likely refers to Yaks native to Mongolia and Tibet, as SE Asian water buffaloes are located too far away. The import of these materials likely followed Mongol conquest, and the Korean adoption of Mongol bows.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krusader6 (talk • contribs) 03:58, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin