Talk:Paamayim Nekudotayim

message: Coul we get some Pronounciation, I don't know Hebrew. :D--Capi crimm 21:32, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It has the IPA pronounciation beside it: /paʔamajim nəkudotajim/ - In english letters: Pa-amayeem Nekoodotayeem --Patrick Lucas 00:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

message: Why? Seriously. WHY?
Is there any official explanation as to why they decided to go with that inpronouncible Hebrew name? "Double colon" would have been way shorter and way more comprehensible.
Is there any reason other than intentional awkwardness of the term and its translation?
It wouldn't be the first time that open source software shipped with something this awkward, but it seems a wee bit too random to me to be an intentional joke. — Ashmodai (talk · contribs) 08:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't completely meaningless, it's Hebrew. And it dates way back before Zend even existed. It's just "there" and I don't think lots of people ever complained about it in the bug tracker, or it might have been removed a long time ago. --DietrichM (talk) 14:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why, God, Why? 

message: Well, actually it's not Hebrew at all. In Hebrew, נקודה nekdua is a point or a dot, and נקודתיים nekudatayim mean two points (as written in the article: nekuda + tayim dual suffix). נקודותיים nekudotayimhowever is an incorrect form, that mean נקודות nekudot (points, plural form) + the (t)ayim dual suffix.
It's a common error, yet it still is one. conio.h • talk 16:45, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, there is no error- נקודותיים in this dual form is litraly "colon" (the punctuation symbol), so פעמיים נקודותיים is double colon- exactly what the error is. 79.179.128.193 (talk) 21:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The form nekudotaim instead of nekudataim (as the Hebrew word for 'colon') is in fact an error according to the traditional rules of Hebrew grammar. But it's also true that it is by far the most common form among Israelis. Fundamentisto (talk) 02:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor Hebrew 

message: Why do we have this article?  What purpose does it serve?  It perhaps merits a small section on the PHP page.  It is not article material.  70.16.60.70 01:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Same process here. Please, let's not have another deletion debate. This article is clearly useful, and removing it would not improve Wikipedia. -- Dandv (talk) 06:25, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

text: I came to the page Scope Resolution Operator to know the origin of :: (I assume Bjarne Stroustrup invented "::" in that use and gave it that name). 65.113.40.1 (talk) 23:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Indeed it *is* based on the PHP language.  That's because it's *about* the PHP language.  This is *not* a general article on the scope-resolution operator or on the :: glyph.  It's about a specific bit of leftover weirdness in PHP that can be extremely confusing to developers, so shedding light on its meaning and history is useful. 71.30.184.148 (talk) 14:24, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why? 

message: Would be good to have an entry for this in the Hebrew wikipedia... is anyone able? (218.111.211.151 08:30, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Versions 

message: --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 20:18, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add the code that produced the error to the main article