Talk:Language/Archive 2

message: In it's present state is a piece of pure shite considering this must be an encyclopedia and the style does not fits the context.Herle King 23:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Language is not just the spoken word

message: Wikipedia is not a web directory. The "External links" section of this page is not intended to promote every single Web page that has something to do with language; it's to provide links to more information on topics mentioned in the article. 
Most of the second-language-learning links don't want to provide more information, they want to sell a service to you. Meanwhile, learning second languages isn't even really covered by this article. Those links do not belong here. See Wikipedia:External links for more information on the policy. RSpeer 16:31, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We can have just one link: Wikibook: Languages. It's our sister Wiki project and is meant to be a learning tool. Shawnc 06:24, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please, no language-learning links 

message: I removed the following comment for being unintelligible: 
:Grammatising this phenomenon was also an achievement of that time. The Tolk?ppiyar starts by defining the alphabet for optimal writing, grammatises the use of words and syntaxes and moves into higher modes of language analysis.
I am not claiming to disagree with it, I am simply stumped as to what it is supposed to mean. Which phenomenon? Does 'grammatising' mean putting something into words? Describing as part of the grammar? And which 'higher modes' of analysis? 
kwami 00:41, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  deletion 

message: <Comment on the following sentence in Computer—A computer is a machine capable of processing data according to a program — a list of instructions. The data to be processed may represent many types of information including numbers, text, pictures, or sound.>
<Also a comment on the following sentence in Language—A language is a system of symbols, generally known as lexemes and the rules by which they are manipulated.>
From Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness Explained 1991; ISBN: 0316180661 p. 302:
:The philosopher Justin Leiber sums up the role of language in shaping our mental lives: 
::Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. [Leiber, 1991, page 8.]
Yesselman 21:57, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language is Software 

message: There ought to be a mention of Philosophy of language, since it plays an important role in the study of language. 128.6.175.79 20:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philosophy of language 

message: What would be a good way to include the information that language is also used to describe the wording of political discourse, as in:
"Let's work on some language about fuel economy to include in the State of the Union speech." ? --Ministry of Truth 07:16, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language as in political discourse 

message: Editors of this article may be interested in the proposal for closing the Siberian Wikipedia, on which a vote is currently being held in Meta. Please, take the "Addressing sockpuppetry" warning into consideration. - Best regards, Evv 04:38, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:ru-sib:|Siberian Wikipedia]] 

message: I'm just wondering, how is "language" spelled? I'm asking this because while this article spells language "language" other articles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=langauge&go=Go) spell it like "langauge" (with the A preceding the U). Is this an alternative spelling, British spelling, etc.? 4.230.96.106 17:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Language" is the correct spelling. "Langauge" is wrong and is probably a typo. Graham87 04:33, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of "Language" 

message: A user deleted:
The oldest surviving written grammar for a language still commonly spoken today is the Tolkāppiyam (தொல்காப்பியம்), a book on the grammar of the Tamil language, written in Southern India around 200 BC by Tolkāppiyar.
From the article for NPOV.  I don't see what is wrong with this statment other than the needing of a citation (like most of the facts in the article).
--Selket 17:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  oldest written grammar 

message: I just deleted a bunch of links that I view as irrelevent, misplaced, or spam.  I expect some detractors so let me list here my reasons for each.
* Language: Origin and Meaning by John Zerzan - moved to Primitivism 
* Animal sounds in different languages - moved to Onomatopoeia
* Speech accent archive - moved to accents
* Listen to online radio of the world's languages - spam and very irrelevent
* Learning Global Languages - dead link (was probably spam before it was dead)
* The Animal Communication Project - moved to Animal Communication	 
* The World's Most Widely Spoken Languages - replaced with wikipedia link to List of languages by speakers
* Language & Communication at The Psychology Wiki - spam	 
* Encyclopedia of the Nations - spam
I am in the process of making the moves so if you check this right after I sign, the other links might not be up yet.
--Selket 08:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A not logged in user put them back so I just redeleted them. --Selket 08:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted links 

message: A vandal changed the word 'Language' to 'penis' I've put this back
(84.43.66.27 16:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well...thanks. Comme le Lapin 06:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Small vandal change