Macrakis
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I'd like to welcome you to Wikipedia myself and suggest that you may add yourself to the lists of Greek Wikipedians and Multilingual Wikipedians. Etz Haim 08:23, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Greetings from Ireland
Hi Stavros! Nice to see you on the Wikipedia. Evertype 10:48, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)
Jean Ichbiah article
Yes, I wanted to make a reference to "Louveciennes, France" but because it didn't exist I finally make a link to France. If you encountered it inappropiate change de link to the first ___location. And if you can, please write a small stub of Louveciennes too (I don't speak french). And thank you for making this article of Jean Ichbiah! --suruena 08:28, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC) – PS: Do you know what is the middle name of Jean Ichbiah? If so, add it to the article. Thank you again!
Ernst Herrera Legorreta
Hi!
On the matter of Ernst Herrera Legorreta: There are many Internet resources on his work with Nahuatl, but almost all of them are in Spanish. I believe the most recent edition of Karttunen's Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl makes reference to Legorreta's oligosynthetic work. I couldn't be sure.
I'll move the relevant paragraph to the talk page until some conclusive evidence can be found. Binadot 04:11, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Once I've separated the results for Fermin Herrera, Google yields little of value. Most of it seems to be Wikipedia mirrors. I'm in no way an expert on this, so I can't say anything authoritative. You seem to be far more knowledgeable. Binadot 05:05, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
If you aren't aware of it already, you may want to read my reply at User talk:Dysprosia and respond to comments I've made at Talk:Prettyprint. Thanks Dysprosia 08:42, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Quotes
It is the Wikipedia house style to use plain ASCII quotes, rather than left/right quotes. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Use straight quotation marks and apostrophes. This is for readability of the source text; excessive use of HTML entities renders it rapidly unreadable. —Morven 14:55, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
Aleph (letter) etc
My reason for putting two font versions of the Hebrew letters is that the ordinary "sans" version is generally used by default within Wikipedia, but most users who have (like myself) had only relatively little exposure to Hebrew may have seen only the normal printed versions, in a "serif" font (I believe this is not exactly the correct term) and they are quite a bit different in some cases, so I thought there was a need to show both side by side to avoid confusion. I've done something similar on the small table on the Hebrew alphabet article. Any other font variant would of course be welcome, and I seem to remember someone asking specfically about handwriting versions. rossb 10:48, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Greeks
Will keep an eye on Greeks. Unfortunately, omaimon, ktl is supported, and may be based on a passage from Herodotus; but I'll check out the Hellanodikai and throw in a passage on descent from the Pelasgians - that should stir the pot nicely Septentrionalis 19:04, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
Hello Stavro! Thanks for letting me know about the goings on; you'll already have seen that I made a few small edits (I hope that you're not regretting contacting me...). Is there something about this "people" vs "nation" business that I'm missing? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:16, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
omothriskos is not in LSJ (hard-copy); although of course its components are. But the article is quiet - let sleeping nationalists lie. Septentrionalis 05:19, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
- Well, that should do it. Will observing that the Greek language, religion, and customs have changed over the last two millennia cause too much trouble? Septentrionalis 22:20, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
RE: Block on 128.113.201.75
Hi Macrakis. Thankyou for the information on this user. Unfortunatly there is not much I can do when this user is not editing; I am severely restricted as to the length of ban I can give to anonymous IPs, even if they are used by only one person. I will try to keep on the situation as much as I can. Thanks anyway. Rje 00:58, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
endnotes
the Harvard endnotes were right before, but someone added some sources out of order, and so it got messed up. thanks for pointing it out. It's fixed now, though there's one article, referenced as yaletfteach2 or something like that, whose pointer got lost. I'm going to try to figure out where it belongs in a couple of days. For now, I stuck it at the end of the list, where it's just an orphaned endnote, but not messing up the numbering. --jacobolus (t) 19:25, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
hellenes
unfortunately, this 'consensus' was not visible to people watching only the Hellenes, but not the Greeks article, was it? I am not completely opposed to the merge, in that the Greeks article will focus on history anyway. Of course "Greeks" tends to refer to the modern population, while "Hellenes" is a rather polyvalent term, referring to ancient peoples. Anyway, the discussion of this is also possible on the Greeks page, so I'll just have a look at that now. regards, dab (ᛏ) 14:51, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
- I think I agree with your characterization. "Greeks" is the unmarked term, for ancient and modern peoples. "Hellenes" is either grandiloquent (i.e. used for the modern population primarily by romantic "Hellenophiles" wishing to emphasize real or imagined cultural or genetic continuity), or used in Bronze-Age contexts for the earliest settlers. dab (ᛏ) 09:41, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
Slavery and Old Oligarch
I was taught to take pseudo-Xenophon seriously, as saying: these are the most prudent measures to maintain a democracy, for those vile enough to want one; and this is why they work . However, your Sprachgefühl may well be better than mine.
By the way, the douloi-were-free people have taken to misquoting Old Oligarch in Slavery. Please help keep an eye on this. Septentrionalis 16:51, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
Also Athenian democracy, which needs serious help Septentrionalis 20:43, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
No problem, it looked a little spurious, but I'm not interested in getting involved in any POV dispute. Everyking 11:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Wade-Giles Superscripts
Thank you for adding those superscripts! I knew I was missing something with my Wade-Giles transcription. Jiawen 07:59, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I couldn't be bothered to login. Contact me in User:Miskin.
Ta piata pou aneferes (shis, doner, gyros klp) den einai h pragmatiki Ellinika kouzina, einai i Elliniki kouzina gia tous touristes. H alithini Elliniki kouzina me ta thalassina tis kai ta kreatika tis den yparxei stin mesoanatoli. Akoma kai tin Tourkiki kouzina tha tin xaraktiriza 1/2 mesoanatolitiki kai 1/2 mesogiaki. To na peis oti i Elliniki kouzina pou exei stoixeia apo tin Tourkiki einai "klasiki masoanatolitiki" einai teleios atopo. Pigaine s'ena arabiko estiatorio kai pes mou posa onomata piaton tha anagnoriseis. Miskin 09:53, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Poll (Macedonian Slavs or Macedonians)
I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. There is an ongoing poll in the talk page of the Macedonian Slavs article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll
Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonians without any qualifier (compare to Macedonian). As it seems, the initiators of this poll were contributors from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people that _possibly_ share or represent a different point of view. Your participation to the discussion and the poll, are very welcome.
Third view?
I am insvolved in a POV dispute with a rather odd fish on Democratic peace theory (See: Talk:Democratic peace theory#Disputes. For example, he regards The People's Republic of China renounced her alliance with the Soviet Union in 1961, thereafter creating a third, much smaller bloc of her own. as a POV statement. Am I mad? Am I overreacting? I would appreciate it if you would come take a look. If you regard this as too far out of your field, fine; feel free to ignore this notice. Septentrionalis 17:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking; the only necessary point is that PR China was *not* in the Soviet bloc when they went to war with Vietnam. IIRC also Kampuchea was in their bloc, while it existed. But Ultramarine has removed the POV clause in that sentence. Now all I really want is for him to stop editing with an egg-beater: one sentence pro-Rummel, one sentence con, two sentences pro, and so forth. Septentrionalis 15:30, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
If you were to nominate this for VfD, you certainly wouldn't get any objection from me. -- Hoary 07:22, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)
PS meanwhile I've put up Global Language Monitor for VfD. -- Hoary 11:05, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)
Hm, there really seems to be a tidal wave of this stuff. (Haw haw haw.) Yes, do please go ahead with VfD. I'd do it myself, but right now I'm connected by modem and overpriced phone line; I'm not overjoyed by having to spend my time on this kind of thing, but the combination of time and money is too much. -- Hoary 00:13, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Impact on Global Media is up and awaiting your comments. -- Hoary 04:15, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)
Pjjp-irrelevant this time, but you might enjoy letting your mind boggle at the Deep Thoughts within Graphical language. (Me, I'm going to bed. It's 1 a.m. here. G'night!) -- Hoary 15:43, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)
From PJJP: Pls remove my vfd pages immediately (since I do not know how to do this). I understand your arguments.
Advice on Aliákmon
Hi! You as a native speaker of Greek: can you help us out about how to call the river Aliákmon/Aliákmonas in this English wikipedia? See the discussion at Talk:Aliákmon. Markussep 19:25, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Gimbutas
Macrakis, you have to be specific about which theories of Gimbutas' you are referring to. It is well known that towards her later life, she became more and more extreme, and hardly anything of this "brute feminism" phase is taken seriously. Nevertheless, in her earlier life, she was a very serious archaeologist, and just that she "lost it" later doesn't mean all of her theories are worthless. Her Kurgan hypothesis, obviously with modifications, is the most current theory of PIE origins. So if you want to say "not widely accepted", you'll have to say which statements exactly are not widely accepted. For example, if you say that her idea that a bull's head represented ovaries, I will readily agree that it is quite fringy. dab (ᛏ) 5 July 2005 19:40 (UTC)
- it's true that "archaeomythology" smells of Gimbutas and over-interpretation. But what's wrong with "Old European"? The term is certainly preferable to "Pre-Indo-European", which makes linguistic assumptions, and is not restricted to Europe (and may in principle applied to India and the Americas). I suggest the discussion of Gimbutas' view is taken from the intro and given in more detail. The statement I removed seemed to refer to the whole paragraph, including mention of "Kurgan". If you make explicit that Gimbutas' socio-religio-mythological speculations are widely rejected, I have no problem with that. We should probably take this discussion to the article's talk page. dab (ᛏ) 6 July 2005 13:10 (UTC)
You said what I wrote as Grassman is really Grassmann - I used the spelling from Wyszecki and Stiles which probably where the confusion originates, but googling both convinces me you are probably right. But how do you justify Grassmann? I'd like to put a note in the article, but not just say "Google says Grassmann wins". PAR 22:56, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thanks for helping me watch this. The garbled passages must still be typos from my original entry, I'll try to fix them. dab (ᛏ) 15:40, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
- so it should, surely, but I haven't got the time to do it just now.... dab (ᛏ) 06:20, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
Your translation is fine...
Κύριε Μακράκη, έχετε καιρό να έρθετε Ελλάδα, ετσι; :) Η μετάφραση σας είναι καλή και με ένα spellchecker θα ήτανε τέλεια. Στην Ελλάδα η προσκόληση σε παλαιότερα ήθη δεν έχει αλλάξει καθόλου, όμως: Ο Κοιλιόδουλος, εεεεε ο Χρηστόδουλος έχει απειλήσει με αφορισμό όποιον εκδόσει τη Βίβλο στα νέα ελληνικά. Είναι θέμα καθαρά νεοτροπίας. Classic case of "Not invented here" syndrome. Ο χρονογράφος δεν έχει δικιο ότι οποιοσδήποτε μπορεί να διαβάσει το κείμενο της κοινής ελληνικής. η γιαγιά μου ούτε που καταλαβαίνει τι λεει ο παπάς. Και η γιαγιά μου είναι αυτή που πάει εκκλησία όχι οι νεότεροι, που ειπάρχει περίπτωση να καταλάβουν δυο πράγματα.
PS: (YES, WE WON! No software pattents! woot!) Project2501a 03:19, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
explain this to me
Why the hell do greeks that do not leave in greece go on to do lots of wonderful things and greeks that live in greece only try to kick each other's ass, rediccule, maim, shame hustle each other? I really don't get this... why do i need to seriously consider migrating from greece, if i want to grow as a person and actually make a buck? Why does it feel like the junta was never really overthrown?
γιατί γαμώτο μου η Ελλάδα να με πεθαίνει κάθε μέρα; Γιατί έχω τον καθε $!$*%&#$# να μου λέει "Έτσι είναι εδώ"; :~(
Project2501a 13:33, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
- Πρέπει να φύγεις, Πρότζεκτ. Δεν υπάρχει άλλη λύση. Η αρνητική ενέργεια θα σε κυριεύσει αν μείνεις περισσότερο.--Theathenae 16:21, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
Re file Macraki mipos eisai kathisterimenos? Me ti vlakeies kathesai kai asxoleisai? Prospatheis na mas bgaleis blakes i pseutes diladi emas tous upoloipous? Apla den katalabaino ti logous exeis na kathesai na asxoleisai me tis diafores tis arxaias kai neas koinis, les kai eipe kaneis allos oti prokeitai gia to idio kai to auto. Tis kseroume tis diafores, euxaristoume poly, einai grammenes kai sta arthra. Ton eksipno pas na kaneis? Miskin 17:04, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Ki esy re ProjectXXX me to sumpathio adelfe alla mipos se exei faei i malakia? Se periptosi pou den to exeis katalabei, eisai eksisou karagkiozis me tous extremistes tis akrodeksias pou kathesai kai brizeis. Basika eisai ki esu o idios extremistis xoris na to katalabaineis. O sofos anthropos katigorei kai uperaspizetai ti xora tou analoga me tis sunthikes. To na kathesai apla na katigoreis tous Ellines editors stin wikipedia epeidi de sumfonoun me tis politikes sou pepithiseis, prokeitai gia malakinsi 1ou bathmou. Ante giati apo tote pou egine i aristera tis modas ntunontai oloi sta kokkina kai agourazoun kai prada. Miskin (This is addressed to Project2501a -- I am copying it to his Talk page. --Macrakis 17:31, 21 July 2005 (UTC))
computer science categorization
Hi. I apologise for any trouble I might have caused you. Anyway, here's something on topic: Me and a couple of friends are trying to fix up Category:Computer science and Category:Software engineering. They are both a mess. And we'll try to put some guidelines together on how things should be categorised. Anyway, if you don't mind I wanna ask a question: I'm not quite sure if Computer languages fall direcly under computer science, since those are the tools comp-sci people use to do their work, or do they fall under software engineering or any other part. What's your opinion? Thanks in advance. Project2501a 20:05, 22 July 2005 (UTC)