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Multiple persons adressed
[edit]I'm missing a rule how to adress more than one known recipient. As far as I know, it's done in the following way: Dear Mr Jones, Mr Smith and Mr Jonson: but I am no native speaker, and I did not find anything in the sources.
Inconsistent transliteration
[edit]The current article text contains:
"Sa'adat Assayid if the reader is male, and Sa'adat As'Sayyidah if female."
and:
"Sa'adat Assayidah Sarah Ibrahim"
Two inconsistencies are:
- Assayid vs As'Sayyidah
- As'Sayyidah vs Assayyidah
From the transliterations of texts in Arabic that I have seen until now, I understand that one standard would transliterate the formulas as follows:
"Saʻādat as-sayyid if the reader is male, and Saʻādat as-sayyidah if she is female."
Similar considerations hold for the other transliterations from Arabic. I am not knowledgeable enough to check whether the Arabic translations are correct, but I propose that a standard transliteration be used and in a consistent way.Redav (talk) 01:22, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Translation dictionary?
[edit]Salutations in languages other than English should not be included in this article. I seek a new consensus to remove them. Riposte97 (talk) 12:03, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
- Object, no policy-based reason has been provided ... and your removal after waiting over a day without objections is nowhere near good enough. Graham87 (talk) 15:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Graham, the policy is WP:NOTDICTIONARY. Wikipedia is not a phrase book. This page (and Valediction) are essentially structured as guides to language-learners. Riposte97 (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- I have waited ten months and will proceed. Riposte97 (talk) 07:45, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Graham, the policy is WP:NOTDICTIONARY. Wikipedia is not a phrase book. This page (and Valediction) are essentially structured as guides to language-learners. Riposte97 (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2023 (UTC)