User talk:Doric Loon/Archive 2006

"Minim" etymology

Hi,

Please see my comments on Talk:Half note about a remark you added to Half note about the etymology of the term "minim" in music. Got any sources for your suggestion? Lukas 23:17, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Yiddish, Basque

Could you please see my question at Talk:Yiddish_language#Basque.3F.3F.3F? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:27, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

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It was taken over from the German wikipedia - I can only assume that they have already dealt with copyright questions. But I am pretty sure they made it themselves, so it is public domain. --Doric Loon 09:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Assimilation

Hmmm... the articles you mentioned, [1] [2] [3] [4], are you saying these edits are incorrect? They seem correct to me. There was one mistake which was in germanic spirant law, which I have now corrected. I DO read the article and simply made a careless mistake (which I have no idea how I made in the first place).

evaluation of ish ishwar

hi. long time no type.

recently, someone has nominated me for an adminship (Requests for adminship/Ish ishwar). one of the questions asks about prior conflicts. i have not had any real conflicts (i dont think), but the most conflictish encounter, i believe, was our discussion over Indo-European ablaut-Ablaut-Apophony. because of this, perhaps you would be interested in participating in the evaluation of my behaviour. if not, that's fine, too. thanks & peace – ishwar  (speak) 00:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Sure. That wasn't a conflict, though. --Doric Loon 06:10, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

British English Subjunctive

Alright dude, I've been thinking of doing a drastic overhaul to the article on the Subjunctive (specifically the English section) as I'm not convinced about the whole American/British usage arguments found in it, and generally needs a bit of expansion and a clean-up.

I noticed from its talk page that you felt the same way about some of it, so I'd appreciate it if you could have a look at the article sometime over the next few days to see what you think of the changes that I'm considering. I'll not get round to it before tonight at the earliest so don't be confused if you see no amendments when you visit it. Cheers! Brian 16:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Alright Doric, how are you keeping? Have another look at user:brianlacey/sandbox both for general appraisal and also specifically to see where you think an Indo-European Copula connection could be made. I think that after a few more edits it will be ready to be unleashed upon the world! Cheers. Brian 11:43, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Dutch language

Could you please take a look at talk:Dutch language. I have a dispute with user:Sandertje about this article. Thanks. Andries 14:30, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration request

I would like to inform about the Arbitration request concerning the long discussion on Talk:Dutch language.

[The link to the Arbitration request will follow soon, as I have to inform you before posting]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Statement_by_Sander_on_Talk:Dutch_language

Sander 10:40, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Ablaut

Just a word of thanks for your large improvements to this article. -- Smerdis of Tlön 17:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Dutch Orthography

Hi Doric. I have been looking at the article Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse spelling on the Dutch wiki. A translation was being requested and I am keen to do one. On looking again at the article Dutch Orthography it seems to me that it might be best to merge the two to avoid duplications. This would produce a more substantial, feature sized article. Any problems? Hikitsurisan 07:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I see no sense in having two. More work for you, of course, if you are collating as well as translating, but if you are up for it, rock on! --Doric Loon 10:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Your rude behaviour

Comments like "rv. Stelen has no GW!!" when reverting serves no purpose at all. If you want to scream at people for nothing fine, but not at me understand?! Nearly every Dutch linguistic term has Germanic and not Latin roots, therefore Dutch people, like myself, often experience difficulties with the more international Latin based terms. I thought a change of vowels was meant, and so I changed the verb in which that was more clear.Thank you. Sander 14:18, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

My dear Sandertje, that remark was certainly not rude, but merely factual. I did not use bold and italics to give the impression of flaming - you have added those. However, I have seen you operate often enough not to be surprised that you expect and respond with confrontation. Grammatischer Wechsel is not a Latin-based term, but there is no shame in not being familiar with it. I trust we have clarity now. --Doric Loon 16:23, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Putting two exclamation marks behind a comment is rude. No 'dear sandertje' will help you there Doric Loon.I trust we have clarity now. Sander 19:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Old English weak verbs

I notice that you requested Benwing to help out with Old English weak verbs. You may find just what you are looking for at Old English morphology#Weak verbs. --teb728 01:18, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, that may be useful. --Doric Loon 15:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Bertold von Regensburg

Hi Doric Loon,

I think it was you who added the section on Bertold of Regensburg to Flat Earth. Do you have a bit more detail on what Bertold said, and ideally a citation. -- I'm afraid I'm succumbing to the historian's vice and going overboard with footnotes (something of a reaction to the undocumented claims I've come across). --SteveMcCluskey 01:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

History Man

Thank you so much for your words of encouragement; they are very much appreciated. I am beginning to get very cynical, I am sorry to report, over the whole Wikipedia enterprise. You may be interested to see what I have written on the main Wikipedia talk page (Highest Quality?) You would not believe-or perhaps you would-some of the breathtaking distortions and factual inaccuracies I have come across over the last few weeks in items touching on aspects of Scottish and British history. Perhaps the worst of all was the assertion that Pope Boniface gave Edward I a medal for the massacre of men, women and children at Berwick-upon-Tweed in the sack of 1296. I can recognize nonsense when I see it in areas with which I am familiar; but what about the many areas where I have no prior knowledge? More to the point, what about the school-age children or even students who are absorbing lies and misinformation as fact? I will keep trying, though; at least for a little while longer. Rcpaterson 22:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

All the more reason why we have a responsibility to try to put these things right. I am a university teacher, and really got involved in Wikipedia when I discoverd that my students are using this as a resource. Some colleagues try to stop them, saying it's not academic enough. That's true, but unrealistic. I think it is better to teach them to use it intelligently, and at the same time to make it as good as I can. Now some of the articles I have worked on are splendid resources for my classes, and I can actively point them to it. --Doric Loon 09:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Regensburg

Thank you for drawing my attention to this informative piece. I have nothing to add, but I do have a question. Do you know in which parts of Scotland the Regensburg mission of the early seventeenth century operated? It would have been highly dangerous for them to have preached openly in much of the Lowlands; so I assume that it must have been in the more remote parts of Scotland, where people retained some commitment to the old faith. There was an important Franciscan mission to the Western Isles in the 1620s, which made great headway, especially among the Gaelic speaking communities of Clan Donald. I assume some co-ordination must have been at work? Rcpaterson 23:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Hallo Doric, pleas look her to my answer. Hast Du vielleicht auch ein Foto von Max Buchhausers Garten? Greetings Pelz

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You're welcome.

The Soviet Writers' Union was the stylistic authority. The grammatical authority was less formal, but that made hardly any difference, since every published author went through the SWU and the SWU was always in love with one dictionary and grammar or another. --VKokielov 14:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding Schami to List of German-language authors!

I love his work; thanks so much for adding his name! Further contributions are welcome, also to the List of German-language poets and List of German-language philosophers. Gruss, Universitytruth 12:37, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Historiography encyclopedia/dictionary

Hi - Stbalbach here from the Dark Ages.. is there an encyclopedia or dictionary that deals with historiography? I see so many articles on Wikipedia with terms that need explanation.. like Hundred Years War recently came up as a question when and where the term originated. I don't know if such a thing exists, but thought you might possibly know if such a thing exists. -- Stbalbach 00:16, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Lebedev

I was looking through the Mikhail Lebedev page and it seems to be vanity and non-notable to me. First of all, there is hardly any information about him on Google. Then, none of the publications seem to be news-worthy and notable. Finally, the scientist does not have many 1st author publications and seems to be non-important in his field. If you agree with me, can you please help me nominate Mikhail Lebedev for deletion? --GoOdCoNtEnT 08:43, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Basque language

Hooray! Somebody's done it! I've been contemplating that 'absurd sentence' wondering what to do with it for a while. --ColinFine 19:19, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Germanic Strong and Weak Verbs

(I posted this as a reply to your comment on my Talk page, but I'm putting it here, too, in case you wouldn't check there.)

I'm glad you approve of my edits. I have added some more comments about the semantic shift of PIE perfect to Gmc preterite. I have thought of contributing to the Germanic strong verb page, but right now it's geared toward the West Germanic languages, and what I would be best able to contribute would involve Gmc and Gothic info that would not fit well into the article's current thrust. I welcome suggestions, though. Nice job with all your contributions! Unsigned comment by User:Dr. Elwin Ransom, 18 Oct 2006

Great, let's think about that together. So far I have almost been the only person to write about strong verbs, and that is why the page is entirely geared to the languages I know. Let's continue this at Talk:Germanic strong verb and see what we can do with it. --Doric Loon 09:38, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Split infinitive FAR/C

Hi there

I wonder whether you're in a position to help to bring this one back to FA standards. Tony 12:00, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Aberdeen Grammar School

Any comments made on the Aberdeen Grammar page were not made by me. As this computer is used by others I can only fathom that other individuals have been creating mischief.

Unsigned comment by User:El Loto, 30 Oct 06.

English Irregular Verb Questions

Greetings, the Loric Doon!

I'm the Queen of English. Could you take a look at my questions on the talk page for [Wiktionary Irregular Verbs - English] and give me your Doric opinion? Thank you! Dblomgren 03:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Queen of English. OK, I've made a couple of points there. Tell me if you need any more. --Doric Loon 13:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

good article, needs armor.

I like your Place names with English meanings and the reasoning behind it. Its place here may be questionable, but if you can bring it to meet the three major guidelines, WP:NPOV, WP:N, and WP:V (preferably by WP:CITE) then it should be well protected from deletion. If it ever comes up for WP:AFD please let me know on my talk page. — coelacan talk — 20:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Split infinitive

The review for this really needs to be closed as it's been up there almost two months. I can't in good faith close it as keep with only remove comments standing. I just thought I'd let you know that a remove is not a comment on your work—you obviously put in some effort and the page is improved. Barring some last minute change, I will close it tomorrow. Marskell 15:56, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Fine. Clearly there is no consensus for keeping the status, and I don't have a problem with that. --Doric Loon 16:38, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Untagged image

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