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September 26

Arabic paleography

Probably, I ask about a thing nonexistent, but is there something close to Bischoff or Thompson's paleographic works but on Arabic script? Especially I'm intersted in when and how additonal non-Arabic letters have been invented, or in other words the history of letters.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 18:26, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps these three volumes on "the Arabic manuscript tradition" by Adam Gacek. Lesgles (talk) 02:58, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help with French translation

Could someone translate something in English into phonetic French for me? Thanks!Claire Anemone (talk) 19:38, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

/'kɛlkɘʃoz/ μηδείς (talk) 16:35, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
/il brilg; le tɔv lybrisijø sə ʒir ã vrijã dã la gwab/ —Tamfang (talk) 05:00, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

/jy 'filsi 'iŋgliʃ kɘ'nɪgɨt/! μηδείς (talk) 01:10, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Enough time has passed for spoilers, I think. First Medeis translated something; I quoted the beginning of a French version of Jabberwocky. —Tamfang (talk) 09:19, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Are you implyeeng zat zee fraunch espiqueeng chevaliers du San Graal du Python Monty ne méritent rien? μηδείς (talk) 01:12, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Quick Japanese Translation

Not sure if this is the place to ask this, but I need help translating two non Wikipedia Japanese articles to English. Well, not so much translation, but more or less what the articles are saying. There's only so much Google Translate can do. The two articles talk about Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

First article is really short, and I believe it mentions that for the release of Virtue's Last Reward, the developers made 999 free for a short time. This would be useful for the promotion section.

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201202/02009394.html

Second article is a bit longer. I had a hard time understanding this article, but I do believe it's talking about a game release party of the developers.

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201202/15010000.html

My apollogies if this is the wrong place to put this. If it is, then could you possibly point me to where I need to go. Thanks. Famous Hobo (talk) 19:34, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is the correct place. The first article does say that in celebration of the release of VLR, Chunsoft made 999 free to play from 2012-02-02 to 2012-03-06. The second article is about a pre-launch press event for VLR on ~~2015~~2012-02-15 starring Kotaro Uchikoshi (the director) and Mikie Hara (a gravure idol). It doesn't look like anything interesting happened. -- BenRG (talk) 05:23, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that's exactly what I need. Famous Hobo (talk) 05:51, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]