User talk:Cerberus™
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Greetings!
My name is Ryan, and it's my pleasure to welcome you, Cerberus™, to Wikipedia! First of all, I'd like to thank you for joining the project, and contributing to articles and discussion. I hope you can continue to take part in Wikipedia, because we need more valuable editors like yourself.
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[edit] VWN en WCN
Beste allemaal Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.
Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, Effeietsanders 25 feb 2006 12:27 (CET)
[edit] Foolproof
Hello there! To answer your "foolproof" question, here's how I would use the words:
- foolproof and bulletproof
- full-scale or full scale (see below); never *fullscale
- hawk-nosed
- brand-new or brand new (see below); never *brandnew
- evenhanded
- fail-safe or failsafe (see below)
Regarding "brand new": This depends on whether the expression is being used as a modifier or a predicate adjective. "She has a brand-new toaster," but "Her toaster is brand new."
Regarding "fail safe": If it's an adjective, it's fail-safe: "The toaster is fail-safe; it is a fail-safe toaster." If it's a noun, meaning a device to make something fail safely, it's "failsafe": "We installed a failsafe on the toaster." However, both of these are buzzwords with a certain military sound; I'd prefer to say that "We made the toaster so that it will fail safely."
Regarding "full scale": It's similar to "brand new": "This is a full-scale model of a toaster," but "we built this model to full scale."
(Likewise, "The Death Star is fully operational," but it's a "fully-operational battle station.")
Why is "fail-safe" different from "brand new"? I'm not sure. Could be because "fail-safe" is a verb and an adjective, whereas "brand new" is a noun and an adjective, and "full scale" is an adjective and a noun.
"Hawk-nosed" is a different case. We would never say that anyone is "nosed" or "eyed", but someone can be "hawk-nosed" or "wide-eyed" ... or "big-breasted", or even "polo-shirted". The hyphen may be reinforced by the fact that "hawknosed" would look like it was to be pronounced "haw-knosed", and "wideeyed" as "wi-dee-yed". --FOo 03:48, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ancient Greek Wikisource
I understand from your userboxes you're interested in Ancient Greek. I've submitted a proposal to add an Ancient Greek Wikisource on Meta, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me by either voting in Support of the proposal, or even adding your name as one of the contributors in the template. (NB: I'm posting this to a lot of people, so please reply to my talkpage or to Meta) --Nema Fakei 20:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Latin Wikiquote (Vicicitatio)
Hello! I see you have tagged yourelf with a {{la-4}} template. Would you like to help us by translating into latin any of the official polices or help pages of Wikipedia? —Argentino (talk/cont.) 20:28, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fellow Classicist
Greetings fellow classicist! I am trying to flush out pages on rhetoric and expand articles on some of the classical texts such as Pro Archia Poeta. I recently updated chiasmus and zeugma and included some Latin quotations with my own translations. I would welcome your critical critique in the name of accuracy. Gratias tibi ago. --Ben Trent 17:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Latin Translation
Hi Cerberus, I'm looking for a Latin --> English translation on this text, at WikiSource. Let me know if you can help. Thanks, 
Canæn 02:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
