User:Coppertwig

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I just took a look at Simple English Wikiquote. I had misunderstood it! It is a worthwhile project! It is not about collecting quotes in Simple English. It is about collecting quotes in English (or maybe other languages?) and explaining them in Simple English. This is a worthwhile project! But there is a proposal to close it down at meta:Proposals for closing projects!

The reason Simple English Wikiquote is worthwhile is that many people may not understand some famous quotes in English and can benefit from Simple English explanations. Some people voting to close it down say that there's no use collecting quotes in Simple English. They just don't even understand that the project is not about collecting quotes in Simple English!

Others say that if someone doesn't understand a quote in English, they should read a translation of it in their own language. They fail to understand two things: first, that there are many people who can read Simple English but can't read any other language (or not well enough to understand translations of those quotes). This includes some children, some adults who can understand ordinary English but are baffled by expressions like "come what come may" or archaic terms in some famous quotes, many deaf people who have difficulty learning to read because their own language has no written form and they can't hear the sounds that make alphabets meaningful; and other people. Also: if someone is learning English, an explanation in Simple English of a famous quote would help them understand the quote without switching back to their own language; switching back can interfere with learning a new language. --Coppertwig 03:08, 4 December 2006 (UTC)


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Hi, I'm Coppertwig. Try this out: Flacus' Interwiki Link Checker an interactive tool for adding links between already existing articles in different languages.

There is a Simple English Wikipedia and a Simple English Wiktionary for people who do not read much English, whether they are learning English or just want information they are not able to find in any other place. I'm writing for them.

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I started on Wikipedia on Nov. 2, 2006.

User:Coppertwig/homepage


Interests:

  • Doing some French/English translation.
  • Adding citations to Corporal Punishment-related articles and thinking of merging/rearranging some of these articles
  • Minor contributions to statistics pages
  • Adding lots of redirects so I and others can find things, for example the pages of instructions and guidelines
  • Writing definitions for Simple English Wikipedia
  • Translated Canada's Food Guide page into French
  • Translating Hellenistic art into Simple English
  • Added minerals to the Hrvatski version of Essential Nutrient
  • Translated Essential Nutrient into French
  • Putting links among many nutrition-related articles in many languages
  • Other miscellaneous contributions

Ik kan enkel een klein beetje Nederlands spreken, tussen 0 en 1. Ich kann mehr Deutsch sprechen als Nederlands, zwischen 1 und 2. I have access to TERMIUM, an extensive online French/English/Spanish phrase dictionary. More precise Babel might be en|fr-3|la-1.5|de-1.5|nl-0.5|grc-0.5.

Sorry if I forget to write an edit summary before clicking Save Changes. (I just discovered "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" on user preferences -- didn't work though? Maybe it doesn't prompt when you're editing your user page?) I think Wikipedia is great. I'm just learning how it works. Coppertwig 17:36, 6 November 2006 (UTC)en:User:Coppertwig/Languages

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