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[edit] Selam

Selam , Türk karşıtı kullanıcı Khoikhoi ingilizce wikipedia'da adminlik için şansını deniyor.Daha fazla türk gelirse bunu engelleyebiliriz. Oyunu burdan kullanabilirsin Teşekkürler. (85.97.143.5 18:16, 26 March 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Language

Just posting to Talk:Language is fine. When making large (and especially controversial) changes to an article, it's best to discuss first and edit later; the trouble with being bold is that other people are bold back. Consensus first tends to be more productive. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:36, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi, David. Sorry, I meant to poke around at Talk:Language, but I do subscribe to the be-bold philosophy, and I ran out of time and steam after the changes I made. Anyway, I have now remedied the situation, and have started a discussion of my changes and ideas for improving the page. As I said there, I think this can be an important backbone article. I look forward to ironing out just how to make it so with you and others. --Tox 13:45, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tamil Grammar and an Incompleteness Theorem

Unfortunately, I have no qualifications whatsoever to write about language. But in my opinion, the opening section of the article 'Language' should simply be removed, or at the very least moved to the end. However, doing so myself would gain nothing, since I don't have the tools to defend my position. If you've been rebuffed trying to do this before, I suspect it has something to do with Tamil chauvinism. Such are the limitations of the Wikipedia, which can be wunderbar or schlecht, or both in one and the same article! I propose the following THEOREM: The Wikipedia is consistent iff it is complete. Since it cannot be complete... RCSB 21:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Essays on Metaphysics

Mr. Pierce:

Your user page indicates that you were attempting to create a subpage within your userspace in which to house Essays on Metaphysics. However, you inadvertently created the page within the main article space. That is, instead of creating User:David Pierce/Metaphysics, you created David Pierce/Metaphysics.

Your comments on your userpage make it clear that this was an innocent mistake, so I have taken the liberty of moving the page so that it resides in the correct location. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on my talk page. → Ξxtreme Unction {yakłblah} 21:35, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Metaphysics

I am not sure how, but User:Matia.gr asked if I could take a look at that article you're writing. (Perhaps s/he knew that I have spent quite a bit of time clearing out copyright problems on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. I'm not a lawyer, but I've learnt a little while I've been on Wikipedia, and I've left my thoughts on the matter at User talk:David Pierce/Metaphysics. I hope you don't feel I'm interfering. -Splashtalk 21:29, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Language vs a language

David, would you be so kind as to share your opinion concerning my question placed on the talk:language page? jVirus 08:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Care to discuss my question here? What is the difference between language and a language, linguistically that is? jVirus 23:51, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

It is still not clear whether you are responding to my comments under Talk:Language/Archive_1#recent_changes, where I suggested that a language is to language as a human is to humanity.
David Pierce 08:39, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
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