User talk:Josh Rocchio

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Contents 1 Category:Language user templates 2 Toast (honor) 3 RE: la:Microsoft 4 short greeting 5 Latin 6 Newspeak Babel 7 Problem on my page 8 Chess 9 RfA 10 Hello 11 Gangkhar Peunsum 12 Style guide 13 User:Cool Cat/In many languages... 14 Languages 15 La: user 16 Genomai 17 Is Joey Mercury really your uncle? 18 Whittaker's Words 19 Re: Vox Causa 20 Email 21 Ok 22 Apologies 23 Request for edit summary 24 User page changes

[edit] Category:Language user templates

I had to take your Userpage out of this category, seeing that you are not a Userbox template. -23_PatPeter*∞ 02:27, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Toast (honor)

This is wikipedia, so it's not really "my" article. I'd be delighted to see any improvement and expansion of articles, so go for it. Elf | Talk 17:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE: la:Microsoft

What do the following say in English?:

"Latinitas huius permaxime corrigenda est. Corrige vel rescribe si possis."

"Hoc articulus melius digerendus est. Quaesemus ut opem des in categorias rectas includendo."

(Also, what does "maxcorrigenda" and "dubcat" mean?)

By the way, is there a Latin-English-Latin translator so I can translate all of [[Microsoft]'s contents from the English Wikipedia, onto the Latin one? --Shultz III 08:18, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] short greeting

dear Josh,

i'm Edoardo, from it.wiki. I'm just writing to inform that after your request in your italian Userpage, I corrected some inelegantiae in your welcome message. Glad to see we have common interests. -- εΔω 10:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your emendations to my user page! Though it seems as if it had been vandalized in the edit prior to yours, making the Italian even worse than which I am capable (si vere illud potest!). Vandals are one thing about wiki that I suppose we will never be able to fix. As for Iosue/Giosue, I ask if the variance is dialectual? My sicilian grandmother called me Giosue and my neapolitan grandmother Iosue. Maybe the G was just slight in her pronunciation, and I never picked up on it. I unfortunately suffer from the same problem of heritage speakers of any language. Not having studied Italian formally after 18 years of speaking it, I find I am terrible at spelling. I write what I hear in my head, not what is correct. All this will change in the fall, when I go on to pursue my masters in Latin and Greek. I will be fastracking an Italian undergraduate degree, while I pursue my masters. I hope to come back home to do doctoral work, and I will definitely need serious study before I can take classes taught in Italian. Ack, my children are streaming through the door, so I must take leave. Thank you again for your corrections, we will talk again soon. Ciao!

We have similar problems... wikiholics and happily married... mmm... As far as your "spelling" is concerned, Giosuè the Italian form as witnessed by the Italian poet Giosue Carducci and by the byblical King and prophet (Giosué)[1], so feel free to keep your Iosue as a local spelling. I'm quite respectful of local traditions (being admin not only on it.wiki but also on vec.wiki), and glad to read your interest for italy. As for yur state of "heritage speaker" I see your experience as a treasure, a record of a language which, in times of roaring involution of my cherished language, must be kept in a guarded chest, especially when a superimposing structure of formal Italian is going to take its place in your mental database. as a scholar in classics and a musician I'm sure that it will not be a problem, we are prepared to embed new languages and compare them delighting every advantage they come with. Just take my consideration as an advice to be proud of your linguistic heritage. I was born in Veneto and my parents where motherlnguage Veronese dialect, but I soon learned only Italian language, so I had to "relearn" my dialect after the "critical period", and now I feel quite uncomfortable with Veronese dialect - with my great disappointment -. εΔω 08:35, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Latin

OK, thanks heaps for the translate. I overlooked the user/usor thing, mostly due to my ineptitude in Latin, and I redirected Lingva Latina to Lingua Latina as to avoid confusion, i was looking for the article and i automatically typed with the v, Lingva Latina is one of the only phrases I know. :) I'll keep the u/v thing in mind when I'll do stuff on the Latin Wikipedia. Thanks again for the translate, I've given you credit for it on the page. +Hexagon1 (talk) 04:11, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newspeak Babel

I created a new template for a Newspeak Babel. It's not an official Babel yet, and it only has one level, but I thought it was fun, and, given your help on the Vicipaedia on 1984, I thought you might appreciate it and possibly add it to your babel. You can throw it up by adding ns-2 to your Babel box. Later, zappa.jake (talk) 01:05, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem on my page

The problem is fixed. I reverted to the last known correct version. --Elkman - ^(talk) 23:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC) I removed all claims that I'm able to do copyediting and removed information about my hobbies, and clarified my role in the Wikipedia project. --Elkman - ^(talk) 02:26, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chess

Up for a game of wikichess? Hosted here. Later, zappa.jake (talk) 03:20, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

I notcied that you've left messages for Zappa.jake on his talk page, so I thought you mihgt want to vote in his RfA at WP:RFA. ShortJason 15:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for ShortJason's advertising. Normally most people consider it unacceptable to advertise RfAs (Requests for Adminship) on people's talk pages. I have asked him to stop here. Regardless, now that it's here, if you do wish to vote, do so here. Sorry, zappa.jake (talk) 19:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Sure, I can do that on your behalf if you compile that list... --HappyCamper 12:13, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I owe you one for searching for those links: I've added them [2] Thanks :-) --HappyCamper 04:37, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gangkhar Peunsum

Just back from holiday, hence my delay in replying. I certainly didn't translate "Gangkhar Peunsum". I found the translation either on-line or in Steven Berry's book (reference in article), I suspect in the latter. I have a copy of the book but when I last tried to find it I couldn't! I'll try again. However, Berry is a mountaineer and was probably just repeating what someone told him. Thincat 08:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I've found this on the web [3]. I'm not sure of its date but anyway, I doubt this was my original reference. It can't simply be copying erroneous material from Wikipedia (!) because it has additional details not reported there. Thincat 12:38, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Style guide

Hi Josh - my apologies for not getting back to you earlier. I was away for a little bit and just saw your message. I don't know of a page in the Wikipedia namespace that addresses exactly what you are looking for. Have you taken a look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style? It has a lot of material, so it might take some time to find what you need. Generally, I tell new users to add material in a manner that makes the information transparent and clear. Usually, it then becomes easier to determine the style that is needed for the page. I hope this helps, and please let me know if you come across anything interesting related to this - I'd like to know more about it too! --HappyCamper 02:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad consensus was reached regarding them! It would probably be nearly impossible to do so here with the sheer number of Wikipedians around voting. Oh yes, I know what you mean about this Wiki...to say the least, it's changed my perspective on a few things already! When I first came here, I wrote nondimensionalization...maybe you can translate it into Latin :-) Actually, I was highly intrigued when I saw articles for modern physics articles over there. I had to give it to another faculty member to read it!! --HappyCamper 17:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Cool Cat/In many languages...

Thank you for the Latin translation --Cat out 00:44, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Languages

Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 19:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] La: user

Hi Josh, is it really necessary to change the username? The user has no edits and you've blocked him indefinitely. If the name still exists it also prevents someone else from using that as a name. It should be harmless. Adam Bishop 03:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Genomai

To begin with, I don't know if the Greek Wikipedia really counts as the definitive source on the matter. If anything, the French Wikipedia would be more authoritative as it was a Frenchman who named the element. My reference was the OED online, which cited the -gen suffix as being generally related to γίνομαι, γένος, γεννάω, etc. I guess I simply took it upon myself to pick the most appropriate word from these related roots for the article. Upon further reading, the OED claims that Lavoisier claimed his naming to be based on γείνομαι, which I have not even heard of. Admittedly, I'm not terribly advanced in Ancient Greek (5 semesters undergrad), and it was entirely focused on NT and LXX Koine, so my ignorance of a word is not too noteworthy. Have you heard of γείνομαι? Is it related to any of the aforementioned words? If so, perhaps a pragmatic approach could have γείνομαι listed in the article, and have it linked to γίνομαι or γεννάω or something, so that readers would at least have something useful to investigate. Sorry for the late reply. Cerealkiller13 07:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I see you've made the suggested changes on the hydrogen article. Looks good. If you feel really ambitious, perhaps you could add an entry in Wiktionary and fix the link. Sadly I don't yet own a Liddell-Scott, and my Danker doesn't have it, so I wouldn't have the resources to do it myself. As for the font I used, it's a unicode font. I got the typewriter here [4]. It's kind of a hassle, because you need to install a separate program, and then run it in the system tray every time you want to type in Greek, but it works pretty well, and since it's Unicode, it works properly on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc. Cerealkiller13 07:23, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is Joey Mercury really your uncle?

If so, what was the real story behind the drug rehab?

Well, Adam really is my uncle... Not sure about the rehab. I didn't even know about it til I read on wiki. Non of my cousins know anything, either, so I think he and his mom kept it pretty closed up.--Ioshus^(talk) 15:46, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whittaker's Words

Hi, I've put the text in your user space under User:Josh Rocchio/William Whittaker's Words for the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience, but as you see, nothing's really lost or too late. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi - hope you don't mind but I subst'ed the stub template on your talk page, so that it doesn't turn up in a category of articles for editors to expand. Jeodesic 00:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Vox Causa

thanks for the explanation. I will probably change the definition on my talk page. I took two years of Latin in middle school(intermediate school, before secondary school, or high school), but that has faded away since then. My current user name was just a quick online translation, as a previous user name(same thing, except in English) bore too close a resemblance to another Wikipedian. I doubt I will change user names, as I already have a substantial amount from edits to this account. Thanks again, though, for the information, and thanks for editing Wikipedia!--Vox Causa 03:47, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reccomendation, I now have a new correct name. I have a respect for all languages, and I cannot stand to misuse them. I would certainly hate to go around editing Wikipedia with a false name. Thanks again!--Vox Rationis 20:14, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Email

Unfortunately, personal emails are usually not appropriate as sources for Wikipedia articles. If you are in contact with the creator of a program, he may be well-positioned to direct you to any published material that exists, but your personal communications with him are not a reliable published source. Best of luck with your article, Christopher Parham (talk) 22:50, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ok

Ok. Thanks for welcoming me on the Vicipaedia Latina, but I really can't speak latin (like you and French, just understanding). I feel better here anyways. I won't be editing there until I can read up more, and learn Latin. Thanks for welcoming an unknown newbie, without any edits, it's appreciated. | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 19:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Does "infecta" mean "translation"? | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 20:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 20:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies

My sincere apologies for unintenionally maligning Vicipedia Eds by association. Will stick to my own languages in future. Mea Culpa. Scandrett (talk)22:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

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[edit] User page changes

Sorry to make so many edits to your user page. The net result of my changes from your last revision was just to remove links to level-0 language categories that were deleted at WP:UCfD and unicodify your the interwiki for your Russian user account. In the interim, there was some vandalism that reverted both my original round of level-0 removals and your last changes, but I think the page should be OK now. Mike Dillon 15:08, 23 March 2007 (UTC)