User talk:Mnewmanqc
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Hi Mnewmanqc, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have. You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox. When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines. First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette. Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.
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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame) 20:23, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] New York English
So you want to remove all information on the facts on the Three Main Accents of New York City? You don't want to do only original research, you want to change past history and what is accepted. You shouldn't use wikipedia as a way to change things and rename stuff. 65.42.87.249 00:06, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
You really showed your ignorance with the Trump and Guliani comment. To speak an New York Irish accent, you do not have to be Irish-American. It's not about ethnicity, it's about the way a person talks. Colin Quinn is Irish, but he does not speak with an New York Irish accent, his accent is more New York Jewish.
You also say you do not think something should be included because of what the majority of New Yorkers believe, but what you want to do is put in what you believe. Why is what you, one person, not from New York, believe more important than what has been accepted by New Yorkers in New York City? 65.42.87.249 00:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- I didn't spell street wrong. I put that people pronounce street as shtreet sometimes. TeckWiz 02:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "House" vowel
I made my best guess from the phonetic pronunciation that had been there originally. The trouble is that growing up in Central NJ I never actually heard a Piney accent, so I had no first-hand memory of it to go on. But thank you. I value your professional opinion.
I have recently developed a more focused interest in your field -- sociolinguistics in general, not necessarily your specific area of interest. Are there any good introductory books you can recommend to a layman? TCC (talk) (contribs) 21:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I, like, agree
at least partially. (P.S. My initial remark was neither directed to you, nor your post, in case you didn't notice.) dr.ef.tymac 15:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New York Dialect
Hey, what's a good way to learn the accent of New York? I can't exactly afford to go there for a few yrs but I haven't found too much in Australia..there are a few tapes here and there but it doesn't feel serious enough..i wanna learn to tɔɪk like them.. and I am an actor and many plays do use American accents with a lot of New Yorkese ones..Domsta333 12:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dialects guidelines
It's an awful lot of work to start and maintain a new WikiProject, so I've decided to raise the issue at WikiProject Languages, which deals with a lot of the same issues. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages#Dialects guidelines for my proposal. Thanks.--Pharos 04:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
