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Contents 1 Koine Greek 2 gb 3 Yakov Smirnov 4 Please add this 5 How to add a new userbox? 6 Minnesotan (en-MN) 7 Novel based languages 8 What happened to California English 5 and N? 9 0-level userboxes 10 Bostonian English 11 Newspeak 12 Fixed en-au-0 13 Dolphin 14 cons Sigsumeidsi-userboxen mem su'nouserboxensi squel? 15 Elmer Fudd 16 A couple of suggestions... 17 Communication through pictures 18 Ubbi Dubbi 19 Internet slang 20 English Dialects 21 Chickadee 22 Nonexistent Languages 23 Live long and mute? 24 Requested moves 24.1 Survey 24.2 Discussion 24.3 See also 25 Flanders 26 Changing Middle English en-me to ISO enm 27 Another suggestion... 28 Parseltongue 29 "This user would like to learn a real language." 30 Chinese 31 French Quebecois 31.1 Userboxes for the Quebec French language 32 Swearing habits 33 Dialects of English: Appalachian

Added lots of userboxes to this section.

[edit] Koine Greek

Why was Koine Greek placed on this page? It is a real language, just an extinct one. It was the standard form of Greek for several centuries, and is the language used by both the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and the earliest Christian writers. It is the equivalent of Biblical Greek. It is therefore NOT on the same level as Klingon and dumbass. --EncycloPetey 08:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

As it's listed on Babel and that's linked before the non-ISO link on the project page, I'm taking it off. --Alf ^melmac 21:28, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

The reason I put it on this page was because I made up the code ke for it—it's not actually an ISO 639 code. If I understand right, there actually isn't a code for Koine Greek, only one for modern (el) and ancient (grc) Greek. But, I see now that it probably oughtn't be on this page, since this is mostly reserved for silliness. However, I must say Quenya is a real language also, and, in my opinion, shouldn't be here either.  –Benjamin  (talk)  03:19, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] gb

Under the gb section (gibberish), I dont think a user box for Great Britian should be there. SWD316 ^{talk to me} 22:37, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I was thinking that myself. I will move to brition or something I think, and make gb the gibberish it is meant to be. Ian¹³_ID:540053 22:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yakov Smirnov

Should there be some userboxes under this category, with text like "In Soviet Russia, Yakov Smirnov cannot speak this user, or can speak this user with considerable difficulties." Scott Gall 03:34, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

It's Wikipedia, man. Make all the userboxes you want. (In Soviet Russia, the userboxes put YOU on THEIR userpage!) ^_^ Cernen 08:50, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please add this

I didn't realize that the userboxes here were already defined and so made my own box reflecting my own laziness in capitalization. It's unlikely that anyone else will use it, but I humbly request that someone place the userbox {{user en-L-X}} in this collection anyway. If this is impossible due to the "standard format" of the userboxes, then ignore this. thanks Niffweed17 08:05, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't see why it shouldn't be included, and I'd put it in if I knew how. --¿ WhyBeNormal ? 05:58, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How to add a new userbox?

How do you add a new userbox to the page? I wanted to add the following as a counter to the controversial AmE-0 userbox:

This userbox has been created at the wrong name. Please change all references to it to Template:User AmE-67.

(This is called "Template:AmE-67") How would I do that? -- Mwalcoff 23:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Or how about one entitled, "Like 67% of English speakers, I speak American English, however an occasional 'Labour' slips into my writing". Or maybe that's just me. Xyzzyva 04:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't this template be called "Template:user AmE-67"? I'm going to be bold, and fix it. McKay 21:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minnesotan (en-MN)

I added a template for Minnesotan, for Minnewegian/Scandahoovian wikipedians. shaggy 22:29, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Novel based languages

Some languages that should be added are Gnommish from Artemis Fowl and Parseltongue from Harry Potter.

Seems fair; I imagine Parseltongue could be done with "hssss hss ss hsss hsss" or something to that effect, but can anyone find the appropriate Gnommish text? 24.85.210.146 04:10, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What happened to California English 5 and N?

Template:User CalE-5 and Template:User CalE-N

...are dead linked. I didn't see a merger either, unless you consider the active CalE the same as CalE-N. Someone want to fix it? --Wilhelm Screamer 11:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 0-level userboxes

We need something of a 0-plus level for some of these userboxes. For instance a Quenya 0+ level would be "This user does not understand Quenya, but has interest in it, and has quite possibly dabbled with it."

Is there a way that a user can create a new userbox? Linguofreak 21:06, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bostonian English

I've created a series of user boxes for Bostonion-English, but I thought we weren't supposed to put user boxes in the Template namespace anymore, so their in my User space. Should I put them on the page as is, or should I move them to Template:? B.Mearns^*, KSC 15:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newspeak

Why not have userboxes for Newspeak? Although I'm not an expert or an Oceanian, I suspect they would be something like this:

• nws-0: This user oldspeaks (or newspeaks doubleplusungoodwise).
• nws-1: This user newspeaks ungoodwise.
• nws-2: This user newspeaks.
• nws-3: This user newspeaks goodwise.
• nws-4: This user newspeaks plusgoodwise.
• nws-5: This user newspeaks doubleplusgoodwise.
• nws-N: This user bellyfeels newspeak.

Seahen 15:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Looks good to me. Why don't you make some? (I don't know how to make templates.) CameoAppearance 10:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I actually did make them. They've been added to the page. CameoAppearance 09:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fixed en-au-0

I fixed the en-au-0 template for those of you whom wish to use it. The Coldwood 00:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dolphin

I've expanded the sole, nonstandard-coloured dolphin userbox to a full set in the standard colour scheme and accompanying categories. The old one could be deleted (being redundant) or not, as desired. CameoAppearance 10:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] cons Sigsumeidsi-userboxen mem su'nouserboxensi squel?

Hi..

In response to a a rather bad joke (not on WP), I and another contributer have been working on a constructed lanaguge, Sigsumeidsi or Portal. (The origion of the name is rather complicated ;-)

In order to further develop the langauge, a Sigsumeidsi mini wiki has been established based on some initial notes

Would this 'language' class as a 'joke' langauge for userbox purposes? Does it even qualify?

Incidentaly the title of this comment is the closest Sigsumeidsi translation I could come up with... it says 'Make the set of Sigsumeidsi userboxes member of the set of all userboxes? or more concisely 'Create Sigsumeidsi userboxes?'

ShakespeareFan00 17:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Only if I can make a set of Uryuomoco userboxen. CameoAppearance 17:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I think I just might do that anyways. CameoAppearance 17:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Elmer Fudd

Does anybody want to make Elmer Fudd userboxes? If one goes to google and clicks on language tools, Elmer Fudd is listed (as a joke language) Evan W. 18:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I would do them, but I don't really know how to write in Elmer Fudd. CameoAppearance 04:07, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Good point Evan W. 01:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A couple of suggestions...

There are two non-ISO languages for which I want to suggest userboxes:

• Pikachu language (I saw a website once that translated things to it.)
• international maritime signal flags

--Gray Porpoise 22:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

...and Ham-Chat makes three. --Gray Porpoise 01:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Just what we need... more joke languages. Well, whatever. The first of those would just go PIKA PIKA PIKA PIKA PIKA...CHU! until your head exploded. Ham-chat actually has dictionaries in the games, so I suppose you really could have levels of that. --tjstrf 01:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Yep-p, tootru! Bizzaro. --Gray Porpoise 01:53, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

The Pikachu userboxes could say:

piii pipi pii pi piika Chu-kaaa-piikaa Ka pika-chu.

Chuu kachu pii chu kaa-pika-pika-pi Chu-pi-pi-pika-chu-ka chu pikachu.

chuu Chuu Chu Pi pi-kaaa-chu pi-i-ka-pika-pika ka pika-pika.

pipi kachu pii pi kaaa-piikaa pi-pi-i-chuuuu-kaa Chu pikachu.

pipi Kaaa pika-pi pi Chu-pipi-kachu Kachu ka Pi-ka-chu.

Pipi pipi Chu Pi chuuuu Pikachu pi pikachu.

Pika Piii kaa pikaa pi-ka-chu.

which translates to:

This user has a basic understanding of Pikachu.

This user has an intermediate understanding of Pikachu.

This user has an advanced understanding of Pikachu.

This user has a near-native understanding of Pikachu.

This user speaks a professional level of Pikachu.

This user is a native speaker of Pikachu.

This user can speak Pikachu.[1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gray Porpoise (talk • contribs).

[edit] Communication through pictures

I have another suggestion: userboxes showing the level of communication through pictures. The ID boxes could contain pic-0, pic-n, etc. The infoboxes could contain (from 0 to 5, and then n and then just plain "pic" followed by nothing else):

This user can talk, and uses the ability as a sole form of communication.

a small form of Image:Child scribble age 1y10m.jpg, with a caption saying, "This user has a basic understanding of communication through pictures."

a small form of Image:Child Art Aged 4.5 Person 2.png, with a caption saying, "This user has an intermediate understanding of communication through pictures."

a small form of Image:Faroe stamp 041 childrens year (children of different skin colour).jpg with the caption, "This user has an advanced understanding of communication through pictures."

a small form of Image:Frans Koppelaar - Mother.jpg with the caption, "This user communicates through pictures at a near-native level."

a small form of Image:Mona Lisa.jpg with the caption, "This user communicates through pictures so often that it almost replaces speech."

a small form of Image:Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 003.jpg with the caption, "This user is a native communicator through pictures."

a small form of Image:BigPinkHeart.jpg with the caption, "This user communicates through pictures."

--Gray Porpoise 16:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ubbi Dubbi

Sorry if I'm overloading you with suggestions. Under "Ciphers, games, and other English linguistic phenomena", I think there should be userboxes for Ubbi Dubbi. For example: Thubis ubusuber cuban spubeak Ububbubi Dububbubi. --Gray Porpoise 14:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Internet slang

How about userboxes for Internet slang? For example:

• IntS-0: This user has no interest in Internet slang.
• IntS-1: This user is a lamer at Internet slang, but lieks to throw in teh occasional "lol" or "omg" on their blog.
• IntS-2: This user's Internet slang is k, but TBH, they're mostly a lurker.
• IntS-3: This user's a tweedler w/Internet slang.
• IntS-4: This tweedler uses uber Internet slang that will pwn you.
• IntS-5: Tihs tweedler's Internet slang will make a n00b say, "ZOMG!"
• IntS-n: Tihs tweedler uses Internet slang IRL.

("Tihs" is not an actual Internet slang word, but the article says that common typing errors are sometimes integrated.) --Gray Porpoise 16:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] English Dialects

Sorry for so many suggestions, but a dialect of English for which a userbox could be made is African American Vernacular English. --Gray Porpoise 16:20, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

This page should be checked more often by people who approve and make userboxes. --Gray Porpoise 00:13, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I have two more suggestions for English dialects: Engrish, and Yoda. ("Speak like Yoda, this user can.") --Gray Porpoise 20:56, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

What about regional dialects? "This user speaks with a Southern accent." Never mind, y'all it's been done: {{User Southron}}

Y'all

This user speaks Southron, y'all.

-- Alarob 15:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chickadee

Perhaps there could be userboxes for chickadee calls, consisting (other than the level 0 box) of a combination of fee-bays, chick-a-dees (w/varying numbers of "dees"), seets, and the like. --Gray Porpoise 00:36, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nonexistent Languages

On Test Wikipedia and Beta Wikiversity, the default "Languages" in the preferences are "test" and "beta", consecutively. A set of userboxes for those could be made as a joke. --Gray Porpoise 20:49, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Live long and mute?

Any chance of a Vulcan language box series, per Klingonaase? Trekphiler 15:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flanders

On an episode of The Simpsons, Marge had a Flanders → English, English → Flanders dictionary. Userboxes for talking like Ned Flanders would be hilarious. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 01:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changing Middle English en-me to ISO enm

We have Middle English userboxes that use the code en-me. The ISO code is enm[2]. Should we change it, and can someone advise me how?

I have no problem editing the templates themselves, but wonder about renaming them and doing redirects. Is it more trouble than it's worth? How is it done?

These UBXes survived a recent challenge to their presence in user space. There are about 50 unique users associated with them. -- Alarob 15:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another suggestion...

Nursery rhymes often contain nonsense words... bum, bailey, dickery, dare (used in a nonsensical context here), eeny, meeny, miny, moe, eencey, weencey, itsy, bitsy,hi-ho, derry-o, fee, fie, foe, fum, fiddle (in that context), dee, standers, dilly-danders, crookers, wig-wag, goosey, diddle, hickory (in that context), dickory, dock (in that context), higglety, pigglety, diller, Hokey-Pokey, vintery, mintery, zum, gali, and probably countless more. Maybe userboxes can be thrown together for these, or perhaps playground slang. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 21:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parseltongue

See section title for suggestion. --Gray Porpoise^{Phocoenidae, not Delphinidae} 01:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "This user would like to learn a real language."

My only (non-native) languages are Latin, Klingon, and C++, so I think this userbox would be appropriate. I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation! Antony-22 14:42, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese

I'm planning to add "zh-wen-zh (Classical Chinese based on dialects of spoken Chinese)" because I'm quite surprised to see that it's completely empty and the Classical Chinese is simply too hard to understand. Also, I think we need to split up the Chinese categories because there're 2 types: Traditional and Simplified. Traditional chinese is used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Simplified is used in the mainland China. They have different writings (for some words). Anyways, anyone willing to help?

Note that you have to know how to type in chinese (either traditional or simplified is good)

OhanaUnited 06:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

{{User Oxford Spelling}} is missing

[edit] French Quebecois

I've done several userboxes for the French Quebecois language/dialect.

Here they are!

|SUBZ3R0| 11:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Babel
fr-qc C'te personne là c'tun vrai québecois, 'sti! fr-qc-1 Cet utilisateur a une compréhension de base du Français Québecois. fr-qc-2 C'gars là, c'te fille la s'débrouille pas pire en français québecois. fr-qc-3 Lui/Elle essaie de maganner son français avec fierté! fr-qc-4 Wow, c'est remarquable! On crérait presque qu'y est né au Québec! fr-qc-5 Hey, ça c't'un vrai pro dans sa propre langue à lui!
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[edit] Userboxes for the Quebec French language

• User:Sub-Z3R0/fr-qc/fr-qc
• User:Sub-Z3R0/fr-qc/fr-qc-1
• User:Sub-Z3R0/fr-qc/fr-qc-2
• User:Sub-Z3R0/fr-qc/fr-qc-3
• User:Sub-Z3R0/fr-qc/fr-qc-4
• User:Sub-Z3R0/fr-qc/fr-qc-5

[edit] Swearing habits

I want to make userboxes for swearing habits. Am I allowed to use coarse language in the userboxes? OhanaUnited 04:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dialects of English: Appalachian

I propose a set of boxes for this dialect. They are made up at User:Alarob/languages#Appalachian English userboxes.

Please visit the page and comment. If anyone can guide me on setting up these boxes in User space, it would be appreciated. -- Rob C (Alarob) 18:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)