User talk:Auros

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Auros, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Karmafist 03:02, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] About the Macedonian letters

Hi. I am an administrator of the Wikipedia in Macedonian. I just went to the English page to check if all information about the alphabet is correct and I found your query. My answer to that is yes. The order of the letter presented there is perfectly correct. Ѓ and Ќ indeed do not follow Г and К. The reason for it is quite obscure and is very unclear to me as well :-) The order of the letters is practically the same as in the early Cyrillic alphabet from the middle ages (save for the letters not present in today's Macedonian alphabet, of course). My best guess about the reason for their positional disparity would be that they are (and always were) genuinely unrelated letters. Their similar appearance only means that they are sort of similar sounding to the given letter, but they are indeed different and the accents over them are not accents at all, but surrogate representations for the soft sign ь found in other slavic languages. The south slavic aphabets being technically and phonetically superior to all other slavic (and indeed non-slavic) alphabets have merged and corrected all of the unneccessary elements, reducing it to perfect phoneticism and practicallity. For this, we credit one and only one man - the Serbian literata Vuk Karadžić. I hope I managed to, at least partially answer your query in regards to the Macedoniain alphabet. All best. --B. Jankuloski 23:20, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the attention. I think that the order on that template is as it is because of their order varies (not greatly, but still does) troghout the various national cyrilic alphabets. So, the creator(s) of the template decided that it should be in order of similarity in shapte, rather that their acctual position in various alphabets. Of course, you can still observe that the general layout of the letters is more or less correct and in accordance to the main article (Cyrillic alphabet). But the letters that have their similar counterparts in other alphabets are placed next to one another. It was wise to do so in this case, because this is a sort of an index where you browse the letters to learn something about them and not to actually learn any particular alphabet properly. That's why I see no need for modification of the present template. By the way, do you speak (or can you read) any cyrillic-written language? Best regards. --B. Jankuloski 00:15, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
No, I don't speak or write any of the Cyrillic languages; I have to dig into the nature of the writing systems for various languages, for my job -- I keep the big Unicode Standard book on my desk, and hit their website regularly -- but I only speak English, some rusty Spanish (was fluent, but haven't used it regularly in a decade), and a bit of German. Rmharman 17:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:CAL

I saw your request for a California govt stub at the Stub Sorting WikiProject, so I thought that I would point out another WikiProject: the California WikiProject. My guess is the number of current Wikipedia articles is probably somewhere close to WP:WSS's stub creation threshhold (60 stub articles), but you can also point out that there are more than 500 California state government agencies, departments, and commissions (see List of State of California agencies, departments, and commissions). BlankVerse 08:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diacritics

I don't know how I missed it, but I just saw the comment you added to my Rant subpage when I added a new rant.

I'm glad you liked my rant on diacritics. It was written after a period of several heated page rename discussions, with one particular editor consistently railing about "funny foreign squiggles" [1] and any name change to a country or city's preferred spelling (e.g. Mumbai). It wasn't even that editor who set me off, but a naïve newbie wo said that there weren't any diacritics in the English language.

I hope that you also enjoyed the rest of my rants. BlankVerse 08:38, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Soft sign in the Ukrainian alphabet

See my comment in Talk:Ukrainian_alphabet#Position_of_Soft_Sign_relative_to_Ju_and_Ja. -- Kcmamu 17:01, 3 May 2007 (UTC)