User talk:Johnmarks9

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Welcome!

Hello, Johnmarks9, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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:Questions, 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!  - Darwinek 19:43, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Xynalyq"

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. I am referring to your adding of "Xynalyq" as the supposed official transliteration of the village and the language in English. This is, however, not true. First, it's written as Xınalıq in Azerbaijani (where the village is located), which is already in the Latin alphabet. There is no problem in Wikipedia writing it that way. Second, if "Xynalyq" where anywhere near official, there would be Google hits for it. There are none — except for two links to Wikipedia and a forum, where (apparently) you wrote the same claim. Third, the Khinalug language itself has a completely different autonym and even there, the village's name wouldn't contain any y. Your contributions to this very interesting Caucasian language are very much appreciated, but please stop adding that pseudo-official name to the articles. Thank you. — N-true (talk) 14:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC) My reply: Thanks for the info. I apologize if I appeared to you to be purveying nonsense. I understood that the Turkish dotted i, as in İstanbul, was rendered in English by i and that ı, the undotted i, approximated the Russian vowel ы, best rendered in English by a short vocalic y, as in rhythm. However, I bow to your superior knowledge, being myself a mere doctor with a long-standing amateur interest in languages and their influence on psychology. Perhaps you would let me know how English would distinguish (if it does) between the Turkish vowels ı and i. Johnmarks9 (talk) 01:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)