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-℘yrop (talk) 00:24, May 26, 2005 (UTC) The Dogandpony 21:16, 12 October 2005 (UTC) 1 4M s0 w007!111! lolzorz

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[edit] ακριτικά τραγούδια

You're right that akritika is not a genitive. It's an adjective, neuter plural. The problem with the current translation ("frontiersmen songs") is that fronteirsmen is a noun, which would be ακρίτες in Greek. It doesn't make gramattical sense in English, nor would it in Greek. The problem is that I can't thing of an English adjective which is the equivalent of ακριτικά, it would be something life "frontiersmanish". So I used a genitive as an approximation. Perhaps we can come up with a better translation? Segv11 (talk/contribs) 06:59, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Goody Cole

Did you copy that info on Goody Cole from somewhere else? Also, fi you didn't, you kind've repeated some info from before. Would you mind fixing your mistake? Icelandic Hurricane #12 01:13, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Ancient Greek Wikisource

I understand from your userboxes you're interested in Ancient Greek. I've submitted a proposal to add an Ancient Greek Wikisource on Meta, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me by either voting in Support of the proposal, or even adding your name as one of the contributors in the template. (NB: I'm posting this to a lot of people, so please reply to my talkpage or to Meta) --Nema Fakei 20:22, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: List of Greek phrases

Nice edits, I also noticed you are familiar with Ancient Greek. Only two notes:

  • Why do you need a citation for an apparent mnemonic of π? I wouldn't want to remove it, but I think it was by Pythagoras. In any case my math teachers used to say it quite often, so it's frequent, but I doubt we'll find a source if only used orally in schools.
  • Pronounciation of Υ/υ: y vs u. In Ancient Greek, υ may have been pronounced like (French language, not English) U (hence the name ypsilon= thin i), but in Modern Greek it is pronounced i. Same goes indistinguishably for η, ει, οι and υι (as it goes for ο with ω, and ε with αι). So, latin letter U may be (still disputed I think) better for Ancient Greek phrases, but undoubtably Y (also called Y-Greque) transliterates correctly the modern ones. I think we should stick to that for consistency.

Would appreciate your comments on these. :NikoSilver: 16:00, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

1. Pi mnemonic. I don't dispute the fuller text or really need a source, I just couldn't find "simpan" in the dictionary, so I thought I would point it out for another editor to take a look at.
2. Y/i/u. This is a tough one. 'Y' never sounds like 'u' in English, so I think it's a bad transliteration. But 'u' for Ancient Greek and 'i' for Modern Greek, where appropriate, sounds fine to me.
Glad you liked my edit, I think there needs to be much more Ancient Greek available to the average person on the Internet, so a page like this one is at least a start. The Dogandpony 16:16, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

1.Sympan is Universe (Syn and Pan=everything) What kind of dictionary do you have? I am amazed you can't find this very frequent word!

2.Y/I etc So you propose to change it back? I think there is (or at least there should be} some Greek transliteration guideline somewhere...

Yeah, I too wish there was more of Ancient Greek around. The worst example of this, is unfortunately the modern Greek school books, which effectively try to de-hellenise modern Greeks even more than Fallmerayer attempted! My class ('89) was one of the last ones who obligatorily had at least 2 years of Ancient Greek courses! Now only the classic-major oriented students learn them! It is a disgrace to our heritage! That said by a positive science freak (as we call math, physics, chemistry etc here) who has limited talent and preference in classical studies!:NikoSilver: 16:32, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Camel Racing

Thank you for your objective stance at the Camel racing article. I am presently working to clean up uncited material, and ensure that the appropriate issues are dealt with in the appropriate articles. Nimur 15:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)