Talk:Whispering

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[edit] Whispering in other languages/merge with Breathy voice?

Bots keep linking this page to fr:Mrmr because there were links in the other direction, but Mrmr is actually the name of a revue, it has nothing to do with whispering. I removed the links from Mrmr as well as from here, but to stop this from happening again we really need to find the actual French equivalent, and the equivalent in other languages. The obvious choice would be the fr:Murmure, but that page links to Breathy voice. Apparently in English there is a clear distinction between whispering and breathy voice, at least for linguists. Is there a linguist out there who knows which of these two terms the French Murmure is closest to, and what is the French equivalent for the other word? The same goes for other languages... this page links to words for whispering in several other languages, but breathy voice only links to French. Soon enough, the bots look at all those pages in other languages, see that they link both to this page and probably to Mrmr, and put the erroneous links back (I will try to delete them in other languages to make sure that doesn't happen, but I can never be sure whether the pages are about whispering or really about Mrmr.) So we need to figure out the appropriate technical terms in the other languages.

Otherwise, since this article is pretty short, and it will probably be quite difficult to find distinct words for whispering and breathy voice in other languages, probably the easiest thing to do would be to merge it with Breathy voice. I'll leave it to a linguist to decide. --Angelastic (talk) 16:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)