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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Steel Blade 02:19, 24 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Translations

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Hi there. Did you know that you can add more than one translation at a time before pressing the save button? For example, you type in the Finnish translation of the word enlighten and you click it so that it shows up in the translation box. Then, before pressing save, you can type in another translation for the same word and after that, you can type in as many as you want to before pressing the save button :). Hope this helps :) Razorflame 16:02, 30 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Greek accent

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Please understand that the tonos and grave were interchangeable based on context, that is, the same word could have either accent, based on its location in a sentence. Standard dictionary practice, which we're following here, is to use the tonos in every case except for multi-word idioms, which we currently have rather few of. βασιλεύς has been moved back to its original location. Thanks. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 23:39, 9 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Old English

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We do not use macrons in entry titles, see WT:AANG. Mglovesfun (talk) 00:19, 29 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Template:el-nM-ος-οι-2a

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I have removed the dative case you added to this modern Greek declension template. As I understand it the dative disappeared from the language long ago - remaining only in a few learned phrases. Am I right or do I have to eat humble pie? —Saltmarshαπάντηση 06:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

spirit level

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Hello,

You have added a bunch of mistranslations at spirit level. I haven't finished a cleanup there. What is your source and why did you do it? I can see that you have added translations from Google Translate. You should make a Babel table on your user page showing, which languages you know and stop translating into languages you don't speak. --Anatoli (обсудить/вклад) 12:10, 28 December 2013 (UTC)Reply