User talk:Roisterer

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Again, welcome! Razorflame 02:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ngarrindjeri

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Are you sure that this is a language? I went onto the English Wikipedia, and Ngarrindjeri language redirects to Yardinian language or something close to that. Also, {{nay}} lists this language is being spelling Narriyeri, instead of what you have written. Which is the right one? Razorflame 02:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Adding new entries

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Hi. When you add a new entry, could you leave the "edit summary" box blank? That way, the actual content of the entry shows up in the Recent Changes, which is a bit more useful than something like "new entry". Thanks! Equinox 00:30, 15 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hello there!

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Hello there Roisterer! I just wanted to commend you for how good your contributions are so far here! Also, most users have something called a Babel userbox on their userpages that show what languages they are able to speak. If you would like help on putting some on your userpage, feel free to let me know. Be sure to include what languages you speak and how well you speak them. You can use this guide to determine how well you speak them:

  • -0 = You can't speak or write in it, or you understand a little of the language.
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  • -4 = You understand the language almost as well as any native speaker of this language.
  • -N = You understand the language as well as any native speaker of this language, or you are a native speaker of this language, or you grew up learning this language (I.E. your first language)

Hope this helps! Kanpai, Razorflame 14:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Translations

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Hello. Translations which begin with two alphanumeric characters and then a colon do not work, because they are interpreted by our software as links to the different language editions of Wiktionary. (see, for example, water). For those words, a workaround is to use the similar looking colon of the International Phonetic Alphabet, which can be found in the special characters box when you edit a page (use the drop-down box and select IPA). -- Prince Kassad 16:57, 23 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

User language boxes

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Hi there. The text of these boxes has to be in the language specified, not in English. Cheers. SemperBlotto 12:25, 24 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Native is just {{Babel|en}} Conrad.Irwin 01:26, 29 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ngarrindjeri templates

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Hi. In case you didn't know, most languages have standard templates for the inflection line (rather than just typing out the page name in bold and adding the category manually). At the moment, we don't have any Ngarrindjeri templates, but if you could explain which inflections Ngarrindjeri words have, (Plurals? Masculine/feminine forms? Past/present/future tense? Participles?) and any other information that should go in the inflection line, I could make some templates, which would make it easier for adding Ngarrindjeri words. What do you think? --Yair rand 07:10, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

yayun

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Hi there. Does this word mean the verb to eat or doing it mean eating? Thanks for clearing this up :) Razorflame 01:04, 13 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

minor technicality

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Hi, please note that the correct category to use for all languages is Category:Foods not *Category:Foods. Hence, for Ngarrinjeri we have Category:nay:Foods and not *Category:nay:Foods. 50 Xylophone Players talk 00:53, 20 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Index:Ngarrindjeri

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Hi, I maintain most of the indexes with an automated bot that runs every week or so. Would you like me to do Index:Ngarrindjeri too? The only problem is that it would put it all onto one page until there are a few more entries (over a thousand). If you're happy doing it, don't let me intrude, otherwise let me know if there are any specific sorting difficulties. Conrad.Irwin 18:27, 30 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

katal

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This entry that you added ages ago is being RFVed. Nowadays, for smaller languages a mention from a trustworthy linguistic resource (i.e. a dictionary or grammar) is enough. — Ungoliant (Falai) 12:34, 6 August 2013 (UTC)Reply