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knight edit

I have responded on Stephen's page. If you would like to continue the discussion, that's fine, but it would probably be better if we took it to either your or my talk page, as I don't know if Stephen is all that interested in following it. I've got you on my watchlist, so if you respond here I'll see it. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 07:17, 15 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

paretymologies edit

Please stop posting quack/crackpot etymological hypotheses to randomly chosen entries' talk-pages. I, for one, view this as "good faith vandalism". I have personally read a dozen of books claiming that all world's languages derive either from Latin or Greek and even met and spoke to their authors. Well, pursuing this way of thinking is just futile; read this Wikipedia article, if you will: Neogrammarians. However, if you still want to publish your original research here, do so in your user-page or the talk-pages of Wiktionarians who are willing to have a discussion with you. (Note: I don't mean to offend you; I'm just criticizing your paradigm.) --Omnipaedista 19:32, 25 April 2009 (UTC)Reply