User talk:Xena the Rebel Girl/2017–2019

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Исми хос (talk) 16:27, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Japanese

Hello Alex --

I've had a look at your edits to Japanese entries and your related edits, and I've corrected various mistakes. Please review my edits to your contributions, and familiarize yourself with the conventions for Japanese entries. I am happy to answer questions about Japanese and how to edit Japanese entries.

Kind regards,

‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 18:04, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you for correcting my mistakes, Eiríkr. I'll be better next time. – Лорд Алекс (talk) 15:19, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

multiple translation per edit

Did you already know that you can submit multiple translations within the same edit? There’s no need to do them one at a time. — (((Romanophile))) ♞ (contributions) 03:46, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

And now I know, thank you. – Лорд Алекс (talk) 04:24, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Moldovan

Hi. Thanks for adding so many translations! Moldovan is treated as a dialect of Romanian around here (and in most of linguistics). When you add it, please add it using the code "ro" like other Romanian, and a {{qualifier}} if a certain spelling is Moldovan-specific (the translation-adding script has a "Qualifier:" field that will format the qualifier automatically). Please never add translations without using a language code, as you did in diff. - -sche (discuss) 16:18, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi, -sche! Okay, thank you for clarifying. I've tried to add Moldovan translation with the Moldovan ISO 639-1 code (mo) and 639-2/639-3 codes (mol), but I received the error messages. I didn't know that the code “ro” can be used for Moldovan words, so I added a translation without using a language code. – Лорд Алекс (talk) 17:11, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Translations in languages you don't know

Hi Alex. It looks to me like you're going to Wikipedia and using the translations on the sidebar in order to add translations here. Although it may seem like a wondrous resource, it's actually a very good way to introduce errors into Wiktionary. Wikipedias often use rare or even unattested terms in their entry titles, because their only goal is to have accurate information about a topic, even if that topic is rarely, if ever, discussed in that language. However, we are a descriptive dictionary trying to reflect how language is actually used in published written works, which means one has to be very careful. With languages you are familiar with, it's easy to verify that a translation is accurate and widely used just by searching it on Google Books, but it may not be possible for you to check effectively with languages you don't know or have never studied. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:00, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello. I use information from a wide range of sources. I use Wikidata, and on-line dictionaries & paper dictionaries for verifying the translations. Best regards, – Лорд Алекс (talk) 15:51, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

I agree with Metaknowledge. —Suzukaze-c◆◆ 00:04, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Labels and qualifiers

For labels and qualifiers, the term obsolete refers to a term or form of a term that modern readers are not expected to know -- something that has fallen out of use so far as to be basically unintelligible. I've changed your obsolete to dated for the Japanese terms at ロシア, 露西亜, 魯西亜, and Russia (for this last one, in the translation table).

For more on labels and qualifiers, please see Wiktionary:Context_labels, Wiktionary:Obsolete_and_archaic_terms, and also Appendix:Glossary#obsolete, Appendix:Glossary#archaic, and Appendix:Glossary#dated for the relevant label terms themselves.

Cheers, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 19:31, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Чукотский язык

Здравствуйте, Алексǃ

Я очень интересуюсь чукотским языком. Верно ли, что вы неплохо понимаете чукотский язык? Где и как вы научились тому языку? Мне было бы интересно узнать. Спасибо за внимание. Всего доброгоǃ Dylanvt (talk) 02:57, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Здравствуйте, Dylanvt! Я начинал изучение чукотского по книгам, а затем совершенствовал его практикуясь с носителями языка. Можете написать мне сообщение на e-mail, cpt.lokason@gmail.com, я вам помогу, а также могу выслать бесплатно материалы для изучения языка. — Лорд Алекс (talk) 03:43, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Unattested terms in translation tables

• Re: Special:Diff/54106105/54305922 -- please do not add words that do not exist in the Gothic corpus; see WT:ATTEST.
• Re: Special:Diff/53755302/53771639 -- note that that word, too, is unattested as a simplex. I did not remove it as it can be reconstructed with some certainty, but even so it still needs to be marked as reconstructed using an asterisk (as I have done). — Mnemosientje (t · c) 10:29, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Okay, thank you, Mnemosientje. Your concerns are noted. On Special:Diff/53755302/53771639: I didn’t know how to add the “reconstruction” mark. — Mx. Mrak (talk) 10:38, 26 September 2019 (UTC)