Astrology has no effect on reality, so why should reality have any effect on astrology? – J.S. Stenzel, commenting on astrological planets that astrologers acknowledge don't really exist
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The official state rainbow flag of Russia (official in JAO since 1996)
Do you think the liberals are using these school shootings to further their anti-tragedy agenda?
— Col. Erran Morad, Who Is America?, s01e01
yod-dropper
— (when you need something that sounds like an insult)[1]
It is a mortifying circumstance, which greatly perplexes many a painstaking philosopher, that nature often refuses to second his most profound and elaborate efforts; so that often after having invented one of the most ingenious and natural theories imaginable, she will have the perverseness to act directly in the teeth of his system, and flatly contradict his most favorite positions. This is a manifest and unmerited grievance, since it throws the censure of the vulgar and unlearned entirely upon the philosopher; whereas the fault is not to be ascribed to his theory, which is unquestionably correct, but to the waywardness of Dame Nature, who, with the proverbial fickleness of her sex, is continually indulging in coquetries and caprices, and seems really to take pleasure in violating all philosophic rules, and jilting the most learned and indefatigable of her adorers. [...] The philosophers took this in very ill part, and it is thought they would never have pardoned the slight and affront which they conceived put upon them by the world had not a good-natured professor kindly officiated as a mediator between the parties, and effected a reconciliation. Finding the world would not accommodate itself to the theory, he wisely determined to accommodate the theory to the world.
Pela primeira vez na sua vida a morte soube o que era ter um cão no regaço. For the first time in her life, death knew what it felt like to have a dog in her lap.
The Church says that the Earth is Flat, but I know that it is Round, for I have seen its Shadow on the Moon, and I have more Faith in a Shadow than in the Church.
— (commonly misattributed to Magellan)
In the early years of the study there were more than 200 speakers of the dialect, including one parrot.
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You reversed my edit on Israel by referring to the existence of sources supporting it, none of which you mentioned. Please, provide reference that is law of the state of Israel the same sex adoption. Thank you. D.S. Lioness (talk) 17:46, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Read the article. If those claims are wrong, they should be corrected, but regardless summaries should summarize, not contradict. — kwami (talk) 02:11, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Create a page for the city of Durrës in Navajo Wiki
@Kwamikagami Hi dear Kwamikagami! I have seen that you edit Navajo Wikipedia and you are native to Navajo language. I have a request. Can you create an article for the city of Durrës, the second largest city in Albania, on Navajo Wiki, with short content. This important city hasn't yet an article on Navajo Wiki and it should be there like there are articles for Albania and Tirana, the capital of Albania. I would thank you so much if you will create it. Regards, Suel Stafili70 (talk) 21:54, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Two pronunciation doubts
Hello, you seem to be an expert in linguistics and IPA. I have two doubts.
Stephen is reported to have a minority pronunciation [ˈstɛfən] (Philippines?) but there are no reliable sources.
Karkade Arabic pronunciation (كركديه) is [karkaˈdiːh], right?
Given the voweling <كَرْكَدِيه> and the transcription karkadīh, yes, I expect it to be /karkaˈdiːh/, with final stress. In Arabic, the final heavy syllable is stressed. (The vowels may not be [a], depending on dialect.)
I used to pronounce 'Stephen' that way, but that was a spelling pronunciation because I didn't realize it was just an alt spelling of the name Steven. It wouldn't surprise me that it's become standard somewhere.
I found a Youtuber whose Youtube name is "Stephen not Stefen", which suggests that a lot of people get it wrong. And of course there's 'Stephanie'.
In the Philippines, names may retain their English spellings but be assimilated to Tagalog or the local language phonetically, and I wouldn't be surprised if pronunciation irregularities like this got leveled out. But I haven't been able to find 'Stephen' specifically. Tagalog Wiktionary unfortunately doesn't have an entry. — kwami (talk) 17:54, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Please remember, since you seem to be editing along these lines and have a counterfactual statement on your userpage, that neither Proto-Human nor the techniques used to reconstruct it are taken seriously within linguistics. Edits along those lines need to take WP:FRINGE into account and be made carefully, especially if it accidentally ends up reading as advocacy for those theories. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ10:30, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't mean to imply it was, though it certainly fails WP:N considering there's the source you utilized and a singular other paper. It doesn't appear to have any wider significance within linguistics at present. I'm more referring to the conclusions you drew and this WP:PROFRINGE statement on your user page:
By comparing basic vocabulary across the established families of oral languages of the world, we have been able to reconstruct the Proto-Human language. We find that all reconstructed words are *na. An extension of this method to additional lexical items (in other basic word lists) finds that those items also reconstruct to *na. We therefore conclude that the ancestral human population used the word *na for everything.
I don't mean this to give you a hard time at all, I just don't necessarily know from some of your edits and this statement if you're aware of the actual acceptance of those theories. Warrenᚋᚐᚊᚔ11:44, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nostratic (and Amerind, which depends on a similar pattern of pronouns) are definitely FRINGE. Yet these patterns have been noticed for over a century, and people have struggled to explain them. I don't see how a fringe hypothesis could be notable, yet the real evidence provided for it not be notable. We need to understand the evidence if we want to be able to evaluate the claims that depend on them. — kwami (talk) 11:56, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
