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Felix the Cassowary

asteroid names

Thanks, Cassowary. I obviously don't control these sounds ... kwami 02:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

No worries, I'm sure I'd have just as hard a time if I was trying to distinguish the poor-vowel from the pore. If it helps, I tried to include a guide to when it's \ær\, when it's \ɛər\ and when it's \ɛr\ in my edit summary but it's a bit constrained, so basically...

• \ɛr\=err is used only if there's a short e (by the normal rules of orthgraphy) followed by an r and the next sound is a pronounced vowel. (Excepting a few Scottish accents, \ɛr\+consonant (and merry-mary merging dialects) is not possible in any dialect that I know of; even in borrowings if it doesn't become \ɜr\ it's \er\.)
• \er\=air is used if there's a long a followed by an r. In borrowings, foreign /er/ and /ɛr/-type sounds are often taken as this one, so the Nissan 4x4 "Pajero" is \pədʒeroʊ\ (=/pədʒeːrəʉ/ in AusE, at least).
• \ær\=arr is used if there's a short a followed by an r and the next sound is a pronounced vowel. Again if there's no following vowel, it's become \ar\ (as in car) which is either phonemically equivalent (as in Scottish) or wildly different as in AusE/RP.

Because of the trisyllabic laxing rule, whether an a is short or long isn't always obvious (compare is long \kəmper\, comparison is short \kəmpærɪsən\).

Also, in AusE at least, if the "a" in -ary is given a full quality, it's exceptionally as /e/ (short e), so "secondarily" is /sekənderəli/.

(Things in backslashes aren't intended to denote phonemes.)

(04:12, 1 January 2006 (UTC))

Gothic article state

You've just removed the "Good article" status from the Gothic article, with the only justification being "I don't feel that this article currently meets the standards of a good article". Could you please elaborate on why you feel that, so that we can improve the article? —Felix the Cassowary 01:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

To be honest I was acting on a recommendation from the anonymous editor who has been editing the article. This is what he said:

I've just made some small corrections, and rewordings for clarity, to the section on Grimm's Law. Much of this article I'm not qualified to comment on, but it did strike me as surprisingly readable compared to this [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_language ], which rather disturbingly "has been listed as a good article; it adheres to certain quality standards, and may become a featured article." Is there any way to dis-recommend an article, till such time as it gets put right? It really needs a complete rewrite.

Since this person is a linguist whom I have a lot of respect for I glanced at the article, decided he was right, made the edit you're asking about and told him that this is how you can remove a recommendation :) I hope to get back to you with more info later. - Haukur 01:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Queensland governor's flag

Hi Felix. What is the source for the 12 April 1988 date you put on the Queensland flag at Flags of the Governors of the Australian states? The flag was the appropriate flag for the Governor to use at sea from 1876, so I'm wondering exactly what happened in 1988. Was it adopted for use on land then as well, or was there some sort of proclamation about a flag that was already being used? JPD (talk) 10:11, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I forget by now. I'll try and find it again. I think I recall being awfully surprised by the late date, given (as you say) the age of the design. It might just've been a typo on my part, though. (10:27, 12 January 2006 (UTC))

I wouldn't be surprised if there was something from that date, so it'd be good if you could find it. Thanks, anyway. JPD (talk) 11:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I can't seem to find that date again from the sources on the Internet I have, nor can I find anything about the flag at the Queensland Governor's website. For now I think I'll take the date off until someone can find the source. Thanks for pointing this out :) (10:04, 24 January 2006 (UTC))

A project idea

You on im anymore? Just jabber these days? If so, you know how to reach me; I have an idea for a project that might be fun. It's related to those semi-proto-Germanic verb tables you used to have up but I couldn't find, as well as conlanging. I'd say more, but if the project happens, I don't want any record of it left anywhere.

Btw, you need to update your blog even worse than I need to update mine.

—Firespeaker 12:27, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, you just left a record ;) I haven't been logging on much these days, but I'm installing Gaim just now, so will talk soon. (13:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC))

Another language

just to let you know your not the only one feeling the affects of old age, crikey today i felt absolutly ancient. With the language I grew up with and live with had developed into something I no longer understood, or want to. aveagoodweekend Gnangarra 14:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I'm not really old (I hope); it just feels like I've been on Wikipedia for ages. When I first started here I was anything but a deletionist, is all. But if you're referring to our friends attempts to say that we use certain words as pronouns we don't use as pronouns, I don't think you need to be old to not want to understand it. (15:14, 26 January 2006 (UTC))

Hi again ireferred both the user R0m and socket 210...100 to User:David Gerard as he is a sockectpuppet checker, my check was based purely on the edits of both via their individual contribs pages Gnangarra 15:04, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Ahkays, I was actually referring to User:150.101.112.253 who has signed his posts as "J". On second inspection, R0m appears to be using multiple IPs so it could still be him (a 195... one, I think). In any case, David Gerard's page says he normally does it just for ArbComm level stuff, which this isn't yet. I thought normal SysOps had that übermighty power (or at least could check contributing IPs of usernames), but I must be wrong. Fanks! (15:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC))

Jandal

Re suggested merge of Jandal with Flip Flops. Why not merge Flip Flop with Jandal? No one in NZ English calls Jandals Flip Flops. @#$%^&* Aussie cultural imperialism :-) Geez Wayne, Gumboots already get called Wellingtons on Wikipedia eh? Yeah, no doubt going to end up as an Anglo-American Encyclopedia...just please stop people saying why do we have all these cultural references to Enzed, and deleting them - they are hilarious:-).Winstonwolfe 04:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:Victorian governors flag.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Victorian governors flag.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Greentubing 08:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Decimal point

Using comma instead of dots as seperator is not a habit, it is according to SI and correct. According to SI there are to correct usages for decimal point seperation, comma or dot. --Lucius1976 07:58, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_point

(this in regards to this)

Yeah, I know that it's an SI-approved method, and I didn't mean anything negative by it when I said "habit". In fact, if you'll notice the change I made, it was turning a thousands-separating comma into a space, there by implicitly accepting the European method. It is annoying when Europeans use the comma when writing in English, because it conflicts with the more common in English method of using a comma for the thousands separator. In any case I follow the lead of the SI and the Australian Government in preferring 1 234.567 89 (meaning one thousand, two hundred and thirty-four point five-six-seven-eight-nine) for use in English. (09:16, 13 March 2006 (UTC))

Unblock me please

{{unblock|My IP, 203.82.183.147, apparently has (or is behind?) an open proxy, about which I can do nothing.}}

Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing.

You were blocked by Jayjg for the following reason (see our blocking policy):

"open proxy"

Your IP address is 203.82.183.147.

Sorry we open proxies are indefinitely blocked and do not get unblocked. You can do something about this by talking to whoever provides you internet service and getting them to fix the proxy to stop it being open to abuse. --pgk^(talk) 20:42, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Peachtree Street edit

In the unlikely event that anyone comes here looking for my contribution to the Talk:Peachtree Street page in relation to my dispute of that page, I apologise for not including it, but my ISP has an open proxy and I get randomly blocked and that happened while I was editing! But it's included in the edit log: Old Peachtree Street Road Highway almost certainly doesn't exist, at least not with the specification given. Knowing that that's inaccurate, I don't know how much else we can trust the rest of that page. I hope some Atlantan can help fix it! (13:29, 20 May 2006 (UTC))

Central Asia

WikiProject Central Asia has finally been created! If you're interested, please consider joining us. Aelfthrytha 21:56, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, but my knowledge of Central Asia is limited to a very basic knowledge of the Kazakh phonology! For now, I'll take my position as an interested observer. (10:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC))

Speech synthesis up for FAR

Hi there,

You're listed in the edit history of this article. I wonder whether you're able to help bring it up to FA standard again? Please see WP:FAR#Speech_synthesis.

Tony 06:53, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Edit???

I am not sure the edit you are refering to. If it was this one - [1] then I thought that I would add your sig as it had not been included. I truly did not intend to change anybody's vote, and I am not aware of any alterations I made. Can you show me what you are refering to? Apologies if there is a screw up.SauliH 23:50, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh I’m really sorry, I misread what happened there. I thought you’d changed my normal sig ‘—Felix the Cassowary’ into ‘Cassowary’, but evidently I typed one too many tildes. I really should know what’s happening before I get miffed at people. My apologies. 01:40, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Melbourne meetup in planning

Hello, you've indicated that you're interested in future Meetups in Melbourne on this list, so I'm giving you this message to remind you that Melbounre meetup number four is currently in planning. If you haven't already, please go to Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne to suggest possible dates, times and locations. Thanks --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 02:44, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Melbourne meetup

Greetings, person who is listed as being interested in future meetups in Melbourne. The fourth meetup will be held on 18 December, at Lower House in Fed Square (in the Alfred Deaking building, Flinders Street end near the Atrium: map), starting from 7pm. We don't currently have a separate location for discussion beforehand, but there'll be plenty of time to talk wiki over dinner. --bainer (talk) 14:53, 16 December 2006 (UTC)