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What does the name Cayenne mean? 68.40.65.164 00:43, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Is it really true as is stated in the article that the cayenne pepper is named after the city of Cayenne? There is no source given. I always would have assumed that this would have been the case without any doubt, up until today. However, I just read in Online Etymology Dictionary [1] that it is "mistakenly associated with the town of Cayenne" and that the name of the pepper is in fact from the Tupi word (a language native to Brazil) kyynha meaning "capsicum". I'm really not sure what to believe either way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.36.90.233 ( talk) 22:42, January 2, 2016 (UTC)
Don’t know how to fix this but the section titled “Location of Cayenne” currently displays a stretch of open sea Elinruby ( talk) 07:35, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
I removed some rather egregious word salad caused by mistranslations at some point in the article’s existence. I got interested and added images and a couple of sections about the culture. There is considerably more material about the carnivals at the linked main articles, btw.
Since i just did major surgery I am leaving the article tagged as needing a copy-edit — which is how it came to my own attention — since it is easy in that kind of work to omit words or whatever, and I have primarily been translating, whereas it is possible that there is a more elegant way to express certain things when one is not following the structure of another text. This is definitely a translation, by the way, which almost exactly corresponds to the French article but contained some serious errors of translation that made me question whether it wasn’t translated French=>Polish=>English or something of the kind. Feel free to ping me if there are questions, since the original article was almost certainly French (so that version is probably definitive), and the descriptions of the carnival in particular could be clearer. However there do seem to be articles in English about the Touloulou and such that should help a lot Elinruby ( talk) 08:12, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to warn that I have the intention to Change some pictures in this article that are more representative of the diversity of the city. If someone are opposed to this changes in any way, we can discuss about it here ! PouLagwiyann ( talk) 13:09, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
not sure how to do this, but there is a blue image blocking most of the info like country, state etc. Nickk2524 ( talk) 16:48, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
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What does the name Cayenne mean? 68.40.65.164 00:43, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Is it really true as is stated in the article that the cayenne pepper is named after the city of Cayenne? There is no source given. I always would have assumed that this would have been the case without any doubt, up until today. However, I just read in Online Etymology Dictionary [1] that it is "mistakenly associated with the town of Cayenne" and that the name of the pepper is in fact from the Tupi word (a language native to Brazil) kyynha meaning "capsicum". I'm really not sure what to believe either way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.36.90.233 ( talk) 22:42, January 2, 2016 (UTC)
Don’t know how to fix this but the section titled “Location of Cayenne” currently displays a stretch of open sea Elinruby ( talk) 07:35, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
I removed some rather egregious word salad caused by mistranslations at some point in the article’s existence. I got interested and added images and a couple of sections about the culture. There is considerably more material about the carnivals at the linked main articles, btw.
Since i just did major surgery I am leaving the article tagged as needing a copy-edit — which is how it came to my own attention — since it is easy in that kind of work to omit words or whatever, and I have primarily been translating, whereas it is possible that there is a more elegant way to express certain things when one is not following the structure of another text. This is definitely a translation, by the way, which almost exactly corresponds to the French article but contained some serious errors of translation that made me question whether it wasn’t translated French=>Polish=>English or something of the kind. Feel free to ping me if there are questions, since the original article was almost certainly French (so that version is probably definitive), and the descriptions of the carnival in particular could be clearer. However there do seem to be articles in English about the Touloulou and such that should help a lot Elinruby ( talk) 08:12, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to warn that I have the intention to Change some pictures in this article that are more representative of the diversity of the city. If someone are opposed to this changes in any way, we can discuss about it here ! PouLagwiyann ( talk) 13:09, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
not sure how to do this, but there is a blue image blocking most of the info like country, state etc. Nickk2524 ( talk) 16:48, 24 April 2023 (UTC)