Thank you I am fed up with individuals who have no idea and want to turn black into white and vice versa.
Why do you keep adding Croatian and Serbian under Serbo-Croatian? The Serbo-Croatian language is a separate language that was created in 1850 from Croatian and Serbian languages which have been spoken for a thousand years before the Vienna Agreement. Both of these languages are recognized internationally, they are official languages of more than one country, they have their respective standards regulated by institutions and a history of literature. By denying the differences between them and negating their status you are offending millions of people. They do belong to the same diasystem, but that doesn't make them any less of a language. I understand that there is a problem in sorting the various languages and dialects in the territory of former Yugoslavia, but you need to have uniform criteria for all languages. Please, be objective! Mrcina —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.10.62.69 ( talk) 22:24, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
How skilled at IPA are you George? -- PaxEquilibrium ( talk) 23:08, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
I've done some thorough researching of the history of linguistics, and it seems that I now know less than I knew before.
So, Glagolitic was originally known as "Curillic" and the Cyrillic scrip was simply known as "the Serb script" until the 16th century? -- PaxEquilibrium ( talk) 21:32, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Đorđe. With your latest edit you merged the Central South Slavic diasystem (Srpskohrvatski) with Western South Slavic (Slovenian). Is there any reason for that? Regards, Balkan Fever 04:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
...could you do me a refresher course please? -- PaxEquilibrium ( talk) 11:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Hej Djordje, pogledaj molim te ovu glupost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Balkans
Cesku stavili na Balkanu, kakav idiotizam:-)). Nije tesko pogoditi ko je to mogao uraditi, a to je niko drugi nego poznati ustaski debili, koji ne zele shvatiti da je 'njihova lijepa' tipicna Balkanska provincija. Zbog takvih kao njih ce i ostati na Balkanu jos dugo, dugo, ha, ha. Oh, by the way, isti mentalci su i opet otklonili hrvatsku zastavu sa lista Balkanskih zemalja. Mozes li staviti stvari u redu na clanku o Balkanu i na linku koji sam ti dao? Puno pozdrava. 24.86.127.209 ( talk) 05:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Dje si brate! I ja sam Bozovic. Iz kojega plemena si? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Apiya ( talk • contribs) 12:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Brate dragi šta si ti tereta iznio u raspravi o Teslinoj nacionalnoj pripadnosti!! Sa ovim g.... zapadnjacima od kojih neki ne znaju šta je to nacionalnost. Ili imaju više značenja za to, pa koriste kako im je zgodnije. Pozdrav!
-- Čikić Dragan ( talk) 20:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Considering you're a linguist, you might be interested in the very intriguing ongoing discussion over there.
Cheers! -- PaxEquilibrium ( talk) 22:52, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hej Djordje, daj molim te ako mozes da ucinis nesto da mi pomognes da prijavim ovih nekoliko hrvatskih nacionalista, koji pretstavljaju lazne mape i neistine u clancima o 'Stokavskom dijalektu' i 'Srpskohrvatskom jeziku' na engleskoj wikipediji, i sa kojima se svadjam na stranicama za razgovor. Evo link od prepucavanja: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shtokavian_dialect
Ako mozes, takodje, ispravi i mapu stokavskog dijalekta, koju su ovi zlocudi osakatili bez dijela gdje je Srbija i Crna Gora; link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtokavian_dialect kao i tabele (templates) o Juzno Slavenskim jezicima, o kojima se nasa vruca 'rasprava' vodi i koje su oni namjerno promjenili. Hvala puno i pozdrav. 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 06:05, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
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Potpuno si u pravu Djordje, i uzalud je trositi vremena sa ovakvim bolesnim stvorenjima kao sto je Ivan Stambuk. Samo ponavlja svoju bezvrijednu nacionalisticku retoriku kao pokvarena ploca, sve uz paranoju od nekakve 'Velike Srbije'. Kakav je on paranoik i jadnik. Nemam vise rijeci, svasta se izrodi na ovome svijetu, to je zalosno. Samo cu da dodam da sve uvrijede koje taj Ivan Stambuk salje drugima odnose se samo na njega samoga i otslikavat ce samo njega i njegovo problematicno ponasanje. Pozdrav i Sretna Nova Godina. 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 01:35, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Ha, ha, kakve li gluposti mogu dolazit iz poremecenog mozga ovog Ivana, joj!C,C,C,C:)) 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 01:35, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Hvala na odgovoru. To je sve u redu sto si napisao, ali molio bih te da, kao dugogodisnji editor na wikipediji, promjenis te mape i postavis one koje odgovaraju (na clanku o stokavskom dijalektu), te da promjenis template o J.S. jezicima, gdje je slovenski jezik ravnopravno stavljen sa 3-ma varijantama Srpskohrvatskog jezika, a to je je nedopustivo. Inace, ja zaista nemam puno vremena da proucavam pravila wikipedije, te kako se radi postavljanje mapa, mjenjanje, kako se obraca administratorima za vandalizme, i sl. To iziskuje puno vremena, sto ja nemam, a vjerujem da si ti vec uhodan u tome. Ja bih zelio ostati za sada samo kao 'IP member', ali sa budnim pracenjem svih gluposti koje rade hrvatski nacionalisticki izrodi, te prijavljivanjem istih tebi ili nekome drugom normalnom editoru. Dobro bi bilo da ucinis nesto da se mape i templet o Juznoslavnskim jezicima promjeni, jer kao ovakavi oni samo dovode u veliku zabludu onog ko zeli nesto nauciti od engleske wikipedije, a to se ne smije tolerirati. Puno pozdrava. 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 19:42, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Hey Djordje, kako mozes trpjeti da ti ovaj jadni uspaljeni patetican imbecil (Ivan Stambuk) 'drzi lekcije' i propovjeda svoje lazi. Kakva jadna 'Zapadna' i 'Istocna' Stokavstina, LOL, Stokavstina je bila i ostace jedinstvena, pa neka crknu svi koji je razdvajaju. Cudna neka 'logika' kojom se prikriva i prekraja istina, a iza koje stoji propala rasisticko-nacionalisticka ustaska propaganda. Ta je 'logika' proizvod poremecenog uma, sto se nazalost pocelo tolerirati na wikipediji. Daj, molim te ako imas vremena i moci, prijavi ovog i slicnih njemu uljeza nekom od administratora, jer ovo sto rade po stranicama wikipedije je zaista nedopustivo. Wikipedija ce izgubiti vrijednost uzdane enciklpoedije ako se ne stopiraju ovi sijaci mrznje. Slicno nesto se dogadja i na diskusionoj stranici Srpsko-hrvatskog jezika. Ovaj jadnik (Ivan Stambuk) redovito brise moje odgovore na njegove iluzionisticke gluposti na toj stranici, ali zasada bezuspjesno. Kako i da jest, on i slicni njemu NO PASSARAN na wikipediji i svugdje uopste. Nadam se da ces procitati ovo i poduzeti nesto da se situacija popravi. Pozdrav i Sretni Blagdani. 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 06:02, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Господине Божовићу,можете ли да ми помогнете са овим. мислим да би то требало уградити у чланак о Кустурици http://www.blic.rs/hronika.php?id=110061. Ако је већ неко потегао те чланке онда је ред да се зна како се све завршило. Далибор Ђурић
Dragi Djordje, ja sam Marko Prelevic, novinar "Vecernjih novosti". Video sam da ste jedan od kontributora Vikipedije na staroslovenskom jeziku i voleo bih da napravimo pricu o tome, posto mislim da je poduhvat krajnje zanimljiv za citaoce u Srbiji. Ako ste zainteresovani, javite mi se na markop@novosti.rs . —Preceding unsigned comment added by Markonovosti ( talk • contribs) 12:30, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.
A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.
Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).
Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.
Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the {{ sigfig}} template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)
Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.
If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.
The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.
Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!
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Thank you I am fed up with individuals who have no idea and want to turn black into white and vice versa.
Why do you keep adding Croatian and Serbian under Serbo-Croatian? The Serbo-Croatian language is a separate language that was created in 1850 from Croatian and Serbian languages which have been spoken for a thousand years before the Vienna Agreement. Both of these languages are recognized internationally, they are official languages of more than one country, they have their respective standards regulated by institutions and a history of literature. By denying the differences between them and negating their status you are offending millions of people. They do belong to the same diasystem, but that doesn't make them any less of a language. I understand that there is a problem in sorting the various languages and dialects in the territory of former Yugoslavia, but you need to have uniform criteria for all languages. Please, be objective! Mrcina —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.10.62.69 ( talk) 22:24, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
How skilled at IPA are you George? -- PaxEquilibrium ( talk) 23:08, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
I've done some thorough researching of the history of linguistics, and it seems that I now know less than I knew before.
So, Glagolitic was originally known as "Curillic" and the Cyrillic scrip was simply known as "the Serb script" until the 16th century? -- PaxEquilibrium ( talk) 21:32, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Đorđe. With your latest edit you merged the Central South Slavic diasystem (Srpskohrvatski) with Western South Slavic (Slovenian). Is there any reason for that? Regards, Balkan Fever 04:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
...could you do me a refresher course please? -- PaxEquilibrium ( talk) 11:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Hej Djordje, pogledaj molim te ovu glupost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Balkans
Cesku stavili na Balkanu, kakav idiotizam:-)). Nije tesko pogoditi ko je to mogao uraditi, a to je niko drugi nego poznati ustaski debili, koji ne zele shvatiti da je 'njihova lijepa' tipicna Balkanska provincija. Zbog takvih kao njih ce i ostati na Balkanu jos dugo, dugo, ha, ha. Oh, by the way, isti mentalci su i opet otklonili hrvatsku zastavu sa lista Balkanskih zemalja. Mozes li staviti stvari u redu na clanku o Balkanu i na linku koji sam ti dao? Puno pozdrava. 24.86.127.209 ( talk) 05:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Dje si brate! I ja sam Bozovic. Iz kojega plemena si? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Apiya ( talk • contribs) 12:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Brate dragi šta si ti tereta iznio u raspravi o Teslinoj nacionalnoj pripadnosti!! Sa ovim g.... zapadnjacima od kojih neki ne znaju šta je to nacionalnost. Ili imaju više značenja za to, pa koriste kako im je zgodnije. Pozdrav!
-- Čikić Dragan ( talk) 20:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Considering you're a linguist, you might be interested in the very intriguing ongoing discussion over there.
Cheers! -- PaxEquilibrium ( talk) 22:52, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Hej Djordje, daj molim te ako mozes da ucinis nesto da mi pomognes da prijavim ovih nekoliko hrvatskih nacionalista, koji pretstavljaju lazne mape i neistine u clancima o 'Stokavskom dijalektu' i 'Srpskohrvatskom jeziku' na engleskoj wikipediji, i sa kojima se svadjam na stranicama za razgovor. Evo link od prepucavanja: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shtokavian_dialect
Ako mozes, takodje, ispravi i mapu stokavskog dijalekta, koju su ovi zlocudi osakatili bez dijela gdje je Srbija i Crna Gora; link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtokavian_dialect kao i tabele (templates) o Juzno Slavenskim jezicima, o kojima se nasa vruca 'rasprava' vodi i koje su oni namjerno promjenili. Hvala puno i pozdrav. 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 06:05, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
(UTC)
Potpuno si u pravu Djordje, i uzalud je trositi vremena sa ovakvim bolesnim stvorenjima kao sto je Ivan Stambuk. Samo ponavlja svoju bezvrijednu nacionalisticku retoriku kao pokvarena ploca, sve uz paranoju od nekakve 'Velike Srbije'. Kakav je on paranoik i jadnik. Nemam vise rijeci, svasta se izrodi na ovome svijetu, to je zalosno. Samo cu da dodam da sve uvrijede koje taj Ivan Stambuk salje drugima odnose se samo na njega samoga i otslikavat ce samo njega i njegovo problematicno ponasanje. Pozdrav i Sretna Nova Godina. 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 01:35, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Ha, ha, kakve li gluposti mogu dolazit iz poremecenog mozga ovog Ivana, joj!C,C,C,C:)) 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 01:35, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Hvala na odgovoru. To je sve u redu sto si napisao, ali molio bih te da, kao dugogodisnji editor na wikipediji, promjenis te mape i postavis one koje odgovaraju (na clanku o stokavskom dijalektu), te da promjenis template o J.S. jezicima, gdje je slovenski jezik ravnopravno stavljen sa 3-ma varijantama Srpskohrvatskog jezika, a to je je nedopustivo. Inace, ja zaista nemam puno vremena da proucavam pravila wikipedije, te kako se radi postavljanje mapa, mjenjanje, kako se obraca administratorima za vandalizme, i sl. To iziskuje puno vremena, sto ja nemam, a vjerujem da si ti vec uhodan u tome. Ja bih zelio ostati za sada samo kao 'IP member', ali sa budnim pracenjem svih gluposti koje rade hrvatski nacionalisticki izrodi, te prijavljivanjem istih tebi ili nekome drugom normalnom editoru. Dobro bi bilo da ucinis nesto da se mape i templet o Juznoslavnskim jezicima promjeni, jer kao ovakavi oni samo dovode u veliku zabludu onog ko zeli nesto nauciti od engleske wikipedije, a to se ne smije tolerirati. Puno pozdrava. 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 19:42, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Hey Djordje, kako mozes trpjeti da ti ovaj jadni uspaljeni patetican imbecil (Ivan Stambuk) 'drzi lekcije' i propovjeda svoje lazi. Kakva jadna 'Zapadna' i 'Istocna' Stokavstina, LOL, Stokavstina je bila i ostace jedinstvena, pa neka crknu svi koji je razdvajaju. Cudna neka 'logika' kojom se prikriva i prekraja istina, a iza koje stoji propala rasisticko-nacionalisticka ustaska propaganda. Ta je 'logika' proizvod poremecenog uma, sto se nazalost pocelo tolerirati na wikipediji. Daj, molim te ako imas vremena i moci, prijavi ovog i slicnih njemu uljeza nekom od administratora, jer ovo sto rade po stranicama wikipedije je zaista nedopustivo. Wikipedija ce izgubiti vrijednost uzdane enciklpoedije ako se ne stopiraju ovi sijaci mrznje. Slicno nesto se dogadja i na diskusionoj stranici Srpsko-hrvatskog jezika. Ovaj jadnik (Ivan Stambuk) redovito brise moje odgovore na njegove iluzionisticke gluposti na toj stranici, ali zasada bezuspjesno. Kako i da jest, on i slicni njemu NO PASSARAN na wikipediji i svugdje uopste. Nadam se da ces procitati ovo i poduzeti nesto da se situacija popravi. Pozdrav i Sretni Blagdani. 24.86.116.250 ( talk) 06:02, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Господине Божовићу,можете ли да ми помогнете са овим. мислим да би то требало уградити у чланак о Кустурици http://www.blic.rs/hronika.php?id=110061. Ако је већ неко потегао те чланке онда је ред да се зна како се све завршило. Далибор Ђурић
Dragi Djordje, ja sam Marko Prelevic, novinar "Vecernjih novosti". Video sam da ste jedan od kontributora Vikipedije na staroslovenskom jeziku i voleo bih da napravimo pricu o tome, posto mislim da je poduhvat krajnje zanimljiv za citaoce u Srbiji. Ako ste zainteresovani, javite mi se na markop@novosti.rs . —Preceding unsigned comment added by Markonovosti ( talk • contribs) 12:30, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.
A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.
Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).
Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.
Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the {{ sigfig}} template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)
Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.
If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.
The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.
Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!
— kwami ( talk) 02:12, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
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