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Phonetics

Hi, thanks for your contributions. About a few matters of phonetics: You asked about the flapping in Modern Greek /r/. Yes, I think (from introspection) flaps are common; I'll check if it's mentioned like that in the reference grammars. About your changes to the transcription in the Greece article: I'm not really convinced we need such a narrow transcription here. A broader, roughly phoneme-level transcription seems fine to me, and more easily understandable to the non-linguist. That means, no raising/lowering diacritics on vowels and stuff. Also, using instead of for palatalised /k/ seems fine to me - the palatal nature is not phonologically distinctive there, and I'm not even sure if it actually is fully palatal at all, as opposed to only somewhat palatalised. I'm also not sure about the secondary stress marks you inserted. Do you have a reference that secondary stress is at all relevant in Greek? I don't think I've ever come across it, and some of the marks you inserted seem quite counterintuitive to me. ? If anything, I'd say a secondary stress might be on the first syllable of each word, but on the second? Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:16, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Something else: sorry I've semi-reverted you on Megleno-Romanians. I really don't think "repatriation" fits here (it only applies to sending people back where they came from, in my understanding of the term), and "expulsion" is quite correct, that's exactly what happened. People were forcefully removed from their homes, it makes no difference that it was legalised by a treaty between the governments. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Kalhspera...

...kai kalws hr8es. Ti shmainei Tzekai? •NikoSilver• 23:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Geia sou Tzekai kai kalws orises. Why did u restore the 'disputed' tag in Pontian Greek Genocide? so far, i have seen no source provided in the talk to dispute the title and content. if by saying 'i dispute this article' we can add such tags, this can happen in every article... Hectorian 13:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Epeidi kanenas kanonikos hristis den ta evgaze, mono ekino to IP to opoio mallon tha ine kapios apoklismenos hristis. An esy ta evgazes, de tha ekana tipota. --Tzekai 14:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Nomizw 8elei na rwthsei an 8a ta ebgazes esy h' an 8a ta ebazes kai me poia logikh.•NikoSilver• 21:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Pote 8a energopoihseis to e-mail sou? Kai bale kai kati sth selida sou na mh fainesai kokkinos san kokkinopsaro. YG:Tzekai ti 8a pei nte? :-) •NikoSilver• 14:16, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On 24 September, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Muslim minority of Greece, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Re: PASOK and ROM

If you wish to rvt my entry on the Chrisochoydes quote in the 'Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)' article, on the grounds that it has been covered or is irrelevant to this particular article, please do so. You may well have a point and I will not be re-introducing it. Politis 12:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

No problem, it's fine now. Sorry for seeming less willing to discuss it with you earlier (communicating through edit summaries etc). --Tzekai 13:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Threats

Tzekai, as one of the most active editors in Transnistria related articles, let me please thank you for your interest in our little corner of Misplaced Pages. Your contributions are very welcome. Please don't be scared off by threats by User:MariusM. We have all had to deal with his antics, sometimes anonymously, and sometimes in his own name. He also tries to rally meatpuppets to gang up on anyone who doesn't accept his blatant POV-edits. I have personally been the target of several attempts of his to report me for 3RR violations just for cleaning up after him, but never got blocked (see my block log) simply because the admins have seen this kind of behavior from people like him before and know what they are dealing with. He is a new editor who joined Misplaced Pages about a month ago. Since he came, I've been spending 3 times as much time as before and almost none of it has been on productive editing but merely to keep him from distorting the facts. Stick around, and hopefully you will have thick skin to deal with people like him. Again, welcome! - Mauco 14:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)