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In the early years of the study there were more than 200 speakers of the dialect, including one parrot. (from the WP article Nancy Dorian)

Mikebrown is unusually eccentric and not very bright. Astronomers have not noticed any outbursts by Mikebrown. (from the WP article 11714 Mikebrown)

• Keep Redskins White!
• "homosapiens are people, too!!"
• Spaghetti Weevil (also) a sprig of spaghetti
• "I've always had a horror of husbands-in-law."
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• anti–zombie-fungus fungus
• "Only an evil person would eat baby soup."

Standard German

see Talk:Standard_German#Number_of_speakers --37ophiuchi (talk) 20:28, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Luri language‎

Hi, please stop vandalizing my username, nor Zack90 or other users are related to me, I asked Zack90 once, and it turned out we both got busted by a duck test but as you see on Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet_investigations/Mjbmr/Archive it says "Inconclusive", also please remove newly content was added to Luri language‎, Minjai is Northern Luri means Central, which is wrong, please also undo other edits you think are related to me, I'm not responsible for any of them, beside Zack90 is not answering my emails. Mjbmr (talk) 18:39, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

I never touched your user name. — kwami (talk) 20:56, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Your edit on heptagraph

What is your knowledge about Russian? TimurKirov (talk) 11:57, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

I reverted your edits. You make the OR claim that Russian sounds occur in German and you don't seem to understand what a heptagraph is -- it's not just a sequence of seven letters. — kwami (talk) 19:07, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Geography of Pluto has been nominated for Did You Know

Hello, Kwamikagami. I've nominated Geography of Pluto, an article you either created or significantly contributed to,  to appear on Misplaced Pages's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. Antony–22 (⁄contribs) 07:45, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Caucasus Greeks

Dear Kwamikagami

The Caucasus Greeks page was so called after extensive discussion on how best to translate designations of the community by themselves and others. In English 'Caucasian' is confusing as this is used as a semi- scientific term to designate all so- called 'white' peoples whether or not they have an actual link to the Caucasus. In Turkish, on the other hand, the geographic designation is exactly what is used for both Caucasus Greeks (Kavkaz Rum) and Pontic Greeks (Pontus Rum), and also reflects how other minorities from the Caucasus are referred to, eg Caucasus Jews and Caucasus Germans, again the English adjective 'Caucasian' is not used here so as to avoid confusion. To English speakers Caucasian Greeks suggests that these are the Greeks who are 'white' in contrast to those who are not, rather than that these are the Greeks from the South Caucasus. If possible, can you please therefore revert your edits of the Caucasus Greeks page. Thank you A Gounaris (talk) 10:13, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

I've restored the RM consensus. Kwami, I'll AGF on this one that you didn't see there had already been a discussion on the talk page, but really these controversial moves by you happen way too often. Jenks24 (talk) 14:07, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Okay. Wasn't aware of the discussion. — kwami (talk) 20:43, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Comments

I've left some comments on the Hun-Came and Vucub-Came talk pages. Primefac (talk) 19:49, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Language names

Speaking of Tagalog, do you know why Sanskrit and Pali are not X language as well? I never understood that, especially since Sanskrit is a descriptor, "Perfected", referring to "speech, language" - it's literally missing the language part. Ogress _smash! 05:44, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

It's a matter of disambiguation in English. Sanskrit and Pali refer only to the language, or to things associated with the language. Tagalog, on the other hand, is named after the people and is inherently ambiguous. Our preference at NCLANG is to chose the root common to the people and the language and to disambiguate: e.g. Swahili people and Swahili language. However, if we were to go with the derived forms, Waswahili and Kiswahili, there would be no need to add "people" or "language". — kwami (talk) 17:28, 25 July 2015 (UTC)