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Hey hey

Hi there, JHC. I know you from MWU, don't i? em zilch 07:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Jam session

Please don't add such statements without providing reliable sources for them. `'mikka 01:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

But I am an Arabic scholar. I know what I'm talking about. I'm going to publish my research and make a strong case. I'll show you. Johanna-Hypatia 02:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Besides, you're being inconsistent and unfair. You didn't bust the other etymologies which were equally unsourced, so why pick on me? For being an Arab woman? Johanna-Hypatia 02:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Dune

Hi, I've moved/altered/removed your recent Dune edits regarding the Arabic language; please see Talk:List of Dune terminology#Arabic and Talk:Feyd-Rautha#OR for the reasoning. I have no doubt that your translations are correct, and that Herbert may even have intended these meanings to apply, but it is a fictional universe and so we cannot make such assumptions without sources. This has been an ongoing issue with Dune articles because the Arabic influence in Herbert's work is well-known.

You note above that you are an Arabic scholar, so again, I (and the editor above) don't doubt the veracity of your Arabic knowledge. However, I encourage you to read about the exact nature of original research on Misplaced Pages. Thanks. TAnthony 23:50, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

That is crap

Noting the similarities between Herbert's terms and modern Arabic is not OR. What if an Arabic-English dictionary was cited?

Johanna-Hypatia, I encourage you to continue in the vein of your previous edits. Wachholder 07:26, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for this affirmation! I'd considered citing Hans Wehr's well-known Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, which is what I used, of course. All serious students of Arabic in America use it. Johanna-Hypatia 02:51, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

I have responded here. TAnthony 14:30, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello again

Hello again ms. kubeleia, I changed my username. Ogress smash! 19:51, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

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Sufi Saints of South Asia

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اچّھا جى ميں كوشش كروں گى Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 19:11, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

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Help:Translate to Arabic

Hello! I need some help on translation. Please translate the following word to Arabic.

  • Bishop of Rome
  • Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
  • Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Patriarch of Antioch
  • Patriarch of Jerusalem
  • Bishopric of Rome
  • Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
  • Patriarchate of Alexandria
  • Patriarchate of Antioch
  • Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Thank you. Amit6 (talk) 16:49, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Done. تمّت Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 05:24, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. Amit6 (talk) 17:29, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Sari

Hi, i have arranged the languages in the lead scn in alphabetic order. I do not know about your background, but i get the feeling that you believe sari is a hindi word. The clothing is referred to as "sari" in many Indian languages. My intention was just to remove the undue stress on hindi - as i know many non-Indians have this prejudice and refers a word common to many Indian languages as a "word from Hindi". Rgs Arjun 12:54, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

The point is that the word sari entered English via Hindustani sāṛī. This etymology has long been established and is not in question. It's clear that the Malayalam word sari had to have been borrowed from Hindi too, because the consonant shift of Sanskrit ṭ to Hindi ṛ is specific to certain areas of modern Indo-Aryan, not a feature native to Malayalam. Note the substitution of the dental flap /r/ for the retroflex ṛ, because the latter sound does not exist in Malayalam, just as in English. Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 04:52, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

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Very cool. Thanks for inviting me! Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 02:01, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Try http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-gendergap -- that should do it. Hope this helps! Sumanah (talk) 10:54, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you so much! With your link I was finally able to connect. The browser I'm using is Chrome (not sure if that makes a difference, but it probably does). When I click on the talk cloud, nothing happens, but your link worked. See you in chat! Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 14:09, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
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Très cool. :) Thanks, Sarah! Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 23:42, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

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Workers of the world, unite!

I am looking for that phrase in the Tatar language, using the arab script. As you understand that language, can you type the text here, the banner in the middle, on the right side?--Antemister (talk) 16:16, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

!بوتون دونيا ئولكەلريڭ يوقسوللارى بيرلەشڭز

Бүтүн дүня өлкәләрин ёхсуллары бирләшиниз!
Bütün dünya ölkələrin yoxsulları birläşiniz!
all       world   regions' proletarians unite! (←literal word-by-word translation)
I put this on your talk page. Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 03:06, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

That's what I wanted, thank you.--Antemister (talk) 10:33, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Please note the language is not Tatar but Azerbaijani. Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 16:46, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks. I supported move. Incidently WP:MOSARABIC is currently in Category:Misplaced Pages style guideline proposals, if it ever occured to anyone to upgrade it to an adopted proposal, which would require open RfC, and if it was inline with standard English works such as the Routledge grammar, I'd support such a proposal. FWIW. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:59, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks! Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 11:46, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks, Sarah! Always good to hear from you! :) Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 19:14, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

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Oh, these nagging bots. I linked to that page on purpose, after reading it, because right at the top it gives the specific definition for the word khalifah in a Sufi context, which has no page of its own, and I thought this definition would be helpful for readers who weren't up on specialized Sufism terminology. Disambiguation pages are not always "merely" a list of did-you-mean article titles. Often, as in this one, they provide dictionary-like definitions that are not covered elsewhere. Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 11:16, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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Hey, sorry to come to you out of the blue - I was looking at the Arabic-speaking users category. Anyway, I'm writing an article on an Arabic-language poet, but having a few language issues. Mind helping me with them? Here and here. Thanks in advance! –Roscelese (talkcontribs) 21:03, 24 August 2013 (UTC)