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Re:Farscape Peacekeepers logo

Hey man, looks good. Nice to see someone with some actual experience create a version of the logo ;) -- Grandpafootsoldier (talk) 03:57, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Huh?

Hi, Dnik. I've been scratching my head and wondering were you trying to do here? Your addition was unexplained and unsigned, {{Reflist}} doesn't usually go on a talk page, the citations on the page were added 3^1/₂ years ago, and the links appear to be dead. I'm sure I'm missing something perfectly obvious, but please clue me in. Rivertorch (talk) 03:05, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Croatia Elections 2010.png

Just wanted to say - great work! :) What was the base map? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 10:17, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tony Arata

Please don't link years. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^(Otters want attention) 23:30, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding Serbo-Croatian

Hi. I've seen your comments on Talk:Serbo-Croatian. Yes, what I said was simplified. I was basing it off of what I once heard a linguist say; hearsay is not a reliable source, so I didn't actually include it in the article.

And yes, politics has always decided what is a dialect and what is a language. But is it any different elsewhere? For example, look at this map of Spanish dialects or this map of Polish dialects – they both stop at the borders.

Anyway, I would still encourage you to participate in Wikipedia and not give up. ~barakokula31 (talk) 17:06, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

But look at these maps - dialects don't stop at borders. I have already given up: it's hopeless, basically Wikipedia is not made for such disputed issues. Anyone can revert anything, one thing will be written on the Croatian Wiki, another thing on the Serbian one, the third one on the English Wiki. It's simply impossible to go deep enough and be precise enough. There's simply too much ignorance, everyone thinks he or she is an expert after reading a thin book on the subject. Every, even introductory textbook refers to "ijekavian" and "ekavian" as "pronunciations". "Accent" is a term reserved for something completely else. It's both pointless and hopeless, and it's simply not worth the effort.

dnik ► 12:00, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is the ENGLISH Wiki - what goes on over at the local Balkan Wiki's on this subject are - though appalling - of no concern to THIS part of the Wikipedia family. Your complaints along those lines are more correctly directed at The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., who owns/controls ultimately Wikipedia. That said, your comment about "experts" carries no weight, since the S-C article is overseen by university linguistic department teachers/professors who DO know very much about what they are talking about, and are above silly nationalistic persuasions - even those that reside in those states where this is an unfortunate problem (currently). No where in the article does it state that dialects stop at borders. HammerFilmFan (talk) 11:29, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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