User talk:A2raya07

Shlama A2raya, before you edit any more pages, I want to ask you something. First, what script does your browser display? Estrangela, Madnkhaya, or Serto? All probability says it's Madnkhaya because of the vowels you use. We need to come to a consensus about titles of articles: whether or not they should have vowels. Estrangela doesn't have vowels, and usually today Estrangela is used for titles.

Secondly, I'm puzzled by your moving of the article on the English language. Changing from ܠܝܫܢܐ to ܠܫܢܐ I can see (even though I pronounce it leeshana, not lishana, your spelling is more common), but I don't know why you changed lishanit ingisnaye to ܠܫܢܐ ܕܐܢܓܠܝܼܣ. "The language of the English people" is more formal than "language of English" in Assyrian, and the "-it"/"d-" suffix/prefix is just variation. We should continue talking on the main page discussion.--3345345335534 23:09, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem caused, khon. ;)

I have that same dictionary, but I'm sure that's not an "official" translation (that dictionary isn't without error, just check out the back pages). I've just recently standardized the names of languages to ܠܫܢܐ ____ܝܐ. I think it's easier this way, except for rare instances (e.g. ܣܘܪܬ). This way, all languages follow the same trend.

Also, I think it'd be best if we took out all the vowel marks in the titles. A couple of reasons for this:

• Titles, headers, etc. nowadays are written in Estrangela (the voweless form of the alphabet).
• It's easier for speakers of different dialects to understand, e.g. yoma/yawma is ܝܘܡܐ, same with mia and maya, and so on.
• It's easier to see/write.
• Other Semitic languages (Arabic and especially Hebrew) write in the same way.

Tell me what you think about this.

Lastly, you can request to be an admin here. Just follow the instructions and you should be okay.

ܒܫܝܢܐ,

--3345345335534 03:52, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Firstly, congrats on becoming admin! Secondly, I notice you're still using khwassa in the titles of articles. Khwassa is a vowel, as are rwakha and rwassa (ܘܿ and ܘܼ). You should just be using yudh for khwassa and waw for rwakha and rwassa so that there are no vowel points. This brings a whole new set of questions as to whether or not to use aspiration marks (like for turning ܒ into ܒܼ) or using majliyana (the thing that looks like ~). I say write COMPLETELY in consonants, thus ܢܒܼܟ̰ܝܼܐ becomes ܢܒܟܝܐ. Check out the Interlinear NT on peshitta.org and you'll notice no vowel or aspiration marks are used. Thirdly, the article on English language. I know you want to use the dictionary version, but hear me out. That is just one dictionary (from 1924?) that tries to transliterate directly into Assyrian and I doubt that's an "official" translation. If we want to standardize everything, then we have to add "ܝܐ" to the end of it. All other versions can just be redirects.

Lastly, translating the interface is tricky and hard to explain. Each phrase shown in English has a "file" in the MediaWiki namespace that you can translate. For example, say I want to translate "navigation" into "ܐܝܢܣܟܠܘܦܕܝܐ" (don't know the word for "navigation" in Assyrian, but this works fine). I have to go to MediaWiki:Navigation and edit the file. Once it's edited, it will be translated on the interface. If you want to see the whole list of files, go to Special:allmessages (this page is huge and will make your computer run slow unless you have a high-end machine). You can go here though, scroll down to "Overview" and you can search for the files one-by-one (that page is a good manual too by the way). One thing you have to remember though: if you translate something that doesn't show up translated within a few minutes (e.g. you translate "navigation" but it still says "navigation"), then revert your translation. Odds are you go the wrong file and translated something somewhere else, so the context may not match or may not make any sense. --3345345335534 15:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[ܫܚܠܦ] Welcome to our newly forming "Admin team" :-)