User talk:Geoffrey.landis
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Meelar (talk) 15:14, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Geoffrey! Why did you delete the word "window"? Of course it is an English word now but the reason why it was tought by professors as beeing German ist that in the Northern German dialect it is the proper word for the small round windows under the roof. --Ruk 16:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
It was deleted because it is an English word.
If the topic is "English words that originated from German roots long ago," well, the entire English language has Germanic roots. You will have to add about a hundred thousand words, including common words like man, house, is, mine, & and.
[edit] Minor edits
Hi Geoffery. When deleting two or more sentences, unless they are vandalism, can you not mark the edit as minor? The definition of "minor edit" can be found here. Thanks. Rintrah 19:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
OK, I read the page and now have revised my understanding of Wikipedia's official definition of "minor"! Geoffrey.landis 21:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
