Talk:Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An entry from Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 17 June 2006.

[edit] "Reorganized"?

What exactly does it mean that this was a "reorganized" mosque? That's not exactly idiomatic English. --Jfruh (talk) 19:23, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm not a native speaker so such mistakes may occur, you know. What way to name the act of making a mosque a church would sound natural in English? Convert, reshape? Reorganize sounded a bit weird to me too, since I used a dictionary to find the equivalent of a Bulgarian word, but could come up with no better 'solution' than that, unfortunately. Todor→Bozhinov 19:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I would say "converted" is the word you're looking for. I would have made the change but when I was looking at the article a vandal had blanked most of the text, so there wasn't much context for me to figure out what was happening. I'll tweak it now.

Sorry, I didn't mean to criticize a non-native speaker's contribution! I wish my language skills were good enough to contribute to other Wikipedias... --Jfruh (talk) 19:45, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

PS I also changed "built" to "created". Since the building already existed, it's hard to say that it was "built" during this time. However, the building as a church was created by the conversion process. --Jfruh (talk) 19:46, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, it sounds better now :) Don't worry about the criticism, I'm always open to it and it really helps me improve my language skills! Todor→Bozhinov 19:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)