User contributions for 2.201.0.62

23 March 2019

• 00:4900:49, 23 March 2019 diff hist +116‎ Talk:Sexy baby voice ‎ →‎Breaking voice
• 00:4500:45, 23 March 2019 diff hist +37‎ Talk:Sexy baby voice ‎ →‎Breaking voice
• 00:4200:42, 23 March 2019 diff hist −2‎ Talk:Sexy baby voice ‎No edit summary
• 00:4200:42, 23 March 2019 diff hist +24‎ Talk:Sexy baby voice ‎No edit summary
• 00:4100:41, 23 March 2019 diff hist +486‎ Talk:Sexy baby voice ‎No edit summary
• 00:1500:15, 23 March 2019 diff hist +553‎ Talk:Phonological history of English close front vowels ‎ →‎Weak-vowel merger in non-rhotic accents: new section

22 March 2019

• 22:5922:59, 22 March 2019 diff hist +8‎ Kenyan English ‎ →‎Vocabulary
• 22:4922:49, 22 March 2019 diff hist +37‎ Kenyan English ‎ →‎Proverbs: "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is a normal English proverb. And "scapegoat" is a normal English word. So there's nothing Kenyan about this. Thus a very misleading file. Might be best to delete it, but at least I've added a note.
• 17:0717:07, 22 March 2019 diff hist +913‎ Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages ‎ I've now added inline attestations. It's not unsourced. Why do you say that when it's obviously untrue? As I already said, I use the same source that we already used. The source was not considered unsuitable. It's a page from the University of Portsmouth.
• 16:5316:53, 22 March 2019 diff hist −23‎ Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages ‎ Undid revision 888979032 by 2.201.0.62 (talk)
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• 16:5216:52, 22 March 2019 diff hist +23‎ Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages ‎No edit summary
• 16:5116:51, 22 March 2019 diff hist +533‎ Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages ‎ →‎German: Dialects aren't relevant here. It's accents of standard German. Added some more information which is found in the same source. (I'm also a native speaker of German.)
• 15:5515:55, 22 March 2019 diff hist 0‎ Talk:Portuguese phonology ‎ →‎Aspiration
• 15:5515:55, 22 March 2019 diff hist +226‎ Talk:Portuguese phonology ‎ →‎Aspiration
• 15:4315:43, 22 March 2019 diff hist +537‎ Talk:Portuguese phonology ‎ →‎Weird use of prepositions
• 15:3515:35, 22 March 2019 diff hist +24‎ Talk:Portuguese phonology ‎ →‎Aspiration
• 15:3315:33, 22 March 2019 diff hist +461‎ Talk:Portuguese phonology ‎ →‎Aspiration: new section
• 12:1812:18, 22 March 2019 diff hist −23‎ Guttural R ‎ →‎Standard German: Better wording. "Germany, Austria and Switzerland" isn't sufficient. Alveolar r is also the standard in South Tyrol and Liechtenstein.
• 12:0612:06, 22 March 2019 diff hist +1‎ Guttural R ‎ →‎Standard German: "language area" doesn't mean Sprachbund, but translates German "Sprachgebiet" (the area where a given language is spoken), but apparently this is mistakable in English.

21 March 2019

• 17:5917:59, 21 March 2019 diff hist +8‎ English-language spelling reform ‎ →‎Obstacles and criticisms: That's true, but only if a radical approach were taken. Eliminating anomalous spellings like "tongue", "cough", "break" etc. etc. would lead to no such problems.
• 17:4117:41, 21 March 2019 diff hist −2‎ Mid-Atlantic accent ‎ →‎Consonants: These transcriptions were in General American (with flapping and rhoticity). Replaced them with the "Mid-Atlantic" versions.
• 16:3516:35, 21 March 2019 diff hist +127‎ Faroese language ‎ →‎History: this is the main reason why they did it. if the spelling had been based on the pronunciation it would have represented only one dialects with it's particular developments and mergers. this could only be avoided by going back to the old norse basis of all dialects.
• 16:1316:13, 21 March 2019 diff hist +1‎ Bear Island (Svalbard) ‎ →‎History: This is the basic form of the German term. (The form without -r exist in German when an article precedes, but in English you use the basic form.)
• 02:0202:02, 21 March 2019 diff hist 0‎ Irish phonology ‎ →‎History of the discipline: The author used an unusual (but at the time not entirely unheard-of) system of capitalisation in German. The title should be given in the original form. (If it were adapted to German standard practice, the word "Araner" would have to be capitalised as well!)
• 01:5401:54, 21 March 2019 diff hist −50‎ Norwegian phonology ‎ →‎Pulmonic ingressive: Anything can be confusing to foreigners, of course. But I've never heard anybody commenting on this. Who says it's particularly likely to be confusing?
• 01:5201:52, 21 March 2019 diff hist −38‎ Ingressive sound ‎ →‎Inhaled affirmative 'yeah': The source doesn't say that it's confusing to foreigners. Of course, anything you don't have in your country/culture/language can be confusing, but I've never heard that this is particularly confusing. It's not even a topic generally. People aren't aware of it.
• 01:4701:47, 21 March 2019 diff hist +28‎ Ingressive sound ‎ →‎Inhaled affirmative 'yeah': "Northern German dialects" is not a standard term. It could refer to Low German or to northern varieties of standard German. In fact, it's both, but it's preferable to say that clearly.

20 March 2019

• 18:5718:57, 20 March 2019 diff hist −2‎ Victor's justice ‎No edit summary
• 18:5318:53, 20 March 2019 diff hist +246‎ Victor's justice ‎ German term "Siegerjustiz" (Sieger = victor + Justiz = justice) with attestations from 1966 and 1969 in German newspaper Die Zeit.
• 15:5015:50, 20 March 2019 diff hist +99‎ English-language vowel changes before historic /l/ ‎ →‎Fill–feel merger: See Estuary English where this is mentioned and sourced.
• 00:2500:25, 20 March 2019 diff hist +416‎ Talk:Turkish phonology ‎ →‎Palatals or palatalized velars?
• 00:0700:07, 20 March 2019 diff hist +323‎ Talk:Turkish phonology ‎ →‎Palatals or palatalized velars?

19 March 2019

• 23:5423:54, 19 March 2019 diff hist +357‎ Talk:Turkish phonology ‎ →‎Preconsonantal /v/: new section
• 23:3623:36, 19 March 2019 diff hist −2‎ Talk:Turkish phonology ‎ →‎Claims made in article rhotic consonant
• 23:3423:34, 19 March 2019 diff hist +491‎ Talk:Turkish phonology ‎ →‎Claims made in article rhotic consonant: new section
• 22:4322:43, 19 March 2019 diff hist +35‎ Talk:Infix ‎ →‎Not an interfix, not really an infix either, so what is it?
• 22:3822:38, 19 March 2019 diff hist +567‎ Talk:Infix ‎ →‎Not an interfix, not really an infix either, so what is it?: new section
• 22:3222:32, 19 March 2019 diff hist +210‎ Talk:Infix ‎ →‎the Arabic example - not sure about it