User talk:Brian Merz~simplewiki

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SimonMayer 03:34, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

SoundSpel

SoundSpel entries are not appropriate for this website. Please don't create any more. If you want to propose a new Wikipedia language project, do so at meta:Requests for new languages. Let me know if you need to make a copy of Rainbow (SoundSpel Raenbo). Once you're done, I'll delete it. -- Netoholic @ 01:41, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Comment and Question

In reaction to your user page, I wanted to say that many of the things that you want to change in English in order to make it easier for others are a big part of the wealth and beauty of the language. Additionally, synonyms and multiple meanings for words are present in every language on earth. English has done this more (including and mainly through borrowed words from other languages), but this is an asset rather than a disadvantage. If I couldn't say "wealth" and had to say "richness," the language would be weaker for it. I am a Simple Wikipedian, and I do feel that this site is useful for people learning English (among others), but as a stepping stone to full understanding and usage, not as an end in itself. We should not change the language to fit the users, we should change the users to fit the language, by giving them tools such as this one. Later, in more sophisticated contexts, they can use the vocabulary and contextual clues they learned here and in other places to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words. Obviously, this is my opinion, which is only as valid as yours is. Take it for what it's worth.

My question is in regards to the basically empty Simple English Dictionary page. You were the one who started the page, and you were the one who posted the note about the move (which seems to never have been completed, as there are still some words there), so I'm hoping you will be able to shed some light on this: if the words that we are supposed to generally limit ourselves to has been moved to the Simple Wiktionary, does that mean that the page was extraneous, or does it mean that the Simple Wiktionary shares that use, and therefore we should not add more to the Wiktionary than those basic words? Or should the Simple Wiktionary include all the words we can, but explained using simple vocabulary?

Thanks in advance for your response. Happy editing! --Cromwell|Talk 06:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

BTW, the main reason I'm asking is because there are some links on the How to write Simple English articles page, and I'm wondering what to do with them. If Wiktionary shares the purpose and will stay limited to the words we should use here, I will change the reference to the Simple Wiktionary, but if it does not, I think the best thing is just to remove those links. Or you can if you want. --Cromwell|Talk 06:04, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I think I just saw the light (to use an idiomatic phrase, another of the beauties of English). On the "How to write..." page, it says that using the word "sweat" would be fine, after you added it to the Simple English Dictionary. You are saying that it isn't that the SED should be limited to the words we use, but that we should make an entry for any words we use that are less than common. So the SED page you were creating does share the purpose of Wiktionary, but the other way around: SED shares Wiktionary's purpose of giving definitions of less common words. So I'm going to change the links to the SED to the SE Wiktionary and after creating a new page with those abbreviations for the word list groups, I'll recommend the page for deletion. Nothing personal, just want to clean things up. --Cromwell|Talk 06:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

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08:15, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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10:45, 19 April 2015 (UTC)