Talk:Harry Baals/Archive 1

Cleanup
General WP:NPOV issues, citation and lack of professionalism in tone and style. Davodd 03:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Date of birth?
The article had his date of birth as November 15, 1886; I changed that to November 16 (same year) as per the 1944 reference I have, but perhaps there is better information? Kestenbaum 23:15, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Homophone?
The parenthetical phrase which includes "as a result of the father-bother, cot-caught and Mary-marry-merry mergers" is not helpful. There is no such thing as the Mary-marry-merry merger. I tried to edit this to improve the accuracy of the article, but it was reinstated. I recognize that you are getting a lot of vandalism right now, but not all changes to a page are vandalism or violate NPOV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.214.200.10 (talk) 04:43, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes there is such a thing as the "merry-marry-Mary merger". You don't know because you've never studied linguistics. Look up what a phonological merger is so you're not uninformed and don't post stupid comments. Those three words are pronounced with three different phonetic vowels in British English, and with the same phonetic vowel in American English. It's the same with Harry and hairy, different vowels in British English, the same one in American English. Please don't embarrass yourself again by posting an uninformed comment and showing your idiocy. If you know nothing of phonological mergers, you should not be commenting on their existence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.227.105.197 (talk) 21:32, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

This is all academic. It seems to me that the article could just come right out and say that pretty much all Americans pronounce Harry Baals the same as hairy balls. Even the way the article currently talks about Harry "rhyming with" hairy, with a link that sends you to the page on homophones, seems unnecessarily heady. Not even to get into the phonological merger debate. We see "Harry Baals" and we pronounce it "hairy balls," end of story. Isn't really that hard to explain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.209.111.214 (talk) 23:31, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

pronounce
sinebot, why don't you understand i'm dutch? dutch ppl didnt have to studie dutch language, sicko 95.96.209.147 (talk) 11:42, 10 August 2011 (UTC). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.96.209.147 (talk) 11:39, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

pronouncing
ok guys i'm dutch and you DON'T pronounce it as balls or bales, it's bahls. in the dutch language, double a means loooooong pronouncing. if it was bals, you pronounce it as balls and if it was beels you pronounce it as bales. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.96.209.147 (talk) 11:29, 10 August 2011 (UTC) Yes there is such a thing as the "merry-marry-Mary merger". You don't know because you've never studied linguistics. Look up what a phonological merger is so you're not uninformed and don't post stupid comments. Those three words are pronounced with three different phonetic vowels in British English, and with the same phonetic vowel in American English. It's the same with Harry and hairy, different vowels in British English, the same one in American English. Please don't embarrass yourself again by posting an uninformed comment and showing your idiocy. If you know nothing of phonological mergers, you should not be commenting on their existence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.227.131.13 (talk) 04:24, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

pronouncing
go away sinebot, you dont know anything about the dutch language. yes, i never studied dutch language, but do you really think that you'll have to do that if youre dutch? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.96.209.147 (talk) 11:36, 10 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Did someone actually make this comment? It's a BOT for God's sake!! K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 02:00, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

government center name controversy
What was wrong with the chosen name exactly? The article isn't clear about this.--2604:2000:C54F:E500:5156:4884:BE05:DDAE (talk) 02:42, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 March 2017
Harry Baals was mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, NOT Cincinnati !! Chuckowen1 (talk) 15:05, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Cannolis (talk) 15:28, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

He’s proud of his hairy balls
Huh 2601:648:8300:D0A0:AD41:4618:A69F:9197 (talk) 00:41, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Make article semi-protected
This is a very humorous topic, which tends to get vandalized a lot 2603:9001:5A09:81A:374C:27A6:F7E2:EEEF (talk) 01:34, 13 September 2022 (UTC)


 * it is pretty funny Ndlop (talk) 22:56, 25 May 2023 (UTC)