User talk:Hylates

April 2020
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 * Hi. You talk about Wikipedia Policies for an article that is definitely wrong, so I don’t understand how such an article follows those policies. Or perhaps those policies are somehow false. I corrected the name of the Greek letter Ππ because «pie» is not its name. It is called «Pee» (Greek: Πι). For some weird reason, probably because of ignorance, English speakers gave it a different name that already means something else in the English language, which to me as a Greek sounds funny, uneducated and disrespectful. I thought Wikipedia was supposed to spread out the truth about our world not the other way round. Hylates (talk) 22:45, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * In English, the letter is written "pi" and pronounced like "pie"; the Greek spelling and pronunciation of the letter are already given in parentheses immediately after. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 22:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)


 * We are not talking about an English letter here though so it should not have a different pronunciation or name other than its original language because it is just wrong and can cause confusion to the readers in many ways who want to learn about the letter. How the word «Pi» is pronounced in English is irrelevant and pointless on this matter. A Greek letter having a different name in another language is ridiculous, pointless and meaningless because it belongs only in one language. When you learn a different language you don’t pronounce or call its letters based on another language’s pronunciation but you call them properly otherwise you are wasting your time. Moreover we are not talking about its pronunciation here but about its name which has a certain meaning and by calling it differently it immediately changes and disrespects its meaning, reason and history. The article talks about a letter of a certain language so it should be called by its proper name because otherwise this could be causing confusion (especially in the lingua franca of our era) for those who might want to learn the Greek language or want to know its proper name for any other reason. Pronouncing it differently is unproductive and confusing. I suggest the original Greek name/pronunciation to be referred first so it can be clear to the readers who want to learn about it and then in a secondary sentence to mention its English pronunciation as it is less important for a letter which is Greek (although personally I find a different English pronunciation of a foreign letter pointless and misleading). That’s all I had to say. Thanks for your time. Hylates (talk) 23:57, 5 April 2020 (UTC)