User talk:Johnmarks9

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"Xynalyq"
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. I am referring to your adding of "Xynalyq" as the supposed official transliteration of the village and the language in English. This is, however, not true. First, it's written as Xınalıq in Azerbaijani (where the village is located), which is already in the Latin alphabet. There is no problem in Wikipedia writing it that way. Second, if "Xynalyq" where anywhere near official, there would be Google hits for it. There are none — except for two links to Wikipedia and a forum, where (apparently) you wrote the same claim. Third, the Khinalug language itself has a completely different autonym and even there, the village's name wouldn't contain any y. Your contributions to this very interesting Caucasian language are very much appreciated, but please stop adding that pseudo-official name to the articles. Thank you. — N-true (talk) 14:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

My reply: Thanks for the info. I apologize if I appeared to you to be purveying nonsense. I understood that the Turkish dotted i, as in İstanbul, was rendered in English by i and that ı, the undotted i, approximated the Russian vowel ы, best rendered in English by a short vocalic y, as in rhythm. However, I bow to your superior knowledge, being myself a mere doctor with a long-standing amateur interest in languages and their influence on psychology. Perhaps you would let me know how English would distinguish (if it does) between the Turkish vowels ı and i. Johnmarks9 (talk) 01:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

johnmarks9 __>  N-true You have not replied to my use of y for the short, non-dotted Turkish i. You are not in a position to dismiss others'contributions as nonsense without answering their reasonable justifications. Kh is often rendered X The final g is more accurately rendered q. The i in the first syllable and the i in the third syllable are both more like a short German ü rather than i. Phonetically this is often rendered as y in English. Johnmarks9 (talk) 17:58, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Saunders Island, Falkland Islands
Why doesn't the important paragraph on the significant history of the island appear in the entry? Johnmarks9 (talk) 17:36, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

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