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Sam [Spade] 16:49, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

waga/wa ga
I know that "ga" was used like "no" in the olden days, but I think this case is different, because the kanji used in "wa ga" is read as "ware" in cases where it is not read as "waga". Of course, I might be wrong, but I don't think that kanji is ever used as "wa" and not followed by "ga"... If you can provide an example, I'll stand corrected. Of course, maybe one could consider "ware" to be "wa" + "re", especially because in ye olden days, they were very slack with okuri-gana, but this would be new to me.

I changed the "su" to a "zu" because I saw the ten-ten on the kanji poem's "ga". It doesn't matter to me if the kanji version uses ten-ten or not, but I do think it should be consistent. Probably the best thing would be to have all the ten-ten in, since the kanji version is supposed to look like modern Japanese. --Carl 06:20, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Good call. I didn't check that dictionary link thoroughly until after I left you that note. I'm more familiar with haiku-era Japanese than waka-era Japanese, so it's my fault. --Carl 10:16, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Current events
Hello Kitty would you be interested to contribute to Current events in Hong Kong and Macao? best, &mdash; Instantnood 10:37, Jan 27 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi! Thanks for your note on my talk page.  I actually don't live in Hong Kong, so the days I don't read Ming Pao I have absolutely no idea what is going on in Hong Kong.  However, for those of you who are passionate about creating a section of current events, you may also want to have a look at here.  Do you wander around the Chinese Wiki too?  See you! (^_^) - KittySaturn 06:49, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC) (copied from Instantnood)
 * Thanks. Keep an eye on it and feel free to put up things u're interested in. I only read the Chinese version. &mdash; Instantnood 17:04, Jan 31 2005 (UTC)

Dagger symbol
I came across your message on Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits about the † symbol and you're right about it being a death notice, among other things (see Dagger (typography)). Maybe astericks could be used for the bots. Dralwik 14:59, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

RfC
The sharing at RfC seems to be over. I have made a response there. Please take a look. I do hope that with everyone's effort Wikipedia will soon be the best encyclopedia ever. :-D &mdash; Instantnood 21:36 Mar 5 2005 (UTC)

the truth is too boring
I enjoyed the poem (aphorism?) on your user page. Who wrote that? Blank Verse  &empty;  05:18, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. BTW, who did the translation? Blank Verse   &empty;   06:22, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I see that Kenk&#333; has an article, but that Tsurezuregusa is red-linked, so you will have to write an article for it. ;-) The only thing that I know about the work are the 15 pages on it in Donald Keene's book on early Japanese literature "Seeds in the Heart", but he also wrote a translation of the work. Blank Verse   &empty;   08:37, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tung Chee Hwa's resignation
Hello Kitty. It's just because his resignation has not been approved by the Central People's Government. :-D &mdash; Instantnood 10:53, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * I understand. The exact time may not be useful currently, but may be useful when there is a detailed article on the event, at the time all things are settled. &mdash; Instantnood 14:31, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Qing Ming Jie in mainland China
I'm fairly certain that Qingming is not a statutory holiday in mainland China. I'm not currently in China but I asked a few Chinese friends to verify my memory. A quick google also suggests that Qingming as a statutory holiday has only been proposed in mainland. Apologies for not verifying its status in HK, Macau and Taiwan before editing. Thanks. -- Alaz (talk) 03:22, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Malbone Street Wreck
Kitty, what is the nature of the Japanese services in the two crashes cited?

Rapid transit means a metro, or something like it. If the lines in Japan are really commuter trains (more like the Long Island Rail Road than the New York subway, then the Malbone Street Wreck is still the deadliest rapid transit wreck. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 18:46, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

MR again
Hello, KittySaturn! Thanks for all of your hard work clearing up McCune-Reischauer standards. I hope your classes have been going well. When you return from your studies, I wonder if you could comment on the Yi/I question as it pertains to McCune-Reischauer.

Also please check out and join the brand new notice board for KRT.

By the way, sorry I didn't get back to you before, but a) I was on hiatus from Wikipedia, and b) I am pretty clueless when it comes to North Korean pronunciation, so I probably couldn't have helped. Happy editing! -- Visviva 02:50, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Any chance you could share the name and author of that textbook? Inquiring minds want to know.  -- Visviva 07:19, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

&#36865;&#20551;&#21517; in zh-wiki
Hey, thanks for pointing out my mistake. I learnt Japanese verbs using the Group I, II and III method, so I just assumed masu-form was the same as &#26410;&#28982;&#24418;. How is that different from &#36899;&#29992;&#24418; exactly? :P -- Tonync 17:41, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

verses
Hiya,

you recently voted to delete John 20:16

Uncle G has made a wider proposal covering a much larger group of verses.

would you be prepared to make a similar vote at Votes for deletion/Individual Bible verses, which covers the full list of verses in Uncle G's suggestion?

9 July 2005 16:36 (UTC)

Korean language
Took a look at the section... looks great! Since there's so much there, I wonder if it might be better summarized and moved to a separate article -- or maybe merged into Dialects of Korean. Anyway, I fixed a couple of little things. I really don't know what the English word for ㅂ-irregular verbs would be (mostly, I think there isn't one), so I left that alone. Cheers! -- Visviva 16:49, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * PS Thanks for the hanja.

Re: Language template
Thanks Kitty. I guess I'd keep it as it is at the time being. :-D &mdash; Instantnood 13:01, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Japanese Wikibook
Hello, Kitty, nice to meet you. I saw your comment on the discussion page of the Wikibook entry Japanese:Grammar:Verbs and was very impressed with the way you laid it out. A number of us are working to revive, revise, and rewrite the Japanese Wikibook and would like to solicit your input and criticism, as you obviously know what you are talking about. We have a discussion group at Yahoo! groups (japanese-wiki) and also periodically discuss things in the Japanese Contributors Guide. If you would be so kind as to post an occasional comment or make an occasional suggestion, I think that would go a long way toward producing a high quality work.

Thanks! Feel free to contact me on my talk page here, at Wikibooks (aaronsama) or in the Yahoo! group. --Acooley 20:50, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

User Categorization
You were listed on the Wikipedians/Hong Kong page as living in or being associated with Hong Kong. As part of the User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Hong Kong Wikipedians for instructions. Rmky87 18:42, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Lam Qua Thank you!
Thank you for your edits to Lam Qua, it is exciting to see this article take shape! Joaquin Murietta 06:05, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Hiya.
Hiya, I'm Art. You sound cool and I think we share a lot of interests. ぼくは１５才で、シドニーにすんでいる. 学校で三年間ぐらい日本語を勉強している. I love world languages, I find Chinese interestingly ridiculously impossible and Korean interestingly easy. そして、北朝鮮のことがとてもおもしろいと思ういます. アジアのポリティックスが好きですから、未来にジャーナリストをなりたいです. I hope I'm getting all this right. :P M.C. Brown Shoes 00:45, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Usyd
I saw that you replaced my quad photo with Image:University of Sydney Main Quadrangle.jpg, which I must say is much better! I'm guessing you do science at Usyd as well? :) Enochlau 07:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

re:Category:Wikipedians by D&D Alignment
I noticed you are categorized as a Wikipedian by alignment. If you are in to userboxes, there are now infoboxes available using a standard template. See the alignment category page for details. This is a copied announcement, please reply on My Talk Page or in the category talk if you have any questions. xaosflux Talk  / CVU  18:48, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

hanja rfm
thanks for your note. feel free to add your own summary of the debate to the rfm, it seems that's how everyone else is doing it. i did link to hanja, however, since anyone taking up the mediation will have to become familiar with the full concept. but i was dismayed to see you edit the hanja article just as this issue is going to mediation. we could expand this debate there, & i could further edit that article.

i will not edit the hanja article if you revert your latest changes, & we can all have our say at mediation. of course you don't have to take my suggestion, but it will avoid complicating the issue now.

it is unfortunate that it had to come to this, but i hope you understand i'm just sick & tired of defending myself against accusations of attempting to "completely eliminate" hanja. come on, we are more reasonable than that.

oh, & i wasn't referring to you specifically by chinese-fluent wikipedians. everyone originally opposed to my infobox editing seemed to be fluent in chinese characters. i would've guessed you were actually japanese-speaking, from your user page. Appleby 06:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

maybe i overreacted to your hanja article edit. i do have two issues, though. 1. was kim il sung motivated by anti-japanese sentiments, as opposed to simple self-reliance, since hanja was used long before the japanese occupation? 2. the reference to the dictionary is misleading, since it still doesn't reflect local usage (it's aimed at foreigners) & dictionaries are supposed to include etymology, part of speech, pronunciation, example phrases, etc about the word, serving a fundamentally different purpose than encyclopedias which explain the topic. since it could appear that the reference to the dictionary was intended for the hanja infobox debate, i would still ask if you could delete that reference for now. Appleby 07:55, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Japanese and Korean
Hey there Kitty, thanks for the info about 朝鮮語を学ぼう! I'm very excited about getting this book, and very happy too to hear that it discusses N/S differences. Am I right in thinking the main focus is on N Korean, judging from the title?

Also, about the J-K relation, I've spent some time the past few days plugging J and K words into a modified Swadesh list I plopped into a spreadsheet, and I've found some interesting correlations between J and K, and also between the two and others in the Finno-Ugric group. I started with the Swadesh lists for Finno-Ugric languages, simply copying the whole table from the page and pasting into a spreadsheet for easy modification. It's been slow going as I'm really a bare-bones beginner in Korean, and have to go by what I find in online E-K dictionaries. I've tried to weed out words that are obviously from Chinese, but I'm not sure I got all of them weeded out, and as a beginner I'm limited in the synonyms I can dig up. But as I said, I'm finding some clear crossover in some places, and some possible cognates in others. A short list of the direct similarities (bear in mind that some of these are bald guesses, and that my grasp of romanization is incomplete):

(there was a long list here: now at User talk:Eirikr)

I'm very much interested in the question of where we've come from and how we wound up where we are, and part of that for me is looking into linguistic relationships. (For that matter, archaeology is also an interest of mine, but languages are much easier to study without having to be on-site. :) ) It's naturally easiest to compare languages one is familiar with, as you can only really get into the structure and feel of a language from the inside.  I'm working on Japanese etymologies too in my spare time, for instance.

Anyway, thanks again for the book info, and I'll see about heading down to Kinokuniya sometime soon! Cheers, Eiríkr Útlendi 22:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hello again, I've decided to put my reply to your post on my talk page to keep it together with your post, as I get really confused with split conversations where all you ever see is one side. :)  Cheers! Eiríkr Útlendi 00:51, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Re:Hello
"I do kind of know who you are at uni" - uh oh, what I have done. Will you still be doing undergrad in 2006, or have you gone on to bigger and more exciting things? :) Btw, you might be interested in this: Meetup/Sydney. Because there aren't any board members around, I would imagine that it would be a pretty casual affair. enochlau (talk) 14:22, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
Hi! Thanks for the barnstar. It is nice to know that others were amused by the conversations with the anonymous user. You shouldn't forget Melchoir's contributions, though. He very patiently took over, when I had to take a break to let my irritation calm down a bit. Rasmus (talk) 09:17, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, thanks a lot for mine, too! I think you guys are too generous regarding my patience, but if that's the impression I give, I can't complain! Cheers, Melchoir 04:34, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, about Malaysia's SP and PGB
You had posted a comment regarding the SP.. It is the nation's highest gallantry award for bravery and courage beyond call of duty. I'll be doing some updates for the site as soon as possible. However, it would not be an easy task as there are many receipients out there (mostly army and some police, with only 1 civvie who was murdered in Hong Kong). Some of these are not disclosed to the media as their actions involved covert operations overseas. Therefore, I'll be doing what ever I could do only. Thank you for your comments. PS: I did not start the page, but I feel compelled to complete it. -Amlisk- 27 March 2006.

Establishment of The Wikimedia Hong Kong
encyclopedist 19:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Hong Kong English
Hi Kitty, you may be interested to discuss the wiki page on Hong Kong English. Please come and help us lah. :P --Yau 20:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Tunmen public road rock fall accident
I want to know the reason of your action for delete label of Tunmen public road rock fall accident in Japanese Wiki.--Kftsang hk 20:58, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Japanese Articles
本人當然清楚理解自己的日文只是初學，日文版很多時也是找朋友幫忙的，而本人並非刻意只開或先開日文版題目，只是時間所限，未及設立中文版而已.

未懲詢本人意見便加入削除標籤，似乎並不尊重. --Kftsang hk 17:20, 29 June 2006 (UTC)


 * 本人也想知道閣下有否留意條目的創建日期，有關條目並非最近才創建的，而是一早已經創建下來，並非近來才將香港記事先開日文條目. --Kftsang hk 19:09, 29 June 2006 (UTC)


 * 本人近來主要集中將日文鐵路相關的題目，翻譯成中文題目，新創日文題目真的廖廖可數，而且也是從中文翻譯過去，並非只有日文版的新題目. --Kftsang hk 19:59, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

re: North Korean language
Hullo, I have no knowledge of North Korean other than what's already at "Korean language"; I've only been cleaning up on what's already there.

You asked about irregular verbs. I don't know myself, but I'll try to check out some Korean textbooks the next time I go to Gyobo Bookstore's English section. --Kjoonlee 16:58, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
KittySaturn: I saw you had added almost all of the Korean name templates to articles on the list in the Korea-related discussion page. Thanks a lot. Let me know if I can help you with anything. Tortfeasor 21:09, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Korean consonants
Welcome back! That's quite an impressive resource. Although at present there isn't a good place for them, I think those tables (or maybe a version combining the two) would fit in perfectly in a full-length article on Korean phonology. I would try writing such an article, but somehow just thinking about it makes my head hurt.

Cheers, -- Visviva 01:51, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

PS Can you help save Korean name from defeaturing? We need some good refs, preferably in English.

Galbijim Wiki‎
I saw your comments on the Galbijim Wiki deletion page. My thought is that it will probably survive with either a "no delete" or "inconclusive" vote. Do you also use Dave's ESL quite frequently?

When I came to leave a comment, I saw your user page. I have to agree with you about the constant edit wars. Take a look at the 2006 Arab-Isreal Conflict page. It's terrible and only after some prodding by myself are people actually talking about it rather then reverting the article ten times in an hour.

Sometimes I really have to wonder about some of the nut jobs that edit on here (you, myself and Mirthridates not included as the crazy people of course).Davidpdx 11:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah, it is a website for native speaking teachers that are teaching English on other countries. I thought that's maybe how you knew Mirthridates. Davidpdx 08:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Template:South Korea
Since when was it necessary to consult every single regional noticeboard before applying a consistent style across a range of templates? I change no information whatsoever, so what's the trouble? Circeus 18:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I can look into making sure anotehr range of template is made consistent,if youpoint me to them. Circeus 23:35, 28 July 2006 (UTC)