User talk:Matthewjbanks

Regarding your additions to article: List of English words of Old Norse origin
When adding new words to this article, please make sure that the word is actually of Old Norse origin and not simply a Germanic cognate. It would also be appreciated if you could cite your sources in the article. Best regards, Hayden120 (talk) 09:36, 13 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Did you put all of those citations?


 * Good Show; but I put Old Norse cognates; don't take the wind out of my sail. By the by, I will cite all of my finding from here out sir, mea culpa, please do not take grievous egregious offense, I'm just trying to bring proper auspicious laud to the Nordic language.


 * Pax be with you.


 * MJ


 * Matthewjbanks (talk) 05:21, 14 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Haha, no "grievous egregious offense" taken. However, the article is called "List of English words of Old Norse origin"; it is not a list of cognates. Many English words of Germanic origin have Old Norse cognates. For example, the noun "finger" ("fingr" in Old Norse) comes from Proto-Germanic "*fingraz". It is not of Old Norse origin. I don't intend to take any wind out of your sail, but I would like the article simply to be a list of Old Norse words that have influenced English. And yes, I did add all of those citations by hand. Thankfully I was able simply to replace a couple of fields in the template, so it wasn't too difficult . Thanks, Hayden120 (talk) 08:50, 14 July 2010 (UTC)


 * sry, understood,

Split infinitive
Hi. I reverted most of your changes at split infinitive because I couldn't understand them. Maybe you could explain what you meant at the the talk page? Were you saying that it's known that Old Frankish had split infinitives? &mdash;JerryFriedman (Talk) 04:45, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

that is truly regrettable, for it was in English. did i change your entry? you 'slashed' the entry, because the semantics eluded your comprehension, or the slap-dash erasure was for your inability to note that a citation was needed, the code is cn yes?

my comprehension requires your response. admittedly, i have no druthers on the issue, for i have aired my opinion on my blog, it is likely that I've implied a conjecture, i will not implement the changes again. the world is a xoo, perhaps it was Frankish and not old Frankish. ne'ertheless, the section really doesn't need to start with 'lastly', it's an encyclopedia, not a public school book report.

"Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted. Encyclopedic content must be verifiable."

Matthewjbanks (talk) 03:07, 24 June 2011 (UTC)