User talk:Myrtone86/archive4

Deadman's switch
Pardon my ignorance, but I'm not very much into transport safety, I was just conducting a merge of articles that seemed almost identical to me and other people (see talk pages of the articles). So to put it simple, I have no idea what you are talking about :)

Perhaps you could add the information yourself, or at least put up a note on the talk page of the article?

- O bli (Talk) ? 17:05, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Canadian Raising
All sources I've ever seen describe it as raising /ai/ to [əi]. I understand that it may sound differently to you, but changing the article according to your own personal observations constitutes original research. According to Wikipedia pages on Australian vowels, the vowel in Machine is. Australian /æi/ is the vowel in way. Are you saying that Australian way and Canadian why sound exactly the same to you? AEuSoes1 19:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not basing this on my own personal experience. I honestly haven't listened to an Australian accent in a manner that I could say either way.  I've listened to Canadian speakers and I can tell you that it's a fairly subtle phenomenon.  Canadian raising applies only before voiceless consonants, so why doesn't apply unless maybe it's in the phrase why play? so I guess the way/why example wasn't a good example.  A better one would be Australian wait and Canadian white. AEuSoes1 18:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Template: Profanity
My earlier attempt to post here on this matter apparently didn't go through, my apologies. I have nominated this template for deletion here: WP:TFD. You are, course, free to participate in this discussion; given your strong views on the subject, I think you probably will want to. Monicasdude 21:30, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Neubraunschweig
Because of 'The Two Solitudes', which is the name we have given to the long historic period when the English and French communities co-existed in Quebec in total cultural isolation from one another, it was difficult for other linguistic groups to assimilate. As a consequence in Montreal we have had times when the Italian, Greek, Yiddish, and German speaking immigrants have been the 'third tongue', with their own schools, churches and hospitals. In time most of the second generation of these groups chose to be absorbed into the English side, since that was (and is) the language of economic and political dominance in North America. As these 'Allophone' (a coined term for all other language groups) communities waxed and wained with fresh waves of immigrants from time to time it is difficult to say which was the 'official third'. I hope that answers your question. --DV8 2XL 02:21, 27 March 2006 (UTC)