User talk:Pcauchy

Quebec French
Bienvenu sur Wikipédia!

You don't need my imprimatur (or anyone else's) to edit the article! Just stick to what reliable sources say, footnote them, try to adopt a neutral point of view, and be reasonable if your edits are disputed. As for the substance...

"Mutually intelligible" is really a continuum. It's often misleading to say that language/dialect A is or isn't mutually intelligible with language B -- there are gradations. One complicating factor is the presence of a shared standard language. Ordinary spoken Moroccan Arabic and ordinary spoken Gulf Arabic are pretty far apart, and clearly not mutually intelligible. But educated speakers of Moroccan and of Gulf Arabic invariably know Modern Standard Arabic (fusha), and can communicate using that -- which people often think of as the "pure" or "real" Arabic as opposed to their own "dialect".

A good article on Quebec French would include a discussion of the role of Standard French in Canada as well as of dialectal differences. It would discuss rural/urban differences. It would discuss attitudes towards standard and local French. It would use solid, neutral sources -- my French is very good (people say I have a slight Belgian accent), but I find some people's Quebec French very very hard to understand -- but reporting that would be original research.

Finally, please remember to sign your contributions to Talk pages with --~, which includes your user name and a timestamp. --Macrakis (talk) 08:31, 15 December 2014 (UTC)


 * By the way, I was recently talking to a colleague from France. He says he always turns on subtitles for Quebec movies/TV shows.... Just as I do for some varieties of English. --Macrakis (talk) 19:46, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

enregistrement
Bonsoir, si vous avez un micro, pouvez-vous enregistrer le mot passeport sur Wikimedia Commons S.V.P ? 162.247.123.201 (talk) 20:35, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Claim that fruits resembling pineapples were found at Pompeii misrepresents the source
I have no idea where you got that from. I don't see that in the image and in any case the source doesn't mention them, but says the archaeologists suggested pomegranates or dates. So you misrepresented the source. In any case the media isn't a suitable source for such a claim, we'd need peer reviewed sources. Doug Weller talk 11:27, 28 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Doug, I agree that peer-reviewed sources would be needed to back this up. The Guardian article however clearly mentions pineapples even though they also clearly state that it is very likely something else :
 * "Ancient painting includes fruit that looks like a pineapple – although it is almost certainly something else"
 * "and includes an item that looks suspiciously like a pineapple."
 * "However, the “pineapple” on the plate seems likely to be something else entirely, as the first European to encounter the fruit was Christopher Columbus, in Guadeloupe in 1493."
 * "But asked whether the fresco settled the argument for pineapple on pizza, Sorbillo responded with a resolute: “No.”"
 * Cheers,
 * Pcauchy (talk) 15:02, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
 * As you said, we need peer reviewed sources. Doug Weller  talk 19:05, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

June 2023
Hi Pcauchy! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 11:29, 28 June 2023 (UTC)