User talk:Weedefinition

I would check mangastream for an extra present
Chapter 432 is up on mangastream and there will be no new Bleach until 1/12-1/13/11. I thought you might want to know this info, because I know you work on the chapter pages every week. Enjoy your holiday. --Lemursrule (talk) 03:45, December 26, 2010 (UTC)

Overlooked or ignored
Part of your duties as a committee member is to make sure users and doing edits properly and not vandalizing the site. The main issue is that there was a user earlier that pretty much did just that removing content on Kaien Shiba now this wouldn't have been directly an issue for you if you hadn't after he edited went in and edited by changing a image placement from file to item. You totally overlooked or ignored the fact that he removed information and didn't call the user out on it. --Salubri (Talk)  16:20, December 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes and thats because I already fixed it the day it took place. --Salubri (Talk)  21:21, December 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * He replaced Thumb with frame and removed the size. --Salubri (Talk)  02:06, December 29, 2010 (UTC)

Feature Voting
Time is running out to choose January 2011's Feature Article, Featured Picture and Featured Quote! Don't forget to register your vote. 22:31, December 30, 2010 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Thought I'd take some time to hope our seated officers have a Happy New Year!!

Cheers to 2011!! Aeron Solo (talk) 21:32, January 1, 2011 (UTC)

Re:The Cursed Parakeet
Yea it was supposed to be included and i forgot all about it really. If you could create the page and make whatever changes would make it accurate that would be good. Thanks. --Salubri (Talk)  17:28, January 10, 2011 (UTC)

Check for redundancy.
You might want to fix the run on from the creation of The Cursed Cockatiel as Rukia Kuchiki & Yasutora Sado vs. Shrieker contains portions of whatever you covered in the creation of the former event. That way we dont have any redundancy in the material. --Salubri (Talk)  04:46, January 18, 2011 (UTC)

Thank You For Your Work (Fight Summary Project)
Hello, Weedefinition  I just wanted to send you my thanks for doing a good deal amount of work in the Fight Summary Project. You are doing a great job. I cannot deny that I haven't recently contributed as much I might want, despite being one of the main staff members for this project. It probably doesn't help that I am taking a course load is really HEAVY on homework this semester. Heh heh. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I do appreciate your assistance (and I am sure that Salubri does as well). Again, thank you. ^_^ --- Mr. N 07:14, January 21, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Image Help
Hmm. I would say some of the earlier episodes are your best bet. Maybe around like episodes 3-8 or something. Either those or Episode 302. Sorry I can't be of more help--God (Pray)  22:08, January 25, 2011 (UTC)

Episode screenshots categories
That's simple enough to fix. On the category icon there is a double arrow beside the x. Click it and a pop-up appears with 2 input fields. The top one is the name of the category, the bottom dictates how the page is sorted in the category list. So in the bottom one, replace "Episode 306 screenshots" with "306" and save. Or if you are using code view, add a vertical pipe | after the category name, followed by 306 as below. 21:31, January 26, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Regarding Kishi
I don't quite get what you mean with "[English] can't be reinvented": are you saying that we can't use different translations, in English, for the same Japanese Kanji, but must instead choose only one forever? Because I disagree, and here's an example of why:

Many Japanese, of all ages, use the word baka, essentially meaning "fool". But when a child says it, I wouldn't translate it "fool", because "fool" sounds a bit too, "eloquent" I guess, for just a child to be using; I'd probably use something that sounded more like what a child would say, like "dummy" or the like, and save "fool" and that like for when someone older says it. And neither would be really wrong. Besides, how is baka spelled? It's usu. either 馬鹿 "horse (and) deer", 莫迦 "must not ka", or with kana (adapting the probably Sanskrit source-word); but does that mean that the individual Kanji must always be rendered as though part of a word "fool", instead of their base meaning? No. Similarly with the derivative adjective bakana: though, in this scheme, it would more lit. = "foolish", it's used to express disbelief, and so interpreting it as "impossible/can't be" < "absurd", I think, is allowable.

The true, original meaning of 子 was, and remains, "child" (not "particle"). This could be semantically extended to mean "viscount, child of nobility"--in this case stunningly similar to English child : childe and, in addition, could be worn down into a mere (derivative) noun suffix just like English -ling, -let, as in 菓子 kashi "candy, confection" ("sweets" < "fruit-ling, fruit-let"), 椅子 isu "chair, seat" ("chair-ling, chair-let"), and 障子 shouji "sliding-door made of paper" ("screen, ward" < "hindrance-ling, hindrance-let") to name a few. Its meaning, and so translation--as with most other words--can be highly-dependent upon the root and context.

Not to mention that that every language has words that, without changing, can have multiple meanings that a language one is trying to translate them into may not share, e.g. tozasu (base of Ulquiorra's release call) means "shut, close (something)", but also can mean "plunge (someone) into grief"... an extension English shut lacks; or how English play can mean "execute a game or revelry", "deceive someone (esp. romantically)" or the deception itself, a sports maneuver, a theatrical production, etc. Flexibility, versatility and interpretation, as much as translation, are needed to make good renderings across languages--provided they are as faithful to meaning as possible, too.

As for reishi : kishi themselves, I often like to match (if I intelligibly can) the syllables/morae of the original terms to those of the translation, whence I prefer "soul" (monosyllable) for rei (monosyllable) etc. This is unnecessary for glosses, though, and a longer definition can be used if preferred. But for all the reasons above, I would persist in translating reishi ("soul" + "-shi, -ling[s], -let[s]") as "soullet(s)", and kishi ("vessel, holder" + "-shi, -ling[s], -let[s]") as "holdlet(s)".

Look forward to your reply :). Adam Restling (talk) 20:51, January 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * English is more versatile in compounding (passer-by, darkling, foolhardy) than I think you give it credit for, but now I understand what you mean: it's not as Legorrific as it is with Kanji.


 * As for it being too difficult, I could argue that (young[ish]) readers/viewers seem to have few problems memorizing the wacko-ass names of hundreds of Pokemon, and are apparently assumed to have few problems with remembering Japanese character, weapon and attack names, so I'd hope that if I used newly-coined words from English words and elements, they'd have a) not much trouble, or b) at least look up any uncertain things in a dictionary to figure out what version of -ling etc is intended.


 * However, that's the struggle of translation, I guess: how explicit/"layman" you want it to be versus how (literal[ish]ly) accurate you want to make it. Ideally, I'd have a specific translation--e.g. "soullet(s)" for reishi--but have a broader gloss as well--e.g. rei "soul" + -shi (derivative noun suffix), "-er, -ling, -let"; this in-depthness, though, isn't Wiki's style, so a clearer, if less one-to-one, translation is prob. best, as you've said... regardless of *my* esthetic. Adam Restling (talk) 05:52, January 30, 2011 (UTC)

I *sorta* did, but just very briefly and so prob. unclearly: if you (all) think that something like "vessel/matter particle(s)", while less one-to-one, is necessary for a clearer understanding of the word, then I suppose that should be the translation that is used. Like I said, ideally, there would be something on every page that followed the template of, say, this example with reishi:

Reishi (霊子, "soullet[s]")

and then a later section on the page like

Meaning

Japanese rei, soul; numinous, spiritual, and -shi, derivative noun suffix, specialized usage of the word for "child, seed; childe, viscount".

But like I said, I know that having a separate "Meaning" section isn't often Wiki's style.

As for making the translations consistent if something using -let, -ling is chosen, I would say yes: since both terms here use -shi, the words chosen to translate -shi should be consistent, too.

Sorry; it's just hard not to promote my own view when it's something that's important to me, like language :) ; if that should contrast with the "greater good", I guess I'll just have to defer to what's "best". Adam Restling (talk) 00:49, February 4, 2011 (UTC)