User talk:Seven Train

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Again, welcome! Wyang (talk) 00:22, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Yiddish transliterations
Hi, I'm not sure why you removed, but in Yiddish nearly all Hebrew-origin words require manual transliterations (and the automatic ones will generate garbage, as in this case kvrus when it should be kvores). --WikiTiki89 18:33, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello, I apologize for that. I wasn't aware that that was the case for those type of words. Seven Train (talk) 00:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Khmer
Re:, : please don't! --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 04:01, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

earthquake
Hello,

are you sure with the following?
 * "German Low German: Ieedbäben"

Google books doesn't have results for the term (for me). Google web finds it at wol.jw.org/pdt/wol/[...] (e.g., , ), www.jw.org/pdt/[...] (e.g. , ), plautdietsch.22web.org (e.g. ). The material of the Witnesses like their Watchtower might be durable archived and thus be sufficient for attestation (WT:CFI). But the [...]/pdt/[...], words like (instead of ) and  (instead of /) indicate it's Plautdietsch (code pdt) and not Low German (nds). Greetings, 84.161.25.152 07:48, 6 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello. Yes, the word is from Plautdietsch and not Low German. I had taken it from plautdietsch.22web.org but failed to notice that the lexicon was for Plautdietsch and not Low German. I will correct this error on the earthquake translation page. Thank you for letting me know.


 * As for the correct translation, I found a term for it on plattmakers.de, which I believe is the correct translation. Seven Train (talk) 14:17, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Adding translations of languages you don't know
Please don't. You don't know the subtle details of the meaning of these words and cleaning up translation sections is much much harder than the mainspace, so if an error slips through, it will often stay there unnoticed for years or even decades. Thadh (talk) 17:10, 3 June 2023 (UTC)