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Is there a name for when you use "sch" in front of the name of an idea to childishly mock the idea? Like Car Schmar! or Rules Schmules --frothT C 02:42, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey ya'll! Here's a tricky question. I need a word for a certain hand position - but I haven't got the faintest idea what the signal is called!
To demonstrate what the position looks like, make your hand into a fist.
Now, lift up your thumb, index finger, and last finger. Recognise it? Thought you would. But what exactly is it called?
The best idea I can think of is the hand shape Tobey Maguire makes in Spider Man.
So, what exactly is this hand shape called? Thanks. ~~ Scalene •UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography• 07:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
There are a number of them listed on List of gestures, but apparently not that particular one... AnonMoos 13:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
It means "I love you" (in American Sign Language)! Laurənwhisper 16:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
formula of cylinder+cone=cylinderic cone
What countries in Europe speak French? What countries in the world speak french?
Your question is not clear, because lots of countries are not monolingual. (Would you say Belgium "speaks French" if only 42% of the population does, while about 58% speaks Dutch?) Or what about Switzerland. Heck, not even all French speak French! Evilbu 22:12, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
My French is nowhere near good enough to translate this. I posted this photo from stock.xchg and it needs a more clear statement from the photographer about his willingness to allow its use on Wikipedia. I sent the following message, and he responded, "I don't understand all terms of your message, is it possible to you to translate it in french."
Can someone translate it for me? (I went to the Category:User fr page but don't know where to begin--ideally someone who understands English very well and understands the WP GNU licensing stuff.)
Dear "Mr. Will": I am an editor/administrator of Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), a multilingual project to create a complete, accurate, and open-content encyclopedia. Volunteers from around the world collaboratively edit Wikipedia, which is one of many projects of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation (wikimediafoundation.org). We depend on photography to clearly illustrate our articles. I enjoyed your informative photograph of the Brittany spaniel chewing a rawhide at stock.xchng and, a couple of years ago, placed it on Wikipedia using the stock.xchng boilerplate permissions-- you can see it here: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BrittanySpanielMrwill.jpg>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BrittanySpanielMrwill.jpg However, to be completely sure that we have your permission, now we can only use your material if you are willing to explicitly grant permission for it to be used under terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU-FDL, or GFDL for short). This means that although you retain the copyright and authorship of your own work, you are granting permission for others to use, copy, and share your materials freely, and even potentially use them commercially, so long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or try to prevent others from using or copying them freely (e.g., "share-alike"). You can read this license in full at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documenta>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License. Please do note that your contributions may not remain intact as submitted; this license, as well as the collaborative nature of our project, also entitles others to edit, alter, and update them at will, i.e., to keep up with new information, or suit the text to a different purpose. However, the license also expressly protects authors "from being considered responsible for modifications made by others." If you do agree to grant permission for use, we will credit you, state the image was based on your work and is used with your permission, and provide a link back to stock.xchng, your website, or other appropriate link. You are obviously an expert photographer. I hope you will consider accepting our request. Please respond either giving or denying your permission to: <mailto:permissions@wikimedia.org>permissions@wikimedia.org Thanks so much, Ellen ("User:Elf" on wikipedia)
(Please leave me a note on my talk page if you can do it. Thanks so much. Or if someone knows whether there's already an equivalent on the French wikipedia...? I got this text from here but modified it some.) Elf | Talk 14:49, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
How does one say Dear in German, as in "Dear Mr. Jones..." when writing a letter? Also, how would you close the letter? Thanks! Reywas92Talk 16:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Danke!! Reywas92Talk 20:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Is the name Schuylkill from the dutch language or is it a Native American derivative?