User talk:Kylu
Latest comment: 16 years ago by Coppertwig
Welcome to Simple English Wikiquote!
We hope you are happy editing here. Some helpful pages to start you off are Wikiquote:Community Portal and Help:Contents.
If you want to meet and talk with other members, you can visit our version of the "Village Pump" at Wikiquote:Simple talk. Just remember that you should sign your messages on talk pages by typing "~~~~" (four tildes) after them.
Thank you for telling me about protecting pages. I'll try that the next time. ☺ Coppertwig 01:04, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
- Lar was trying to tell me that "cascade" wasn't simple English. I tried to argue that the software says just that, but... Kylu 03:48, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
- Hi, Kylu. We try to put everything into Simple English words, but sometimes if a word is what is usually used to talk about something in a subject, then we use that word. For example, we use the word "Administrators". (I try not to say "admin" or "sysop" so people only have to learn one word for it.) I think we use words like "revert". We try to keep the number of words like that small. As Einstein is believed to have said, "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." I think it's OK to say "cascade". It means the same thing to a Simple English speaker that it means to an English speaker: if they don't know it already, it means "some computer thing that I don't understand," and if they know it, then it means, um, "cascade". If we try to put it into different words it will only make things more confusing, since different people might use different words to mean the same thing. You can put a wikilink from a difficult word to a Simple English definition. ☺ Coppertwig 11:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
- (Oops: can we say "wikilink"?) ☺ Coppertwig 11:57, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
- Hi, Kylu. We try to put everything into Simple English words, but sometimes if a word is what is usually used to talk about something in a subject, then we use that word. For example, we use the word "Administrators". (I try not to say "admin" or "sysop" so people only have to learn one word for it.) I think we use words like "revert". We try to keep the number of words like that small. As Einstein is believed to have said, "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." I think it's OK to say "cascade". It means the same thing to a Simple English speaker that it means to an English speaker: if they don't know it already, it means "some computer thing that I don't understand," and if they know it, then it means, um, "cascade". If we try to put it into different words it will only make things more confusing, since different people might use different words to mean the same thing. You can put a wikilink from a difficult word to a Simple English definition. ☺ Coppertwig 11:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
- Hm. Chained, maybe? Kylu 18:04, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
- I think "link" is better than "chain" because it's the word people always use for that. We say names in Simple English. We say "Paris"; we don't say "the city in the country where people speak the language where they don't say the last few letters of many words" or whatever. Some words are like names. An English speaker starting to use Wikipedia has to learn "wikilinks" and "interwikis". See wiki:simple:Wikipedia:How to write Simple English articles. It doesn't say whether to use a few special words when writing science and things, but it does use the word "interwiki". ☺ Coppertwig 02:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)