Talk:Garshunography

Lovely article

Clear, succinct and fully cited. A GA candidate in three edits. Applause. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 00:27, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Rosetta stone?

Would it be appropriate to have a See also containing Rosetta Stone? (as in, is it an example of Garshunography?). 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:48, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

I thought the Rosetta stone had a single text in Greek (in its native script) and in Egyptian translation (in two native scripts), no text being in a script not its own. Srnec (talk) 01:51, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

True but the two Egyptian scripts were so separated by time as to be arguably "foreign" to each other, but that is unambiguously WP:OR territory. Never mind, it is too arcane to be worth pursuing. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:10, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Unused sources in the Bibliography

Srnec Sources in the Bibliography that are not used in the article generate a "did you real mean this" (equivalent) error message. So in those cases, I have appended ref=none. So if you add some new text to the article that cites an entry in the bibliography, you had best check that it doesn't have such a tag. The easier way (and generally worth doing anyway) is to get "the system" to alert you to it automatically, as described at User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:44, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Seemingly conflicting info about etymology of "garshuni"

This article says that "The term garshuni is "a term of uncertain origin", but the article for Garshuni itself pretty categorically states that "The word "Garshuni", derived from the word "grasha" which literally translates as "pulling"". These seemingly conflict? Mathjack01 (talk) 20:19, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

With a citation too, so good call. Would you like to be the one to revise the text here, copying that citation? In your edit note, you should say "partially copied from Garshuni, see history of that article for provenance" (per WP:Copying within Wikipedia). 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:53, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage consides it unknown, so I'm not too trusting of the information at Garshuni. Srnec (talk) 03:38, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Perhaos the GEDSH doesn't know? and very odd since the source cited at Garshuni

• Kiraz, George (2012). Turras Mamlla: A Grammar of the Syriac Language. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. pp. volume 1, 291 ff. ISBN 978-1-4632-0183-8.

is published by same house (Georgias Press). Do you have the means to track down to difference? Or is it a case (as in art provenance) "by X" or "attributed to X"? Eith Even if it is only as a footnote, we should reflect both views. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:29, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

The source at Garshuni does not support the 'grasha' etymology. The claim was uncited until somebody moved it into the sentence cited to Kiraz. So the citation was never intended for that fact. I have removed it. Srnec (talk) 00:04, 2 September 2026 (UTC)