Also in my humble opinion Shekitten is a quality contributor. I never noticed the slightest reason to ban her.

Shekitten has some quite extremist sentences. I don't know who banned 'them' and who can ban wall messages. It's a bit upsetting seeing a whole thread banned.
Still, if shekitten did nothing wrong, will be unbanned.

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Oops. Is she suspended? I don't know what happened, but I miss her. I wonder how long will her suspension last. How can she come back?

I left a comment because I hope she will come back soon. Thank you.

You can't delete it yourself, but you can edit it to make it match the sentence you linked it to. This is often preferable to deleting. All you have to do is click on the pencil icon.

Hi, Amzir.

Welcome to Tatoeba and thanks for adding sentences in Tarifiyt.

The Wall is a good place to make such a request. However, it will require some research on our part. The lemma in Wikipedia is "Tarifit" (without the y), but other names such as "Tmazight", "Tarifit Berber", and "Riffian" are given. It is mentioned that speakers may refer to it as "Tarifiyt", as you say, to differentiate it from other varieties. ISO 639-3 lists it as Tarifit (rif), and that's probably the reason it appears in this form on Tatoeba.

However, this only concerns English. It is possible to translate the Tatoeba user interface into other languages on Transifex. This includes Tarifiyt, and especially the name of the language is translatable.

As for the flag, it was a rather difficult process that led to the current compromise of having the flag of the Amazigh people along with the various language codes. I'm afraid it's not likely this will be touched again. You can change the flag individually just for yourself if you use Firefox. There is an addon called Stylish that lets you customise the user interface, including flags.

Traditionally people have:

1. Talked with other people.
2. Used textbooks.
3. Taken courses at various country-dependent institutes, like schools and universities.

With a dead language, your best bet is to check universities that teach linguistics, ancient cultures or maybe theology.

Drops and duolingo are just for basic, memrise has some simple courses, too, clozemaster unfortunately is high priced, but then you can still use chatgpt free, and it can create some stories in different languages (maybe not familiar with sumerian, probably don't speak tamazight either), what can be first a better alternative to lingQ, but if you want to do a lot of similar reading in different languages, you won't mind lingQ, then you can find some tales, simple language materials in listening book form with text on youtube or on other sites, then you can find some language exchange partners around the world, there are some free sites, some are a bit mixed-up with 'I cry for have a partner' and 'I genuinely want to learn languages'. Then you have some sites where you can download language books as pdfs. And finally, you can travel abroad and try to learn the language that way.

Sumerian? really? it has nice characters, but you can't really learn that anywhere, just some specific places in university level surroundings
If you in love with the characters, just check out some asian languages, or middle eastern, maybe learn the runic alphabet for fun

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Thanks, as always.

He also seems obsessed with transgender people.

Excuse me, I was just passing by, but does writing sentences about countries other than “recognized” really go against the rules of this website?

How Algeria is worse than Tom and Mary?

Everyone here has the same means of contacting Amastan, which is to send a private message. So you can in fact tell him to stop adding so many sentences about Algeria, as can anyone else. Doing so directly in private is also more likely to reach the intended recipient than posting on the wall. (I'll send him a link to this wall post so he has the opportunity to respond.)

But if you're actually hoping for an admin to order Amastan to stop, that's unlikely to happen, since the last time a similar issue came up the verdict was that

> As a general rule, no action will be taken against a contributor based on the sole fact that they are creating new sentences with a name that has been overused.

https://blog.tatoeba.org/2019/0...h-tom-and.html

If you want to avoid English sentences which overuse certain words, you might want to restrict your searches to lbdx's "Pruned English Corpus" list, i.e. https://tatoeba.org/en/sentence...ny&sort=random

It's also worth pondering what Amastan is supposed to do instead. After all, telling someone to stop doing something they think is the right thing to do is unlikely to be effective, but convincing them that there's something else they could do that would be even better might work.

As far as I know, Amastan is Algerian, so it is indeed not mere happenstance that he added so many sentences about Algeria, but also not terribly surprising. However, it does seem like many of these sentences could be equally said about pretty much any country, which might be why you consider them boring.

But surely Amastan doesn't want us to think Algeria is boring! So maybe there is room for mutually beneficial cooperation here. Do you think some of the sentences are less boring than others? For example, I think that sentences that are less generic and more specifically about Algeria, like #7811221 "Algeria and Morocco are the only North African nations that recognize Berber as an official language." are a bit more interesting. What do you think?

Maybe Amastan would also be up for creating more sentences that are about Algeria without explicitly stating as much. (In keeping with the old adage that writers should "show, not tell.")

If everyone stop adding almost useless and empty short sentences with the same words over and over again, perhaps, Amastan will also stop acting so.
I think that may be his reaction against Tom- and/or Australia-sentences.

(I still think these sentences are the first reason that the most contributors finish using Tatoeba after translating three (or much more) sentences.)

(It may be just a double standard against Amastan. Am I wrong?)

> Users who participated in the last 200 contributions.
>Amastan: 169

85% of the last 200, he's adding a sentence every 6 seconds, all of them are "Algeria" or "Antonio"…

To me the answer to "disproportionate number of sentences about Algeria" is to add more sentences about France, India, China, the U.S., Japan, Germany, Kenya, etc..

Granted, this is hard when someone adds such a volume of sentences that it dwarfs all others, so caps are a good idea

Aluksi Tatoebassa oli paljon Japania koskevia lauseita.
Jossain vaiheessa alkoi Tom- ja Mary-aalto, samoin kuin ranskan kieli.
Samoin Ziri, Mennad, Sami ja mitä näitä nyt on.
Nyt sitten Algeria.

Toisaalta: tämäkin menee ohi ja uusia aaltoja tulee.

Toisaalta: ilmeisesti tämä aktiivisesti ärsyttää ihmisiä.

Lauseen kääntäminen monella eri tavalla on arvokasta.

Monien samankaltaisten lauseiden lisääminen on arvokkaampaa kuin vain yhden lauseen lisääminen, mutta vähemmän arvokasta kuin monien erilaisten lauseiden lisääminen.

Niinpä, jos lisäät uusia lauseita, lisää mieluummin keskenään erilaisia kuin keskenään samanlaisia.

Actually, seems like you can do it, you can write 16000 thousand sentences a day without any consequences, so get into it!