Talk:Kannada phrasebook

Too long and detailed
This is now the number one longest page on Wikivoyage, far longer than the number two page (some 80,000 bytes longer!) and almost five times longer than the next longest phrasebook. I think it has definitely crossed the line from phrasebook into textbook (including conversation practice), with so much stuff that a traveller would have to shuffle through 76 pages of the printed version to find the phrase they are looking for. The pronunciation section is massively long, loads of the given phrases are not travel oriented at all, with a tremendously long list of slang words for types of people and ridiculous things like: I'm going to start a massive cull of this nonsense, and I'd also like to hear some input about how much of that pronunciation section is really necessary. I'd say we don't need a complete course in written Kannada any more than we need to delve into kanji on the Japanese page or hanzi on the Chinese ones. Any comments? (WT-en) Texugo 10:18, 19 December 2010 (EST)
 * "As parents, we have provided you with the best possible education. The REST IS UP TO YOU."
 * "The mischievous little girl RUBS her hands with mud and dirt. She then touches people who pass by."
 * "You have your own car but your son came home in an auto-rickshaw. Does this LOOK GOOD? This does NOT LOOK GOOD."
 * "I am fed up with life."
 * Even with the huge 91,000 byte cut below, the article is still the second longest thing we have, after China.(WT-en) Texugo 10:41, 19 December 2010 (EST)
 * I cut another 133,000 bytes out of it, so it has dropped down to 58th on the list of long pages, but it's still the longest phrasebook we have by far, and it still needs a great deal of clean-up, organization, and conversion to our usual phrasebook article template.(WT-en) texugo 04:01, 22 October 2011 (EDT)

Moved from article
Here's some stuff I removed from the article. If you find anything here you feel should be reinserted, please make a case for it below.

Kannada slang/colloquial words & phrases
This section is for slang/colloquial words & phrases from Kannada language. The intent of this section is to give a comprehensive list of Kannada slang/colloquial words & phrases which are being used by common people and to give appropriate English meanings to each of these slang/colloquial wods & phrases.

The Kannada language has got a rich resourse of slang/colloquial words & phrases, though many of these slang words are freely used by the common people all across the kannada terrain, lot of these slang/colloquial words & phrases have not found entry in standard kannada dictionaries though few of them are as old as the language itself. For any non-native speakers who comes to Karnataka this acts as a hurdle in learning day-2-day kannada language [This is equally true for new generation of Kannada people who are resorting to English to know these frequently used Kannada slang/colloquial words & phrases], as he/she has to resort to his/her Kannada friends/counterparts to get the common slang/colloquial words & phrases translated into english.

To speak Kannada language, Learning these slang/colloquial words & phrases is not a must. But you can use it as a guide to know the meanings of few commonly used slang/colloquial words & phrases. For anybody serious enough to learn conversational kannada this is quite useful.

Normal phrasebook template
Can't we just apply the normal phrasebook template in this article? Now it looks out of match and there is way too much information presented. --(WT-en) globe-trotter 10:48, 10 August 2011 (EDT)

First pronunciation chart
This chart looks like it was copied directly from Wikipedia, with red links to non-articles and all. We don't use IPA on this site. If someone would like to fix or get rid of this chart, they'd be doing a service. Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:09, 4 October 2014 (UTC)