Talk:Lowell family
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editI have searched all over the place online and can't find a link from Christopher Lowell to the Lowell family. I looked at the Talk Page for the "user" and found many instances of vandalism logged by this IP. Unless you all can find a reason I shouldn't, I'm deleting the reference to Christopher Lowell on this page. Danahuff 05:09, 13 October 2005
Lovell
editWhat about Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell? Gadsden, Arizona 07:17, 30 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Catterick (talk • contribs)
A claim cropped up that the Lowell family has Pocahontas as an ancestor. It shows up all over the internet (usually centered around the astronomer Percival Lowell) but this is not showing up in RS[1], setting off my "dubious meter". There are claims this roots through First Families of Virginia, but again its short of RS. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 16:19, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Please stop reverting polyglot for Mary Traill Spence Lowell Putnam (1810-1898)
editYou claim there's no source for her having been a polyglot, yet you revert the text to linguist, for which there is no source. Makes no sense whatsoever to revert one for the other, equally unsourced. The fact is that she knew a number of languages. Okay by me not to mention that in the brief blurb on the Lowell page, but if it's going to be mentioned, the label should be unambiguous: polyglot. Linguist is ambiguous. Please stop the nonsensical warring. 47.32.20.133 (talk) 23:21, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
- the use of the description "polyglot" is a superlative Superlative? Polyglottissima? Good grief. No, there is nothing superlative about noun/adjective polyglot; it's a straightforward neutral description: adj. Speaking, writing, written in, or composed of several languages; n. A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages. Now you've gone from saying "there is ample evidence on the same page that the subject was a linguist" (Really? Like Noam Chomsky? André Martinet?) to "no support for claim (direct or indirect," which is falsified by mention of her translations in the article on her. Linguist is ambiguous. Polyglot is true and unambiguous. Whether it's necessary in the context is open to debate -- it could easily be replaced by uncontroversial translator, aptly descriptive of part of her accomplishments. 47.32.20.133 (talk) 13:42, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Supporting sources?
editMuch as the Lowell family are clearly very important in US history, it would be rather nice if this article could have a little more in the way of supporting sources, preferably not clothing blogs, or derived from a book whose author is called Lowell... Given their importance, there must be some genuine secondary, in-depth sources from good historians describing the origin of the name? Elemimele (talk) 21:09, 17 July 2023 (UTC)