We are occupying Wordnik on my "I want my content back" list (see above). Feel free to join! Due to the potentially long occupation, we'll be mostly bringing canned umbrage, no fufluns this time.
Hi biocon, none of your links can be used outside your institution since your URLs contain proxygsu-way1.galileo.usg.edu.
You should probably have a look and see if there is any way to get a link without the proxy thingamajig, so that people with a personal subscription or connecting through a different institution can use it too - unless of course you meant to make it a link for Waycross College users only.
Likeflannel, right now I think we're still in the grunge days. That is to say that I'm fairly certain that after some time the Wordnik-Wordie conflation will be easier to use and ultimately better.
Don’t let it sit – After you’ve made an espresso shot, you don’t want to let it sit for too long without going into your milk drink (unless you’re just having single or double espresso shots). The espresso can begin to lose its flavor if it sits for more than ten seconds.
18 to 25 seconds is the best espresso time – If a full shot glass of espresso is filled in 18 to 25 seconds, you’re going to have the best tasting shot. Anything longer and the shot might be too strong and anything too short might be too watery. When your shots are too watery, you need to grind the espresso more finely and when the shots are too thick, you need to grind the espresso into larger pieces.
The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress photographs of her residence inadvertently generated further publicity.
In addition, moll is short for one of our favorite Wordies - who is not, to the best of my knowledge, "a female companion not bound by ties of marriage".
In the end I decided not to review the new interface, as I said I would on July 22. You can read all my comments on this page and on the feedback page (if it is ever restored). Almost four weeks after the "ten-day" promise, the website shows exactly the same bugs and a few more.
Here I could add something vaguely bitter about what happened to the community and the website and the people behind it etc etc, but I don't have anything new to say. You can look at most of my recent comments and read them.
I use this word as a verb - meaning "rearrange a million conflicting appointments so that they don't conflict anymore".
Example: I'm seeing some friends before, during and after lunch, but at three different places so I can Rubik you in for a walk between the restaurant and the café.
If I log in to Wordnik from a word page, I would like to be redirected to the same page instead of my profile - mostly because I usually want to log in in order to reply to the thread.
Exactly. If I want to list, say, the best foods I have ever eaten, and sort them by yumminess, right now I would have to create it off-site and then add the entries when the list is complete, or delete most entries every time I realize there is something I had forgotten.
Most photo websites now let you do this for photos. Why not words in Wordnik lists?
Mine was actually a request to answer the many unanswered questions I posted here, and particularly the message that starts with "Here is, in a few words...".
I hope you or someone else will take the time to answer. Thank you.
Erin: it's ok for me to wait ten more days to let you "finish the redesign" as you said. At that point I will assume that is how you (Wordnik.com) imagined the website to be and will be able to provide some final feedback. At that point I would appreciate if you (Erin, or some other staff members) took the time to answer my messages — especially the one from four days ago. Thanks and good luck with the revamping.
That's because that page is only for Wordies, not for Wordniks, according to what they stated shortly after the merge. They would rather have users email them - which I never do, since I want the others to be aware of what is being discussed.
And this brings us back to the social experience issue.
Ever wondered why users who comment the most (i.e. participate the most in the community) are not featured on the "community" page?
Here is, in a few words, what happened. Wordie was bought by the Wordnik people because they liked the idea of users listing and "favoriting" words. They weren't interested in the social aspect. Over time, this has become more and more obvious, until the new interface arrived and simply put the comments and other social elements at the bottom of the page as a curiosity (and that is why comments share the bottom with the Twitter mentions). The mobile version doesn't have comments at all.
I have a request for you Wordnik guys: if it is true that you care about us, and yet you can't meet our needs and preferences on Wordnik.com, why not just give us a parallel space on the web, I don't know, wordie.wordnik.com fully dedicated to the social experience? It could simply use the Wordnik API (whatever that is) and use the information from the main website, without lowering the quality of your online reference website.
In other words: bring back Wordie for us troublemaking weirdos and keep Wordnik for students and teachers.
It's part of the general depersonalization trend that has been going on since the merge. I have started to visit Wordnik mostly when I need to look up words, which is probably what was in the original plan.
Edit: my comments sounds passive-aggressive, and I apologize. It wasn't sarcasm - I thought it could be just me, but apparently it's not. There is something wrong with this site - unless your goal is only to make it a reference tool, of course.
A reduction of the activity of a website after a revamping is probably physiological, but after 3 weeks of new interface the "community" page shows comments that are 48 hour old.
I'm starting to think tat I am not the only luddite scrogneugneu who hates change, in the end.
I saw your comments about OED, but it turns out C█NY (City Uni██████ of... the Empire State) doesn't provide access to the service either (unless it does via a different link*). What a pity.
Also, I studied Latin and Greek in high school in Italy and share your love for those languages.
So why do all users have to use it? I would have been happy to be a tester — I always do it for ShutterCal and I love you even more than them.
Edit:
I'm disappointed (again) with the manner in which this was done. No consultation, no forewarning, no explanation of the rationale, just dump the buggy shit on the suffering 68 thousand - mostly not active, any wonder - and whistle dixie. I feel a bit violated. Do you understand that? Because you demonstrate no evidence of understanding that. Managing a user community is a task that extends to far more than design tweaks.
(...)Sorry if I sound rude. Mostly I am.
Rude-sounding or not, I'm sorry but I agree with bilby. We loved Wordie and sooner or later accepted Wordnik as its succedaneum, but we (I) have a feeling that our (my) feedback is of little importance, if any. We write comments and tips on the feedback page as we used to do on bugs and features, but those comments mostly go unread or forgotten, or at least this is what it seems. And I'm not saying that everything I suggest or report is interesting - but at least I would like to have the feeling that somebody cares, which I'm not sure about.
Again, "sorry if I sound rude". But compared to the feedback users usually give on other sites (e.g. #twitterfail hashtag), ours has a constructive component at least...
I know I will get used to you, but then I wonder, what would I think of a website I visit for the first time if I couldn't understand it in fifteen minutes?
It happens with some profile pages. I remember a spammer's profile having the same thing. Maybe it's like that for those who signed up via facebook connect?
I don't remember, but while trinus is a valid Latin word (cf. trine), trius isn't and I can only imagine "trium" being the genitive of "tres" (3). But why genitive?
I just wanted to say that it's a pity that so few people work on a list of the day (*). I love spending time on mine, anticipating the pleasure that I will feel when I find out that somebody (**) has read it and decided to list the word.
(*) By the way, any news about the digest feature?
I can't find your list about manga/anime (if you had one... I think so). I wanted to add fanservice, I saw your list about Japan in general but I'm not sure it's the right one.
A form of cacogeusia consisting in a metallic taste whenever food or drinks are ingested. It can occur 1-3 days after consumption of pine nuts of the Chinese white pine and for this reason it is also known as Pine Nut Syndrome, or Pine Mouth.
After my umpteenth attempt in a month to comment on your blog using my openID account, which works everyweb else, I just give up. I hope you will forgive me. I even reported the bug to the Wordpress guys (my openID is Wordpress) but they have no idea why that happens.
In Italian, to hold a candle for someone refers to when you are alone with two lovers (and you are therefore the candle holder for their romantic moment)
I think we should be a little flexible here. I'm only worried that it might come to a dead end too soon, or that some entries might need to be edited or deleted in order to keep the game going.
What do you think, would it work as a list or should it be a series of comments instead, like an anti-jean dimmock?
Darth vader's immaculate conception has been looked up 35 times, favorited 0 times, listed 0 times, commented on 0 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.
Thanks for your contributions my dearest, keep them coming!
Ruzuzu, I'm not adding the kanji list because stroke count is an important criterion to find the ideogram in the dictionary... quite like the alphabetical order.
In Italian printed news, the opening "third page" article, usually on literary or theater critics, or an erudite editorial on a piece of news or cultural topic. From "Elzevir", the name of a 17th century Dutch bookseller and publisher.
Lit. "Third page". The cultural section of Italian newspapers. So called because of the original location in the 20th century. See here for an excerpt from a 1922 issue of the New York Times.
In cartographic jargon, a road or street that is added to a map after its construction is planned but before it is actually built – which sometimes does not happen at all.
Opting for stability and the widest software compatibility, the Kindle Tablet will almost certainly run Gingerbread at its core, but that’s where the the similarities end. I believe that Amazon has actually taken an additional step forward and forked the code, and has added additional APIs and usability layers as well.
This special Amazon version of Gingerbread — which I’m tentatively referring to as “Kindlebread” has most likely been under closed development for close to two years, moving through successive code iterations from Android 2.1 and Android 2.2 while Amazon has watched the hardware platforms mature and observed the other Android players stumble and fall.
When the word you are looking up is also somebody's Twitter sobriquet, the Twitter box becomes unfortunately useless (see funktionslust for an example). Maybe there is a way of purging the results?
After I chose to permanently deactivate the mobile version, I decided to see what happens when visiting m.wordnik.com.
The "loop" bug disappears, but when I visit, say, my profile page (mobile version) and I select "View this page on regular Wordnik", I am redirected to www.wordnik.com instead of http://www.wordnik.com/people/Prolagus.
Thanks! I actually still have some trouble. Login now works (I had to empty cache and delete cookies), but:
- when I visit wordnik mobile, and I click "View this page on regular Wordnik", I can't access the "less mobile version" as The Onion calls it but I end up in a loop instead;
- when I try to visit a user page, I am still being redirected to the mobile version, which creates a broken link such as m.wordnik.com/p/
Only permanently blocking the mobile version works.
Hi John, is there a particular reason why I seem to be the only person whose comments on the Feedback page go unanswered? We are talking about lots of comments over the last 40 days or so. I'm not offended, but it would save me some time to know if there's something wrong about what I use that page for.
1) It is interesting to compare the article below with this 2011 blog post by mammal zoologist Roland Kays.
2) Etymology (for the animal):
The name implies a diet of fish yet it seldom dines on aquatic organisms. Early Dutch settlers noted its similarity to the European polecat (Mustela putorius). Fitchet is a name derived from the Dutch word visse which means 'nasty'. In the French language, the pelt of a polecat is called fiche or fichet.
When Wordnik has no definition for a word, it brings up comments instead, with a link to "older comments" if there are more than two. But the link brings up younger comments, not older (see galenious). It probably is best to display the oldest first, since that's the one most likely to be an example.
You changed that, but the page still says "X older comments" instead of "X newer comments". See afterbirther for an example.
Euphonic vowels are common in many languages and it seems to me that English is not an exception. In Japanese, Nihon becomes "Nippon" for ease of pronunciation, and hirakana becomes "hiragana" for similar reasons. Same in Italian.
The study of all of the nucleotide sequences, including structural genes, regulatory sequences, and noncoding DNA segments, in the chromosomes of an organism.
The American Heritage Dictionary definition above is misleading and ultimately incorrect, in that it assumes that only eukaryotic nuclear DNA (the one that forms chromosomes) is the study object of genomics - therefore excluding mitochondrial, chloroplast, prokaryotic, and viral DNA genomes.
The ecological environment in the ecological niche model cells will be separated in two classes of variables: first, those that affect the fitness, but on which the species has no impact. Hutchinson (1978) called these variables scenopoetic, for the Greek roots of “setting the scene”. ... Obvious examples of scenopoetic variables are climatic and topographic variables.
Jorge M. Soberón (2010), "Niche and area of distribution modeling: a population ecology perspective". Ecography 33(1): 159–167.
A South African friend of mine uses also in a different way than any other native English speaker I have ever talked to: at the end of a sentence, where most English speakers would use "too" or "as well".
e.g. I would like to come out for dinner also (where 'also' refers to the speaker)
JP: mine was a mildly jocose way of showing you this page. Perhaps those entries were removed, but I'd rather think they are still on the Brogan (capitalized) page and its Wordie section (Brogan).
Someday I will google Progasus and try to understand if yours was a misspelling or a joke as well.
Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets.
I would like to thank my school for forgetting I am an international student and therefore forcing me to pay $600 for Medicare and Social Security, that it turns out I should not have payed. Now I have to fill out more forms for a refund.
It's incredible how hopeless I am when it comes to tax forms.
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Prolagus commented on the word tsunamis
What's with wordies and tsunami-related pages?
November 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word hagiolatry
Plethora!
November 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word occupy Wordnik
Or Google Plus!
October 30, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word occupy Wordnik
I want my content back.
October 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word occupy Wordnik
occupy Wordnik is © ruzuzu. We also have a picket on Google Plus.
October 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word occupy Wordnik
We are occupying Wordnik on my "I want my content back" list (see above). Feel free to join! Due to the potentially long occupation, we'll be mostly bringing canned umbrage, no fufluns this time.
October 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word comments
Or to have an "allowed html" popup link near the comment box.
October 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word comments
Or to see comments on tags.
October 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word comments
Another cool feature would be the ability of posting to somebody's profile page.
October 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word null hypothesis
H0!
October 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word alatricial
Misspelling of altricial?
October 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word indecisive teas
http://youtu.be/hVNrkXM3TTI
October 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word enentise
Hi biocon, none of your links can be used outside your institution since your URLs contain proxygsu-way1.galileo.usg.edu.
You should probably have a look and see if there is any way to get a link without the proxy thingamajig, so that people with a personal subscription or connecting through a different institution can use it too - unless of course you meant to make it a link for Waycross College users only.
October 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word fifty-three percenter
I think you mean "Americans", no apostrophe.
October 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Please bring back our content.
October 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word a very plain button with no obvious function
The link on the word page (try clicking the word a very plain button with no obvious function on top of this page).
October 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word I, Miss Wordie
(Interesting visuals)
October 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word i miss wordie
Likeflannel, right now I think we're still in the grunge days. That is to say that I'm fairly certain that after some time the Wordnik-Wordie conflation will be easier to use and ultimately better.
whichbe
Nov 29, 2009
October 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
The car has been broken for long enough that we realized we can use other means of transportation.
October 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word the dangers of epileptic lagomorph driving
Indie rock band?
October 12, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Prolagus two years ago
See moro reflex.
Prolagus two years ago is so much more fun than Prolagus now...
October 12, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Kernel has always been my favorite Interface Street character.
October 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word isabella
Great visuals.
October 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word isabella
"Bianco isabella" (Isabella white), in Italian, refers to a "dirty" white for the same reason.
October 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Barbagia
<3
October 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word noobezoar
Thought balls. What's often in my head.
October 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word hinderance
Glad you found the answerance.
October 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word 10 seconds
The Perfect Espresso Shot
October 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word 18 to 25 seconds
The Perfect Espresso Shot
October 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Shit. *Leaves the sinking boat*
October 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bandaoke
Quite interestingly, the "oke" part of karaoke means "orchestra".
October 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
I see we have lost the "allowed html" popup too.
October 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word SPAM
This page shows a bunch of spam lists and words to be deleted. Not comprehensive though.
October 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Streisand effect
The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress photographs of her residence inadvertently generated further publicity.
Source: Wikipedia
October 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word sausage party
If life gives you sausages...
October 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Google’s Favorite Wordnik Lists
Thank you leaden, this is great!
October 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word oncom
Om nom.
September 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bottarga
See also botargo.
September 25, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
U is for umbrage,
And umbrage is for me.
September 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Re: bilby's re
The first one is not an option on tablets and phones.
September 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word stile
Italians are standard and more correct humans.
(*chortles*)
September 22, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Rolig: :-/
September 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word aquilon
aquilone, in Italian, means "kite".
September 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word double-entendremeter
Where did my pronunciation go?
September 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Some links seem to be broken only if you are not logged in.
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/%E2%9C%BF (or http://www.wordnik.com/lists/✿)
gives me a 404 when not logged in, another 404 the first time after I log in, and the actual page when I refresh.
September 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word zenzizenzizenzic
:-\
September 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word moll
I re-opened it a few days ago... "We are" in Antarctica.
*adds Maps and Legends to wishlist*
August 30, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word moll
In addition, moll is short for one of our favorite Wordies - who is not, to the best of my knowledge, "a female companion not bound by ties of marriage".
August 30, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Hi everybody,
In the end I decided not to review the new interface, as I said I would on July 22. You can read all my comments on this page and on the feedback page (if it is ever restored). Almost four weeks after the "ten-day" promise, the website shows exactly the same bugs and a few more.
For instance, now that word pages are not split into subpages (such as word/comments, word/pronunciations etc.), why is the large-print word itself a link? It doesn't link to anything but itself.
Here I could add something vaguely bitter about what happened to the community and the website and the people behind it etc etc, but I don't have anything new to say. You can look at most of my recent comments and read them.
August 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Rubik
I use this word as a verb - meaning "rearrange a million conflicting appointments so that they don't conflict anymore".
Example: I'm seeing some friends before, during and after lunch, but at three different places so I can Rubik you in for a walk between the restaurant and the café.
August 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
If I log in to Wordnik from a word page, I would like to be redirected to the same page instead of my profile - mostly because I usually want to log in in order to reply to the thread.
August 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user erinmckean
Can you figure out where ruzuzu's and hernesheir's clones originated?
July 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
Fake.
July 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Exactly. If I want to list, say, the best foods I have ever eaten, and sort them by yumminess, right now I would have to create it off-site and then add the entries when the list is complete, or delete most entries every time I realize there is something I had forgotten.
Most photo websites now let you do this for photos. Why not words in Wordnik lists?
July 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word atiloquence
It looks more like a misspelling of altiloquence...
July 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I think an important feature would be to be able to move words within a list. Especially useful for "chart" lists etc.
July 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
On Dolphin HD for Honeycomb, the "save" button for comments won't appear (possibly unless you turn off the keyboard), which is a bit annoying.
July 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user Quisoft
Spam.
July 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bilby
Hee hee! Also, sigh.
July 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word monogamish
A word (supposedly) coined by Dan Savage to describe relationships that are mostly monogamous, but do not require absolute sexual fidelity.
July 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Grindr
I found pictures of it on guyswithiphones.
July 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Grindr
The most popular gay dating application for smartphones, based on location only (you can't refine your search). I heard it used as a verb already.
Also known as "dick GPS".
July 25, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Hi Erin,
Mine was actually a request to answer the many unanswered questions I posted here, and particularly the message that starts with "Here is, in a few words...".
I hope you or someone else will take the time to answer. Thank you.
P.
July 25, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
To answer mollusque's question, "Where do you see Wordnik going?":
(From Erin McKean's Wall Street Journal website column)
July 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Erin: it's ok for me to wait ten more days to let you "finish the redesign" as you said. At that point I will assume that is how you (Wordnik.com) imagined the website to be and will be able to provide some final feedback. At that point I would appreciate if you (Erin, or some other staff members) took the time to answer my messages — especially the one from four days ago. Thanks and good luck with the revamping.
July 22, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user john
<3
July 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user rolig
Got the message in my email. You can remove the comment now if you want. Thanks.
July 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user rolig
Hi rolig, how can I contact you privately?
July 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word list idea
Ruzuzu has a list of list ideas.
July 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
You know I love you. I would never accuse you of being antisocial - your effort to save this whole slo-mo train wreck is heroic.
July 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
That's because that page is only for Wordies, not for Wordniks, according to what they stated shortly after the merge. They would rather have users email them - which I never do, since I want the others to be aware of what is being discussed.
And this brings us back to the social experience issue.
Ever wondered why users who comment the most (i.e. participate the most in the community) are not featured on the "community" page?
July 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Looking forward to your being back and answering my messages, Erin. Thank you.
July 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Here is, in a few words, what happened. Wordie was bought by the Wordnik people because they liked the idea of users listing and "favoriting" words. They weren't interested in the social aspect. Over time, this has become more and more obvious, until the new interface arrived and simply put the comments and other social elements at the bottom of the page as a curiosity (and that is why comments share the bottom with the Twitter mentions). The mobile version doesn't have comments at all.
I have a request for you Wordnik guys: if it is true that you care about us, and yet you can't meet our needs and preferences on Wordnik.com, why not just give us a parallel space on the web, I don't know, wordie.wordnik.com fully dedicated to the social experience? It could simply use the Wordnik API (whatever that is) and use the information from the main website, without lowering the quality of your online reference website.
In other words: bring back Wordie for us troublemaking weirdos and keep Wordnik for students and teachers.
July 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
What frogapplause said. I don't even know if I care that much anymore.
Does anybody even read these messages? No. And here's some evidence — there's a spam comment under rolig's comment and it's been there for a week now.
July 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
As I reported numerous times, on Wordie we could comment on tags. Those comments have disappeared with the annihilationassimilation.
July 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word ayurvedico
Mollusque!
July 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
It's part of the general depersonalization trend that has been going on since the merge. I have started to visit Wordnik mostly when I need to look up words, which is probably what was in the original plan.
July 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
Edit: my comments sounds passive-aggressive, and I apologize. It wasn't sarcasm - I thought it could be just me, but apparently it's not. There is something wrong with this site - unless your goal is only to make it a reference tool, of course.
July 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
A reduction of the activity of a website after a revamping is probably physiological, but after 3 weeks of new interface the "community" page shows comments that are 48 hour old.
I'm starting to think tat I am not the only luddite scrogneugneu who hates change, in the end.
July 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
http://www.wordnik.com/people/Prolagus/comments gives me a 404.
July 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
It's been over two weeks now, adrian.
July 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pegman
The official name of the Google Street View yellow man.
July 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word twincest
Is that a spoiler?!
July 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word patefy
My definition is based on solidify (intransitive).
June 30, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word circumflex
Don't be sad, roundface.
June 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user hernesheir
The other hh also wrote a strange comment on sionnach's page.
Could it be chad?
June 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user hernesheir
?
June 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word patefy
3. To become paté.
June 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user hernesheir
Do you mean somebody uploaded that photo from your account? Can you say with certitude it's not you?
June 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
FYI lowercase t looks normal on my Macbook (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari).
June 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Eremitic
Definition on lowercase eremitic.
June 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user blafferty
Feedback page mostly; new interface occasionally.
What's this "t"issue everybody's been talking about?
June 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user biocon
Hi from a biology PhD student!
I saw your comments about OED, but it turns out C█NY (City Uni██████ of... the Empire State) doesn't provide access to the service either (unless it does via a different link*). What a pity.
Also, I studied Latin and Greek in high school in Italy and share your love for those languages.
Welcome to Wordnik,
P.
*Edit: the latter.
June 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user zeke
The blog link on your website is broken, and you don't link to your Tumblr account!
Where is your name from?
June 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word whiskeranto
The universal language of drunken people.
June 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list this-list-is-bananas
Can anybody find the original uppercase BANANA page?
June 25, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I still have the WOTD problem that I reported on Trouble delivering that page.
June 22, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list random-acts-of-wordness
I don't understand what "t" problem you are talking about. Please explain!
June 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
More comments on the Feedback page.
June 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
This is, to be generous, a beta version.
So why do all users have to use it? I would have been happy to be a tester — I always do it for ShutterCal and I love you even more than them.
Edit:
Rude-sounding or not, I'm sorry but I agree with bilby. We loved Wordie and sooner or later accepted Wordnik as its succedaneum, but we (I) have a feeling that our (my) feedback is of little importance, if any. We write comments and tips on the feedback page as we used to do on bugs and features, but those comments mostly go unread or forgotten, or at least this is what it seems. And I'm not saying that everything I suggest or report is interesting - but at least I would like to have the feeling that somebody cares, which I'm not sure about.
Again, "sorry if I sound rude". But compared to the feedback users usually give on other sites (e.g. #twitterfail hashtag), ours has a constructive component at least...
June 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
bug (screenshot)
June 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
I'm very, very confused by you, new interface.
I know I will get used to you, but then I wonder, what would I think of a website I visit for the first time if I couldn't understand it in fifteen minutes?
June 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new interface
- I can't find the formatting popup window. Is it missing?
- Log in or sign up to add words to this list appears when you visit a non-open list, whether you are logged in or not.
June 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Trouble delivering that page
The reason why you won't receive or see my word of the day for a while.
June 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
It really is a pity. I loved that feature.
June 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
June 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I think it happens to all WOTD lists.
June 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I'll try it for a few days before giving a feedback... But I'm quite confused.
June 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Buggy on Safari for iPhone.
June 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word what time is it
We are nowhere, and it's now (past now).
June 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
It's not amazing...
June 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word metallogeusia
Please add to Little pains in my butt.
June 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word metallogeusia
Ouch... sorry ruzuzu. Maybe it changes from person to person. Check out this page for food recommendations.
June 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word We must restore the dignity of this vegetable!
Sardinian artichokes. The spiniest and most tasteful of all artichokes.
June 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list things-that-make-me-happy--1
Postcards? Are you on Postcrossing too?
June 12, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
An amazing and cruel book about war, peace, childhood, happiness and everything else.
June 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
What if I'm just going crazy?
Perhaps it wasn't a good idea to start reading "Ender's game".
June 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list crash-blossoms
The NYP is specialized in those titles.
June 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list extended-ipa-letters
Those are, indeed, some extended IPA letters.
June 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word electrowetting
"Wetting aided by an electric charge."
June 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list italian--2
Hi juliefa, don't worry, it was friendly mocking and not directed at anybody in particular!
I saw the etymology, and I can confirm that punchinello is not Italian (but it is a word derived from Italian).
Welcome to Wordnik!
Pro
June 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list italian--2
Haha!
By the way, "Punchinello" is not Italian (to the best of my knowledge).
June 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word melittologist
And here I thought melittology was the study of My Little Ponies.
June 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word 867-5309
By "apparently, it is" I meant "it appears to be, according to the conversation over at...".
June 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word 867-5309
Edit: apparently, it is. See 8675309.
June 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list •-prime-numbers-in-songs
Really?! Wow!
June 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list •-prime-numbers-in-songs
:) Thank you.
June 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word melittologist
Cf. apiology.
June 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user erinmckean
‘Lists,’ Exhibition at Morgan Library & Museum
I told the Morgan Library they should invite you guys...
June 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user lampbane
‘Lists,’ Exhibition at Morgan Library & Museum
June 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Oops, I didn't read ru's comment.
June 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
It happens with some profile pages. I remember a spammer's profile having the same thing. Maybe it's like that for those who signed up via facebook connect?
June 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Any news about the notes/comments on personal WotDs?
June 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Brunchurday
The day of the week when I see my friends at brunch. Usually a Saturday.
June 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Schadenfriday
I like yours better!
June 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Italians with white mice
How about Italians with white-footed mice?
May 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy--the-movie-version
Yeah!
May 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word puerarchy
I have a list for such words! (only "officially accepted" words though)
May 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word portmantorium
See stupiphany.
May 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word rambodextrous
Definition.
May 25, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
Go for it, WP!
May 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
Hilarious, everyone.
May 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
Why not? Afraid of anybody's fury?
May 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user jerah25
Spammer.
May 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word paraphernelia
Misspelling of paraphernalia.
May 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word present perfect
Same thing in Italian, except Italian cops use the imperfetto.
May 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word omne trinum perfectum
I found myself singing artoparts's comment in the tune of "Lucy in the sky with diamonds".
May 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list second-lists
First science, then food. It makes sense.
May 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word omne trinum perfectum
I don't remember, but while trinus is a valid Latin word (cf. trine), trius isn't and I can only imagine "trium" being the genitive of "tres" (3). But why genitive?
May 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word omne trinum perfectum
Should we add it to mollusque's "excuses" list?
May 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
That's the best I can do :-)
May 22, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
Society garlic (Tulbaghia violacea)
May 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word lambrequin
LOL
May 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
I slept from midnight to 2, then awake until 5. Uffa.
May 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
(3:45 AM)
I can't sleep.
I CAN'T SLEEP!
May 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list first-lists
ruzuzu: you forgot to add that gin is also a "Word sung by Belle and Sebastian".
May 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Weimaraner
May 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I didn't realize that! I thought they were commentless to begin with.
May 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
http://www.wordnik.com/people/wotds
May 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user lampbane
Maybe! Or maybe "4 Color world". You choose!
May 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word fansub
For a somehow related concept, see scanlation.
May 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I just wanted to say that it's a pity that so few people work on a list of the day (*). I love spending time on mine, anticipating the pleasure that I will feel when I find out that somebody (**) has read it and decided to list the word.
(*) By the way, any news about the digest feature?
(**) Usually reesetee.
May 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user lampbane
I can't find your list about manga/anime (if you had one... I think so). I wanted to add fanservice, I saw your list about Japan in general but I'm not sure it's the right one.
May 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word henohenomoheji
May 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list how-to-make-a-facebook-game
Ha! Are all of those real?
May 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list torture
Yes!
May 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pine mouth
See metallogeusia.
May 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pine mouth syndrome
See metallogeusia.
May 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pine nut syndrome
See metallogeusia.
May 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word milk-man
Not a male milk-woman.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word milk-woman
Not a female milk-man.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list a-few-of-my-favorite-definitions-from-the-century-dictionary
straw-yard.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list x-s-y-where-x-is-not-somebody-s-name
collector's curve.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word deciding not to read that Wisława Szymborska poem
Even harder to say – can a poem NOT be read more than once?
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word dysgeusia
See also cacogeusia and metallogeusia.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word cacogeusia
"A bad taste not due to food, drugs, or other ingested matter".
(The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary)
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word metallogeusia
A form of cacogeusia consisting in a metallic taste whenever food or drinks are ingested. It can occur 1-3 days after consumption of pine nuts of the Chinese white pine and for this reason it is also known as Pine Nut Syndrome, or Pine Mouth.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list set-phasers-to
I never noticed c_b's comment! True!
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word mora
That's actually called morra.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user Wordplayer
How hard can it be? B-E-E. Done.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list pet-medication
Spam.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list meta
How about favorited?
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list my-landlady-is-a
See why I hate that your account is hidden? I never noticed this list.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list nincompoopery
*hearted*
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user rebegutu
Spam. Unless you prove me wrong.
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list a-few-of-my-favorite-definitions-from-the-century-dictionary
How about calin?
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user Wordplayer
Congratulations!
May 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I get the "wrong font" bug when I visit english reasearch paper as well.
May 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user sionnach
After my umpteenth attempt in a month to comment on your blog using my openID account, which works everyweb else, I just give up. I hope you will forgive me. I even reported the bug to the Wordpress guys (my openID is Wordpress) but they have no idea why that happens.
Signé,
Le pika sarde
May 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list you-loser
I stole your latest entries for my list How to make a worker cry (derogative terms for professionals). Thanks!
May 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user whossawhatsit
Spam.
May 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list plans-for-the-weekend
Added proctofoam on behalf of chained_bear.
May 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
(what's sauce stock?)
May 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word proctofoam
i should not have clicked on this page. (Especially during lunchtime.)
May 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word is the new black
I found the Wikipedia article quite interesting.
May 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list open-list--what-to-name-chained-bears-newest-cub
<3
May 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word white-anting
thants.
May 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list specific-excrement
cowpat?
May 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word spraints
Damn! Why didn't I think of checking if the plural was listed!
May 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word paraskevidekatriaphobia
If you type this word in the search box, you see a small "13" next to it (as of Friday, May 13, 2 pm EST).
May 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word quiet
Argh! My
earseyes!May 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word quiet
Wordnik, today.
May 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user dedimero
Spam.
May 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user chained_bear
Don't miss my word of the day for tomorrow.
May 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list pangrams
Love it!
May 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
Essay burger
May 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
May 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
The list is now open. John, I'm afraid you lost the "train". Your move!
May 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
post
May 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
(what does warrant peace mean?)
May 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word sweet tooth fairy cake
The drama unfolded when the shopper was told the £2.20 "sweet tooth fairy cakes" had all gone.
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word panhandler
One of my favorite stores in NYC, a kitchenware store, is called "Broadway Panhandler". Only today I looked up the word.
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word procrastinatorist
Usage on baa baa rainbow sheep.
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
house
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
Yes, a single word SVP!
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list test--31
Test!
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-with-braces-and-scaffolding
See also sweet tooth fairy domino (and related list, when we start it).
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user suntilletto
Spam.
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user gangerh
I would be honored if you added the first word to my STF dominoes list.
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list pangrams
Or pikas?
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word držati svečo komu
In Italian, to hold a candle for someone refers to when you are alone with two lovers (and you are therefore the candle holder for their romantic moment)
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user slilima
Spam.
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list a-boy-named-sue
I could list at least three students of mine, but they might find me.
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word sweet tooth fairy domino
See Sweet tooth fairy dominoes.
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
Time to add the first word! Would you, gangerh?
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user Roger1937
Hi Roger, why don't you post this comment on scopula?
May 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word sweet tooth fairy domino
Example of flexibility: sweet - tooth - fairy - tale - of two cities - CT scan - scanlatiON - (on) the rocks - ...
May 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word sweet tooth fairy domino
I think we should be a little flexible here. I'm only worried that it might come to a dead end too soon, or that some entries might need to be edited or deleted in order to keep the game going.
What do you think, would it work as a list or should it be a series of comments instead, like an anti-jean dimmock?
May 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Hmm... Nope!
CouchSurfing 404.
May 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
"ruzuzu has created 319 lists, listed 17,000 words, written 5,300 comments, and added 4,598 tags, 881 favorites, and 33 pronunciations."
If I were you, I would add two tags and enjoy all that roundness.
May 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word ascian
blafferty is a he?!
May 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word sweet tooth fairy domino
Do we have such a list? where each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy?
The only rule has to be that the goal is not to make it hard, but as easy as possible for the others to find a new entry.
May 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Darth vader's immaculate conception
Darth vader's immaculate conception has been looked up 35 times, favorited 0 times, listed 0 times, commented on 0 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.
May 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word aboutyrapistesis
*hands fuflun*
May 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Old-Bicycles-Welded-Together
See butter sculpture.
May 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word aboutyrapistesis
I hope you are.
May 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
Thanks for your contributions my dearest, keep them coming!
Ruzuzu, I'm not adding the kanji list because stroke count is an important criterion to find the ideogram in the dictionary... quite like the alphabetical order.
frogapplause, your (sad) link led me to list of chess-related deaths. Thank you so much.
May 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user russel2tiffin
Spam.
May 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list occupations-3
Good to know I have a list where to add them from now on.
May 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word wanton-wench
And even when you google the strangest things, you learn something.
Stanton's Wanton Wenches
May 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word wanton-wench
See oyster-wench.
May 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word oyster-wench
What do you call a woman who sells wanton soup? A wanton-wench?
May 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list lost-for-word
I think we are on the right track with nonce word.
By the way, my S.O. read my question and said that we have a different concept of "fun".
May 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word mileconsuming
See definition of nonce word.
May 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list lost-for-word
I think an example could be names for hypothesized inventions that in the end were never made, or rejected names for the iPad... Any other idea?
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word words that sound like drugs
See traditional slovene names of months.
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Every single Twitter link is broken.
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word elzeviro
In Italian printed news, the opening "third page" article, usually on literary or theater critics, or an erudite editorial on a piece of news or cultural topic. From "Elzevir", the name of a 17th century Dutch bookseller and publisher.
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word terza pagina
Lit. "Third page". The cultural section of Italian newspapers. So called because of the original location in the 20th century. See here for an excerpt from a 1922 issue of the New York Times.
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list lost-for-word
paper street : trap street = x : mountweazel
x = ?
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word paper street
In cartographic jargon, a road or street that is added to a map after its construction is planned but before it is actually built – which sometimes does not happen at all.
Not the same thing as trap streets, although they can be used as copyright traps.
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list traditional-slovene-names-of-months
My grandmother takes Prosinec and a tablespoon of Kimavec 1 hour before meals.
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Here's an odd bug: some list titles are displayed in a different font.
"Right" font
"Wrong" font
This happens both in Chrome and Firefox.
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list mnemonics-days-in-the-month
May 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word kindlebread
Amazon: Is an Android fork inevitable? Meet Kindlebread
May 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word
Looks like an apple on my McBk.
May 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word cred herring
Wasn't there a Meta list somewhere?
May 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user rolig
We miss you!
May 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word immobile Wordnik
*Laughs*
*Feels partly responsible for the idea*
*Smiles*
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word address
*yawns*
*leaves*
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
So now we need to come up with one word for ruzuzu and one for yarb?
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list the-several-stages-of-wordie-addiction
I started using the word fufluns outside Wordie.
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list things-that-smell-better-than-they-taste
I think espresso coffee tastes better than it smells.
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
Time to say that I chose slopseller because of my list (adding now!).
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
In (old?) French, calepinerie apparently means "A true, just, and precise interpretation, or translation of every single word". (Cf. calepin)
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
Gosh.
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user super-thegirlnextfloor
Love your new username! What new powers did you get?
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word you're something of a hotdog, aren't you
dontcry, the pronunciation tab has been removed but the box is still available on the overview page for each word.
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word you're something of a hotdog, aren't you
I can understand, blafferty. As far as I know, only one of us keeps their gender a secret.
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word address
I guess it would if only I could understand what's going on.
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word snorkie
Schnauzer - Yorkshire Terrier mix.
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word address
Word of The Fay
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
dontcry, how do we split the mug?
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user vanderpink
Er, well, no, I only meant, I mean, it's good that you are open to, ahem, linguistic minorities...
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word blipper
This is getti
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user vanderpink
Tagalog? Hmm.
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
I forgot to say that my reason for Wordplayer's word is the same as mollusque.
May 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word blipper
How do you da
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word blipper
It's been a w
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user sionnach
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user sionnach
I think the image is protected (was it in an email?)
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word THΔΠK ΨΩU MΔRKΨ
Tedpk psou mdrkps indeed!
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word country frolics
Thuzuzu.
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word anent
I used preposition... then I think one can go and look it up to make sure it is for reals.
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
I can tell you why I chose some of the words:
dontcry - aaaaaaargh! because she joined late and nearly missed the game.
fbharjo - alexis because, like nearly all fbharjo's comments, it doesn't make any sense to me.
frindley - mediæval because of her preference for the æ spelling.
frogapplause - mortsafe because I know she has one.
gangerh - heartstringsplucker because he wanted to fool us.
hernesheir - od because it's a simple word with an odd (no pun intended) meaning.
mollusque - sinistral because... he's a mollusk.
reesetee - wodge because it sounds madeupical but it's not.
ruzuzu - ascian because of the lovely CD definition.
seanahan - present because he is, despite the lack of activity.
sionnach - hidelugged because either it is a word, but I couldn't find it, or he fooled me again.
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word titthonymy
See titthonomastics.
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word anent
Can anybody help me tag all English prepositions?
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word anent
What ruzuzu said on your profile, electriccounterpoint: great comment.
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word colepixy
...
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word anodyspareunia
Pain during receptive anal intercourse.
Etymology: anus (from Latin) + dyspareunia, from Greek δυσ- ("bad") + πάρευνος ("lying beside").
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
When the word you are looking up is also somebody's Twitter sobriquet, the Twitter box becomes unfortunately useless (see funktionslust for an example). Maybe there is a way of purging the results?
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word ####
Suggested word for Google Chrome's speech recognition tool when saying the c*** word.
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user john
Post Scriptum: the mobile website is really pretty. (If only the comment pages were available!)
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user john
Update.
After I chose to permanently deactivate the mobile version, I decided to see what happens when visiting m.wordnik.com.
The "loop" bug disappears, but when I visit, say, my profile page (mobile version) and I select "View this page on regular Wordnik", I am redirected to www.wordnik.com instead of http://www.wordnik.com/people/Prolagus.
It kind of reminds me of this comic strip.
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user john
Thanks! I actually still have some trouble. Login now works (I had to empty cache and delete cookies), but:
- when I visit wordnik mobile, and I click "View this page on regular Wordnik", I can't access the "less mobile version" as The Onion calls it but I end up in a loop instead;
- when I try to visit a user page, I am still being redirected to the mobile version, which creates a broken link such as m.wordnik.com/p/
Only permanently blocking the mobile version works.
Thanks for checking that.
P.
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word crabbit
May 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word basterly-gullion
It could also be a (CD 1) bastard begotten by a (CD 3) bastard, or the kind of person that a bastard (CD 1) would think is a (CD 3) bastard.
May 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bibly
See address.
(Edit: not anymore)
May 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Since this morning, I haven't been able to log in to Wordnik on my iPh**e.
May 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list thank-you-marky
Thanks, marky. Tharky. (Let's see who gets this reference first!)
May 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list complex-emotion--single-word
And funktionslust?
May 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list complex-emotion--single-word
How about akrasia?
May 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word compound
I didn't know, and I couldn't understand what Obama was referring to (in yesterday's "we killed Bin Laden" speech).
May 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
Arigato gozaimasu, bilby-san.
May 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user john
Hi John, is there a particular reason why I seem to be the only person whose comments on the Feedback page go unanswered? We are talking about lots of comments over the last 40 days or so. I'm not offended, but it would save me some time to know if there's something wrong about what I use that page for.
May 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word robot
In South Africa, that's what traffic lights are called.
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word nabe
Just read it used as a synonym for neighborhood (SMS).
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user blafferty
111 comments and 11 favorites.
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pygalgia
See also coccydynia.
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word you're something of a hotdog, aren't you
Because we want it!
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word scacciapensieri
See jew's-harp.
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word jew's-harp
scacciapensieri ("pastime", lit. "trouble-dispeller") in Italian.
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word you're something of a hotdog, aren't you
Where's marky's pronunciation?
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
That's not an accent, it's Latvian.
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list unruzuzu
urubus / urubu?
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
bilby - protean
blafferty - distingue
chained_bear - queasy
dontcry - aaaaaaargh!
erinmckean - chrestomathic
fbharjo - alexis
frindley - mediæval
frogapplause - mortsafe
gangerh - heartstringsplucker
hernesheir - od
mollusque - sinistral
oroboros - playful
PossibleUnderscore - prodigal
pterodactyl - boggy
reesetee - wodge
ruzuzu - ascian
seanahan - present
sionnach - hidelugged
Wordnicolina - calepinerienne
Wordplayer - hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophile
yarb - balsamaceous
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
Writing my answers now. Sorry for the delay.
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word kallisti
καλλίστῃ (kalliste) in ancient Greek, but modern Greek pronunciation is kallisti indeed.
May 1, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list thank-you-bilby
Can anybody explain this list to me, and for Wordieternity?
April 30, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word fisher
1) It is interesting to compare the article below with this 2011 blog post by mammal zoologist Roland Kays.
2) Etymology (for the animal):
The name implies a diet of fish yet it seldom dines on aquatic organisms. Early Dutch settlers noted its similarity to the European polecat (Mustela putorius). Fitchet is a name derived from the Dutch word visse which means 'nasty'. In the French language, the pelt of a polecat is called fiche or fichet.
(Source: Wikipedia)
April 30, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word null hypothesis
Rejected.
April 30, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
*hugs sionnach*
April 30, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
Aww, thanks! (Am I?)
April 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
*licks umbrage knife*
April 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word ampersand
"A word used to describe the character �, �, or &."
April 29, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pinholo
PinHolo - The story of how I made a Pine-Nut Pinhole Camera!
April 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word worldwide pinhole photography day
We missed it again!
April 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
(This list has become way too long for me to check if Administrative Professionals week (and day) are listed.)
April 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word jet-engine
Attributive form of Xyzy}}.
April 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
You changed that, but the page still says "X older comments" instead of "X newer comments". See afterbirther for an example.
April 28, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word ameba
©Liniers (Macanudo)
April 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word caw
Apologies. Would you write it on ċaw?
April 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list herring
I thought this was a list of words whose definition contains the word "herring".
April 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word gasometer
You're such a barbar!
April 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word caw
goodbye in Maltese.
April 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word who'd fall in love with a chicken with its head cut off
It ain't pretty.
April 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word tenalach
It is!
April 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word tenalach
Do you know you can use blockquote between <>?
April 25, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
1- Thumb
2- Index
3- Piddle
4- Diddle
5- Ring
6- Pinky
April 25, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list defunct-professions
How about inquisitor?
April 25, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
gangerh: let's do seven sleeps for most people, and seven sleepless nights for me.
April 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
Feel free to download this spreadsheet for your convenience.
April 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word gasometer
Shama shama, el mal kema ma.
April 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word gasometer
Muša, tur oficiants par manu pīrāgiem.
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word baconalia
Try again which part?
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word heaven
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word that's a lot of bull
I thought frogapplause would like this one.
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Babbitt
(But why?)
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user Adity77
Spam.
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word gasometer
Qu'est-ce que vous avez dit?
Euphonic vowels are common in many languages and it seems to me that English is not an exception. In Japanese, Nihon becomes "Nippon" for ease of pronunciation, and hirakana becomes "hiragana" for similar reasons. Same in Italian.
*Nibbles fuflun, yawns, leaves page*
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word gasometer
I think this whole conversation should be in French, since the word is directly adapted from French gazomètre (cf. etymology section).
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Babbitt
What do you think Cabots refers to?
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Babbitt
("Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits", by The Magnetic Fields)
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word gasometer
I'd say the "o" is euphonic.
April 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list roman-gladiators
See bacon Coliseum epic mealtime.
April 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bacon Coliseum epic mealtime
Video.
April 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list unruzuzu
What happened to your profile page?
April 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word genomics
The American Heritage Dictionary definition above is misleading and ultimately incorrect, in that it assumes that only eukaryotic nuclear DNA (the one that forms chromosomes) is the study object of genomics - therefore excluding mitochondrial, chloroplast, prokaryotic, and viral DNA genomes.
April 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list the-kindest-cut
Hee hee!
April 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word gymnosophist
Lit. "naked expert".
April 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word new-cut
An old game at cards, of which there is no extant description.
(Century Dictionary)
April 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word radome
Also, the totality of all things rad.
April 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word fulign
fuligin.
April 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
Not really... I didn't even have cake or pancakes this morning. Hmm.
April 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
Howdy!
April 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word all-edges brownie pan
crunchy edges.
April 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word scenopoetic
The ecological environment in the ecological niche model cells will be separated in two classes of variables: first, those that affect the fitness, but on which the species has no impact. Hutchinson (1978) called these variables scenopoetic, for the Greek roots of “setting the scene”. ... Obvious examples of scenopoetic variables are climatic and topographic variables.
Jorge M. Soberón (2010), "Niche and area of distribution modeling: a population ecology perspective". Ecography 33(1): 159–167.
April 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word jean dimmock
assholette?
April 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
Is this list complete? If it's not, please don't give any clue about who is missing.
April 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word also
"I hate tea."
"Me also!"
April 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word disfluency
Parents' Ums And Uhs Can Help Toddlers Learn Language
April 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word also
A South African friend of mine uses also in a different way than any other native English speaker I have ever talked to: at the end of a sentence, where most English speakers would use "too" or "as well".
e.g. I would like to come out for dinner also (where 'also' refers to the speaker)
Does anybody know if it is a South African thing?
April 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list ruination-day
April 14, 2008 - Silvio Berlusconi is elected prime minister of Italy for the third time.
April 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Thanks! Please have a look at the last 12 29 days of questions too.
P.
April 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
So you *do* answer sometimes!
*sharpens umbrage knives*
April 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Progasus
Did we have an "all things Prolagus" list?
April 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
I don't think so... but I tagged some of the words and added comments to the word itself.
Time to start one, thanks for the suggestion!
April 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user JimPeters
What ruzuzu said, both times.
April 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word brogan
JP: mine was a mildly jocose way of showing you this page. Perhaps those entries were removed, but I'd rather think they are still on the Brogan (capitalized) page and its Wordie section (Brogan).
Someday I will google Progasus and try to understand if yours was a misspelling or a joke as well.
April 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word brogan
Hey, where are all the citations for Brogan as a proper name?
April 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word jean dimmock
seagullible.
April 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
Terrific! Thank you!
April 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word perfect
I think it refers to bisexual in a botanical sense, i.e. monœcious.
April 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word millinery
"This work was formerly in the hands of men, but is now almost exclusively a women's occupation."
Century Dictionary
April 12, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word remarkable link
Onomatopoeia denoting amusement followed by exclamation mark!
April 12, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Also, in open lists, there's no longer a "was added by" before the name of the Wordie who added each word to the list.
April 12, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word country frolics
...the joys of living/spending time in the countryside?
April 12, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word English
~Eddy Peters
April 12, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list go-fug-yourself
Which "what"?
April 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list go-fug-yourself
Yeah, which blog?
April 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word virilocality
A social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband's parents.
April 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word taxes
I would like to thank my school for forgetting I am an international student and therefore forcing me to pay $600 for Medicare and Social Security, that it turns out I should not have payed. Now I have to fill out more forms for a refund.
It's incredible how hopeless I am when it comes to tax forms.
April 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word oraquoise
:-)
April 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list you-probably-think-this-list-is-about-you
I didn't know about this list! I have been tagging many of our vain pages though. Thanks for making a list about me! (I reckon.)
April 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Hi Feedback! Is it just me, or is the random feature mostly showing plurals?
April 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list statistical-terms
kriging?
April 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pasta all'uovo
egg pasta.
April 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word lumbriciform
Lombrichi ("earthworms" - a kind of pasta all'uovo)
April 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word platypus
April 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list ditto
come sopra.
April 8, 2011
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