Sorry guys, I was two breakfasts late. But I have a good reason for that - I was on my way to Italy! Surprise visit to my sister and her newborn daughter for five days.
In mathematics, a perfect number is defined as a positive integer which is the sum of its proper positive divisors, that is, the sum of the positive divisors excluding the number itself. Is there a linguistic equivalent?
They surely don't count as bundt cake. I think (I hope!) I can have cake more than once as long as it is something strikingly different each time (crostata, flourless, apple pie, tiramisù, bábovka...).
In Fourceelia we call midnight cake the one that Yours Truly bakes every few days for breakfast. The reason is that around midnight I usually remember I don't have anything to eat for the next morning, so that's when I bake.
Does anybody have a recipe for the real Wordie fufluns? Something not too sweet if possible - something that would make a good breakfast for a certain challenge...
Some people now use the same verb (scannare) to translate the English verb to scan (e.g. most of the Twitter live results for scanno as of now), forgetting (?) that we have an Italian verb for that, scansire, a Latin intensifier of "scandire" which means scan sensu AHD #4.
I hope my poor phrasing still gives you the sense of what I meant.
Hi! Just one note - Wordnik is case-sensitive. If you add and comment on lowercase pages you will most likely see the definitions and other people's comments.
I just wanted to let you know that Wordnik is indexed on Google so if people google your name they will find this page. Most of us feel more comfortable using a sobriquet (or soubriquet) instead of their real name.
Virgil Griffith, another enterprising computer scientist under 30, once explained it to me: “Hackerdom rewards spontaneity, curiosity and ingenuity. Science rewards rigor and forging solid bedrock to stand on — which means a lot of carefully dotting i’s and crossing t’s. Although scientific questions are harder, more abstract and tend to have less immediate influence in the world, the questions are deeper and the answers so uplifting and transcendently beautiful that contact with them is a genuine spiritual experience.”
You can put your hero arbitrarily in tears to show he has depth; that gets done here. You can show him having revelations — college kids want to know who’s single; we should put a “relationship status” entry on Facebook! — and there’s some of that, too. For shorthand, you can make your intelligent hero schlubby, Jewish and unathletic. That historically reads as intelligence to movie audiences. You can also make him awkward with girls.
Quite interesting, the definitions give the meaning that sounds obvious to me (something with a shell) and the examples are all about the opposite meaning (something that had its shell removed).
“I’m so insulted when people say that lawmaking is like sausage making,” said Stanley A. Feder, president of Simply Sausage, whose plant here turns out 60,000 pounds of links a year.
“With legislation, you can have hundreds of cooks — members of Congress, lobbyists, federal agency officials, state officials,” Mr. Feder said. “In sausage making, you generally have one person, the wurstmeister, who runs the business and makes the decisions.”
I am writing a grant proposal for a project in which high school student will take part. I want to say that the activities they will be involved in are something that can attract students into pursuing a career in biology... I'm looking for a word but it's not fascinating. Can anybody help?
I made a decision, and after all this time I will see a doctor, for insomnia and other stuff (a good part of which has been discussed on this page). Good luck to me.
Imagine taking a college class or becoming an undergraduate major in predatorology or primary producerology. Most of us would think this rather ludicrous because we generally do not consider the means by which organisms garner resources as sufficiently fundamental to define a subdiscipline of biology. But somehow parasites have been considered odd enough in their mode of foraging to justify singling them out for considerable special attention. Parasitology is one of the oldest distinct branches of biology, having evolved as an unusually interdisciplinary combination of autecology, physiology, developmental biology, functional morphology, systematics, ethology, and immunology. But as modern biology has restructured around levels of organization (cellular and molecular, organismal, and community and ecosystem), the appropriate place for parasitology has become unclear. Although we have no rigorous data to test our impression, it appears to us that college classes and majors in parasitology have waned dramatically in recent decades. Paradoxically, though, the demise of parasitology has been accompanied by increasing attention to the biology of parasites.
("Parasitology Is Dead. Long Live Parasitology!" by James H. Shaw. Conservation Biology, Volume 24, No. 6, 1690–1693)
OK, maybe it wasn't honest of me to generalize. Let's say that it only applies to me, and that every time things seem to ███████ I end up ██████ ███████ everything.
New Yorkers almost expect unintelligible announcements in the subway, with phrases like “the next Brooklyn-bound train” sounding like “2qliun-sojn uaine.” Jay H. Walder, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the parent of New York City Transit, remembers a “Saturday Night Live” skit about garbled announcements. “In this day and age, there has to be a better way to know a train is coming than by leaning over the edge,” he said.
The "ante-room of one's brain". If you are not even considering whatever is being discussed, in Italian you can say "non mi passa nemmeno (/neanche) per l'anticamera del cervello" (it doesn't even walk through the ante-room of my brain).
In Italian, the word "dentiera" (dentures) is derived from "dente" (tooth) the same way most words meaning "(whatever)-rack" are from what they are designed for (e.g. scarpiera = shoe-rack).
The "elsewhere on the web" menu is not available if the word is not on any of your featured sources for definitions. That's odd, since that's when you need it the most.
henkle, as bilby said, you can create a Flickr account and upload the picture there. In order to appear on Wordnik it has to be under an "attribution" Creative Commons license.
She can't possibly have her internal volume set too high. After a week of insanely loud music, today I had to call 311 and the police came to her place.
Then I had a not-so-nice discussion with her.
By the way, she is 30. Should I send her the link to this page to tell her that I was sure she was much younger? Or do you think she might misinterpret the friendly nickname?
Is there a list for "distinctions that used to be necessary"? I just read that what we call bicycle used to be called safety bicycle to distinguish it from the model known as pennyfarthing.
In statistics, the group of measurements (not organisms) about which one wishes to draw conclusions.
In the words of statistician Jerrold H. Zar: If a study is concerned with the blood-glucose concentration in three-year-old children, then the blood-glucose levels in all children of that age are the population of interest.
Is it just a case of convergent evolution, is the error page for The Hype Machine copied from Wordnik, is it viceversa, or did both of you take inspiration from somewhere else?
It should be noted that, while the subject of this article is silly, the analysis actually does make sense. This article, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.
Hi Ada, why did you create an account under the name Michael? My name is Cho Reezo and every night I like to take a walk to my monocled hamsters and work from your oven home.
Canadian - agronomist. How did they decide to use a different word?
"Well, I was in my bachelor, having my cup of double-double on the chesterfield, and before going to the washroom to put on my runners and take my car out of the parkade..."
The woman who lives downstairs (threeceelia, we might say) earned this pet name after the time she came to our apartment while we were having dinner, complaining about the noise we were making (now just imagine three adults eating at a table, without music, TV or loud conversations).
You might think she is 70, 80 years old - she can't be older than 25.
I miss you all so much, guys. In the first two years, I spent so much time on Wordie. I had some of the most interesting conversations ever. My English improved dramatically. I learned so many words, etymologies, stories, and Uranus jokes. I met great people and laughed and smiled a lot. I never thought a web community could be such a nice way of spending time.
Yes, it was a good lecture, I believe. My students are all non-majors in the field, so I am not sure if they found it interesting or not. But at least they were following my presentation and my scribbles on the board (which were intentionally left out of the slideshow to force them to listen).
Thanks for bringing back the "also on" links! Can I suggest that you add ShutterCal, Postcrossing, and Forvo? I know that a bunch of us are members of those communities as well. Oh, and since there are many music websites, Spotify and Pandora would make sense too, I guess. :)
Italian - fake jewelry (where fake means "made with non-precious material").
I can't find a direct equivalent in English - except for compound words like "costume jewelry". Bijouterie is a false friend and fallalery (suggested by Wikipedians) should mean something else.
I would like a "report for SPAM" button under profile pages. It could be something that you keep for the first week only, since (I guess) spammers start posting links right after creating their account.
The new "tweet" link is partly covered by the word itself (not graphically, but as a link button). I can only use it if I click the very bottom of it (Firefox 3.6.8).
Not yet capitalized, alas... Here are the answers to your questions.
babebibobu: sound effect, I'd say (but it could be teachers' jargon for some syllabication teaching method, according to some google results. Still, not an established word).
assessorucci: legitimate construction ("petty councilors").
apicolture: plural of apicoltura (beekeeping), while apicoltore means beekeeper.
caposervitù: legitimate construction (chief of servants).
avvolgiture: legitimate plural of avvolgitura (wrapping up).
Mr. Botticella, 56, delved into the mystery of Thomas’ muffinhood (hint: it has nothing to do with the fork), after Bimbo Bakeries USA bought the brand early last year. At the time, Mr. Botticella was a Bimbo vice president in charge of bakery operations in California.
(Internet, slang) To publish one's music-listening habits via software, as counted events when songs or albums are played, to selected internet services in order to track them over time, out of curiosity and/or to make them visible to others.
Lawyers made their closing arguments in the federal trial over the legality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, framing the issue as a war between the civil rights of gay men and lesbians and the traditional understanding and role of marriage.
"Gay men and lesbians" confuses me. Why not "gays and lesbians"? Or "gay and lesbian persons", or "gay men and lesbian women"?
I have a feeling that using "gay" as a noun sounds somehow inappropriate, and I probably agree (instinctively; I don't know why). But why doesn't the same apply to "lesbian"?
It works for me (and apparently RT). If you open ABP's preferences again, can you see facebook.com/plugins/like.php in the section "My Ad Blocking Rules"? And is it selected?
Also, if you go to "open blockable items", can you see
I have a Hootsuite bookmarklet so it doesn't change much for me. Maybe that's a silly question, but why don't you just integrate a bookmarklet like this one (or a different one that redirects to Twitter)?
In Italy, fantastiliardo is commonly used and featured in dictionaries. The interesting part is that the word was created in the 1960's by Italian Disney comic strip artist Gian Giacomo Dalmasso as the order of magnitude of Scrooge McDuck's wealth (30 fantastiliardi = $3*10^81).
In Italy, fantastiliardo is commonly used and featured in dictionaries. The interesting part is that the word was created in the 1960's by Italian Disney comic strip artist Gian Giacomo Dalmasso as the order of magnitude of Scrooge McDuck's wealth (30 fantastiliardi = $3*10^81).
A phylogenetic method based on combining different genes into a single super-matrix, and analyzing this matrix forcing all genes to conform to the same topology.
Is there an add-on that automatically changes words on a web page? I'd like to change the "XYZ likes" thingy on facebook back to "XYZ became a fan of" so that I don't accidentally "like" stupid things by mistakes. (See trolleme)
A troll meme, i.e. one that spreads against the spreader's will.
An example can be seen right now on facebook, with people involuntarily "liking" The man with the biggest d**k on Earth by following a link that shows the guy's face.
HI FLAC WELCOME TO WORDNIK HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME HERE JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT IF YOU LIST YOUR WORDS ALL CAPS PEOPLE WON'T BE ABLE TO FIND THEM FROM OTHER LISTS
I write Italian acronyms all caps. It's recent (newspaper*) policy to write them like this -> Dna or even dna
but I personally find that awfully ugly.
*I had an email exchange with an Italian language expert about that, a while ago. He replied
io mi adeguo quando posso all'uso non solo giornalistico di usare solo la maiuscola per gli acronimi e le altre sigle che per la frequenza del loro impiego sono ormai assimilabili ai sostantivi. Le tutte maiuscole fanno un brutto effetto grafico: non sono meglio Consob, Psi, Ds, Telecom di CONSOB, PSI, DS, TELECOM?
An American was sitting in a Paris cafe eating soup when a fly dropped into her bowl. “There's un mouche in my soup!” she exclaimed. A nearby waiter corrected her. “Non, Madame. Une mouche.” The American replied, “Wow, you French have good eyes!”
If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.
It's a very formal and strange-sounding term for "re-assigning to the demanio" (link). I don't know what decommissioning means, but it sounds more like something involving the end of service - which is not what demaniazione would involve.
I never watch horror movies, so I can't add anything to this list. But I have a presentation next Monday, and I'd like to use pictures of such movies, so if you feel like helping...
It might be worth telling you that Wordnik creates pages for every sequence of letters you look up, regardless of their validity as "real words". This means that you will "find" all kind of misspellings (mispelings, mizpellings, mspellings, msplngs...)
Since Wordie became Wordnik, I stopped using the random word feature, since it almost always shows me unremarkable stuff. Could you change it to, say, words that have been looked up at least twice before?
"Functional specialization in different members of a colony of social insects, which leads to a division of labour within the colony. The various functions may be carried out by individuals of different morphology (caste polyethism) or of different ages (age polyethism)."
No, I’m talking about a period that says, “That sentence, the one right before me, is as affable as they come. That sentence, in fact, wants to buy you a beer.”
I can see a difference between alone (being by yourself) and lonely (feeling far from those you love, or not having anyone). In Italian, I would use solo for the former and da solo for the latter.
Also spelled gattamorta; lit "dead pussycat". A person (usually, but not always, a woman) that appears peaceful and quiet, but really is deceitful and an intriguer.
This has got to be a cookbook that makes French cooking accessible to Americans who do not have cooks. Who are servantless. Is that a word? "Servantless". I think it is a word.
Found it - it's an alternative spelling of mugherino, a term used for both the "Arabian jasmine" (Jasminum sambac) and (according to Wikipedia) the lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis).
No idea, but some web sources say that the name Amos means "carried" (in Hebrew); the word μίξις (mixis) is used in biology for "mating", so perhaps who invented it had in mind something like "amomixia".
Wait, what do you mean? The definition is on chicanery. There's a comment (mine!) on chicanery. The capitalized word issue is known to The Big Guys Above, and they promised they will fix it at some time between yesterday morning and the Armageddon.
Now that you mentioned it, ruzuzu, we have dwarf bananas in Sardinia, too. I think they taste pretty much like "regular" ones, maybe a little better - but again, they grow them in Sardinia so I might just be because they pick them a little later.
I had a dream a few weeks ago, perhaps the first dream in English I have ever had. I dreamt I was eating a napsicle, which in my dream was a nacho-flavored popsicle.
The Schmidt Sting Pain Index or the Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different Hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center. Schmidt has published a number of papers on the subject and claims to have been stung by the majority of stinging Hymenoptera.
We need a name (and a list) for this particular kind of "fake false friend", where a foreign word that looks like an English one has a different etymology and is not a translation, but a somewhat related meaning.
Re: melalice's question on her profile (which is not public): under each word, there's a "pronunciations" link to the pronunciation page. For most dictionary words there's also a pronunciation on each word's main page (right column).
(O)dor very characteristic, not strong, but very penetrating, spermatic for an instant when the context is first exposed, but immediately becoming quite complex, predominantly a mixture of raphanoid and resinous with a trace of acetic acid, having a very decided pungency which quickly produces a tingling sensation in the back of the throat".
Using well-integrated archival material and assorted newer interviews, Mr. Gandini — who also serves as the narrator — opens his story with a wacky blast from Italy’s cathode-ray past: a television call-in quiz show that featured masked women stripping whenever a contestant has a correct answer. According to Mr. Gandini, the show was a succès de scandale because factory workers were staying up late to watch it. (Though unmentioned, the show emerged around the same time that Italy was being rocked by assaults by the Red Brigades, a homegrown militant group that in 1978 kidnapped and assassinated a former prime minister, Aldo Moro.) From this humble start Mr. Berlusconi found a television template for success: the fewer clothes women wore, the more power he accrued.
Lozier JD, Aniello P, Hickerson MJ (2009), Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America: anything goes with ecological niche modelling. Journal of Biogeography 36, 1623–1627.
One of the authors is a professor of mine. Make sure you read the acknowledgement paragraph.
I'm still experiencing the sensitivo bug I reported 8 day ago (a word I add to a list doesn't show which list it's in on the word page). This time it's self-brainstorming.
At this phase, an open website may not be the best place to talk about it :)
Let's say something that deals with the wildlife that lives in this city. I still have to decide whether it is going to be more ecology or more genetics, and which species, and how many species, and...
I would explain everything, including the meaning of life, but your account is now set up as private.
One suggestion for the future: OpenOffice.org has a "Writer" application, compatible with all operating systems. People can make nice bulleted and numbered lists there, with the huge advantage that no buggers can read or add anything unless you want.
As far as I know, "echolocation" in this case may be a bit of a stretch. But their hunting technique (they eat larvae they find in tree holes) is indeed quite impressive! I think there's an Attenborough documentary clip somewhere on YouTube (I'm typing from my phone at the moment).
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Prolagus commented on the user hernesheir
You misspelled your name on your WOTD list!
February 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Community
'Cuz I know the magic wordies!
February 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word biscotti
February 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Zeitgeist
Ha!
February 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pandoro
Is that shakshouka? You are the second person to offer to teach me how to make it! Now I *really* want to learn.
February 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
2:25 AM
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February 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Zeitgeist
I still think that page should be called "Wordie". But "community" is quite nice and warm too.
February 20, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list wordniks-who-proudly-contribute-worthless-stuff--a-lot-of-dumb-comments--and-useless-words-to-the-zeitgeist-page
*flicks reese's duct-taped tea cups*
February 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list wordniks-who-proudly-contribute-worthless-stuff--a-lot-of-dumb-comments--and-useless-words-to-the-zeitgeist-page
*flings cupcake-shaped ducks at reesetee*
February 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word fette biscottate
February 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list four-weeks--28-breakfasts
ruzuzu: why not!
everybody: thanks!
February 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pandoro
February 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list four-weeks--28-breakfasts
Sorry guys, I was two breakfasts late. But I have a good reason for that - I was on my way to Italy! Surprise visit to my sister and her newborn daughter for five days.
February 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word airplane breakfast
February 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word milk and cereal
February 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user yokoheight
Those are very, very, very long spam links.
February 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word substitute
Ha!
By the way, here's bilby's link.
February 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list lost-for-word
From marco_nj's profile:
February 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word yogurt with granola, cranberries and coconut flakes
February 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word chestnut cake
February 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user john
You're welcome!
February 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
Who has subscribed to my word-of-the-day-or-sometimes-couple-days list?
February 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user zobeljaime01
spamphobia
February 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word yogurt smoothie
February 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word sugar bowl
Do you have anything like sanguinaccio in the English-speaking world?
Edit: you sort of do: black pudding.
February 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Are Wordie comments on tags lost forever?
February 14, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word quokka
Not a bilby, not a qroqqa.
February 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word French toast
February 13, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word crostata
February 11, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word breakfast sausages, egg sunny side up, orange slices
February 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word fufluns distribution center
Press.
February 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user drmarekphd
Boo!
February 10, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word palanquin
By the way, Colin Meloy's pronunciation is quite different from Mr. Pronunciation's.
Is he 'wrong'?
February 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list words-suggested-to-me-by-the-sad-faced-teacher-on-my-scrabble-app
Haha nice list! I started using that app too. That damn wiseacre.
February 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list four-weeks--28-breakfasts
...mmmmmm.
February 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word latte macchiato and granola muffins
February 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word word of the day
Personal word of the day is a great idea. But where can we see a list of Wordies that list them?
Also, can we have a "words of the day" box on the Zeitgeist page?
February 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word conference breakfast
reesetee, you should know that water boils at 100℃.
February 9, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user centurydictionaryfan
By the way, love your "location" info.
February 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user centurydictionaryfan
Hi █████!
February 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word conference breakfast
February 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Deutschschweiz
German Switzerland - sch!
February 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user gangerh
Did you intentionally leave an html tag open somewhere in your profile, or is this the most interesting bug?
February 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word a breakfast of puffins
A miniature Icelandic shepherd's pie, perhaps? (ugh)
February 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list four-weeks--28-breakfasts
*cuts panettone in five*
*tries to think of a vegan breakfast to have soon and cut in six*
February 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word panettone
February 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word CSI effect
Is The 'CSI Effect' Influencing Courtrooms?
February 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word an unboiled bagel is just a roll with a hole!
*boils*
February 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pancakes
Nice idea!
*cuts flapjacks into fourths*
February 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pancakes
They surely don't count as bundt cake. I think (I hope!) I can have cake more than once as long as it is something strikingly different each time (crostata, flourless, apple pie, tiramisù, bábovka...).
February 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word pancakes
February 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list four-weeks--28-breakfasts
*cuts the banana into thirds*
February 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word banana, bread and jam, caffè macchiato
February 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word an unboiled bagel is just a roll with a hole!
Read here (link).
February 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Hello again Mr. Feedback!
On the Zeitgeist page, the box for "most commented on" lists is empty.
February 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list four-weeks--28-breakfasts
Haha, I didn't!
February 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list four-weeks--28-breakfasts
*cuts the bagel in half*
February 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bagel with scrambled eggs and fontina
February 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word midnight cake
In Fourceelia we call midnight cake the one that Yours Truly bakes every few days for breakfast. The reason is that around midnight I usually remember I don't have anything to eat for the next morning, so that's when I bake.
February 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bundt cake
We usually call it the midnight cake. Read why there.
February 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word fufluns
Are they ever?
February 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word fufluns
Does anybody have a recipe for the real Wordie fufluns? Something not too sweet if possible - something that would make a good breakfast for a certain challenge...
February 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list four-weeks--28-breakfasts
Aww thanks! Would you like half a cake every 3-4 days?
February 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bundt cake
February 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
On my profile:
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February 3, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list •-fruitie
Thanks so much!
February 2, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word zuzzurellone
It. - "happy-go-lucky".
January 31, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list unruzuzu
zuzzurellone?
January 31, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word シュシュ
"Shushu" - Japanese for "scrunchie", from the transliteration of French chouchou (same meaning).
January 31, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word rabbit test
Har(e) har(e) har(e)!
January 27, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user bardjohns12
Spammer.
January 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user sob78
Spammer.
January 26, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word tenga
"Please have (some)" in Italian.
January 25, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
Did you really find a song in which they use the word archetype?!
January 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word palanquin
(The Infanta, by The Decemberists)
January 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bonhomous lynchpins
See list.
January 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word yoke
(Don't carry it all, by The Decemberists)
January 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word plinth
:)
January 24, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user sionnach
In a sense it does - lit. "within a few hours". The focus is more on the deadline than on the notice.
I too remember with fondness our encounter, museum visit and lunch. Looking forward to the next ones.
January 23, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list my-sister-mispronouces
Ha!
January 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list my-sister-mispronouces
How do you mispronounce wars?
January 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word human fish
Another common name for the olm (Proteus anguinus).
January 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word revery
- Emily Dickinson
January 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list north-to-alaska
Right! After all, we already knew that Father mr_ass_itch works in the North Pole. He can't live that far.
January 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list north-to-alaska
Wait, does it mean that mr_ass_itch lives in Alaska too?
January 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
█████ is so vain.
January 21, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word accordion
How about this?
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list fifty-states-project
There's also Passport to Upstate New York by pomegranate...
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word extra lemurs
*snort*
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list old-timey-goodness
*favorited*
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word nape
And by the way, definition #3 under "noun" is the definition of a verb.
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word nape
"A table-cloth"?!
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word vine
(June hymn, by The Decemberists)
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
I sometimes find them a bit bonnoying, but their latest album is excellent. Check it out! I'm sure it's on youtube.
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word lynchpin
(All arise!, by The Decemberists)
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word anon
(Down by the water, by The Decemberists)
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word gabardine
(Down by the water, by The Decemberists)
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bulkhead
(Rox in the box, by The Decemberists)
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bonhomie
(Calamity song, by The Decemberists)
(*) No.
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word bonnoying
Boring and annoying at the same time. E.g. too many of The Decemberists' songs. And for most people anything by Joanna Newsom.
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word plinth
(Don't carry it all, by the Decemberists)
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word Tumblrican
Tumblr slang - a Puerto Rican Tumblr member.
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word now is the time to make new friends
January 18, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word mobile heritage
January 17, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list 5-0
(It still works!!!)
January 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
<3
January 16, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word █████
January 15, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word jellyfish
Hee hee!
January 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word jellyfish
January 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word sea urchin
January 8, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word skyride
I take you on a skyride, a feeling like you're spellbound
The sunshine is a lady who ROX you like a baby.
January 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word funfair
She's the heart of the funfair, she's got me whistling her private tune.
January 7, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list autantonyms
See iroquoisy.
January 6, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list here-i-dreamt-i-was-an-archetype
Thanks Urzulei! By the way, I see David's love and raise you a "favorite".
January 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list here-i-dreamt-i-was-an-archetype
January 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list unruzuzu
Urzulei, a Sardinian town?
January 5, 2011
Prolagus commented on the user price_comparison
spam.
January 4, 2011
Prolagus commented on the list join-other-network
Italian Wi-Fi networks have boring names. More from me in January.
December 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list a-posy-of--b-i-platy-i-b--words
platykurtic?
December 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word girlfriend
Same for me (I don't find it an ugly word, though).
Also, if a man referred to their male friends as "boyfriends", people would immediately think of something else...
December 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Dildo Key
ptero: ...
December 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word procellous
*has some kopi luwak*
December 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word kopi luwak
December 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pianista
Video (feat. our Minister of Cultural Heritage, who should spend all of his time in Pompeii instead. Or even better, at home, without a job.)
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
This song belongs in every list.
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word You probably think this song is about you
dontcry was right! (At the bottom of this page)
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word she's pure as New York snow
That explains the Bette Davis eyes, I guess.
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word procellous
*gives away the things he loved*
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word procellous
*dips hat strategically*
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word botargo
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word botargo
It does. :)
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word 867-5309
Not a prime number, unfortunately.
December 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word she's pure as New York snow
I hope she didn't mean New York City snow...
December 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word scannare
Italian - "to slaughter".
Some people now use the same verb (scannare) to translate the English verb to scan (e.g. most of the Twitter live results for scanno as of now), forgetting (?) that we have an Italian verb for that, scansire, a Latin intensifier of "scandire" which means scan sensu AHD #4.
I hope my poor phrasing still gives you the sense of what I meant.
December 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word scanno
English - a typo caused by OCR software.
Italian - "(I) slaughter". See scannare.
December 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list rognons-of-random-palavery
Any list that has both retranché and monorchidism in it must be perfect.
December 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Procellaria
Aww.
December 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Procellaria
Oddly enough, definitions are under procellaria (lowercase).
December 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word procellous
See Procellaria. (I'm surprised reesetee didn't link to it reeseteeself).
December 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
Also published as
The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures
December 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word wodnik
"Aquarius" (the constellation) in Polish.
December 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word literal
Love Is A Battlefield: Literal Video Version.
December 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word meh
Teh, as in teh alsome.
December 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Please see note on the screenshot.
December 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user actung
Until I visited your Twitter page, I thought you were a misspelling. :-)
December 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list how-do-you-take-your-coffee
If they cared about making money, they would make an iPhone app... *hinting*
December 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list how-do-you-take-your-coffee
Still available...
December 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word macchiatone
A cross between a macchiato and a cappuccino. Quite interestingly, I have only seen it in Veneto and in a bar in Reykjavík, Iceland.
December 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list how-do-you-take-your-coffee
In Veneto, Italy, you can ask for a macchiatone.
December 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word metrology
I like that one of the words used in the same context as metrology is causesthe.
December 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pho
Did you just use pho as a verb?
December 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user hernesheir
I think the top pronouncer is uselessness.
December 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user hernesheir
Who is the leading list creator? And the pronouncer (besides professionals)?
December 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word actuopalynology
Here, have some fufluns.
December 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list awesome-pronunciations
(ABBA? Where?)
December 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user john
Thanks John.
After what happened to Gawker, I'm changing my passwords everywhere.
December 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word actuopalynology
haha hernesheir, I did it intentionally.
December 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Ahem. How do you change your password on Wordnik?
December 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pianistan
Can we record it?
December 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fufluns
Sixth Google search result (at least with my settings).
December 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with one eye
Just imagine writing something like that now.
December 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user juliahuck
Hi! Just one note - Wordnik is case-sensitive. If you add and comment on lowercase pages you will most likely see the definitions and other people's comments.
Welcome to Wordie Wordnik!
December 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word actuopalynology
you're welcome
December 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word actuopalynology
Psst... you forgot to close the italics tag after the journal name!
December 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word actuopalynology
Is it also called neopalynology?
December 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word sobriquet
According to the Wordnik charts, jmp is right (except for very recent times). Unless he was referring to charcoal bricks.
December 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Wordplayer
Hi Wordplayer, and welcome to Wordnik.
I just wanted to let you know that Wordnik is indexed on Google so if people google your name they will find this page. Most of us feel more comfortable using a sobriquet (or soubriquet) instead of their real name.
Have fun!
P.
December 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word mistletoe
December 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word God
(Emo Philips)
December 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bupkis
But it must mean something!
December 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list crash-blossoms
Not sure about this one either (it could easily be intentional):
Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters
December 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-of-the-times
Oh, and hackerdom, too!
December 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word hackerdom
"Looking for the Real Mark Zuckerberg" by Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times, December 10, 2010.
December 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-of-the-times
schlubby, which happens to be listless.
December 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word schlubby
"Looking for the Real Mark Zuckerberg" by Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times, December 10, 2010.
December 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list in-the-laboratory
Yay! I came to add Büchner funnel but I see it's already there.
December 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bollito
While I have never seen or heard of the bollito in the CD definition, I've tasted some excellent bollito in my life.
December 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bolito
Not to be confused with bollito.
December 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fufluns
Ruz, your photos are visible here as well now!
December 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word got fufluns
See fufluns.
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fufluns
I want a "got fufluns?" T-shirt for Wordnik.
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word burette
Niiiiiice...
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word broom-rape
I'm glad we don't use it in the ecology labs I teach. My students giggle when they hear "seminal".
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bugiardino
Italian - Patient information leaflet.
Lit. "little liar".
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word caldarroste
"Roasted chestnuts" in Italian. (Singular is caldarrosta but I don't think I have ever heard that.)
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word teetotally
See comment on teetotal.
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fufluns
The best thing would be to start taking photos of cupcakes and tagging them fufluns on Flickr.
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word shelled
Quite interesting, the definitions give the meaning that sounds obvious to me (something with a shell) and the examples are all about the opposite meaning (something that had its shell removed).
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pitted
More on shelled.
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cvvccvvvccv
Why on the tag?
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fufluns
This page is on the first page of Google results for "fufluns". Isn't it great? Let's help it reach the top.
December 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word teetotal
I have never heard this word in a conversation, except from non-native speakers.
December 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user abbybueno
Interesting dilemma. Is linking to a commercial on youtube spam or not?
December 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
On the other side, now that I think of it, the best way of celebrating day of the ninja is not to observe it.
December 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
We just missed day of the ninja last Sunday. Or maybe we were there and nobody could see us.
December 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word chicken mobile
*hugs ruzuzu and her chickenmobile*
December 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S!
December 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
Found you! It was a lot of fun, but it took me ages to get there!
December 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
You must be wrong PU, I just got back from tomorrow and nobody was celebrating.
December 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word dramatic animals
There's a tarsier (also under "dramatic lemur", alas!) and a very famous prairie dog (also under "dramatic squirrel", double alas!).
December 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user sionnach
Mirto.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word reinstate
Alaska.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word reinforce
Currently being trained for the 24th.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user whichbe
Are you related to unbe?
Also, we miss you.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list un
unbe?
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pizzico
Yes!
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cicinin
Milanese - a little bit. Sometimes used in other parts of Italy as well.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word appena appena
Italian - just a little bit. (lit. "barely barely").
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pizzico
Italian - pinch.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word un bel po'
Italian - a lot.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word un sacco
Italian - a lot.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word manciata
Italian - handful.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word un be'
Sassarese - a lot.
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list imprecise-units-of-measurement
hahah you're un be' welcome...
December 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
A bizarre bug is now visible on the Zeitgeist page: milos wrote on someone's profile page and it says he wrote on his own profile.
December 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word legume
Not all of them.
December 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Upper 1974 J Appl Behav Anal
Upper, D. (1974), "The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of 'writer's block'". Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 7(3): 497.
Worth reading.
December 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user john
You're wery wery welcome. I think it should be tomorrow's Word of the day.
Thanks for spending time on the external link thing. I think it would be really helpful. And thanks for the NYC links on your Times People!
December 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word wurstmeister
*wonders where one can find sausage plant seeds*
December 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word dude
"An inexperienced cowboy". Well spotted, ruzuzu! Thanks!
December 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word is it Christmas
The app is called "Is it Christmas?".
December 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word creepy doll, a window, and what looks like a bathrobe, then a dim-lit shot of dangling balls
See literal.
December 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-of-the-times
wurstmeister.
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word wurstmeister
("If Only Laws Were Like Sausages", by Robert Pear. The New York Times, December 4, 2010)
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list mr-ass-itch-s-mirth-sac
Time to add new entries...
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word troll
what a night.
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word troll
Sigh
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word servo muto
Oh yes, that's what I meant when I used dumb.
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jean dimmock
kurtosis
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
...but
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
...gut
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
...git
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
...fit
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fif
Rap slang for fifth (amendment).
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
fif
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word FIFY
"Fixed it for you."
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
What sionnach said! I don't like roadkill.
December 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word dumbwaiter
Also listed under dumb waiter.
December 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word servo muto
It. "dumb servant", it seems to have little to do with English dumb waiter. It's a clothes-stand.
December 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Iraqibacter
Nickname of Acinetobacter baumannii among US troops in Iraq.
More info here (and links on that page).
It would be cute if you could adopt this word. I have no list where it would fit. Also, my lists are immunodeficient.
December 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I asked for the same thing a few times...
December 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Lagerstätten
See lagerstätte.
December 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
reesetee, what's this Librarian's Rule you mentioned?
December 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list i-hope-you-dont-do-this-for-a-living
Did you like that one better bilby?
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word true love
Let me just tell you, though, that 7364 miles is too far. Trust me.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list top-500-shower-curtains
Do we really have to stop at 500 entries?
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word vocab 7
As well as vocab 7--2, vocab 7--3...
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word spaghetti twirling techniques
See conversation, and limerick, on spaghetti.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cheeses of Nazareth
LOL
(literally)
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cheeses of the world
*favorited*
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word casula
Then it must be Sardinian.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word casula
Sardinian last name.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word machetero
I thought you were one of those demustachioed bearded heirs.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
Ha! I KNEW!
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ointment
I recognize an evil smile when I read one.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-or-phrases-i-should-use-in-my-nanowrimo-production
But... but... you promised!
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ointment
Perhaps ruzuzu is a FIFA infiltrator.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cupcakes
I only eat manly cupcakes. (This was originally posted by frogapplause, but I can't find the page.)
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
...Fire.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
...Fix.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
...Box.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
...Cow.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word book-number
marky - 102?
...Wow.
December 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fumant
Edit: indeed, sionnach has one.
December 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fumant
If there is one, fleur-de-lis is there.
December 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-i-suspect-myself-of-overusing
I suspect I overuse valuable.
December 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Remedies88
December 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user jorgerowe
December 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word dream a little dream of lists
This could also be the right place to link to napsicle.
December 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word track your girlfriend's period
App name: "Code Red - A survival guide to her monthly cycle".
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
mollusque: tags are not case-sensitive, but they link to word pages that are, so it's not exactly consequenceless.
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Spam examples on Fabri Fibra.
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ptmcateck
We really attract the strangest kind of spam, by the way.
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ptmcateck
Fabri Fibra (Italian rapper)
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ptmcateck
fazzi schifu ("It sucks" in Sassarese)
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word dog
Dogs: cones or wooden barriers used to prevent horses from working or galloping close to the inner rail, usually used following heavy rains.
More here.
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bad actor
A horse that repeatedly misbehaves and proves troublesome.
More here.
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fascinating
Nice! Thanks to both of you!
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fascinating
Wordie help needed!
I am writing a grant proposal for a project in which high school student will take part. I want to say that the activities they will be involved in are something that can attract students into pursuing a career in biology... I'm looking for a word but it's not fascinating. Can anybody help?
November 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word marmite
November 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list its-all-greek-to-me
As Milos said, one reason can be the alternative spellings available.
November 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word █████
(It's what't left of the original Wordie tag █████)
November 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word divide a group into teams
"Team up".
November 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Bilby
On Google street view.
November 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list i-hope-you-dont-do-this-for-a-living
Oh no, someone has another list for that. :)
November 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list i-hope-you-dont-do-this-for-a-living
I can't come up with a decent name for this list. It's about specific words used to describe someone who is unskillful at their job. Any help?
November 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word sulphagne
Defined here. (edited)
November 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
I made a decision, and after all this time I will see a doctor, for insomnia and other stuff (a good part of which has been discussed on this page). Good luck to me.
November 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word will it play in peoria
And the locals are so picky!
November 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word nothing
The app is called "Nothing".
November 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word best moment to go pee while at the movies
The app (as well as the website it's based on) is called RunPee.
November 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bad-hair forecast
The app is called "Haircaster".
November 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list theres-an-app-for-that--1
Be my guest. There might be an app to pre-test if a word is listworthy.
November 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word turducken
The River Cottage Ten-Bird Roast
November 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word primary producerology
See comment on parasitology.
November 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word predatorology
See comment on parasitology.
November 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word parasitology
("Parasitology Is Dead. Long Live Parasitology!" by James H. Shaw. Conservation Biology, Volume 24, No. 6, 1690–1693)
November 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Also, tag pages have links to the corresponding word pages, but not vice versa.
November 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word colza
From Dutch "koolzaad" (cabbage seed).
Edit: oops. I forgot Wordnik has an etymology tab.
November 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the united states of america
Who can blame your ██████ for being sore about the marmite incident...
November 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ms.j
pssst... a recurrent typo in your list descriptions. This message will self-destruct.
November 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word a jerk like you
No definitions are available for a jerk like you.
November 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
Edit: it's been three months now.
November 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word byssus
Chiara Vigo, from Sant'Antioco, Sardinia, manufacturer of byssus cloth.
November 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
Sufjan Stevens - "The 50 States song"
November 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the united states of america
I love klezmer! I think it's the ██████.
November 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tref
Listed ONCE! That's not kosher on Wordnik.
November 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word unlove
To remove the "love" tag from a song on Last.fm.
November 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-for-prospective-grad-students
think twice?
November 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word World Toilet Day
Can't wait!
November 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word hymenorraphy
...!
November 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word World Toilet Day
Must go! Must go!
November 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
I see you have national toilet day, but by all means don't miss World Toilet Day on November 19.
November 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word prad
prad in Italian: Prato allo Stelvio
(?!?)
(The reason is here)
November 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ████
They use the Italian word for that?!
November 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ████
████ in Italian: █ █ █ █
November 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the united states of america
*████s ruzuzu*
November 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the united states of america
That's the ██████ thing anybody has ever told me. It could only come from a ██████ like you. ██████ you, ruzuzu!
November 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the united states of america
OK, maybe it wasn't honest of me to generalize. Let's say that it only applies to me, and that every time things seem to ███████ I end up ██████ ███████ everything.
November 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the united states of america
I think there is always at least some ███████.
November 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the united states of america
It's been months now.
November 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the united states of america
Don't be - The only reason why I keep myself busy is █████████████
November 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the united states of america
True! By the way, I saw one of the Dunlap broadsides at the Morgan Library last Thursday, with sionnach.
November 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word coöperate
On a Mac (US keyboard), option+u then type the vowel.
November 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word coöperate
See discussion on coöperation.
We have one more thing in common, rooz.
November 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word clean out your refrigerator day
Today!
November 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
I'm at Sufjan's concert.
November 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word 2qliun-sojn uaine
("Announcing the subway announcement lady", by James Barron, The New York Times, Nov. 14, 2010)
November 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
artišoks!
November 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word hi there!
Why did you come up with "artichoke"? Are you stalking me on Shuttercal?
November 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word externship
Why doesn't this word mean the opposite of internship, but something pretty similar? How disappointing.
November 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word anticamera del cervello
The "ante-room of one's brain". If you are not even considering whatever is being discussed, in Italian you can say "non mi passa nemmeno (/neanche) per l'anticamera del cervello" (it doesn't even walk through the ante-room of my brain).
November 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list extra-room
There's also a list by Lampbane.
November 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word foozler
See foozle.
November 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list my-little-phonies
A thousand on...
November 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word gambe corte
Italian - "short legs".
November 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word contrabute
Definition, anybody? You know what I mean.
November 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list its-so-hard-to-find-good-help-these-days
*adds to favorite, removes it, then adds again just to do it twice*
November 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word adamitico
It., "Belonging or pertaining to Adam". Used in the phrase in costume adamitico ("in Adam's suit"), it's the Italian equivalent of birthday suit.
November 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word dumbfounded
(Stop, look and listen, by Belle and Sebastian)
November 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tinderbox
(The life pursuit, by Belle and Sebastian)
November 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word in-growing
Song quotation on twat.
November 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word twat
(The life pursuit, by Belle and Sebastian)
November 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word poise
(Mr. Richard, by Belle and Sebastian)
November 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user john
Thanks John! I think you forgot to re-add the "elsewhere on the web" link to pages for more than 1 word (I mean word pages like YSV effect).
Glad you also like scrogneugneu. :-)
November 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word insesbvbncjkfjgkhjkhbn
What I find mildly annoying is... this and this.
November 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user joepatern5
We have a pretty good antispam here on Wordnik. Just wait and see.
November 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word insesbvbncjkfjgkhjkhbn
- noun
1. The web equivalent of a graffiti tag. A signature and a way of increasing traffic to your website.
November 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user tiantian
Spam boots? Spam bots!
November 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word scenester
Song quotation on sartorially.
November 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word sartorially
(Mr. Richard, by Belle and Sebastian)
(As found on B&S's official website)
November 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word caterwauling
(Mr. Richard, by Belle and Sebastian)
November 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pinstripe
Song quotation on lapel.
November 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word lapel
(Mr. Richard, by Belle and Sebastian)
November 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word time
bilby's link is borked. :(
November 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user anthonymarc
Spam.
November 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cvcvcccvcvcv
(what the hell is this?)
Edit: never mind. Got it.
November 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
An example of what I meant 11 days ago is Diet of Worms.
November 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word prewalking
There's an app for that.
November 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word khuhlkhutscheu
Coined by aaltoilu on insomnia.
November 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
01:20 am
...
November 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list identify-the-wordienik
Instructions of the previous edition.
November 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Hottentottenpotentatentantenattentat
Honestly, I have a feeling this place has survived only because of fbharjo and especially ruzuzu's constant effort and marvelous contributions.
November 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user syarik17
SPAM.
November 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-that-start-with-r
Rape means turnips in Italian.
(Sorry, Ashly... welcome to Wordnik!)
November 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word neccopants
Brackets s'il vous plaît.
November 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-that-start-with-r
Nice list - and it's nearly complete already!
November 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user sionnach
I will! I'm sending you a Flickr mail right now.
November 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
November 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word temporal slices of spacetime worms
:)
November 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the hopes and dreams of a neighborhood of trick-or-treaters
Is it a Belle and Sebastian song?
October 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tooth rack
In Italian, the word "dentiera" (dentures) is derived from "dente" (tooth) the same way most words meaning "(whatever)-rack" are from what they are designed for (e.g. scarpiera = shoe-rack).
October 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word MacGuffin
Wow, that's quite specific.
October 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Nineties
Plural of one tie.
October 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Chris8682
Maybe we should help him. ahhaha
October 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word I don't care what the captain said.
:)
October 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word rally to restore sanity
Anybody going? I am. :)
October 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word science limericks
Who has time to read entire papers?
October 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I can't see my latest pronunciations on the Zeitgeist page.
October 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word spoon-shaped
October 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
The "elsewhere on the web" menu is not available if the word is not on any of your featured sources for definitions. That's odd, since that's when you need it the most.
October 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user henkle
henkle, as bilby said, you can create a Flickr account and upload the picture there. In order to appear on Wordnik it has to be under an "attribution" Creative Commons license.
October 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ligase
I think you mean a catalyst.
October 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list most-favorite-words
WHAT'S A GOOD BAND NAME, THOSE OLD TYPEWRITER THINGIES?
October 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list song-starters
For me, the YSV effect is so strong that even don't you can occasionally act as a song starter.
October 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Maybe it's Bonnie.
October 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cockshy
Marky, there was a discussion about the Century Dictionary somewhere, I guess on homosexuality.
October 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list song-starters
How about you're so vain?
October 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word rose
Savon19, did you read definition #18?
October 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Nice link, marky!
October 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word prodqualiciency
Seen here.
October 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word shibboleet
...If only...
October 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word assholette
She can't possibly have her internal volume set too high. After a week of insanely loud music, today I had to call 311 and the police came to her place.
Then I had a not-so-nice discussion with her.
By the way, she is 30. Should I send her the link to this page to tell her that I was sure she was much younger? Or do you think she might misinterpret the friendly nickname?
October 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user chadbarnt
Spam.
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user TopBattery
Spam.
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pennyfarthing
See also penny-farthing.
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list distinctions-that-used-to-be-unnecessary
Is there a list for "distinctions that used to be necessary"? I just read that what we call bicycle used to be called safety bicycle to distinguish it from the model known as pennyfarthing.
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word gauze
Dear marsupial, there's a rule for that: for over 99% of verbs, active transitive goes with "avere" and passive and intransitive with "essere".
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list with-both-latin-and-greek-components
Here.
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list with-both-latin-and-greek-components
Since angharad left Wordie a long time ago, and I love the idea (as I said 2 years ago), I will now steal this list.
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word gauze
It's time to choose, English speakers: take gauze and gauge and decide - either "gôz" and "gôjˈ" or "gāz" and "gājˈ".
October 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list band-names--1
See also John's Words that are also excellent band names, if the rules below are correctly applied.
October 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user shawneme10
Hi, Aafje. Welcome to hell.
October 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list sat-list--now-featuring-sat--sateen--and-satori
Love the list name.
October 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
(Have you ever seen our craudestopper?)
October 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word thnik
*lovers teh lifeboats at to teh deck*
October 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word thnik
bilby, indeed this is a crowdestopper.
October 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word thnik
Misspelling of thikn.
October 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word population
In statistics, the group of measurements (not organisms) about which one wishes to draw conclusions.
In the words of statistician Jerrold H. Zar: If a study is concerned with the blood-glucose concentration in three-year-old children, then the blood-glucose levels in all children of that age are the population of interest.
October 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user sionnach
First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in Mathematical Statistics.
October 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word shaving my legs
*snort*
October 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word 404 File Not Found
Is it just a case of convergent evolution, is the error page for The Hype Machine copied from Wordnik, is it viceversa, or did both of you take inspiration from somewhere else?
October 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Brookside
(I wonder what they are referring to. Maybe the soap opera?)
October 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-sung-by-belle-and-sebastian
Added a few words from the latest album.
October 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word parchment
(Calculating bimbo, by Belle and Sebastian)
October 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word transcontinental
(I didn't see it coming, by Belle and Sebastian)
October 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Brookside
(I want the world to stop, by Belle and Sebastian)
October 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Tinseltown
(I want the world to stop, by Belle and Sebastian)
October 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word quiet
Wordnik, today.
October 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word interstellar trade theory
From the introduction:
It should be noted that, while the subject of this article is silly, the analysis actually does make sense. This article, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.
October 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word a cereal of serial commas
See also comments on a little carrot over the a.
October 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word interstellar trade theory
How should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light?
October 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user derekjet89
Interested in snail race tickets, by any chance?
October 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word colouring hipster dinosaurs
From now on, every time I see a hipster on the Q train my inner eye will see him/her as a dinosaur.
October 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word remarkable link
Here I answer fbharjo's question.
October 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word a bout of estimations
Well, there's "Madeupical collective nouns" by reesetee.
October 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Sorry, no results for Belle and Sebastian.
October 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word remarkable link
Here I ask chained_bear to put those qualifiers in brackets.
October 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word a bout of estimations
A skance of judgemental looks.
October 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user marky
My great stool softener replicas and hot ukulele-playing rodents have been keeping me busy lately.
October 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user marky
Hi, I am very Sardinian pika looking for some snail race tickets and enlarge your carpet every since Sabbath very much.
October 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user michaels89
Hi Ada, why did you create an account under the name Michael? My name is Cho Reezo and every night I like to take a walk to my monocled hamsters and work from your oven home.
October 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
Hi, I am very hot Italian men and looking for currently shoddy replicas and expired drugs permanently.
October 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word strategy
T.
October 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word castagne
Plural of castagna.
October 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word strategy
It's your turn.
October 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word remarkable link
Here I keep ruzuzu's joke going, and try to create a trend, causing the topic of the conversation to start drifting away from the content of the link.
October 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word strategy
H.
October 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word strategy
HHT.
*Tosses coin*
October 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word remarkable link
Here I link to a topic that nobody else is interested about.
In this second sentence, a mildly humorous comment will be an even more explicit attempt to sound smart.
October 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user greatsller13
It was. And it will be again within minutes.
October 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Samoan clerics finger homosexuals over global warming
Wow.
October 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
zoozoo! Which Belle and Sebastian song has the word hike?
October 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user celeb8video
You are disgusting.
October 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pappardelle
the George Clooney of noodles, according to dontcry. See a passionate word that starts with n.
October 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word agrologist
Canadian - agronomist. How did they decide to use a different word?
"Well, I was in my bachelor, having my cup of double-double on the chesterfield, and before going to the washroom to put on my runners and take my car out of the parkade..."
October 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word mollusquesque
See puž.
October 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word puž
Braquets on mollusquesque, s'il vous plaît.
October 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word assholette
The woman who lives downstairs (threeceelia, we might say) earned this pet name after the time she came to our apartment while we were having dinner, complaining about the noise we were making (now just imagine three adults eating at a table, without music, TV or loud conversations).
You might think she is 70, 80 years old - she can't be older than 25.
October 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jellied eels
Never eaten brains before, bear? I mean, non-human brains?
October 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list recently-viewed
This is hilarious. Ultimate randomness.
October 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Masturbate to Christine O'Donnell Day
Announced here.
Listworthy, reesetee?
October 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user raven_in_the_woods
That's so raven_in_the_woods.
October 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word rurufuffler
Usage on zuzuniknik.
October 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user freeallsoftwares
Spam. (Also, "softwares"?)
October 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tightrope
(Write about love, by Belle and Sebastian)
September 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bilby smokes
Were you looking for smoked bilby?
September 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word catechetical
And cachectic.
September 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list tobacco-packaging-warning-messages-in-various-languages
bilby smokes?!
September 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list not-to-do-list
I love the concept. Will start working on mine soon.
September 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word casu marzu
TZounds delicious!
September 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list the-request-line
I would recommend that you focus on my pronunciation of the S in casu marzu. Something between the z in "zoo" and the French j. ;-)
September 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
And cubic!
September 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Frank Sinatra has a cold
Who said it won't become one...
September 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Frank Sinatra has a cold
You can read it here.
September 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word malaria
One of the authors is a friend of mine. :)))
September 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word oof
Oof.
September 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jellied eels
Just read about this dish. Has any of you ever had it? How is it?
September 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
Ruzuzu, be careful with squirrels. They are cute but they spread diseases.
September 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list •-knuckle-tattoos
That's so sweet of you. *hugs ruzuzu and list*
I miss you all so much, guys. In the first two years, I spent so much time on Wordie. I had some of the most interesting conversations ever. My English improved dramatically. I learned so many words, etymologies, stories, and Uranus jokes. I met great people and laughed and smiled a lot. I never thought a web community could be such a nice way of spending time.
Now...
(*stops here*)
September 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list some-beekeeping-terms
I never realized there were THREE beekeeping lists! Never enough, I say.
When I grow up I want to become a beekeeper.
September 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word knees-up
(Black and white unite, by Belle and Sebastian)
September 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list lost-for-word
If there is none, I would recommend pomace.
September 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word national punctuation day
September 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word literacy month
September 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user asativum
I can't believe you came to Sardinia and didn't tell me. I was there for three weeks. How did you like it?
September 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word big lion shit
Ha!
Big lion shit has bells in it?! How can he sleep tonight?
September 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list english-loanwords-in-italian--with-pronunciation
D'oh! (Or, dough!)
September 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user MarkSapin92
You won't.
September 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word apheresis
I logged in to type apheretically.
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
hiking
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Homosexuals can donate blood in Italy.
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
Now a list.
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
mountain bike
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
tour operator
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
water
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
toast
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
computer
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
*...* pancake
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
*ahem* ketchup
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
*ahem* hot dog
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
*clears throat again* cheeseburger
September 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list lost-for-word
Anything to do with tallow?
September 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pane carasau
Lovely. See carasau.
September 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bruschetta
*clears throat to pronounce hamburger*
September 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
Just like "Pro the Procrastinator". :-(
September 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word OLD MAD SAD FAT GIT
As they would say in Rome, ahò!
Which incidentally is the code for Alghero airport.
September 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
Oh my, I have a terrible memory. (Poor students!)
Yes, it was a good lecture, I believe. My students are all non-majors in the field, so I am not sure if they found it interesting or not. But at least they were following my presentation and my scribbles on the board (which were intentionally left out of the slideshow to force them to listen).
September 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
When? (in response to your comment on my profile)
September 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user caymanislands
You know you won't last, don't you?
September 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word trending words
New (?) feature on the Zeitgeist page. What are they?
September 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fantastiliardo
Listed in the "recent favorites". Who did it?
September 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
Since you live where it's already Monday afternoon, was the lecture I worked on until 2 am at least decent?
September 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user irmizell095
But you're often two.
September 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user sonofgroucho
Which is sad. I bet he has the most melodious voice.
September 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user leetorrs
*snort*
September 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user believer121
It was until you arrived.
September 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user she
...We miss her so much...
September 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Thanks for adding the websites, John!
Now, a buglet I just noticed: if I hit "add comment" without typing anything, a blank comment appears.
September 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list us-states-that-i-can-remember-without-checking-the-internet-sept-3-2008
I'm sorry... I should try again. Or even better, someone else should!
September 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user validation78
We can fix you instead. Where's my emasculator when I need it?
September 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word insomnia
01:15 am
Sipping some chamomile-and-some-other-grass infusion. It's not even about not being able to sleep... More like not feeling like trying.
And it's been almost two weeks now.
September 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
It does!
September 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user blacktrack
Spam.
September 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list european-world-systems
Gosh, I don't understand this!
September 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word electric shock
DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO UNPLUG THIS FREAKING THING?!
September 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user alixmoralis
0 comments? They surely added a spam comment.
September 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I just noticed that if a wordnik does not have any list (like Feedback), there's a missing comma in the summary (see above).
Also, a question:
Does that mean that words added on other people's list are not being counted?
September 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word you're something of a hotdog, aren't you
I surely hope so, kewpid.
September 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user chained_bear
Why is slalom your least favorite word?
September 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Thanks for bringing back the "also on" links! Can I suggest that you add ShutterCal, Postcrossing, and Forvo? I know that a bunch of us are members of those communities as well. Oh, and since there are many music websites, Spotify and Pandora would make sense too, I guess. :)
September 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
ruzuzu has added 175 lists containing 9,228 words, 2,237 comments, 1,981 tags, 461 favorites, and 12 pronunciations.
And all of them are much appreciated.
I used to have a very balanced account, with about as many comments as words added. But never a high number of lists.
Sounds like I have a lot to say about other people's words.
September 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user curtezanne
"credit score repair" is not a valid Scrabble word. And you are a spammer.
September 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list mildly-impressive-words
Love the list name.
September 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user mollusque
I agree about everything you wrote on Erin's profile page. Exactly my thoughts. (Except for the word stalwart since I had never heard it before.)
September 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ◢◥◛◓◀ ÅØá·þ%⒯ⓘ⇍↸⇂⇩∗∧∰≏∸▨╛┡﹄⋛⊌⊉†̨̪̂ˌʣˠ˝ʼ˦˧̬̟̥
Were you looking for aoathˌʣˠʼ or ◢◥◛◓◀ åøá·þ%⒯ⓘ⇍↸⇂⇩∗∧∰≏∸▨╛┡﹄⋛⊌⊉†̨̪̂ˌʣˠ˝ʼ˦˧̬̟̥?
September 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list asian-women-white-men
She will do it all night
September 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word საქართველო
A very well known place we've never heard of?
September 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word frogs
It's not me! It's Wordnik.
September 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word frogs
See also you, asshole.
September 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jean dimmock
*press*
September 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tartan
Song quotation on spat.
September 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word superconductor
There's a list for that. :)
September 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list bells-and-whistles
No way! You know about the list I adopted, right? (And I hope you know this, too)
September 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list bells-and-whistles
Belle and Sebastian the second entry? I'm impressed.
August 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fax
Explanation.
August 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Hi everybody, my name is Prolagus and when I grow up I want to live in New York.
August 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user eisha12
SPAM
August 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word electric shock
*ow*
August 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word food pellet
*press*
August 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I wonder if bilby noticed that, ruzuzu. I guess he would tell us.
August 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word caveman
Also, caveperson.
August 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word criss-cross applesauce
Dontcry, was that Ultra English?!
August 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bigiotteria
Italian - fake jewelry (where fake means "made with non-precious material").
I can't find a direct equivalent in English - except for compound words like "costume jewelry". Bijouterie is a false friend and fallalery (suggested by Wikipedians) should mean something else.
Any suggestions?
August 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word antinym
Madeupical (or neotatologism) - "a word whose referent becomes the opposite of its original sense".
Seen here.
August 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I would like a "report for SPAM" button under profile pages. It could be something that you keep for the first week only, since (I guess) spammers start posting links right after creating their account.
August 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
YAY!
August 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word seat-of-the-pants
Literally.
August 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Frank Lloyd Wright
What would Frank Lloyd Wright say?
August 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Fennoscandia
One of the (many) words that, when I hear them from someone else, I *must* repeat loud, slowly and solemnly.
August 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user 9brandon
Hi! As a Brooklynite, I understand and feel your amazement. And as a PhD student working on urban wildlife, I appreciate your interest. :-)
August 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
The new "tweet" link is partly covered by the word itself (not graphically, but as a link button). I can only use it if I click the very bottom of it (Firefox 3.6.8).
Also, I'm still lowercase. :(
August 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user mattrocks003
SPAM
August 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy
none of your business card?
August 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list things-which-make-cool-patterns-on-the-wall-when-i-turn-on-the-overhead-projector
Aww.
August 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Perú
Tallarin could be derived from tajarin, a Piedmontese variety of egg pasta.
August 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word none of your business card
Seen here.
August 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word deckosphere
Seen here.
August 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Ultra English
August 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user PossibleUnderscore
Still lowercase...
August 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
...Yes, still lowercase.
August 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
Still lowercase?
August 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list super-team-up-deluxe
Sailor Senshi?
August 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user mollusque
Re: bilby, I would add that in Italian museografi can be translated as "museographist".
(at first I thought you were talking about Italian words!)
August 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user mollusque
Not yet capitalized, alas... Here are the answers to your questions.
babebibobu: sound effect, I'd say (but it could be teachers' jargon for some syllabication teaching method, according to some google results. Still, not an established word).
assessorucci: legitimate construction ("petty councilors").
apicolture: plural of apicoltura (beekeeping), while apicoltore means beekeeper.
caposervitù: legitimate construction (chief of servants).
avvolgiture: legitimate plural of avvolgitura (wrapping up).
arreionu: "line of reasoning" in Sardinian.
arresignolu: "nightingale" in Sardinian (panvocalic animal!)
centomilaun: alternative spelling of centomilauno (100.001), acceptable.
uranometri: "uranometers".
August 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-of-the-times
muffinhood.
August 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word muffinhood
Mr. Botticella, 56, delved into the mystery of Thomas’ muffinhood (hint: it has nothing to do with the fork), after Bimbo Bakeries USA bought the brand early last year. At the time, Mr. Botticella was a Bimbo vice president in charge of bakery operations in California.
("A Man With Muffin Secrets, but No Job With Them", by William Neuman; The New York Times, August 6, 2010)
August 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user mollusque
Here you are.
August 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user mollusque
(Italo Calvino)
August 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
It's one of the many remarkable things about me. :D
August 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Moo!
Who's there?
August 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Svínafellsjökull
August 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Iceland
Greetings from Iceland! I will keep an eye on local words, especially panvocalics.
July 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word squirrull
July 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user mollusque
Never heard of it before, but I checked the catalog and they have it at the public library in my hometown. Where I'm going in seven days. :-)
July 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word emulsify High fat offal tube
It has happened before, indeed.
July 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word raccoonnookkeeper
Still unpronounced?
July 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word consider a spherical cow in vacuum
Why?
July 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word love
Love always wins.
(Cf. hate, hatred, and like.)
July 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Also, mollusque doesn't tag foreign panvocalics, if I remember well.
July 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word lanky
Anybody?
July 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word silla
Explained here.
July 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
July 19 — changed my favorite and least favorite words as a friendly reminder for Mr. Feedback. :-)
July 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word methods which can be used to keep women confined or enclosed without the use of chains
Read here (found here).
July 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word hypoptopomatine
Done.
July 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user john
When you delete idiomark and his other aliases, cam you keep his hilarious comment on my profile (after inactivating the links)?
July 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user aroomark
Spam.
July 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user pummark
Spam.
July 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user idiomark
What's idio- short for? Spam.
July 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word sega
Italian, vulgar - wank.
July 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Do you know what sega means in Italian?
July 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
My "previous comments" page doesn't show links to the pages where the comments themselves were posted.
July 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
The examples on blatino are a little different from your standards.
July 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Seen on the Zeitgeist page:
As you can see, Punderscore Underscore actually links to a different profile (Matthew Kowalski), while possibleunderscore is correct.
I'm really confused.
July 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word blatino
In gay dating website slang, a black Latino man.
July 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Candwich
The third one isn't technically a sandwich, either - rather a stuffed roll.
July 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Medici
Maybe they are following the Italian standard of not pluralizing last names. But the adjective meaning "belonging to the Medici" is mediceo.
July 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user mmque2007
Spam.
July 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word per cagare occorre fare grandi stronzi
Ugh!
July 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word per cagare occorre fare grandi stronzi
Italian - in order to shit you need to make big turds.
It's a MD a friend of mine invented to remember the taxonomic ranks in zoological nomenclature:
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
July 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Feature suggestion: when one adds a "related word", it is automatically added to both entries.
July 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word crostatina
See crostata.
July 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Candwich
Great, now even sandwiches are sold in a can. I'm so glad aluminum resources are infinite.
July 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word （ ´_ゝ`）
（ ´_ゝ`） in Italian: ('_ ゝ »)
July 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word duffing
Cattle raiding in Australian English (source: Wikipedia).
July 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pinkwashing
Alternative use of the term.
July 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jijino
:-)
July 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jijino
There's a list for that: pretty dots all in a row .
July 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user hernesheir
Edit: sadly, it turned out to be a misspelling of -prologus. How unfortunate!
July 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word scrobble
From Wiktionary:
July 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user hernesheir
My aquatic doppelgänger?!
July 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ea
I know! That's how I could remember it for Ancient History in junior high school.
July 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list water--water--everywhere
ea, abba.
July 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list my-little-phonies
Does anyone know the original entry for poor sxʷ�?št'qá?
July 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user smithcreamy
Spam.
July 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user isabener24
Spam.
July 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user AlexSteve1
Spam.
July 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user adrianne1407
Spam.
July 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
Hello! I haven't been much around lately. I will do my best from now on.
July 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word earworm
Let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants to sing...
July 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Great! Now looking forward to the next fixes.
June 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user manojsnv
Spam.
June 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word macchiato
Foamed milk (at least in Italy).
June 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word prosletyze
Misspelling of proselytize.
Eating pasta
June 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list passport-to-upstate-new-york
Sardinia! (Who knew?)
June 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user LauraCerrano
SPAM.
June 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user babybedding
Spam spam spam.
June 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
...Nice!
June 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word coccodè
Hee hee!
June 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
...Cannot conversations cull united nations?
It's about time that we start that list! :)
June 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word lanky
First example:
It seem to contradict the definition for lanky, doesn't it? It makes it sound like "lanky" is a tall person that is not slim.
June 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list panvocalic-pants
*snort*
June 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Si ursus essem, ursus fabulans essem
I'd say diadema.
June 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user a
Are you making those calligrams? They are amazing!
June 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word che se magna
See Cheesemania.
June 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Cheesemania
Not to be confused with che se magna? ("What are we eating?" in Romanesco)
June 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word solfatara
The Italian word for sulphur is zolfo, while solfo is archaic.
June 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word laduma
Pronunciation, please?
June 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word coccodè
Italian onomatopoeia for the chicken's call.
June 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
This is amazing!
June 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list panvocalic-plants
HH, great list! Instead of comments, I think you should add tags - that would make it easier to see words with the same pattern.
June 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
Tomorrow is Strangely Orange Snack Appreciation Day.
June 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word lasandwich
Ugh.
June 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user chelster
Although it looks bettor.
June 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word gay men and lesbians
(source)
"Gay men and lesbians" confuses me. Why not "gays and lesbians"? Or "gay and lesbian persons", or "gay men and lesbian women"?
I have a feeling that using "gay" as a noun sounds somehow inappropriate, and I probably agree (instinctively; I don't know why). But why doesn't the same apply to "lesbian"?
June 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user sheally
spam
June 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word every potential wordie list is an existing wordie list
And here.
June 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list mollusque-s-miscellany
I want my BANANA back.
June 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word majuscle
I think the proper spelling is majuscule, isn't it?
See also banana majuscule inferno.
June 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word mobile
June 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word negrofy
Then what does telofy mean?
June 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word facepalm
*facepalm*
June 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Larry Potter
*covers ears*
June 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word FML
See Urban Dictionary.
June 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word FML
MTA to Change ‘FML’ Signs
June 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user steavmark5
Spam.
June 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
The Twitter button still (again?) doesn't work for words with spaces (the space is not converted to %20).
June 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word the naked man
Just watched this episode, pleth. :)
June 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list b-your-mission--find-thetraps-b
See also...
It's a trap
and...
Various Traps.
every potential wordie list is an existing wordie list (but this doesn't make this list less interesting)
June 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user andrewshar
Spam.
June 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word where is my milk from
Yeah, where?
(via reesetee, someweb else)
June 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ruzuzu
How about working together on a Sufjan Stevens list? (After Monday!)
June 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word revenant
(Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL, by Sufjan Stevens)
June 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word how to hide the like button
You must not be on facebook then; we *love* the hide button.
June 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word how to hide the like button
It works for me (and apparently RT). If you open ABP's preferences again, can you see facebook.com/plugins/like.php in the section "My Ad Blocking Rules"? And is it selected?
Also, if you go to "open blockable items", can you see
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?api_key etc.?
June 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word how to hide the like button
I enjoyed "liking" this page before activating the block, so that it could appear on my facebook contacts' newsfeed.
June 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word how to hide the like button
How to block/remove/hide facebook's "Like" button with AdBlock Plus
1) Go to ABP's "Preferences"
2) "Add filter"
3) Type facebook.com/plugins/like.php
4) Save everything
5) Ta-Dah!
June 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Your "Your scene" post is a picture of Camera Obscura - I was at their concert two days ago!
June 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Camera Obscura on Obituary Typo? Is it just a coincidence?
June 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Jbeqavx
I spend a lot of time on the Mrvgtrvfg page.
June 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list past-past-tense
How about gift/gifted?
June 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word trichophagia
Allotrichophagic? Or just weirdo?
June 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user rosariorush
Spam
June 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user camdrollins
Spam.
June 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list how-i-met-your-mother--now-a-major-wordnik-list
Thanks! I think question marks still don't work. If you re-add it without it, you'll have a surprise.
June 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list how-i-met-your-mother--now-a-major-wordnik-list
Open list. Please contribute!
June 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I have a Hootsuite bookmarklet so it doesn't change much for me. Maybe that's a silly question, but why don't you just integrate a bookmarklet like this one (or a different one that redirects to Twitter)?
June 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fantastiliardo
Done.
June 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user hernesheir
Thanks for the nice thought, HH. I'm nothing but tired, right now. Can't wait to be done with it.
June 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word metajoke
HA!
June 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
What happened to the Twitter button?
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word French Open
Schiavone! :-P
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word French Open
Aka Roland Garros.
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fantastiliardo
(not now, my S.O. thinks I'm studying)
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word life
Eight steps.
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
prolagus would like to be Prolagus again. (If it's easy to do, otherwise I can wait.)
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word coalescence
I can barely USE coalescent methods (ABC). Explaining them could be a little too much to ask. :)
(I could try, but not 10 days before my comprehensive exam.)
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fantastiliardo
As already explained here...
In Italy, fantastiliardo is commonly used and featured in dictionaries. The interesting part is that the word was created in the 1960's by Italian Disney comic strip artist Gian Giacomo Dalmasso as the order of magnitude of Scrooge McDuck's wealth (30 fantastiliardi = $3*10^81).
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
In Italy, fantastiliardo is commonly used and featured in dictionaries. The interesting part is that the word was created in the 1960's by Italian Disney comic strip artist Gian Giacomo Dalmasso as the order of magnitude of Scrooge McDuck's wealth (30 fantastiliardi = $3*10^81).
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word concatenation
A phylogenetic method based on combining different genes into a single super-matrix, and analyzing this matrix forcing all genes to conform to the same topology.
(Which is bad.)
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fawaffle
I don't have a waffle iron. Do you think I can make fa'ncakes?
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word my boobs aren't perky
chained, are they perky in English?
June 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word my boobs aren't perky
Vivace is singular. I guess the translator has some trouble matching the case of two parts of speech that are too far from each other.
June 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word matinée
(A down and dusky blonde, by God Help the Girl)
June 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word my boobs aren't perky
Le mie tette non sono vivaci. :(
June 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word editing
When not to edit.
June 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pennono
It's actually pennone.
June 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cannellono
Incorrect singular of cannelloni. The right one is cannellone.
June 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
:-(
June 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user patrickdanica92
Yes, yes. Spam.
June 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bottled water
Start a lie about the bottled water industry. (If they can lie, so can you.)
June 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user john
Gotcha!
June 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list park
If you make this list open, we'll be glad to help.
June 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tifo
Indeed. Tifo simply means support (for a team/athlete).
June 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user john
Thanks! I compared other entries with pictures and noticed the CC difference. I changed it over 1 hour ago, we'll see.
June 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Can you think of any reason why my craudestopper photo doesn't show up on your Flickr box for that word?
June 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word benjamins
Why clothing? Couldn't it just be the plant?
June 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word calcestruzzo
*Snort*
May 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word firefox add-ons
Is there an add-on that automatically changes words on a web page? I'd like to change the "XYZ likes" thingy on facebook back to "XYZ became a fan of" so that I don't accidentally "like" stupid things by mistakes. (See trolleme)
May 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word recordman
Interesting! I didn't know this "English" word doesn't actually exist in English, but only in Italian, French, Spanish etc.
(See examples)
May 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word trolleme
A troll meme, i.e. one that spreads against the spreader's will.
An example can be seen right now on facebook, with people involuntarily "liking" The man with the biggest d**k on Earth by following a link that shows the guy's face.
Seen here (the word trolleme, not the lucky guy).
(Edit: I'm not 100% sure that this is what the word trolleme meant in the guy's tweet, since it's in Turkish; but we need such a word, don't we?)
May 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
Hee hee! At least he was a spammer with a sense of humor.
May 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user forexgurus
SPAM.
May 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Manhattanhenge
Tonight! (See manhattanhenge.)
May 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word spoonerism
Spoonerism.
May 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word drab-looking
Can anyone help me understand the American Heritage Dictionary definition?
May 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user flac
HI FLAC WELCOME TO WORDNIK HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME HERE JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT IF YOU LIST YOUR WORDS ALL CAPS PEOPLE WON'T BE ABLE TO FIND THEM FROM OTHER LISTS
May 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user shaneovens
Spam pizza? Ugh.
May 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word iPad
But pronounced differently. (Cf. pronunciations)
May 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word CRUD
I write Italian acronyms all caps. It's recent (newspaper*) policy to write them like this -> Dna or even dna
but I personally find that awfully ugly.
*I had an email exchange with an Italian language expert about that, a while ago. He replied
io mi adeguo quando posso all'uso non solo giornalistico di usare solo la maiuscola per gli acronimi e le altre sigle che per la frequenza del loro impiego sono ormai assimilabili ai sostantivi. Le tutte maiuscole fanno un brutto effetto grafico: non sono meglio Consob, Psi, Ds, Telecom di CONSOB, PSI, DS, TELECOM?
I replied
No.
May 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tubicide
Pipe-breaking.
May 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word 0888 888 888
Cursed phone number that killed 3 gets BANNED (Source: DVICE)
May 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list lost-for-word
If it has no name, I suggest that we take one of whichbe's "Words of the future" (Part 1, Part 2) and start using it.
May 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list lost-for-word
That's what this list is for: let's help ruzuzu find out what she wanted to ask.
Also: next time you can't remember what this list is called, just come here and ask.
May 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word mouche
An American was sitting in a Paris cafe eating soup when a fly dropped into her bowl. “There's un mouche in my soup!” she exclaimed. A nearby waiter corrected her. “Non, Madame. Une mouche.” The American replied, “Wow, you French have good eyes!”
Read here.
May 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word position your head for maximum shine!
Cf. somewhere on this page.
May 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
August 21st*, National Honey Bee Awareness Day.
*Put some honey on your spumoni!
May 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tagliulini
Hm, never heard before. Sounds like dialect to me as well.
May 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user ashjoe
Benefit of the doubt...
May 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user guitarinstructions
SPAM
May 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user travelpackage12
SPAM.
May 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user sasha43
SPAM
May 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user emrykhl976
SPAM.
May 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
Today is Towel Day. Don't forget your towel!
May 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ق
:) シ ツ ت
May 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word monotypy
I have a more immediate example in mind. And in front of my mirror. :)
May 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pfennig
~Albert Einstein
May 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word geoluhread
"Yellow-red" - what orange (the color) was called before oranges (the fruit) arrived to Europe.
May 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word rural
You're not alone.
May 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ت
ツ indeed
May 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ape
In Italian, this word means bee.
May 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list boys
I always have keys. Lots of keys.
May 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jocoserious
"John McGrath and 3 others like this."
More exactly: A lot of people like this, only some don't really love having links to their facebook profile all around the web.
May 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word postie
Forget dogs, letterboxes now danger for posties.
May 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
It's a very formal and strange-sounding term for "re-assigning to the demanio" (link). I don't know what decommissioning means, but it sounds more like something involving the end of service - which is not what demaniazione would involve.
May 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user princesscotto
Yes, sure.
May 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ⚜
Is there any award for the best use of the word craudestopper?
May 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Coffee? Reesetee? Me?
May 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word coalitionary
Quite interestingly, a google search shows that this word is mostly used in scientific publications, and in particular in primate behavioral ecology.
May 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word edible jewelry
Here it is. (And enjoy the whole website!)
May 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
What does the "like" button do? And is it related to facebook? And why does it look creepy? And why can't I "unlike"?
May 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word elope
Song quotation on ablaze.
May 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word far west
See conversation here.
May 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user john
When did you become an egg? Seen here.
May 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list unusual-words-for-words-with-friends
But of course it won't accept illude.
May 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word any furniture which just happens to have appropriate drawers for CD or DVD collections
Like those fake apothecary cabinets...
May 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list horror-movies-in-which-lab-animals-go-nuts
Thank you for your help, wordies, the presentation is ready and I used one of the suggestions. I wish I could find a way of showing it to you!
May 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tahini queenie
If there is one, it's hernesheir's.
May 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Shite Mega-Megahit
For more info on trashed hotel rooms, see almost Solveig.
May 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word hamburger
Conflict of interests?
May 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word tag
Any picture, moll?
May 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list horror-movies-in-which-lab-animals-go-nuts
Oh, yes, sure!
May 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word five comments rule
hmmm.
May 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list towns-with-sizeable-albino-squirrel-populations
First time I read skipvia's comment. If I encountered one of those albino squirrels, I would certainly do whatever it told me to do.
May 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Me
Were you looking for me?
May 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list horror-movies-in-which-lab-animals-go-nuts
I never watch horror movies, so I can't add anything to this list. But I have a presentation next Monday, and I'd like to use pictures of such movies, so if you feel like helping...
May 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Sassarese
Youtube viral for elections in Sassari, my hometown: a political ad in Sassarese, with English subtitles.
(See eggplant for more examples of Sassarese dialect)
May 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Happy... Cinco de Mayo!
(I know this holiday is very important for you.)
May 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word vaw
(Still) apparently, an alternative spelling of vav.
May 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word vaw
Apparently, a legitimate Scrabble word. But what does it mean?
May 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word vegemite virgin
frog, have you watched the marmoset song video?
May 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word fufluns
A typical Wordnik meeting.
May 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list one-person-s-holiday-is-another-s
Today, National Postcard Week starts. Yay!
May 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word boffin
(I just want your jeans, by God Help the Girl)
May 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
I *have* that history of art T-shirt!
April 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word VGL
"Very Good Looking".
April 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Aww, frog.
April 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word traduce
Rolig: Can't believe I just saw this. It's tradurre è un po' tradire (to translate is a bit like to betray).
April 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user john
Thanks! Especially for letting me know - I haven't spent much time here lately... Blame it on Approximate Bayesian Computation.
Edit: the first random word is bipont. I'm impressed.
April 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user focalist
Hi,
It might be worth telling you that Wordnik creates pages for every sequence of letters you look up, regardless of their validity as "real words". This means that you will "find" all kind of misspellings (mispelings, mizpellings, mspellings, msplngs...)
April 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word theselves
Misspelling of these elves.
April 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Since Wordie became Wordnik, I stopped using the random word feature, since it almost always shows me unremarkable stuff. Could you change it to, say, words that have been looked up at least twice before?
April 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
The alternative spelling suggestions on Hendrie et al 2009 Behaviour are a little strange.
April 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Hendrie et al 2009 Behaviour
Hendrie, CA et al. (2009), "Evidence to suggest that nightclubs function as human sexual display grounds." Behaviour 146(10):1331-1348.
April 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Rauchen kann zu Durchblutungsstörungen führen und verursacht Impotenz
Doesn't telofy have a German pronunciation wish list?
April 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word take our survey
Thou shalt not freak.
April 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jean dimmock
Zeitgeist?
April 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Eyjafjallajökull
frog, I just pronounced a few. I think Cuccuruddu is quite interesting (at least for mollusque).
April 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word midge
Song quotation on beguiling.
April 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Eyjafjallajökull
Eyjafjallajökull - You're doing it wrong!
April 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word polyethism
"Functional specialization in different members of a colony of social insects, which leads to a division of labour within the colony. The various functions may be carried out by individuals of different morphology (caste polyethism) or of different ages (age polyethism)."
(MICHAEL ALLABY. "polyethism." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Retrieved April 19, 2010 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-polyethism.html)
April 19, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word alkenkengi
I think it's alkekengi.
April 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word stool softener
See picture.
April 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frindley
I traded it with my lowercaseness, apparently. :-(
April 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word polygyny
In zoology, polygyny also refers to ant colonies with multiple queens. Interestingly, the adjective form can be any of the following:
- polygyne
- polygynous
- polygynic
April 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word residustrial
"A neighborhood having both residential and industrial structures", according to Merriam-Webster.com user submissions.
April 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user businesswings
Mind your own.
April 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word friendly period
I miss frindley. Period.
April 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word stot
The default dictionary in Microsoft Office does not recognize this as a correct English word.
April 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word friendly period
No, I’m talking about a period that says, “That sentence, the one right before me, is as affable as they come. That sentence, in fact, wants to buy you a beer.”
"The Friendly Period.", by courtenayhameister
April 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word xylophagy
And by Cerambycidae larvae.
April 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list compounds-that-look-freakish
I agree about peahen.
April 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
When I try to access the page for < 3* from a list it is in, I end up on < instead.
*(Without a space - but it's not showing up on this page unless I add the space.)
April 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word TA
Wordnik asks Were you looking for ta?
No, ta.
April 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word TA
"Teaching Assistant". Commonly used as a verb by graduate students: "I'll be TAing* Bio 101 this summer".
April 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user mcclain416
Hi, I'm Paolo, and now you can leave.
April 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word <3
*3, 2, 1, 0, 7, 6, 5, 4, 9, 8, 40, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 19, 17, 18, 15, 16, 13, 14, 11, 12, 21, 20, 10, 80, 70, 60, 50, 90, 7/24, 100, 500, 1000, and 24/7's ruzuzu*
April 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word brontosaurus
(Is it really brontosauruses? Not brontosauri?)
April 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word lonely
"Da" literally means "from", but in this case it's more like "by" in "all by myself".
April 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cnidophorous
*snort* Milos!
April 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word every potential wordie list is an existing wordie list
And here (but read holey moley guacamole first).
April 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word lonely
I can see a difference between alone (being by yourself) and lonely (feeling far from those you love, or not having anyone). In Italian, I would use solo for the former and da solo for the latter.
April 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word gattamorta
See gatta morta.
April 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word gatta morta
Also spelled gattamorta; lit "dead pussycat". A person (usually, but not always, a woman) that appears peaceful and quiet, but really is deceitful and an intriguer.
April 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word servantless
(From the movie Julie and Julia)April 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word appucious
"I spent five days searching for the word to describe the husband... and came up with appucious."
"Appucious. I couldn't find it in the dictionary.
"I made it up."
"Oh, really?"
"Yeah, it described it perfectly."
April 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word that that
But which that, bilby?
April 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word appucious
I watched Woody Allen's "Husbands and wives" tonight.
April 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list vowels-only--and-i-mean--only
See also eu oi oìa u ou e u oìa.
April 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word green-beard effect
In biology, the presence of an allele that is linked to both a trait and the capacity to recognize (and favor) those individuals carrying it.
April 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word armpit effect
In biology, a discrimination between kin and non-kin based on comparison between one's own phenotypic traits and the other's.
April 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Telofy
My links work too...
April 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word zuzuniknik
You won't be surprised to find out he's a dear friend of chad's.
April 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word SuBo
"Susan Boyle" in Tabloidese.
April 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
No, wait! I saw the street on Google maps. It could be senza uscita.
April 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
I'm pretty sure it's senso unico.
April 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
Can you send me the complete phrase?
April 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word will it blend
I can't believe it wasn't listed!
April 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy
For those of you that know what Twitter is, check out #hybridbands hashtag.
April 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Although I understand the logic behind the new commands (add to favorites, etc.), am I the only one that finds them a little... rudimentary?
PS Twitter links are still borked for entries with spaces.
April 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list occupations-grouped-together-with-chicken-sexer-by-careers-org
I love this list!
April 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word douchebag
www.wouldanyonewritesomethinginsteadofjustaddinglinks.net
April 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jacob's ladder
See also craudestopper.
April 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Globish
Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium
April 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user yogiman
and tell him every day.
April 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word runcation
A truncated truncation.
April 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word lol
Really? This is both awesome and gay at the same time!
April 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user anmon78
Do you happen to know user antti78? He says he's a CEO, but I suspect he's a spammer.
April 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word magari
Pronunciation #1 is plain.
Pronunciation #2 is "magari" as in "perhaps".
Pronunciation #3 is "magari" as in "yeah, right".
April 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word lol
I heard Italian teenagers say lollissimo ("very lol"). They win.
April 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Boots
Song quotation on pry.
April 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word spqr
Also known as "Sono Pazzi Questi Romani" (these Romans are nuts).
March 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word stickle
(Can I say that?)
March 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word piggy back seat
This one.
(A "perfect sweet tooth fairy"?)
March 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Lombrozo 2009 Evo Edu Outreach
Lombrozo T (2009), "Why Why Darwin matters matters". Evo Edu Outreach 2:141–143.
March 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
The artist is Brett Weber.
March 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Beach 1950 Am Psych
Beach FA (1950), The Snark was a Boojum. American Psychologist 5: 115-124.
March 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
Found it - it's an alternative spelling of mugherino, a term used for both the "Arabian jasmine" (Jasminum sambac) and (according to Wikipedia) the lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis).
Are you in Italy?!
March 31, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
Never! But I think it's a flower.
March 30, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
You should ask Dear Abby...
March 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
...and perhaps I will be majusculed again by then.
March 29, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list japanese--3
もしもし!
March 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word hikikomori
引き籠もり (since sarra's entry looks broken).
March 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word nulla nulla
Sounds like nothing to me.
March 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
I wish I could spend more time with you guys. :( Maybe after my midterm...
March 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Silvio Berlusconi?
March 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word bippy
The list mollusque's link should redirect to.
March 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word your mother
See bippy.
March 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user 케발컨
Nice username. See also ln÷oæΣï.
March 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
No definitions available. Check full-sized Wordnik.com for more about penis enlargement.
March 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word homosexuality
Oh I know, I wasn't complaining! Still more acceptable than the average YouTube comment.
March 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word homosexuality
Interesting "Century Dictionary" definition.
March 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user zvz
Where did you find that definition? Here on Wordnik?
In that case, Wordnik is not a dictionary - it uses dictionaries.
Cf. the Century Dictionary's definition for homosexuality.
March 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word mimsy
Definition (Century Dictionary):
...What's a bruneh-word?
March 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word capunti
Known as cavatelli in Italy.
March 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Winchester Mystery House
What's with that crotch view on the main page?
March 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word cotechino
Especially for meat. And risotto. And some desserts.
March 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user carpas
We do!
March 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user reclabox
ZAP!
March 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Pi Day
But please keep twirling your mustache.
March 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Pi Day
But every night you can celebrate Pi time!
March 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word snake
I like this version. :)
March 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
OOF! I know, I know.
March 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word features
If you google site:wordnik.com inurl:lists inurl:whatever, you can find all lists that have "whatever" in their title.
site:wordnik.com inurl:lists schadenfreude will find all lists that have the word "schadenfreude" somewhere on the page.
March 18, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word █████
That's American English.
March 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list •-m-a-r-g-a-r-i-n-e
Fascinating!
March 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list •-m-a-r-g-a-r-i-n-e
What the hell is that?!
March 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word napsicle
I can't really remember if I liked it, but I've been thinking about this word since then.
March 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word first cars
FIAT 126 Bis, gray. (The first car I used to drive. I never owned a car.)
March 17, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user virtualsecretary4
Virtualizzami le palle.
March 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word chidren
Plural of chid.
March 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word █████
Plural of ████.
March 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pilish
See Pi Day.
March 16, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pie
Quite surprisingly, the Wikipedia article for pie is semi-protected.
March 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Pi Day
Was it a round pie?
March 15, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word amomaxia
See also catapiptocorophilia (arousal for women wearing parachutes).
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word situacion
Why?
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list names-of-world-leaders-and-famous-individuals-that-cause-happieness-in-the-saying
I think these entries should all be pronounced.
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I hate to bug you all but many of my last reports were unanswered (I don't mean "not fixed", more like "lost on this page").
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word grismal
All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word █████
Thanks yous, gangerh! I think the black version sounds more like "█████".
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word iroquoisy
Reesetee's profile (comment on "The Birds").
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user reesetee
Uh. My S.O. is in Bodega Bay right now. How iroquoisy.
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word amomaxia
Well spotted for the amo part; but I'm not sure about μάχη, because it would be amomachia (χ → ch).
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word amomaxia
No idea, but some web sources say that the name Amos means "carried" (in Hebrew); the word μίξις (mixis) is used in biology for "mating", so perhaps who invented it had in mind something like "amomixia".
March 14, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user unholygilbert
Welcome! Please rub your shoes on the balcony before getting in.
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word smart aleck
A clever Dick.
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word smart alec
Cf. smart aleck.
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word clever clogs
A smart alec.
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word clever Dick
A clever clogs.
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Chicanery
Wait, what do you mean? The definition is on chicanery. There's a comment (mine!) on chicanery. The capitalized word issue is known to The Big Guys Above, and they promised they will fix it at some time between yesterday morning and the Armageddon.
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user asadku
And a spammer, apparently.
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word uccidere berlusconi
Lit "Killing Berlusconi".
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Every day, I fall more and more in love with your blog. I especially like the category "tools of the trade".
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Forehead Tittaes
"Make them almost look you in the eyes."
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Dario Baldan Bembo
Italian singer.
March 13, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word you're something of a hotdog, aren't you
Why? It's so nice!
March 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user kewpid
Just in time to pronounce you're something of a hotdog, aren't you. :-)
March 12, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word binary
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March 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word helvetica
Helvetica Bold Oblique Sweeps Fontys
March 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list hottest-guys-names
Remember that some displays are dishonest signals.
March 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Sand-Jensen 2007 Oikos
Sand-Jensen K (2007), How to write consistently boring scientific literature. Oikos 116(5): 723-727. doi: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.15674.x
March 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list hottest-guys-names
There could be if instead of the dash it had an underscore, possibly.
March 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list hottest-guys-names
Paolo.
March 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word idiotarian
You are hairy? You don't look hairy in your profile text.
March 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
How are they, yarb?
March 11, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user dontcry
There is probably nothing that I can say to be of any support.
But I thought I would share this phrase I read once*:
"I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me."
I think this is also the reason why you will, one day, be able to stop crying: he will never be gone inside you.
*It's a comic strip, although not a funny one. You can read it here if you want.
March 10, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Links to comments for words on the Zeitgeist page don't lead to the /comments page anymore.
Edit: fixed. Now I'm having some trouble with links to profile pages.
March 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word I'm to hairy
as...
March 9, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list things-that-were-hidden-by-the-snow
"Things that were hidden by snow". Sounds like a Flickr set. :-)
March 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word miley
Oh, no.
March 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user philwhittaker
Hi! You should add your comment to zoogler so people can find it!
March 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word epitaph
(Piazza, New York catcher, by Belle and Sebastian)
March 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
Now that you mentioned it, ruzuzu, we have dwarf bananas in Sardinia, too. I think they taste pretty much like "regular" ones, maybe a little better - but again, they grow them in Sardinia so I might just be because they pick them a little later.
March 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word make up your mind day
I sense an earworm emerge.
March 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word national bologna day
So it's not about oro di Bologna?
March 7, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word festival of enormous changes at the last minute
We organized the greatest party for this holiday, it was amazing!
But we canceled it.
March 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word napsicle
I had a dream a few weeks ago, perhaps the first dream in English I have ever had. I dreamt I was eating a napsicle, which in my dream was a nacho-flavored popsicle.
March 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word yubari melon kitkat
It could also be one of the new My Little Phonies.
Or a constellation.
March 6, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user wellness
Boring spam.
March 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word never put your banana in the refrigerator
I don't think I have ever tasted a non-Cavendish banana. :-(
March 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list things-that-might-glow-in-the-dark
Bilby, visit this page and find the "My husband told me" question.
March 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list oh--google--youre-so-droll
See also Things the world is concerned about, according to Google.
March 5, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word National Grammar Day
I'm not sure I'm following you, qro.
March 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list movies-ive-seen--2
You should rent some!
March 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word holy mackerel
This one.
March 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user esther
See flibbertigibbet.
March 4, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word troll
March 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
Loved your pronunciation on jean dimmock.
March 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Schmidt Sting Pain Index
The Schmidt Sting Pain Index or the Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different Hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center. Schmidt has published a number of papers on the subject and claims to have been stung by the majority of stinging Hymenoptera.
(Source: Wikipedia article)
March 3, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word wordle
The bug page.
March 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word wordle
The Feedback page.
March 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word peckhamian mimicry
Aggressive mimicry (Wikipedia).
March 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word peckhamian mimicry
*snort*
gangerh, did you see the image?
March 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jean dimmock
peckhamian mimicry?
March 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jean dimmock
Philly steak?
March 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Any chance to have my name uppercased again?
March 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ospite
This sounds just great! Except that I'm in NYC until July.
March 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word ospite
Would you be my ospite, bilby?
March 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word maid
We need a name (and a list) for this particular kind of "fake false friend", where a foreign word that looks like an English one has a different etymology and is not a translation, but a somewhat related meaning.
(Can anyone think of more words like that?)
March 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list if-christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned
john - I have an idea, too, but I will resist this temptation.
March 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list potential-band-names
I am now reading an article about landscapes of fear in goats, and it reminded me of this list.
March 1, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jean dimmock
louver.
February 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user qroqqa
Would you pronounce your username?
February 28, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word balcony falconry
See frogapplause's comment on self-brainstorming.
February 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
Will the comments on tag pages be back one day?
February 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word James Reyne
PossibleUnderscore thinks this song is about you.
February 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
"Tweet it" links still don't work for entries with spaces.
February 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word David Geffen
You probably didn't think that song was about you, did you? Did you? Did you?
Well...
February 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word You probably think this song is about you
This is so, so sad. I feel responsible for this - I put too much pressure on her.
February 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list linnaean-lexicon
Is this list limited to scientific names coined by Linnaeus?
February 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word crypsis
A word way more cryptic than cryptic (its adjective form).
February 27, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list if-christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned
This reminds me of Orson Scott Card's "Seventh Son": the main character's twin brothers are Wastenot and Wantnot.
February 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
You may try to type "frogapplause" as your first name.
February 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user frogapplause
Removing your name, or changing it to frogapplause, will do.
Oh, I see you did it.
February 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pronunciation
Re: melalice's question on her profile (which is not public): under each word, there's a "pronunciations" link to the pronunciation page. For most dictionary words there's also a pronunciation on each word's main page (right column).
February 26, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user agile1234
I think you mean scum.
February 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pageable
(It's the answer to bilby's question on the Feedback page:
"Is pageable techspeak?")
February 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word spermatic
(O)dor very characteristic, not strong, but very penetrating, spermatic for an instant when the context is first exposed, but immediately becoming quite complex, predominantly a mixture of raphanoid and resinous with a trace of acetic acid, having a very decided pungency which quickly produces a tingling sensation in the back of the throat".
Wow.
February 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word erotohistoriography
Historicizing erotohistoriography.
February 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list words-of-the-times
succès de scandale.
February 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word succès de scandale
Using well-integrated archival material and assorted newer interviews, Mr. Gandini — who also serves as the narrator — opens his story with a wacky blast from Italy’s cathode-ray past: a television call-in quiz show that featured masked women stripping whenever a contestant has a correct answer. According to Mr. Gandini, the show was a succès de scandale because factory workers were staying up late to watch it. (Though unmentioned, the show emerged around the same time that Italy was being rocked by assaults by the Red Brigades, a homegrown militant group that in 1978 kidnapped and assassinated a former prime minister, Aldo Moro.) From this humble start Mr. Berlusconi found a television template for success: the fewer clothes women wore, the more power he accrued.
("Prime Minister, Primo Mogul", by Manohla Dargis. The New York Times, February 12, 2010.)
February 25, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word smartwords
Is it something like your words, literally?
February 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Sandvik and Baerheim 1994 Tidsskr Norsk Løgefor
What if one believes in vampires, but not in leeches?
February 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word jean dimmock
schleppable?
February 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Lozier et al 2009 J Biogeogr
Lozier JD, Aniello P, Hickerson MJ (2009), Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America: anything goes with ecological niche modelling. Journal of Biogeography 36, 1623–1627.
One of the authors is a professor of mine. Make sure you read the acknowledgement paragraph.
February 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
How can I be "the first person to look up" heterostrophy if someone has tagged it and commented on it 29 minutes ago?
February 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user feedback
I'm still experiencing the sensitivo bug I reported 8 day ago (a word I add to a list doesn't show which list it's in on the word page). This time it's self-brainstorming.
February 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word self-brainstorming
Everybody: aww, thanks.
February 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word self-brainstorming
Bilby: I had to Google "cone of silence". Unfortunately, I did it during class.
February 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Sandvik and Baerheim 1994 Tidsskr Norsk Løgefor
Sandvik H, Baerheim A. (1994), Does garlic protect against vampires? An experimental study. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 114(30):3583-6.
February 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list hard-to-use
I know what it feels like :(
But I tell you, my English has improved a lot since I joined Wordie/Wordnik.
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word self-brainstorming
frogapplause, I never forget a great list.
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word self-brainstorming
Oh, that list!
*visits page*
*laughs as usual*
*shows list to S.O. who doesn't understand*
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word self-brainstorming
At this phase, an open website may not be the best place to talk about it :)
Let's say something that deals with the wildlife that lives in this city. I still have to decide whether it is going to be more ecology or more genetics, and which species, and how many species, and...
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word self-brainstorming
That's what I've been doing every month since I started my PhD program, to decide what to do as my main project. :(
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word chirurgie
Spelled chirurgia in Italian.
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word azygous
You're not a Weißesockenträger, are you?
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word wait on
Really? These New Yorkers are selling me the wrong stuff?!
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list starts-with-a-silent-letter
Nice! I think there's also a somewhat similar list by sionnach: Silence is golden.
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word pithiatic
"(Something) whose symptoms are due to to suggestion/hypnosis".
Its etymology is peithein = to persuade. Word coined in 1901 by neurologist Babinski.
February 23, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user dorak
Hi!
In Italian, pitiatico means "(something) whose symptoms are due to to suggestion/hypnosis".
Its etymology is peithein = to persuade. Word coined in 1901 by neurologist Babinski.
February 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list my-kitchen-cabinets
Nice! I love it.
By the way, is it open so that we can add the strange things we find in your kitchen? In that case, I haven't received an invitation yet. :)
February 22, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word Cf.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf.
February 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user Prolagus
I would explain everything, including the meaning of life, but your account is now set up as private.
One suggestion for the future: OpenOffice.org has a "Writer" application, compatible with all operating systems. People can make nice bulleted and numbered lists there, with the huge advantage that no buggers can read or add anything unless you want.
February 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user tiara
Cf. why do you hate freedom.
February 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the user bilby
*hands bilby sentiment*
February 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word coitus
I think mekman's referring to the Twitter icons.
February 21, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list random--6
See jean dimmock.
February 20, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word aye aye
As far as I know, "echolocation" in this case may be a bit of a stretch. But their hunting technique (they eat larvae they find in tree holes) is indeed quite impressive! I think there's an Attenborough documentary clip somewhere on YouTube (I'm typing from my phone at the moment).
February 20, 2010
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