About a year ago you asked whether or not to equip Wordie with a private messaging system. Personally I'm in favor of such an enhancement and I'm unable to infer a nay from the replies you got back then, so is something of that sort coming up?
Wow, other people need drugs to think of such things as you construct here; and I guess I would need some to fathom them (antecedent at your discretion). It's always thrilling when I can nevertheless make sense of things here often remind me of thoughts I once had yet still can't quite remember. Perhaps it's all due to change.
As I don't know your timezone, sleep well, whenever.
A friend has pointed out a problem with this list. There is a song called 99 Bottles of Beer which could easily be exploited to add any number of prime numbers to this list as there is a version of this song which is based upon an ever increasing sequence of numbers. That could definitely spoil th fun...
Perhaps you should restrict this list to prime numbers in songs with static lyrics or something such as that.
Ok, here comes my version, only with reversed causality:
Watchan is a program designed to watch 4chan (and other imageboards but I think they aren't yet included in the configuration) and the next sentence is false. The previous sentence is true so I haven't said anything and thus didn't break rules 1 and 2, right? Hmm, I think I have to note this paradox down in formalized notation to understand what I've just asserted... ^^
Hey, thanks, it's the name I gave a program of mine, but I won't spoil the game by elaborating on the origin of the term. ^^
(Unless someone wants me to.)
It has the tendency to crash after some time for the threads are not properly synchronized, but currently I don't have the time and motivation to continue that project...
That "ciao" is "a statement acknowledging something or someone" does not necessarily mean that any statement acknowledging something or someone is a ciao. Only for bijective relations both such statements would be true, respectively, it would be a bijective relation if both statements were true.
I think that perhaps bneenan84 is distinguishing between an objective and a subjective reality, so that when (s)he says "this website" (s)he's acknowledging its existence within this subjective reality while its existence in the objective reality remains doubtful. "I believe this website does not exist" would then either mean that the objective existence of a subjectively perceived website is doubted or simply that (s)he would believe "such a website" to be inexistent within whichever reality, referring to some kind of perhaps unlikely notion.
Please excuse possible inaccuracies, I'm currently in a lecture.
The expression found me while I was watching The Big Bang Theory, but the writers intended it to be obscure:
"Stay low. Bear left. Now keep true."
"What?"
"It means 'go straight'."
"Can't you just say 'go straight'..."
"You don't say 'go straight' when you give bearings, you say 'keep true'."
Concerning "thesaurus": At first I couldn't decide between "to thesaurus" and "to thesaurus up", but in the end I concluded that the latter sounds to deliberately run-of-the-mill.
Empirical: Great, and even one of the words I didn't thesaurus.
I can't imagine how I survived the years before I knew "empirical" resp. "empirisch". ^^
Under "true", there are a few promising entries in a couple of dictionaries I just checked (I have to connect to a VPN to access the OED):
"Determined with reference to the earth's axis, not the magnetic poles: true north." -- Heritage
"i. Of bearings: measured relative to true North." -- OED
And Heritage also avers that "true" and "tree" are related, and with the exception of the crooked and the gnarled ones, those are quite straight as well. ;-)
I'm not sure I know what you mean by idyllic hope but it sounds like something that would soon succumb to subfusc and probably ungrounded worries and anxieties accompanied by selectively over-interpreted empirical data. At least it's not always that way, so I always have to consoling knowledge that it is mainly just my subconscious filtering my perception in a somewhat unpropitious (inauspicious, unfavorable) way...
I hope you mean Schiller. Of course I'm not to doubt that it is the zenith of aptness.
I was only wondering about my "bid ... welcome" sentence. I never used that before for I just discovered that bid bit on dict.cc.
On a different note, I still regard my self as quite young, yet I worry that with time my hopes and dreams will crumble down to a desperate heap of resignation. The last time a few days ago, while being absent-minded during a lecture...
I'm honoured by your considerateness, quoting such a significant poet from my native country and I'm thus trying to convey my gratitude by employing your British orthography. ;-)
It seems you are on Wordie for about a week now, so let me bid you slightly delayed welcome.
I heard that "keep true" means as much as "go straight" when giving directions. Can anyone confirm that or back it up with a dictionary entry or something? Thanks.
I've had several discussions with friends about "^^". The point at issue is whether or not it ought to be separated from the text by a whitespace. Here some examples:
Intuitively I used the space at first, but then I observed many other people omitting it and asked them which usage they deem correct. Until recently the outcome of my informal survey remained largely to the disfavor of the whitespace, but now I notice an increasing number of instances of deliberate use of the separating space.
Smilies are usually separated from the text, while punctuation marks are not. Personally I'm inclined to assign "^^" to the category of smilies, hence my initial use of whitespaces, but lacking solid arguments for my position I yielded to the seeming majority who omitted them.
Now I don't know anymore what to do or believe, please help!
They usually have a decent virus and spyware collection I guess. Unless they run Linux. But to configure this socks proxy you only need the browser and the OpenSSH client.
Googling for "brennah kelsey taylor bonnie trevor lauren charlie" you get links to the Atholton High School. Or did they already mention the name of their school?
About the censoring at school: Simply run a ssh-server at home and then, when you are at school, just configure your browser to use it as a socks proxy. Not only will the censoring be ineffective, your connection will even be encrypted. In case you have a dynamic IP, simply use dyndns.com. That's how we did it back then in the good old days. Good luck.
Now that the election is nearly over, could you also optimize the css in a way that it looks decent on different resolutions? On xga the font is huge hence I've changed quite a lot with stylish. Thanks!
Well, I know Colbert Report, yet I've no clue for what kind of German exam this would be useful. Anyway, when you know the other one really good, like a good friend or something, or when he/she is a child, you would say "Wieso hasst du Freiheit?" or "Warum hasst du Freiheit?", when you are taking to someone in any more formal context, the "du" is to be replaced by "Sie".
Perhaps someone can add the IPA pronunciation, I'm not yet fit in writing IPA.
Hi, to screen my Grandiloquent Dictionary list for misspellings I wrote a script that searches each word's page for "misspell". When running the word through OED I had to decide whether or not I wanted to count these alternative spellings as misspelling. I decided in favor of that approach for in the OED page of these words, they are indicated thus: "query_type=misspelling". So I don't necessarily see misspelling and variant spelling as contradictory. What do you think?
"It the present perfect always implies a strong connexion with the present and is chiefly used in conversations, letters, newspapers, and wireless reports." -- Thomson & Martinet, A Practical English Grammar (fifth impression, 1972)
"Gunnie had been loyal to me and to Urth, not to her comrades; and perhaps we are unable to advance some paragon of loyalty to an apothegm only because loyalty (in the final analysis) is choice." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
I put html comment signs around the list name. It's just a temporary collection no one should be irritated by scrolling my lists. Oh, right, we need private lists. :-)
(And perhaps there should be a bit tighter restrictions for using html.)
I guess (ought I put some word here?) meeting them personally they'd turn out completely nice dudes (or she-dudes). Oh well, this world is quite confusing.^^
I use to enjoy reading through all those wonderful wikipedia articles about mental disorders. It's always soothing to know there are names for my problems. ;-)
Seconded. Whedon for president (or Bundeskanzler)!
But are dialogs usually that witty and snappy in Californian High School libraries and Magick Shops? Scares me... Our colder weather must render us totally dull around here then.
Yes, thanks, I like it, too, but as long as I'm not suddenly turned into a woman, I don't actually need the term homosexual that frequently. Besides, also in informal German speech it would sound spicy I think.^^
I wonder, when a native speaker hears the word queer in whatever context, is the first association homosexual or is the order really more like the one on dictionary.com (with homosexual in fifth place)?
@plethora & chained_bear: Yes, I totally agree. I really like German, yet there are various aspects that cause me to love English. Most of them are certainly utterly unconscious, a few others I think I have identified: In English there are so many words. The OED contains about 600,000 words, while the Duden holds about 130,000 to 145,000 words including common examples of those German compound nouns, by the help of which you can theoretically build infinitely many "correct" words. Of course there are also quite a lot foreign words, but while the wikipedia article on the English language says "the excessive use of Latinate words is considered at times to be either pretentious or an attempt to obfuscate an issue." in German it suffices to use just one of those foreign words and 80% of the population will be utterly discombobulated, will think you an arrogant pretentious spado (nothing against spados, it's a word Gene Wolfe used so I had to recycle it) and henceforth eschew you. With the remaining 20% it's real fun. Sometimes I could talk German with a friend of mine and in the course of this we used so many foreign and old words that save for us no one around us understood what we were talking about. In English even the most synonymous synonyms, of which there is such a variety, have each distinctly different connotations. I imagine, with what precision I could limn my thoughts once I acquired the necessary expertise. Also I yearn to read (and understand to some degree^^) works by Shakespeare and Joyce. Much similarly there is this fluency: I've read German texts by Novalis, which are gorgeous and convey a sense of flow that is marvelous, but almost anything else I've read and I'm reading sounds rather harsh and angular... In English it's but onerous for me to come about some text whose fluency, accuracy and elegance is such that—in a very positive sense—it gave me the creeps (looking for a better depiction).
Also there seems to be a much greater potential for puns in English than in German (very important point for me). And last but not, well, last of course it is much easier to learn more. In German I have to really strain all my serendipity to come across a new word that is not too specific as to be used in some situation and anyway, almost no one will understand me (ok, that's not the point). In English on the contrary I usually just have to visit a random website to find a few useful words I didn't know. That's much more convenient. Oh, and the dubbers always have so discongruous voices and the lips move all differently. And English slang tends to sound prettier I think.^^
Hmpf, now I feel bad for all the things I haven't listed...
Edit: Oh, and wikipedia says: "(...) there is no Academy to define officially accepted words and spellings." which in my view preserves a sense of purity. While within axiomatic systems or quasi-axiomatic ones there is this mathematical and logical purity which is maximized by beautiful precise unambiguous univocal definite definitions, language being a so diametrically opposite and complementary concept seems only to be harmed by such endeavors...
About the sorting: Whenever the list owner selects one sort of sort, it could be saved as the default sort of the list—for him and for everyone else.
Furthermore: Isn't there a way to achieve this "Move" and "Delete" with Ajax, so the page needn't be reloaded? When I go through my lists to move or delete specific words, I'm always quite lost when the page reloads and I have no clue where I was.
"As though an amschaspand had touched them with his radiant wand, the fog swirled and parted to let a beam of green moonlight fall." -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
"(...) and the great families—then as now—preferred to inter their long-limbed dead in vaults on their own estates. But the armigers and optimates of the city favored the highest slopes, near the Citadel wall;" -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
In Gene Wolfe's New Sun novels: An animal with prominent eyes that eats humans inheriting (parts of) their personalities and can then speak with their voices.
"Many abuattes roamed the gardens of the House Absolute, and because the lower servants (ditchers, porters, and the like) occasionally trapped them for the pot, they were wary of men. I often watched and envied them as they ran up some trunk without falling—and, indeed, seemingly without knowledge of the aching hunger of Urth at all." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
"I would have laughed at those windows, if I had not been laughing at myself already so that I would not weep. These Hierogrammates who ruled the universe and what lay beyond had not merely mistaken another for me, but now sought to remind me, who could forget nothing, of the scenes of my life; and did so (so it seemed to me) less skillfully than my own memories could have. For though every detail was present, there was something subtly mistaken about each view." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
"Not the monkeys, since the monkeys are there still. Perhaps something like the zoanthropes, though smaller. The zoanthropes always make for the mountains, I've noticed, and they climb trees in the high jungle there." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
"Or maybe a sailor will fight with an officer and get written up for punishment. Then he'll go off and join the jibers. We call them that because it's what you say a boat does when she makes a turn you don't want—she jibes." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
The space ship is so vast and ancient that various completely independent cultures have formed, plus sub-cultures, in this case the utterly undergroundy jibers.
“He seated himself on the floor at my feet, not cross-legged (as I would have sat in his place) but squatting in a way that reminded me at first of a dog, then of an atrox or some other great cat.”
"(...) and I had reached the moment when Father Inire and I had embraced, and I had mounted the pont to the ship of the Hierodules, which was to take me to this ship, the ship of the Hierogrammate, the ship of Tzadkiel, though I did not know it." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
"The mace head was a gear wheel; it struck him where the shoulder joins the neck, with every ounce of strength I possessed behind it.
I might as effectively have clubbed an arsinoither. Still conscious and still strong, he struck me as that animal strikes a dire-wolf. The mace flew from my hands, and his weight crushed the breath from my body." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
(Don't worry; despite everything that passage is going to be all happy endingy.)
"Looking past my guide, I saw something leap into view, hurl a spinning, many-pointed knife, and spring at us with the heavy-shouldered bounds of a thylacosmil." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
“A bolt of flame from some contus or war spear roared like a furnace, splashing blue fire across the bulkhead in back of me, …” —Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
“When Jonas and I rode to the House Absolute, we were attacked by Hethor’s notules, mirror-fetched creatures that fly like so many scraps of scorched parchment up a chimney, but for all their insubstantiality can kill.”
"A flier like a great locust thrummed overhead; I watched it until it was out of sight, feeling the ghost of the strange wind blown from the pentadactyls that had attacked our cavalry at Orithyia." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
"(...) and I was able for the first time to see the full face of their prisoner too. (...) I knew my own reflected my fear, and felt much as I had when the Ascian pentadactyls had whirled over Guasacht's schiavoni." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
"Most had now folded their hearts in the bowers of their petals, and only a pale moonvine blossomed, though there was no moon." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
"But yes, imagine that we desire to play shah mat upon a board whose squares are rafts on that sea. We move, yet even as we move the rafts stir and slip into some new combination; and to move, we must paddle from one raft to the next, which takes so long." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
"He had been an aquastor, like those who had fought for me in Yesod, created from my mind; thus he had believed, as I had, that the undine had saved me because I would be a torturer and an Autarch." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
“I had been brutal enough with the khaibit Thecla of the House Azure, then as mild and clumsy as any untouched boy with the real Thecla in her cell; …”
"Os was already far behind us, and would have been out of sight had not the atmosphere been as clear as hyalite." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
“The autochthons say that their cattle can speak but do not, knowing that to speak is to call up demons, all our words being only curses in the tongue of the empyrean.”
"The supplies he was giving us were in long sarcins of about the bigness of a demicannon's barrel lashed to the base of the bonaventure." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
"For a time the apostis glowed like a forge; gradually it dimmed and went out, and our ship resumed a more conventional position, (...)" -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
I would have liked to answer on your individual profile pages, but that would have been bound to ensue redundancy.
Most of these 3333+ words stem from the Grandiloquent Dictionary and weren't copied by hand. There is also a pretty little collection of quick-and-dirty python scripts I wrote, which are assisting me. ^^
Sleeping indeed becomes an issue btw. Since you pay for Wordie PRO per year and not per page traffic, it would be utter squander.
“You are the New Sun. You will be returned to your Urth, and the White Fountain will go with you. The death agonies of the world you know will be offered to the Increate. And they will be indescribable—continents will founder, as has been said. Much that is beautiful will perish, and with it most of your race; but your home will be reborn.”
In The Urth of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe), apports are all kinds of beings who are somehow unintentionally caught in the giant sails of spaceships floating through time and space.
Wow, thanks a lot, to everyone hunting down those errors.
About the description: I'm on it.
Edit:
I'm currently running all 2700 Words through aspell, dict.cc, dictionary.com, wordnet, ninjawords and thefreedictionary.com; this will take about an hour. About one third to one fourth of them fail this test so far.
Oh, thanks for notifying me; perhaps I can find a way to locate some of those misspellings. I wonder if I should change the list name once the words are different from those in the dictionary...
And I use to read wikipedia to acquaint myself the plot of anything before watching it as I sort of dislike that much suspense and tension. Not that I haven't had my timid emotional outbursts and demure paroxysms.^^
Trying to aptly limn emotional conditions is like trying to hit a puppy by throwing a live bee at it, you know?
Being German I write much less English than most of you I guess, so only a few months ago, spell-checking a readme and a changelog file for an OpenSource tool I wrote, I also had the same "separate" epiphany. Had to correct it in almost every file... ^^
I could use comprehensive statistics: For example the total time I'm online on wordie, how often each list was accessed, how many completely new terms I've contributed (and which), etc.
But most of all I need those customizable links in each list entry.
I've now activated "autohinter" and stuff, the font face looks ok now. My terminal looks quite different now, perhaps I'll switch back, don't know yet.
Concerning the size I've decided to use only 3 to 4 different sizes, instead of 9 viz. "small", "medium" and "xx-large" plus "300%" for h1.
My current approach is to delete everything from the all.css except for the part concerning fonts. That way I can perhaps introduce relative sizes and can also change the font face as that looks funny here.
Got a singular sense of readability the author of this all.css file.^^
Thanks! I've tried Stylish a few days ago, but later the solution with No Squint seemed more apt then. I guess I'm going to revise this verdict. Perhaps I'll finally register an OpenID to publish it, if the sheet should meet my expectations.
"Just underground lies the examination room; beneath it, and thus outside the tower proper (for the examination room was the propulsion chamber of the original structure) stretches the labyrinth of the oubliette." -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
"… that by the time we reached the gate of the necropolis, the statue of Night atop the khan on the opposite bank was a minute scratch of black against the sun’s field of flame, …"
I'm also particularly fond of dual-level commenting structures as seen for example on youtube, for first-level comments usually address a broader audience, while with replies to comments there is often only a specific recipient, who could thus be easily informed once such interest in his stated opinion has been taken. Yet the necessity of restricting the structural depth of such conversation might be viewed as partially depriving the concept of its intrinsic theoretical elegance and purity... Whatever. Have fun.
Hi, a handy feature would be to have customizable links to arbitrary sites after each word in lists and on the individual word pages that include a placeholder for the specific word. Much like the buttons up there, but customizable. For example when scrolling through lists I often don't know what a word means, and for me, being German, the simplest solution is to look it up in dict.cc. It would be very convenient if there was a link to "http://www.dict.cc/?s=$w" ($w being a placeholder) which opens dict.cc in a new tab.
Another feature I miss is some way of decreasing the font size. Many pages provide a way to customize the main font size, for with different screen resolutions and different diopter different sizes seem appropriate. Atm I'm using the firefox addon "No Squint" to scale the page to 80%, yet as everything (optionally except pictures) is scaled, the text which is small anyway becomes a bit too small.
Also I'm missing links/buttons for wiktionary.org lookups, and in case you have some way of obtaining it, the IPA pronunciation of words could prove valuable as well. So far I'm always looking it up on dictionary.com.
"Allotheism - defined as the worship of strange gods - is based upon the sole principle continuously chaperoning mankind's amelioration: To ambitiously forgo the habitual liberate humanity's potentiality! Still for this artifice of evolution to prosper it is but essential to disunite with any biased animosity against heterodoxy and even iconoclasm lest one be entangled in as forlorn as fatuous devotion. Hence convert."
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Telofy commented on the word wordie word of the year 2008
Being rushed I'm afraid this choice might be subject to alterations, yet for now my nominee is ataraxia.
December 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word reverie
My computer answers when I call it by its name:
telofy@reverie:~$ ping reverie
PING reverie (127.0.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from reverie (127.0.1.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms
December 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
Hi John.
About a year ago you asked whether or not to equip Wordie with a private messaging system. Personally I'm in favor of such an enhancement and I'm unable to infer a nay from the replies you got back then, so is something of that sort coming up?
December 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word fulgid
@ VanishedOne: egregious
December 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word reverie
The name I gave my computer.
December 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the user fbharjo
Wow, other people need drugs to think of such things as you construct here; and I guess I would need some to fathom them (antecedent at your discretion). It's always thrilling when I can nevertheless make sense of things here often remind me of thoughts I once had yet still can't quite remember. Perhaps it's all due to change.
As I don't know your timezone, sleep well, whenever.
December 22, 2008
Telofy commented on the word sitzprobe
Depends on the seating furniture.
I've a wicker chair here that is really comfy. Currently I'm sitting on a rather ordinary desk chair though.
December 22, 2008
Telofy commented on the word tuning machines
A useful little tuning program which is likely to be already included in most distribution's repositories.
Something entirely different, more from my area of study: The Turing Machine.
Edit: Well, not entirely. And sorry for playing the Oedipus (Thou art the informal notion of effective method in logic and mathematics).
December 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word equally
In Pushing Daisies I came upon the cute pronunciation /ikw'ɪli/. :-)
December 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word sigh
And for me most of you guys and she-guys have unfavorable timezones...
December 19, 2008
Telofy commented on the list •-prime-numbers-in-songs
A friend has pointed out a problem with this list. There is a song called 99 Bottles of Beer which could easily be exploited to add any number of prime numbers to this list as there is a version of this song which is based upon an ever increasing sequence of numbers. That could definitely spoil th fun...
Perhaps you should restrict this list to prime numbers in songs with static lyrics or something such as that.
Good luck.
December 19, 2008
Telofy commented on the word open-list
@Prolagus-Paradox: Kudos, wonderful. :-)
December 18, 2008
Telofy commented on the word pimpquin
You made me curious but all I can find are pimped penguins...
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1185609939055031680zvdUeF
http://forum.teamxbox.com/archive/index.php/t-552593.html
http://www.stubbychubby.com/seaanimals.htm
http://www.dirtyimpreza.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1958.html
or ask her:
http://diab1e-b1anc.livejournal.com/11217.html?thread=31697
December 18, 2008
Telofy commented on the word haskell
An exceedingly flauschig and functional programming language.
December 17, 2008
Telofy commented on the word flauschig
An adjective (and now also adverb) of paramount importance to the German language.
December 17, 2008
Telofy commented on the word amooth
to amooth: to become increasingly exhausted and weary due to hot and humid weather.
to amooth s.o.: torture and interrogation method consisting of locking the subject up in a sauna for an extended period of time.
December 17, 2008
Telofy commented on the word watchan
Ok, here comes my version, only with reversed causality:
Watchan is a program designed to watch 4chan (and other imageboards but I think they aren't yet included in the configuration) and the next sentence is false. The previous sentence is true so I haven't said anything and thus didn't break rules 1 and 2, right? Hmm, I think I have to note this paradox down in formalized notation to understand what I've just asserted... ^^
Edit: Ok, I still don't fathom it.
December 17, 2008
Telofy commented on the word watchan
Hey, thanks, it's the name I gave a program of mine, but I won't spoil the game by elaborating on the origin of the term. ^^
(Unless someone wants me to.)
It has the tendency to crash after some time for the threads are not properly synchronized, but currently I don't have the time and motivation to continue that project...
December 17, 2008
Telofy commented on the word �?�
As a child I had a(n) (of course unused) toilet brush among my favorite cuddly toys.
December 16, 2008
Telofy commented on the word �? �? �? ▬ ▬ ▬ �? �? �?
· — — — — — · — · — · · · · ·
or
�? ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ �? ▬ �? ▬ �? �? �? �? �?
I like the small dots & dashes more for they are more congruous to my shy disposition...
December 16, 2008
Telofy commented on the word bliss
"Ignorance is bliss." -- Cypher, Matrix
December 16, 2008
Telofy commented on the word grammatolatry
syn: verbolatry
December 16, 2008
Telofy commented on the word ciao
You can't negate implications like that. ^^
That "ciao" is "a statement acknowledging something or someone" does not necessarily mean that any statement acknowledging something or someone is a ciao. Only for bijective relations both such statements would be true, respectively, it would be a bijective relation if both statements were true.
Ciao.
December 16, 2008
Telofy commented on the user plethora
Congrats!
(From another 08er ^^)
December 15, 2008
Telofy commented on the word maieutic
I think that perhaps bneenan84 is distinguishing between an objective and a subjective reality, so that when (s)he says "this website" (s)he's acknowledging its existence within this subjective reality while its existence in the objective reality remains doubtful. "I believe this website does not exist" would then either mean that the objective existence of a subjectively perceived website is doubted or simply that (s)he would believe "such a website" to be inexistent within whichever reality, referring to some kind of perhaps unlikely notion.
Please excuse possible inaccuracies, I'm currently in a lecture.
December 15, 2008
Telofy commented on the word unknown unknowns
That's just "A live-editing content system backed by a Git repository", so nothing bad at all.
December 15, 2008
Telofy commented on the list denizens
So mermaids are denizens, right? ;-)
December 14, 2008
Telofy commented on the word keep true
The expression found me while I was watching The Big Bang Theory, but the writers intended it to be obscure:
"Stay low. Bear left. Now keep true."
"What?"
"It means 'go straight'."
"Can't you just say 'go straight'..."
"You don't say 'go straight' when you give bearings, you say 'keep true'."
Concerning "thesaurus": At first I couldn't decide between "to thesaurus" and "to thesaurus up", but in the end I concluded that the latter sounds to deliberately run-of-the-mill.
And thanks for the quotes.
November 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word keep true
Empirical: Great, and even one of the words I didn't thesaurus.
I can't imagine how I survived the years before I knew "empirical" resp. "empirisch". ^^
Under "true", there are a few promising entries in a couple of dictionaries I just checked (I have to connect to a VPN to access the OED):
"Determined with reference to the earth's axis, not the magnetic poles: true north." -- Heritage
"i. Of bearings: measured relative to true North." -- OED
And Heritage also avers that "true" and "tree" are related, and with the exception of the crooked and the gnarled ones, those are quite straight as well. ;-)
November 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word keep true
I'm not sure I know what you mean by idyllic hope but it sounds like something that would soon succumb to subfusc and probably ungrounded worries and anxieties accompanied by selectively over-interpreted empirical data. At least it's not always that way, so I always have to consoling knowledge that it is mainly just my subconscious filtering my perception in a somewhat unpropitious (inauspicious, unfavorable) way...
How is self-trust uncomplicated to discuss? ^^
November 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word keep true
I hope you mean Schiller. Of course I'm not to doubt that it is the zenith of aptness.
I was only wondering about my "bid ... welcome" sentence. I never used that before for I just discovered that bid bit on dict.cc.
On a different note, I still regard my self as quite young, yet I worry that with time my hopes and dreams will crumble down to a desperate heap of resignation. The last time a few days ago, while being absent-minded during a lecture...
November 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word keep true
I'm honoured by your considerateness, quoting such a significant poet from my native country and I'm thus trying to convey my gratitude by employing your British orthography. ;-)
It seems you are on Wordie for about a week now, so let me bid you slightly delayed welcome.
(Strange construction... Does that work?)
November 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word housing
This is a picture from the opening sequence of The Big Bang Theory.
Is there a name for this particular housing scheme? I keep spotting such configurations on google maps.
November 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word keep true
I heard that "keep true" means as much as "go straight" when giving directions. Can anyone confirm that or back it up with a dictionary entry or something? Thanks.
November 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word erizo
Hence erinaceous.
November 20, 2008
Telofy commented on the word t20
"t" is the twentieth letter.
November 20, 2008
Telofy commented on the word moth
/mɔθθə/ or /mɔθðə/?
Or still differently?
In German it's "Motte", simply without the "h"s.
November 17, 2008
Telofy commented on the word ^^
I've started evaluating the chat log data. The current release can be found here: http://yu-shin.de/foo/evaluation.pdf
As stated in the document, newer versions will probably just overwrite the document (for reasons of laziness). Be warned.
And enjoy your reduplicated circumflexes.
November 7, 2008
Telofy commented on the word ^^
I seldom see ^_^, though I think it isn't uncommon either. But o_O and ^_^, it seems to me, represent two distinctly different emotions...
I'm currently downloading gigabytes of chat logs, so I can perhaps post some hard facts here by tomorrow. :-)
November 7, 2008
Telofy commented on the word ^^
I usually interpreted them as raised eyebrows. There is a short mention on wikipedia. Perhaps I should statistically analyze chat logs. Later...
Sleep well, whenever that will be in your timezone.
November 6, 2008
Telofy commented on the word ^^
Hello World.
I've had several discussions with friends about "^^". The point at issue is whether or not it ought to be separated from the text by a whitespace. Here some examples:
"It's over nine thousand!^^"
"It's over nine thousand! ^^"
Perhaps a special whitespace like a thin space would be appropriate.
Intuitively I used the space at first, but then I observed many other people omitting it and asked them which usage they deem correct. Until recently the outcome of my informal survey remained largely to the disfavor of the whitespace, but now I notice an increasing number of instances of deliberate use of the separating space.
Smilies are usually separated from the text, while punctuation marks are not. Personally I'm inclined to assign "^^" to the category of smilies, hence my initial use of whitespaces, but lacking solid arguments for my position I yielded to the seeming majority who omitted them.
Now I don't know anymore what to do or believe, please help!
Thanks in advance.
November 6, 2008
Telofy commented on the user bonnie
A problem is also that you might be successful: that can be pretty scary.
November 5, 2008
Telofy commented on the user bonnie
They usually have a decent virus and spyware collection I guess. Unless they run Linux. But to configure this socks proxy you only need the browser and the OpenSSH client.
I found a little description here.
November 4, 2008
Telofy commented on the user bonnie
Right, but often they are neither encrypted nor trusted—they can read your entire traffic if they wont.
Edit: Look what I found: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/each other :-)
November 4, 2008
Telofy commented on the word dekantieren
German for "to decant".
November 4, 2008
Telofy commented on the word english reasearch paper
Googling for "brennah kelsey taylor bonnie trevor lauren charlie" you get links to the Atholton High School. Or did they already mention the name of their school?
November 4, 2008
Telofy commented on the user bonnie
About the censoring at school: Simply run a ssh-server at home and then, when you are at school, just configure your browser to use it as a socks proxy. Not only will the censoring be ineffective, your connection will even be encrypted. In case you have a dynamic IP, simply use dyndns.com. That's how we did it back then in the good old days. Good luck.
November 4, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
Now that the election is nearly over, could you also optimize the css in a way that it looks decent on different resolutions? On xga the font is huge hence I've changed quite a lot with stylish. Thanks!
November 4, 2008
Telofy commented on the user reesetee
Great to hear someone is enjoying my lists. :-)
Good luck listing.
October 29, 2008
Telofy commented on the word german oral exam
Well, I know Colbert Report, yet I've no clue for what kind of German exam this would be useful. Anyway, when you know the other one really good, like a good friend or something, or when he/she is a child, you would say "Wieso hasst du Freiheit?" or "Warum hasst du Freiheit?", when you are taking to someone in any more formal context, the "du" is to be replaced by "Sie".
Perhaps someone can add the IPA pronunciation, I'm not yet fit in writing IPA.
Have fun.
October 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the user reesetee
Hi, to screen my Grandiloquent Dictionary list for misspellings I wrote a script that searches each word's page for "misspell". When running the word through OED I had to decide whether or not I wanted to count these alternative spellings as misspelling. I decided in favor of that approach for in the OED page of these words, they are indicated thus: "query_type=misspelling". So I don't necessarily see misspelling and variant spelling as contradictory. What do you think?
October 27, 2008
Telofy commented on the word slitch
slitch:
= sleech
sleech:
1. Mud deposited by the sea or a river; soil composed of this.
2. A stretch of mud on a shore. Hence sleechy a., slimy, muddy.
-- OED
October 27, 2008
Telofy commented on the word lichgate
See also lych gate.
October 27, 2008
Telofy commented on the word ballicatter
Misspelling/Variant of ballycater.
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word flamfoo
Variant of flamfew.
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word hoxter
Misspelling of huckster.
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word huderon
Misspelling of huddroun.
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word nurk
Misspelling of nerk, according to OED.
(Nerk: "A foolish, objectionable, or insignificant person." -- OED)
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word ollendorfian
Misspelling of ollendorffian.
("Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1803-65), German educator and grammarian" -- OED)
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word onimancy
Misspelling of onymancy.
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word orcheotomy
Misspelling of orchotomy.
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word psychopannuchist
Misspelling of psychopannychist.
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word jentation
"Breakfast" - OED
(pronunciation?)
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word deosculate
"To kiss affectionately. Hence deosculation, kissing." - OED
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word clapperdudgeon
OED lists these two alternative/non-standard spellings: clapperdogen, clapperdogeon.
"clapperdrudgeon" is not in the index.
October 21, 2008
Telofy commented on the word fernando poo
Anyone read Illuminatus!?
October 20, 2008
Telofy commented on the word grub
My bootloader. :-)
October 19, 2008
Telofy commented on the word sufferage
Searching for *age in the online OED yields 2855 results.^^
October 16, 2008
Telofy commented on the word serendipity
Bodhi, serendipity is our Lucksmith.
October 13, 2008
Telofy commented on the word connexion
"It the present perfect always implies a strong connexion with the present and is chiefly used in conversations, letters, newspapers, and wireless reports." -- Thomson & Martinet, A Practical English Grammar (fifth impression, 1972)
See also Oxford comma.
October 8, 2008
Telofy commented on the word apothegm
"Gunnie had been loyal to me and to Urth, not to her comrades; and perhaps we are unable to advance some paragon of loyalty to an apothegm only because loyalty (in the final analysis) is choice." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 7, 2008
Telofy commented on the word bugs
I put html comment signs around the list name. It's just a temporary collection no one should be irritated by scrolling my lists. Oh, right, we need private lists. :-)
(And perhaps there should be a bit tighter restrictions for using html.)
October 6, 2008
Telofy commented on the word sine
Could someone enlighten me as to whether or not sine in the Latin sense of "without" is also pronounced /saɪn/? Thanks.
Edit: I hope the program is right: http://www.dict.cc/?s=sine qua non
I now have access to the online OED, I'm so ecstatic!
OED says: /'saɪnɪ/ or /'sɪneɪ/
October 6, 2008
Telofy commented on the word vates
"I said, 'Your friend's neck has been broken.'
He answered, 'You should know, vates.'
'I broke it, then. I thought so.'"
-- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 6, 2008
Telofy commented on the word dear
“He burned the gnarled old apples and mulberries in his own fireplaces, for wood was dear;”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 6, 2008
Telofy commented on the word myste
Sorry, mystes seems to be already singular.
October 3, 2008
Telofy commented on the word mystes
OED says: "One initiated into mysteries."
It seems to be singular; I guess myste is wrong then, I'll delete it from my list.
October 3, 2008
Telofy commented on the word cerulean blue
Somewhere in that season I stopped watching X-Files. Yet Cerulean Blue stays burned into my brain.^^
October 3, 2008
Telofy commented on the list a-6
A∴A∴
Somehow reminiscent of Illuminatus!... :-)
October 3, 2008
Telofy commented on the word griefer
I guess (ought I put some word here?) meeting them personally they'd turn out completely nice dudes (or she-dudes). Oh well, this world is quite confusing.^^
October 3, 2008
Telofy commented on the list ways-in-which-my-brain-is-somewhat-broken
I use to enjoy reading through all those wonderful wikipedia articles about mental disorders. It's always soothing to know there are names for my problems. ;-)
October 3, 2008
Telofy commented on the word scourgey
Seconded. Whedon for president (or Bundeskanzler)!
But are dialogs usually that witty and snappy in Californian High School libraries and Magick Shops? Scares me... Our colder weather must render us totally dull around here then.
October 3, 2008
Telofy commented on the list autological-words
@yarb: dictionary.com concurs.
October 2, 2008
Telofy commented on the word queer
Yes, thanks, I like it, too, but as long as I'm not suddenly turned into a woman, I don't actually need the term homosexual that frequently. Besides, also in informal German speech it would sound spicy I think.^^
October 2, 2008
Telofy commented on the word wiktionary
A Firefox extension I've found to be exceedingly useful:
WikiLook
Have fun!
October 2, 2008
Telofy commented on the word queer
I wonder, when a native speaker hears the word queer in whatever context, is the first association homosexual or is the order really more like the one on dictionary.com (with homosexual in fifth place)?
October 2, 2008
Telofy commented on the list autological-words
I know the term from Gödel, Escher, Bach. But what's heterological doing here? (rofl)
October 2, 2008
Telofy commented on the word english
@plethora & chained_bear: Yes, I totally agree. I really like German, yet there are various aspects that cause me to love English. Most of them are certainly utterly unconscious, a few others I think I have identified: In English there are so many words. The OED contains about 600,000 words, while the Duden holds about 130,000 to 145,000 words including common examples of those German compound nouns, by the help of which you can theoretically build infinitely many "correct" words. Of course there are also quite a lot foreign words, but while the wikipedia article on the English language says "the excessive use of Latinate words is considered at times to be either pretentious or an attempt to obfuscate an issue." in German it suffices to use just one of those foreign words and 80% of the population will be utterly discombobulated, will think you an arrogant pretentious spado (nothing against spados, it's a word Gene Wolfe used so I had to recycle it) and henceforth eschew you. With the remaining 20% it's real fun. Sometimes I could talk German with a friend of mine and in the course of this we used so many foreign and old words that save for us no one around us understood what we were talking about. In English even the most synonymous synonyms, of which there is such a variety, have each distinctly different connotations. I imagine, with what precision I could limn my thoughts once I acquired the necessary expertise. Also I yearn to read (and understand to some degree^^) works by Shakespeare and Joyce. Much similarly there is this fluency: I've read German texts by Novalis, which are gorgeous and convey a sense of flow that is marvelous, but almost anything else I've read and I'm reading sounds rather harsh and angular... In English it's but onerous for me to come about some text whose fluency, accuracy and elegance is such that—in a very positive sense—it gave me the creeps (looking for a better depiction).
Also there seems to be a much greater potential for puns in English than in German (very important point for me). And last but not, well, last of course it is much easier to learn more. In German I have to really strain all my serendipity to come across a new word that is not too specific as to be used in some situation and anyway, almost no one will understand me (ok, that's not the point). In English on the contrary I usually just have to visit a random website to find a few useful words I didn't know. That's much more convenient. Oh, and the dubbers always have so discongruous voices and the lips move all differently. And English slang tends to sound prettier I think.^^
Hmpf, now I feel bad for all the things I haven't listed...
Edit: Oh, and wikipedia says: "(...) there is no Academy to define officially accepted words and spellings." which in my view preserves a sense of purity. While within axiomatic systems or quasi-axiomatic ones there is this mathematical and logical purity which is maximized by beautiful precise unambiguous univocal definite definitions, language being a so diametrically opposite and complementary concept seems only to be harmed by such endeavors...
October 2, 2008
Telofy commented on the word complementarity
See also complementarity.com. Yet it's still mostly in German.
October 2, 2008
Telofy commented on the word relative pronoun
I've got a whole book exclusively about the relative pronoun (in Latin)! *boast* ^^
October 2, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
About the sorting: Whenever the list owner selects one sort of sort, it could be saved as the default sort of the list—for him and for everyone else.
Furthermore: Isn't there a way to achieve this "Move" and "Delete" with Ajax, so the page needn't be reloaded? When I go through my lists to move or delete specific words, I'm always quite lost when the page reloads and I have no clue where I was.
October 2, 2008
Telofy commented on the word john mcgrath desktop buddy
"Some people juggle geese!" -- Wash, Firefly
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word amschaspand
"As though an amschaspand had touched them with his radiant wand, the fog swirled and parted to let a beam of green moonlight fall." -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word arctother
"His jaws were as big as an arctother's and his canines as long
as my index finger (...)" -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
"The claws of an arctother had been shaped from his fingers (...)" -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word optimate
"(...) and the great families—then as now—preferred to inter their long-limbed dead in vaults on their own estates. But the armigers and optimates of the city favored the highest slopes, near the Citadel wall;" -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word alzabo
In Gene Wolfe's New Sun novels: An animal with prominent eyes that eats humans inheriting (parts of) their personalities and can then speak with their voices.
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word dimarchi
"They were guarded by dimarchi, hard-bitten troopers in armor that looked
as if it had been made for use and used." -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word abuatte
"Many abuattes roamed the gardens of the House Absolute, and because the lower servants (ditchers, porters, and the like) occasionally trapped them for the pot, they were wary of men. I often watched and envied them as they ran up some trunk without falling—and, indeed, seemingly without knowledge of the aching hunger of Urth at all." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word hierogrammate
"I would have laughed at those windows, if I had not been laughing at myself already so that I would not weep. These Hierogrammates who ruled the universe and what lay beyond had not merely mistaken another for me, but now sought to remind me, who could forget nothing, of the scenes of my life; and did so (so it seemed to me) less skillfully than my own memories could have. For though every detail was present, there was something subtly mistaken about each view." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word zoanthrope
"Not the monkeys, since the monkeys are there still. Perhaps something like the zoanthropes, though smaller. The zoanthropes always make for the mountains, I've noticed, and they climb trees in the high jungle there." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word jiber
"Or maybe a sailor will fight with an officer and get written up for punishment. Then he'll go off and join the jibers. We call them that because it's what you say a boat does when she makes a turn you don't want—she jibes." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
The space ship is so vast and ancient that various completely independent cultures have formed, plus sub-cultures, in this case the utterly undergroundy jibers.
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word hetrochthnous
"The hetrochthnous worlds must by this time have reshaped humanity to conform to their own spheres." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
Probably derived from heterochthonous. Link.
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word atrox
“He seated himself on the floor at my feet, not cross-legged (as I would have sat in his place) but squatting in a way that reminded me at first of a dog, then of an atrox or some other great cat.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word bacculus
“… there stood the Autarch Severian, … the bacculus of power in his hand.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word pont
"(...) and I had reached the moment when Father Inire and I had embraced, and I had mounted the pont to the ship of the Hierodules, which was to take me to this ship, the ship of the Hierogrammate, the ship of Tzadkiel, though I did not know it." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word arsinoither
"The mace head was a gear wheel; it struck him where the shoulder joins the neck, with every ounce of strength I possessed behind it.
I might as effectively have clubbed an arsinoither. Still conscious and still strong, he struck me as that animal strikes a dire-wolf. The mace flew from my hands, and his weight crushed the breath from my body." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
(Don't worry; despite everything that passage is going to be all happy endingy.)
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word thylacosmil
"Looking past my guide, I saw something leap into view, hurl a spinning, many-pointed knife, and spring at us with the heavy-shouldered bounds of a thylacosmil." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word contus
“A bolt of flame from some contus or war spear roared like a furnace, splashing blue fire across the bulkhead in back of me, …” —Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word lucivee
“… or the lucivee with which Agia had torn my cheek, …”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
A (usually lethal) weapon, which can be held and hidden in one hand.
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word notule
“When Jonas and I rode to the House Absolute, we were attacked by Hethor’s notules, mirror-fetched creatures that fly like so many scraps of scorched parchment up a chimney, but for all their insubstantiality can kill.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word pentadactyl
"A flier like a great locust thrummed overhead; I watched it until it was out of sight, feeling the ghost of the strange wind blown from the pentadactyls that had attacked our cavalry at Orithyia." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word schiavoni
"(...) and I was able for the first time to see the full face of their prisoner too. (...) I knew my own reflected my fear, and felt much as I had when the Ascian pentadactyls had whirled over Guasacht's schiavoni." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word moonvine
"Most had now folded their hearts in the bowers of their petals, and only a pale moonvine blossomed, though there was no moon." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word shah mat
"But yes, imagine that we desire to play shah mat upon a board whose squares are rafts on that sea. We move, yet even as we move the rafts stir and slip into some new combination; and to move, we must paddle from one raft to the next, which takes so long." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word aquastor
"He had been an aquastor, like those who had fought for me in Yesod, created from my mind; thus he had believed, as I had, that the undine had saved me because I would be a torturer and an Autarch." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word khaibit
“I had been brutal enough with the khaibit Thecla of the House Azure, then as mild and clumsy as any untouched boy with the real Thecla in her cell; …”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word cultellarius
“Who’ll take you, Herena? Is your village raided by cultellarii?”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word urth
In Gene Wolfe's New Sun novels: The name of the planet earth in the far future (at the time our sun's life reaches its end).
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word kronosaur
“The crowd parted as waves separate for the terrible jaws of a kronosaur, and Ceryx advanced through it.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word hyalite
"Os was already far behind us, and would have been out of sight had not the atmosphere been as clear as hyalite." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word empyrean
“The autochthons say that their cattle can speak but do not, knowing that to speak is to call up demons, all our words being only curses in the tongue of the empyrean.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word bonaventure
See sarcin.
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word demicannon
See sarcin.
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word sarcin
"The supplies he was giving us were in long sarcins of about the bigness of a demicannon's barrel lashed to the base of the bonaventure." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word apostis
"For a time the apostis glowed like a forge; gradually it dimmed and went out, and our ship resumed a more conventional position, (...)" -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the word rent
“There was only the azure of her seas, glimpsed through the rents in her surging clouds, and occasionally a flash of land, brown or green.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
October 1, 2008
Telofy commented on the list •-wordie-pro
I'm afraid there must be a bug in "always be right"...
September 30, 2008
Telofy commented on the user Telofy
So it's actually a week now. Shiver me timbers!
I would have liked to answer on your individual profile pages, but that would have been bound to ensue redundancy.
Most of these 3333+ words stem from the Grandiloquent Dictionary and weren't copied by hand. There is also a pretty little collection of quick-and-dirty python scripts I wrote, which are assisting me. ^^
Sleeping indeed becomes an issue btw. Since you pay for Wordie PRO per year and not per page traffic, it would be utter squander.
Thanks for the motivation!
September 30, 2008
Telofy commented on the word founder
“You are the New Sun. You will be returned to your Urth, and the White Fountain will go with you. The death agonies of the world you know will be offered to the Increate. And they will be indescribable—continents will founder, as has been said. Much that is beautiful will perish, and with it most of your race; but your home will be reborn.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
September 30, 2008
Telofy commented on the word gradin
-- dictionary.com
September 30, 2008
Telofy commented on the word enthean
"Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm." -- The Free Dictionary
September 30, 2008
Telofy commented on the word question
I got a question, too. Does anyone know a movie or a series, where lots of seldom words and constructions are used?
September 30, 2008
Telofy commented on the word amidoinitrite
"Am I doing it right?"
September 30, 2008
Telofy commented on the list such-and-such
amidoinitrite?
September 30, 2008
Telofy commented on the word bibliophibians
Reminds me of M. C. Escher.
September 30, 2008
Telofy commented on the word ajax
There was a wikipedia link missing here.
September 29, 2008
Telofy commented on the word web 2.0
The more Ajax the more 2.0. Perhaps it's not that simple.
September 29, 2008
Telofy commented on the word apport
In The Urth of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe), apports are all kinds of beings who are somehow unintentionally caught in the giant sails of spaceships floating through time and space.
And thx for purport. :-)
September 29, 2008
Telofy commented on the word misandronist
Same as misandrist. Misspelling?
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the word lebensabschnittsgefahrte
From the German "Lebensabschnittsgefährte".
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the word schrecklichkreit
Misspelling of the German word "Schrecklichkeit" meaning as much as horribleness.
http://www.dict.cc/?s=schrecklichkeit
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the word mutist
"But Sidero said one time that mutist means a rebel." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the list c s-bird-–-grandiloquent-dictionary
Wow, thanks a lot, to everyone hunting down those errors.
About the description: I'm on it.
Edit:
I'm currently running all 2700 Words through aspell, dict.cc, dictionary.com, wordnet, ninjawords and thefreedictionary.com; this will take about an hour. About one third to one fourth of them fail this test so far.
Another Edit:
Done. The resulting list is here.
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the word fuck
Right, "f" and "d" are so ducking close on qwerty/z keyboards; that really ducks!
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the list c s-bird-–-grandiloquent-dictionary
Oh, thanks for notifying me; perhaps I can find a way to locate some of those misspellings. I wonder if I should change the list name once the words are different from those in the dictionary...
Thanks again and a grand weekend.
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the word inert
A nerd is never inert.
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the word buffy
And I use to read wikipedia to acquaint myself the plot of anything before watching it as I sort of dislike that much suspense and tension. Not that I haven't had my timid emotional outbursts and demure paroxysms.^^
Trying to aptly limn emotional conditions is like trying to hit a puppy by throwing a live bee at it, you know?
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the word ardurous
Like ardent:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ardurous
"Lo! further on, Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. --Cary."
Where did the "r" go?
September 28, 2008
Telofy commented on the word bugs
On the mobile pages there is a "=" missing:
input type"text" name="word" class="w220"
For example:
http://wordie.org/m
http://wordie.org/m/list/16708
Have fun!
September 27, 2008
Telofy commented on the word rapprochement
/ˌræproʊʃˈmɑ̃; Fr. raprɔʃˈmɑ̃/
Source
September 27, 2008
Telofy commented on the word thwart
Fuck, how do you get your tongue to pronounce this w after the θ in /θwɔrt/? ^^
Like this I guess...
September 27, 2008
Telofy commented on the word coffle
also here
September 27, 2008
Telofy commented on the word immund
Is it pronounced /ɪ'mʌnd/?
September 27, 2008
Telofy commented on the list words-of-eulogistic-praise
Possible... ^^
Perhaps that would be a source for more words. Thanks.
September 26, 2008
Telofy commented on the word eirenicon
"a proposal made in order to achieve peace or harmony (formal)" -- MSN Encarta (sorry)
September 26, 2008
Telofy commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness
Being German I write much less English than most of you I guess, so only a few months ago, spell-checking a readme and a changelog file for an OpenSource tool I wrote, I also had the same "separate" epiphany. Had to correct it in almost every file... ^^
"interesting" came out a bit earlier.
September 26, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
I could use comprehensive statistics: For example the total time I'm online on wordie, how often each list was accessed, how many completely new terms I've contributed (and which), etc.
But most of all I need those customizable links in each list entry.
Have a nice weekend. ~
September 26, 2008
Telofy commented on the list the-collins-death-row
Just added them all to dict.cc. They'll stage a superb comeback.
September 26, 2008
Telofy commented on the user vanishedone
Hi, great blog, I especially like your diction and those long sentences. :-)
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
I've now activated "autohinter" and stuff, the font face looks ok now. My terminal looks quite different now, perhaps I'll switch back, don't know yet.
Concerning the size I've decided to use only 3 to 4 different sizes, instead of 9 viz. "small", "medium" and "xx-large" plus "300%" for h1.
http://pastie.org/279025
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
My current approach is to delete everything from the all.css except for the part concerning fonts. That way I can perhaps introduce relative sizes and can also change the font face as that looks funny here.
Got a singular sense of readability the author of this all.css file.^^
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
Thanks! I've tried Stylish a few days ago, but later the solution with No Squint seemed more apt then. I guess I'm going to revise this verdict. Perhaps I'll finally register an OpenID to publish it, if the sheet should meet my expectations.
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word 7457
The actual answer is of course 42, as usual, but wikipedia tends to be more specific I'm afraid.^^
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word proper
"Just underground lies the examination room; beneath it, and thus outside the tower proper (for the examination room was the propulsion chamber of the original structure) stretches the labyrinth of the oubliette." -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
Oh, not the slightest idea, but they have a quite elaborate comments feature there. ;-)
A way of comparing and synchronizing lists would be totally awesome btw:
Deleting all words from list a which are already in lists b or c.
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word 7457
41
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
Right, hence the restriction to one extra level as on youtube. The majority of reply urges would become satisfiable.
Besides, if the text would be smaller—the way I like it—the lines would be too long anyway, so indention would be rather beneficial.
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word khan
"… that by the time we reached the gate of the necropolis, the statue of Night atop the khan on the opposite bank was a minute scratch of black against the sun’s field of flame, …"
—Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
I'm also particularly fond of dual-level commenting structures as seen for example on youtube, for first-level comments usually address a broader audience, while with replies to comments there is often only a specific recipient, who could thus be easily informed once such interest in his stated opinion has been taken. Yet the necessity of restricting the structural depth of such conversation might be viewed as partially depriving the concept of its intrinsic theoretical elegance and purity... Whatever. Have fun.
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word common sense
"Common sense isn't." -- Carol Schaffer
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word hypocrisy
"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue." -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word propensity
"Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo." -- Ambrose Bierce
Edit:
According to wikiquote it's:
"Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forgo."
September 25, 2008
Telofy commented on the word whom
“… such is the kindness of the torturers, whom I was subsequently to betray.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
September 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the list dash-s-list
Wonderful, that list seems to exudes a certain ineffable flavor of Gene Wolfeiness. Care to contribute to my open Gene Wolfe list?
Ciao!
September 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
I know, No Squint just saves the scale for the entire site, so you don't have to resize each time you open a new page.
September 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word 7457
7457 is leetspeak for "tast". But what is "tast"?
Crossfoot is of course 23.
September 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word thanks
Thanks a bunch, John!
I can't imagine how I managed to survive the last 19 years without wordie.
September 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word features
Hi, a handy feature would be to have customizable links to arbitrary sites after each word in lists and on the individual word pages that include a placeholder for the specific word. Much like the buttons up there, but customizable. For example when scrolling through lists I often don't know what a word means, and for me, being German, the simplest solution is to look it up in dict.cc. It would be very convenient if there was a link to "http://www.dict.cc/?s=$w" ($w being a placeholder) which opens dict.cc in a new tab.
Another feature I miss is some way of decreasing the font size. Many pages provide a way to customize the main font size, for with different screen resolutions and different diopter different sizes seem appropriate. Atm I'm using the firefox addon "No Squint" to scale the page to 80%, yet as everything (optionally except pictures) is scaled, the text which is small anyway becomes a bit too small.
Also I'm missing links/buttons for wiktionary.org lookups, and in case you have some way of obtaining it, the IPA pronunciation of words could prove valuable as well. So far I'm always looking it up on dictionary.com.
And thanks a lot for this marvelous site!
September 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word puppy
"Trying to send him to a specific place is sort of like... like... trying to hit a puppy, by throwing a live bee at it." - Willow, BtVS (Triangle)
September 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word myste
Perhaps. Thanks. :-)
September 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word dhole
“They would be on us like a pack of dholes, Madame”
—Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
September 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word oblesque
“I swerved to dodge an oblesque that appeared to shoot up before me, and collided full tilt with a man in a black coat.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
September 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word badelaire
"I heard the ring of steel on stone, as if someone had struck one of the grave markers with a badelaire." -- Gene Wolfe - "The Book of the New Sun"
September 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word myste
"Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since (...)" -- Gene Wolfe - "The Book of the New Sun"
Help! What does that word mean?
September 23, 2008
Telofy commented on the word allotheism
Actually I've written it myself. First posted in an xkcd forum and now copied here, but you're right, I could have said so.
Have fun.
September 22, 2008
Telofy commented on the word pulchritudinous
Correct me if I'm at fault, but to me "pulchritudinous" sounds quite superficial in comparison to "beautiful"...
September 22, 2008
Telofy commented on the word allotheism
"Allotheism - defined as the worship of strange gods - is based upon the sole principle continuously chaperoning mankind's amelioration: To ambitiously forgo the habitual liberate humanity's potentiality! Still for this artifice of evolution to prosper it is but essential to disunite with any biased animosity against heterodoxy and even iconoclasm lest one be entangled in as forlorn as fatuous devotion. Hence convert."
September 22, 2008
Telofy commented on the word willow
"...
It's cruel I know
At least they tell me so
Well someone lock me up and throw away the key
Because I'm not ashamed, oh no
Oh, willow
That I only write love songs
To those whom I don't love
I only reach for him
Who's tied to someone else's glove
That which I hold inside
Which I admire and deride
Which I protect and hide is yours
Slander and dissention
They're parlor games to me
Papers overrun with lies too mad to mention
You say they never hurt you
No consequence, I'm happy
We're much too far above it all
But oh no, that's not true
These wicked pastimes take their toll
These tyrant vices break your soul
Deliver me from all I am
And all I never want to be
..."
-- Emilie Autumn - "Willow"
September 22, 2008