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Speeches, Scripts, Software & Sandbox (S4)
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Greetings! I am a Brazilian software-developer born in late 2002. I have a profound interest in linguistics
(descriptive and prescriptive alike), that being the main reason why I am here doing what I do; such an interest extends specifically over the grammar, orthography, etymologies, and history of many languages, Portuguese and English being the principal ones.
My contributions comprise mostly English and Portuguese entries and, in frequency order, their quotations (and translations thereof), example sentences, definitions, and etymologies; I rarely ever modify other parts of an entry, such as the Derived terms and Translations lists, and the Pronunciation section. Contributions include copyediting, quotation search, finding etymological citations, and fulfilling requests (for etymology, example sentences, quotations, among others). I have also contributed heavily to German entries, and a little less so to Spanish ones.
Beyond the aforesaid tongues & entries, I, more often than not, will contribute to whichever random, help-needy entry I happen to find at any given time, no matter its language, with examples in Old Norse, Indonesian, Galician-Portuguese, Latin, Breton, Dutch, and in Old English; to such end, I simply go by the FIFI (/faɪ.faɪ/) principle: Found It? Fix It!
To Do
Last updated: 2025-06-09 23:30
- modify my translations done so far, deleting the
translation=
parameter (of the ux template), because it is redundant to specify it, as it is already the third parameter
- correct my translations of La Morte Darthur in of
- add translation in witch
- add full etymology for nerf; search for it on the Online Etymological Dictionary
- organize quotations in steel, removing Latin ones, leaving English ones (even the very old ones, aranslating the archaic/medieval quotations to Modern English
- change "Pan (god)" to a hyperlink to Wiktionary definitio Wiktionary definition thereof, labeled "Pan" only
- find a quotation for sense 2 (already) of Old English ġeō
- add quotations to the obsolete sense of brothel (wretch; depraved person)
- translate 16th century New Testament text in sense 14 of word
- remove the redundant e.g. from the examples in the ana- prefix entry
- add metadata for the two book quotations needing 'em in hem
- search for the entry whose description contains An an, and fix it, rewriting it as An
- replace the kinky quotation under the first definition of the diaper verb with a nonsexual, real-life example, more befitting of a wordbook
- translate the Portuguese citation under the Portuguese entry for algures
- translate the Early Middle English entry of La Mort D'Artur in the adjective sense of wight
- translate La Mort D'Artur under sense 3 of talent
- translate Middle English text to modern English under verb sense 7 of shed
- translate Middle English example under sense 2 of fordo
- add etymology to orling in both senses
- correct sense 5 of rest to put George's quote about death on the right place, i.e., under the definition, not on it
- reorganize the descendants of Latin nidus, especially the ones coming from Old French niche
- expand (add context to) the first quotation (by Shantext to) the first quotation (by Shakespeare) of the sense 1 in hellkite
- create entries: Latin Talamone and Talmun; French Talmont; if possible, also their Gaulish etymon *talamon (the red links from which to create those pages can be found in the Proto-Celtic entry *talamū)
- translate quotations in the Citations page of Portuguese entry música
- add citations to the third sense (female musician) in that same page
- create page Citations:músico, which is red-linked at the bottom of Citations:música
- add quotations to at most 20 entries that need them (i.e. that have the
{{rfq}}
template)
- add quotations to all the Portuguese entries that need them
- add pronunciation to カノン (kanon)
- create all the red-linked entries under the Derived terms section of Jesus; also, search and create the entry not half a thought (found in the 1991 quotation for the Jesus! interjection)
- fix Jesus freak quotations' positions
- create all the red-linked entries in Christ on a stick
- solve 104 (4 per letter) requests for attention concerning English
- solve all the 99 requests for attention concerning Portuguese
- correct the language headers in the entries that need them
- create these entries: stinkling, helpling, hopeling, hateling, and braveling
- find quotations for woe is I, a page created by elsewhom based on a contribution of mine, to prove its existence and showcase its usage
Cheatsheet
> Search for term usage for quotations and attestation
https://archive.org/search?query=%22<TERM>%22&sin=TXT
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22<TERM>%22&udm=36
> Templates
<!-- lc = lang code -->
{{quote-book|lc
|year=|date=
|year_published=
|origyear=
|year2=|date2=
|author=
|chapter=
|editor=|editors=
|title=
|url=
|archiveurl=|archivedate=
|edition=
|location=|publisher=
|isbn=|oclc=
|volume=
|section=|sectionurl=
|page=|pages=|pageurl=
|text=|t=|tr=}}
{{quote-journal|lc
|date=
|last=|first=|author2=
|title=
|journal=
|archiveurl=|archivedate=
|issn=|oclc=
|section=
|date2=
|title2=
|type2=
|journal2=
|archiveurl2=
|passage=|t=|tr=}}
{{quote-av|lc
|date=|month=|year=|year_published=|accessdate=
|author=
|writer=|writers=
|director=|directors=
|title=|trans-title=
|actor=|role=
|episode=|trans-episode=<!-- episode name -->
|url=
|archiveurl=|archivedate=
|format=
|medium=
|worklang=
|season=|number=<!-- episode number -->
|network=|location=|publisher=
|isbn=|oclc=|id=
|time=|at=<!-- at: where in the recording the quoted text occurs other than by specifying the time from the start of the recording, e.g. to indicate that the text occurs in a play's scene or act. -->
|text=|passage=
|t=|translation=|lit=|tr=|transliteration=
|footer=
|brackets=<!-- put quotation in brackets -->
|subst=<!-- Phonetic substitutions to be applied to handle irregular transliterations in certain languages with a non-Latin writing system and automatic transliteration (e.g. Russian and Yiddish). See more right above the Examples section at https://en.wiktionary.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Template:quote-av#Examples -->
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