The term 'cataphile' refers to explorers of the Paris catacombs, specifically, and not explorers of other catacombs (if such explorers exist). For more info check out the wikipedia entry on the Paris catacombs, on cataphiles (in either French or English), and/or do a google search.
That sounds reasonable to me. --EncycloPetey 09:45, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
China operates under two calendars, the traditional and the Chinese calendar. I take it you would want all of them? bd2412 T 01:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC) --Yes. It might be worth creating an Appendix similar to the one for Months of the Islamic Year. --EncycloPetey 09:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure about elsewhere, but in the US, the term "low-fat" is defined by US law to restrict fat content to a specified percentage. I cannot recall, but I think the cutoff is 2%. --EncycloPetey 14:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Haywire isn't being used adverbally in that second def, it's still an adjective. It doesn't qualify the verb ‘went’ but the the subject of the sentance. This is because the phrase turns on a colloquial use of ‘go’ = ‘become’. Widsith 08:23, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Do you think it worthwhile adding fortnight, century, millennium, era etc? SemperBlotto 12:44, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
FYI, Japanese is done. Rodasmith 06:26, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations, you have now been made an administrator. I hope you enjoy your new privileges. Welcome aboard! — Paul G 15:29, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Are the recycled pages now convenient? —Vildricianus 17:16, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, no problem! It's what we do here. :) --Dijan 18:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for comment. Sorry if this message is in the wrong place but I'm not sure how to reply correctly. Re my wikipedia details, I was first on wiktionary and then started wikipedia, but now i am back to the dictionary again. I must get my user details set up there, but as usual time is the main problem.
I can't find a definition for this. Maybe it's US only. I'll leave it to you. SemperBlotto 10:58, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
maybe you havnt heard it cuz of your scene and age group or where u live. its highly used in oakland richmoind hayward vallejo and bayview
there is no right or wrong way to write egyptian arabic, i am just writing the way you pronounce the words. but you have a point i could use the arabic script as well.
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Tricky word. Isn't ‘young’ the same as sense 1, recently made or created? Also sense 11 is the same as sense 9. Widsith 16:36, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, maybe it's the example sentences that are wrong. 9 has you're new at this business, 11 has I'm new at this job. Perhaps the distinction is that 9 refers to an experience, 11 to someone having the experience, in which case that sentence from 9 should go to 11. But then again perhaps 11 is really no different from sense 10! As for young, I'm still not convinced: you wouldn't say ‘he's new’ about someone if they were young. And the example sentence is not entirely convincing, because it could fit equally well under sense 3. I've been staring at this for so long now the word hardly makes sense to me anymore! Widsith 16:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
What I mean is, the sentence could indicate ‘she has a new (additional) baby, on top of the 2 others she's had in the past’. But it's hard to think of how to word it to remove that ambiguity. Widsith 17:08, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Ha ha! Nice solution! Widsith 17:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your comments on "Normalization." Please take my responses with a grain of salt: nothing I am saying on that page (of all places) should be misunderstood as criticism...rather, I am just trying to get to the bottom of thorny technical issues. To do so, I am trying to be candid, but please don't misinterpret that. I am grateful that you took the time to respond there.
--Connel MacKenzie T C 17:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent comment regarding the new upa definition. A followup comment/ reply to your comment has been posted at my discussion page.
-Scottperry 20:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you used /ɹ/ for the pronunciation of replete. I have changed it to /r/. Personally I agree with you, and I wish we were using /ɹ/ which is more accurate, but there was a long discussion about it here, and I was overruled. So, we should try and fit in with the standard I suppose. Widsith 07:53, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi EncycloPetey! I'm having a little bit of trouble with Bosnian months (more like with other speakers of Bosnian). The problem is that Bosnian language does not have a universally (by government) adopted standard. It follows the old Serbo-Croatian standard and the government also includes Serbian and Croatian text along with Bosnian on all government papers. The problem that I'm having with other Bosnian speakers is that there is a recently published book called (in translation) "Orthography of Bosnian language" and that book is being utilized unofficially by some Bosnians and is claimed by them to be "official". The "orthography" of this book is forcefully considered as the standard on the Bosnian Wikipedia. Many Bosnian speakers do not speak this way at all. Their only referece to this standarization is that one book. I, on the other hand, have found refereces such as national newspapers, magazines, private companies and others that do not follow these rules (because they are not considered official). The official website of the government does not provide any information on standardization either. Specifically, here, the problem is word for "August". They (Bosnian Wikipedians) claim that the word is "august", while I and my sources claim it is "avgust". I have reverted the same IP address about 3 times now. What do you suggest? --Dijan 11:08, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
copied from ===WikiSaurus - compromise proposed (/more)=== A possible compromise between the "tough criteria for WikiSaurus", and the "Don't lose even the least valuable "synonyms". Introduce, in WikiSaurus, a xxx/more subpage for the problem pages. Cull the trash from the main page (by whatever criteria), but don't just delete it, put it in the /more page. In the main page indicate that new entries not meeting the tough criteria have to be put in the /more page, and there can be researched for verifiability, and perhaps later promoted to the main page. With this I would then suggest we might even protect the main WikiSaurus page. Admin's would then be responsible for checking the /more pages every so often to see if there are any terms that could be promoted to the main page, as they meet the criteria. Thus we would meet two purposes. The main WikiSaurus page would be kept up to our "standard" (which I have to point is very subjectively applied), whilst the /more page would capture every possible synonym, and would in effect be a specific protologism page.--Richardb 23:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Pete. Could you specify an e-mail address please? As an admin, you should be contactable for people who have been blocked. Cheers. —Vildricianus 15:23, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I’m just sending this to both of the registerd Koine Greek users. I’m interested in beefing up the selection of ancient Greek words because I have some background in it, and I love etymologies. But I have two questions that I thought maybe one of you could answer. The first is how do I put breathing marks at the beginning of words? I’ve looked and I just can’t seem to find the answer. The second question is regarding capitalization. It seems that the general rule of thumb is that only proper nouns should be capitalized and the rest lower-case. Is that what we’re doing with Greek, or is there some other standard? I’ll be watching your talk pages, so feel free to reply right here. Thanks a lot. Cerealkiller13 20:29, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Also, is there a standard concerning conjugation? For example, would it be useful to put nominative, genitive, plural, etc, forms in an article? Could we make a table with all the forms for each word? Again, thanks. Cerealkiller13 21:09, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a whole bunch. Your answers have been most helpful. As it turns out I still had a Greek keyboard which I used in writing papers for Greek classes which works without a whole bunch of cutting and pasting and even does breathing marks and accents. If something like that would be helpful to you, let me know and I'll track down where to download it. Again, thanks. Cerealkiller13 02:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
When you make the recycled wotd pages, could you protect them as well? That is, semi-protection against edits and full protection against moves. Thanks! — Vildricianus 17:06, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Just so it doesn't catch you by surprise - cheers! bd2412 T 23:09, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
On your user page you say, "Of course, you can leave a message for me here by using my User Talk page. Just select the tab above labeled 'Discussion'." But not everyone will be using the Monobook skin on a graphical browser (non-graphical browsers display a very different page layout), so you might want to consider rephrasing those instructions. I would just drop the second sentence and link the words User Talk page to this page. - dcljr 08:49, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm not familiar with "paradigm templates". Could you point me to one of the entries where I changed the parameters please? Rod (A. Smith) 00:56, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Oh, those templates! Yes, I've been very busy with them. :-) {{en-noun}} is now the one and only template for all English nouns. It displays as a table for readers (and editors) who like tables but it displays inline for everyone else. Similarly for {{en-verb}} and for {{en-adj}}. We hope to make the table/inline setting become an option in the "preferences" pages. Until then, documentation on viewing the part of speech (a.k.a. "inflection") templates is at Template talk:en-noun etc. I'd also be happy to help you switch to the tables setting.
I proposed the new templates on WT:BP several weeks ago and received no objections, so I've recently been moving all pages to use the new templates. Is there anything specific that you have seen to be broken with the new templates? Rod (A. Smith) 01:13, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
{{en-adj}} to {{en-adv}}.This template will not be adequate for Latin etymologies. The problem is that the Latin entry pages (by convention) lack pronunciation macrons that are typically included in dictionaries, but the display form should include them (see Iulius for an example). There needs to be an additional slot for this display form when it is necessary, but the template musn't require the form or Bad Things are likely to happen when people neglect to include it. --EncycloPetey 00:09, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Addendum: You can see what I mean in the etymology section of ululate. --EncycloPetey 01:20, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
I applied {{etymon}} to "ululate". Does that address your concern? Rod (A. Smith) 01:27, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Kaīls! Oh, thanks for pointing that out! Good thing you stopped me before I put hundreds of them in like that. I'll start migrating them to miniscule now. One question - do you think the Majuscule pages should be made into 'redirect' pages, or simply deleted? Beobach972 03:45, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Looking at your contribs, I assume you're pretty busy, so this is to notify you that the WOTDs are being taken care of. Dvortygirl is going to be busy as well and she asked to compile the next monthS of WOTDs ASAP. Wytukaze and me are going to do some stuff, but feel free to keep helping out if you have the time. Cheers, — Vildricianus 13:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I incorporated you suggestions into Wiktionary:Featured word candidates (comment)/guidelines. Does it look complete to you? RJFJR 13:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for adding these mords. Please note that the category you've placed them in is incorrectly named. These months are not unique to the Filipino cultures. Rather they are found in the Tagalog language. The Category should be structured as Catgory:tl:Months. There are categories for "Arabic months" and "Chinese Months", but these exist because the systme for dividing months in those calendars differs from the rest of the world. By caontrast "de:Months" (where de is the code for German) lists words that are found in German and translate as the names of months. --EncycloPetey 05:50, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Pardon this (admittedly ignorant) question, but can either the genetive form or the declension pattern always be determined from the other, or more precisely, from the combination of the other and the lemma?
In any event, I believe the inflection extension I am working on can be extended just a bit to make {{la-noun}} require at least one fewer parameter: certainly the second parameter (the macron-stripped genetive, as determined from the genetive with macrons) and possibly one of either the third (genetive with macrons) or the fifth (declension pattern) parameter, depending on your answer to the above question.
Also, would you prefer to discuss this at Template talk:la-noun? (If so, it's not clear to me where on the page to put design discussion. A new section? if not, should I sign your name to the existing sections?) Rod (A. Smith) 06:00, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
{{la-noun}} to drop two parameters? Rod (A. Smith) 06:43, 6 August 2006 (UTC)Saw your post on WikiSource. This desktop shortcut is immensely useful: http://www.google.ca/search?q=site:en.wikisource.org --Allamakee Democrat 06:51, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Entering the error as an dic/encyc entry is bad. So, Eff you.--Allamakee Democrat 03:48, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Cut and paste errors. Actually, Pantheist = pantheist and Pandeist = pandeist, as in pandeism, which, along with panentheism, panendeism, and polydeism is one of a bunch of new variations on the theme to come down the pike in the last century - though they're all still babies compared to pantheism and deism, each being about 300 years old. bd2412 T 05:12, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Sure, no problem! Rappo 05:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Oops. I was just using one of the default templates for creating a new article. Thanks for the heads up! -PullUpYourSocks 03:23, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Do you know something I don't? Intelligent in Spanish is inteligente... Widsith 19:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
I would like to point out to anyone who hasn't voted yet that there are at least four votes going on at the moment that everyone has a vested interest in, 4 Checkusers, 2 Admins, 1 new logo and 1 boardmember, the more the merrier when it comes to these votes, especially the checkusers which requires 25 votes before anyone can be appointed, and the board vote which determines the course of Wikimedia! - TheDaveRoss 15:42, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up and for coordinating the WOTDs for October. The audio is done for October, already, and in record time, I think. It helps that this batch was eaiser and didn't have anything too outlandish in it. Dvortygirl 06:23, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Dear Petey,
Thank you for signaling your confidence in my ability to act as a CheckUser for the English Wiktionary. Your vote means a lot to me. I deeply appreciate it.
You may not be aware, but the Meta: policy dictates that there must be multiple CheckUsers on any given project, or else none will be granted. Each must get 25 votes on their local wiki, as per Meta: policy, to be granted the CheckUser privilege.
I'd like to take a moment to endorse my friends and co-runners. Each of them offers different skills that, as a whole, complement the needs of the English Wiktionary.
I hope you can take a moment to consider these fine candidates again. Your support means a great deal to them, as well as to Wiktionary's ability to perform its own CheckUser checks in a timely manner.
Thank you again, for your support.
--Connel MacKenzie 06:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Nice; I was going to do the same thing last night; right down to the WT:POS shortcut.
I'm going to add several tables with some more information and comments, if you don't mind ;-) Robert Ullmann 13:03, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Be happy to, hope all the tech stuff sorts itself out. - TheDaveRoss 23:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
My instinct is that it is misleading to try and find a distinction in the senses. Every reference work I can find gives them together as one sense (including the OED, dictionary.com, Websters, Merriam-Webster, and AHD). Why do you think it's necessary or useful to separate them? Widsith 15:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate your thoughtful response, but I must disagree. The reason a separate French translation has popped up is only in response to the English glosses of ‘sorcery, witchcraft’; but it is not exact to claim that these represent a separate sense of the word thaumaturgy. In fact, thaumaturgie has exactly the same range of meaning as the English word, which is to say it encompasses both ‘miracle-working’ as well as the more general ‘magic’. You would only use sorcellerie to translate specifically ‘witchcraft’ or ‘sorcery’, which is not a very good definition of thaumaturgy anyway. The religiously-minded would certainly feel upset by any claim that ‘miracle-working’ and ‘witchcraft’ are equivalent, but the point of the word thaumaturgy is that it takes in the whole range of supernatural work. To me, dividing the senses is creating difference where there is none, and somewhat comparable to adding ‘Labrador’ and ‘spaniel’ as separate senses of dog. Widsith 17:16, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
PS, I'll copy this to the talk page in case anyone else wants to weigh in in the future.. Widsith 08:04, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Please change your Special:Preferences to mark your edits as "patrolled." Thanks! --Connel MacKenzie 22:53, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I laughed when I saw this in Recent Edits, since plantigrade means "walks on the sole of the foot" and tardigrade means "walks on the toes". I imagined this meaning "walks on the kanji". --EncycloPetey 23:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I answered You there . Best regards --birdy (:> )=| 22:59, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Done. The Vietnamese months of the year aren't that exciting: these days, everyone just says "first month" through "twelfth month" or "month 1" through "month 12". The lunar calendar month names are more interesting, but I'm not sure they fit in. If you want, I can add those in too. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 23:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)