John McGrath

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• 15 hours ago, Prolagus said: I'm sending it as a pm to your facebook account!
• 20 days ago, marky said: John, I'm trying to get the full JSON or XML of words in word lists. The RSS only lists the last 100 it seems. How can I access past pages or the full list in one database file? I'm analyzing the pages but I don't want to have to scrape HTML for the data, that's a pain in the butt!!!! Can I use the API? Please answer!
• 21 days ago, hernesheir said: You're such a great Hal (2001 - Space Odyssey) but better a great personable "interface" for this awesome enterprise so many of us are drawn to and contribute to! Gold star on your forehead from all of us, if "thanks" isn't enough!
• 27 days ago, ruzuzu said: Thank you, John!
• 28 days ago, frogapplause said: I can't add words to my lame lists, and my lame pronunciations aren't saving. I'm taking this PERSONALLY!!! ( I tried logging out and then back in.)
• 29 days ago, Prolagus said: test (see comment on Feedback)
• about 1 month ago, Prolagus said: What are you doing at 4 am? Go to sleep!
• about 1 month ago, fehguy said: Love the site updates, thanks for the hard work
• about 1 month ago, reesetee said: Had this been an actual emergency, would the Attention Signal we just read have been followed by official information, news, or instructions?
  
  Just wonderin'.
• about 1 month ago, johntest said: This is a test of the Wordnik broadcasting system.
• about 2 months ago, abraxaszugzwang said: Thanks, John, and thanks for keeping the site going. It looks great!
• about 2 months ago, stasy said: Hi, John,
  can you help me? As a comment on the word 'margar' you left the phrase I'm just translating (from a Zadie Smith's recent novel) Probably you know what it means - margar child? Any suggestion would be helpful.
  Thanks in advance
• about 2 months ago, rolig said: Thanks, John!
• about 2 months ago, whichbe said: Awesome. Yeah, John, an uppercase "W" would be good. Thanks.
• about 2 months ago, tonytam said: john works hard, and loves words
• about 3 months ago, rolig said: Oops, but now, when I tried to fix a couple more list titles ("i~je~я~ich~jaz" and "pogovorno: Zoran Hočevar, Rožencvet") and then clicked on them, I get the "Not found" page.
• about 3 months ago, rolig said: By the way, I see that the "č" appears correctly in the comment I just wrote here. And I was able to fix the title of my list "slovenščina" simply by retyping the "č". So I am feeling hopeful.
• about 3 months ago, rolig said: Thanks for your comment, John. I'm impressed that things look as much like Wordie as they do. I am sure you will keep trying to work out all the bugs, including the apparent difficulties imposed by the Cyrillic alphabet and even certain characters in the Central European Latin alphabets (like "č"). It is amusing that Hindi and Chinese characters should appear in my "slovenščina" list. When I click on such words, I get the message, "Disallowed key characters in global data", which curiously points to the different meanings of the word global. Good luck with finding an effective bug spray.
• about 3 months ago, frogapplause said:
  
  Frog Applause 11-03-2009
  (See vertical text on left.)
• about 3 months ago, jennarenn said: Hey John,
  
  I can comment on some lists, but not others. It tells me that I need to log in, and then I log in, and then it asks me to log in in an endless loop. Please help!
  
  Thanks,
  Jen
• about 3 months ago, seanahan said: The scarier thing is to come up with something which I think is endlessly witty and rush to Wordie to post it, only to realize that I myself posted it two years ago. I don't look forward to my dotage.
• about 3 months ago, ruzuzu said: Humbling and, of course, endlessly fascinating.
• about 3 months ago, ruzuzu said: Thanks for complimenting my "ize."
  
  You're right about Wordies--they are very nice. The only problem I've had up to now is that I'll think I've come up with something witty or original, only to find that it was deftly added two years ago by someone brilliant. It's humbling.
• about 4 months ago, gangerh said: I played with your name. 
  
• about 4 months ago, bilby said: Help requested to delete account.
• about 5 months ago, vanishedone said: Another spammer bites the dust, I see. Cheers!
• about 6 months ago, briwref said: apologies...I tried to add new words directly from my link in Facebook. (I even confused myself)
• about 7 months ago, john said: :-)
• about 7 months ago, dontcry said: Happy Father's Day, father of wordie!
• about 8 months ago, john said: Thanks VO, nuked that other bozo too.
• about 8 months ago, vanishedone said: Thanks for killing off globalapostilleservice. Is it even worth giving a warning to this one, given that the style looks familiar?
• about 8 months ago, sionnach said: Oh yes. That thing sitting under the bridge there stinking up the neighborhood is definitely a troll.
• about 8 months ago, yarb said: I call it trolling. Ho hum.
• about 8 months ago, vanishedone said: John, what do the house rules say about thematic consistency like this? I'm not sure whether desum is trolling in search of a reaction or just deeply single-minded.
• about 8 months ago, john said: Alandriadenisewalker, I have no record of ever having received an email from the account you used to register for Wordie. If you have any questions or comments concerning Wordie that you'd rather send to me directly rather than through the site, please do, my contact info is on the about page.
• about 8 months ago, alandriadenisewalker said: Hi John. I e-mailed you(sorry about that) maybe you could e-mail back sometimes.
• about 8 months ago, dontcry said: Oh, by the way, I'm on the porch swing. No hurry.
• about 8 months ago, dontcry said: I'd like a splash of whatever you have in red...
• about 8 months ago, nuxiy said: Oh, a cup of coffee would be most appreciated :)
• about 8 months ago, john said: Hi Guys. Um... can I offer anyone a beverage?
• about 8 months ago, Prolagus said: Hi John.
• about 8 months ago, nuxiy said: Hi John.
• about 9 months ago, chained_bear said: I am reminded of Ed Begley, Jr.'s character in A Mighty Wind. :)
• about 9 months ago, madmouth said: it's a great list! we all say miles of Yiddish without knowing it
• about 10 months ago, vanishedone said: Sorry this isn't a nice message, but: johntgraham is trolling. I'm guessing you'll want either to nuke the posts or to add them to the 'mentions' page.
• about 10 months ago, john2 said: testing comment email.
• about 11 months ago, brettfagan said: Sorry about the "SEO"; just describing what I do...
• about 11 months ago, mechanolatry said: I want to thank you for your kind words. For some reason people were getting pissy when I'd comment with my own version of a definition- which usually added more info anyway, and people kept getting upset. I was honestly considering leaving the site... but the call of words was too strong! So here I am. You've renewed my hope in decent wordies! lol
  
  Sorry for the extra postings, my internet is still being picky.
• about 11 months ago, vanishedone said: If you're now saying you're back on the bike, dare I ask what happened to the horse...? Please tell me it's living out its retirement in a pasture somewhere, or something--
• about 1 year ago, john said: I haven't posted to Errata in an embarrassingly long time, but not sure why the old posts aren't loading, will look into it. And someday I do plan to be a blogger again, I swear.