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• 11 hours ago, erinmckean said: Hi -- leaving a comment here as I wanted to respond to Prolagus's note below, about us "trying to make the entries better for less-humorous uses". We really do like the humorous uses, I promise, and we often call across the office to each other to point out new and great ones, but there is a limit to how many vexamples folks are willing to put up with, even if they do spark some good jokes.
  
  I'll comment more over on wordnik about "What's a Wordnik for" ...
• 17 hours ago, john said: continued on wordnik, per pro's suggestion...
• 19 hours ago, Prolagus said: It certainly was the very essence of Wordie. Not sure about Wordnik, though.
  
  (I hope you understand* that this conversation in here only because of your comment on my profile and my response. It doesn't have anything specific to do with you!)
  
  *Possible Understanding?
  
  Can I suggest that we move the conversation to wordnik?
• 19 hours ago, PossibleUnderscore said: I don't know what to say...isn't the very essence of Wordie humour? Isn't that the stuff we were allowed to import when switching to Wordnik? Wordie Spirit
  
  Maybe I've misunderstood someone...?
  (VO, I think you hit the nail right on the head, so to speak.)
• 19 hours ago, PossibleUnderscore said:
• 23 hours ago, sionnach said:
• 23 hours ago, vanishedone said: It's the 'Jack of all trades, master of none problem', isn't it? I think they sincerely thought they could combine the best of both worlds, so I doubt the staff seriously look down on 'by-products'; but they're finding it harder than they imagined to get a fully-functioning site together, let alone one with a design clearly targetted at either purpose. (Witness my comments in various places about how parts of the site seem to ignore anything in the database that isn't a single word or hyphenated, which demotes some of the best Wordie pages to second class: I don't think anyone stroked a white cat when putting that into the design, it just happened to be built that way.)
  
  Sorry if this is a bad place to jump into the meta-site discussion, PossibleUnderscore.
• 1 day ago, gangerh said: 'Pronouncements' may be a more apt title for how I believe Wordies-that-was may prefer it.
• 1 day ago, Prolagus said: Thank you, pun...
  I don't know if it makes any sense to keep that pronunciation, though. I have a feeling this place was designed to be more serious than wordie was, and my pronunciation doesn't meet their educational-dictionary purposes (you can read on the Feedback page that they "are trying to make the entries better for less-humorous uses").
  We can keep that one, but how am I supposed to know when something humorous is gladly accepted or just being tolerated as an ineludible by-product of the merging?
  Sorry for being too serious. Perhaps I'm exaggerating.
• 5 days ago, refenestration said: Quite. :)
• 5 days ago, reesetee said: Hi Possible--"Trees" is back (along with my other missing lists, it appears)!
• 6 days ago, ruzuzu said: So the Santa Fox goes to Gibraltar, then some of our favorite features return.... Coincidence? Hm. I guess we know the actual location of The Workshop now. (This must mean John's in on it too. I wonder whether he wears an elf hat when he's writing code.)
• 6 days ago, telofy said: Der dicke Dachdecker was an attempt to record a phrase ending in a dot by editing the HTML with the help of the WebDeveloper toolbar. Unfortunately I can’t play any pronunciations at the moment, so I haven’t been able to test whether it worked...
• 6 days ago, refenestration said: Wow..look at this. Everyone uses such lovely grammar! :]
• 11 days ago, ruzuzu said: Oh! Wait, there is a Tooth Fairy after all--the Sweet Tooth Fairy. Yay!
• 12 days ago, ruzuzu said: Yes, Possible Underscore, there is a Santa Fox... and an Easter Bilby. (The jury's still out on the Tooth Fairy.)
• about 1 months ago, ruzuzu said: "Chained bear" indeed--your comment inspired me to add cynarctomachy to my list. Thanks!
• about 4 months ago, gangerh said: (Schedule to read this in a few days).
  I was about to make a comment on your comment on procrastination. I then realised it wouldn't be so clever to make it straightaway. Just thought I'd let you know it's coming.