Rolig

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• 5 days ago, feedback said: Rolig, just wanted to let you know that there are indeed situations in which moving from certain parts of the site to other parts of the site logs you out. Engineers are working on it. The rest of us are putting wood on the fire.
• 7 days ago, uselessness said: I'm unable to hear your pronunciations! I can play the audio files, but they all come across as a few seconds of silence (or white noise). Are you previewing them before saving, just to make sure your microphone's working?
• 8 days ago, frogapplause said: I hope you'll pronounce some words and phrases in Slovene.
• 12 days ago, ruzuzu said: Thanks for getting back to me on the Czech no/ano question. I was curious because I think Latvian (a Balto-Slavic language) has a word spelled "no," which means something more like "of" or "from."
• 15 days ago, john said: Hi rolig, wanted to apologize for the character encoding issues that have appeared on some of your lists. It's my doing--the Wordie database was kind of a mess after a few years not always careful noodling. We did the best we could moving things over, but some characters got a bit mangled.
• 19 days ago, ruzuzu said: Hello helpful rolig,
  
  I had been asking Milosrdenstvi about the etymology of the Czech no/ano, but Milosrdenstvi said that would be probably more up your alley. Any suggestions?
  
  
• 28 days ago, ruzuzu said: Thanks for offering to pack her alpaca. That's a big help.
• about 1 months ago, gangerh said: I played with your name. 
  
• about 6 months ago, Prolagus said: It would make me extremely happy to come to Slovenia someday. In that case, I will bring some home-made fufluns.
• about 6 months ago, zaggan said: wow thaz cool
• about 6 months ago, alandriadenisewalker said: WOW, crasy comments dude!
• about 6 months ago, madmouth said: Thank you; a labour of love.
  I find your lists and comments unique and noteworthy.
  
  It's hard to know what's a goodly time to reach comment or word quantities here...there's a bizarre absence of date-stamping on Wordie. Does anyone know why?
• about 6 months ago, rolig said: Thanks, Pro! I wasn't really paying attention. I have no idea when I hit my fourth chiliad.
• about 6 months ago, Prolagus said: 3008 words, rolig! Congratulations! I can't see your recent activity, what's your 3000th entry?
• about 6 months ago, jfk said: What does "23" mean? As in "23 squidoo!"
• about 7 months ago, madmouth said: done.
• about 7 months ago, madmouth said: Thank you. I don't know why fate hadn't led me to Wordie (and kimchi) earlier.
• about 7 months ago, madmouth said: I'm a Bosno, actually, though it's always tricky; half the time I tell people Yugoslavian just because that's my sense of things.
  
  
  I take it you're Slovenian?
• about 8 months ago, nuxiy said: Thank you :) Im still trying to get the whole concept of Wordie :P
• about 8 months ago, nuxiy said: Norsk? :P
• about 8 months ago, qroqqa said: The distinction between 'dis-' and plural '-s' is that the former is derivational, the latter inflectional. The non-existence of a free noun *'scissor' doesn't mean that the bound base 'scissor' can't be used in various ways: by conversion it can be used as a verb; it can take plural endings to become a free noun; and it can be used as a noun in attributive function ('scissor parts').
  
  It's a bit difficult to see because in English bases almost always have free existence: unlike in Latin or Greek where there's no such thing as simply the 'word for' X, but rather a bound base with obligatory complex inflexion.
• about 8 months ago, fbharjo said: I thought of "interstice" in terms of something "standing", but it has a sense of "liminality" also. Thanks for the suggestion.
• about 9 months ago, qroqqa said: On *scissor, *underpant, *hijink—sorry, I only saw this yesterday—I've had a look through a couple of books and the closest I can find is the CGEL term bound base. They distinguish bases from affixes, so 'lighthouses' contains bases 'light' and 'house', and 'disperse' and 'discombobulate' contain bound bases, ones that can't exist as words once the affix 'dis' is removed. Some pluralia tantum bound bases have some marginal independent (or loosely-bound) existence in attributive constructions, as in 'trouser leg', 'scissor blade'.
• about 9 months ago, morganscorpion said: Thanks for your help, rolig
• about 9 months ago, mcritz said: Oh, good point! I probably should have spelled it with an apostrophe. I created a new entry for [b'icicle]. Much funnier! Thanks!
• about 9 months ago, mcritz said: Oh, good point! I probably should have spelled it with an apostrophe. I created a new entry for [b'icicle]. Much funnier! Thanks!
• about 10 months ago, Prolagus said: *32-tooth smile*
  Phantom Limb is waiting for you.
• about 10 months ago, kargin said: Witajcže K'nam, I'm a 5th generation Texan whose family came from Reichswald Hoyerswerda Germany in 1854. Unfortunately I know nothing about either Sorbian dialect/language.
  
  I'm only really able to answer anything about my Sorbian ancestors from right at and after the time they left Lusatia Germany.
• about 1 year ago, Prolagus said: Rolig, couldn't moda be a loanword from Italian?
• about 1 year, 3 months ago, bilby said: I turned off the 'recent activity' feed in 'Preferences'. I can't remember why. Probably so I couldn't stalk myself.
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, bilby said: Hi. Would you like to be on Identify the Wordie #2? You'll need to email identifythewordie@yours.com with your Wordie nick and the single word that best describes you. Cheers!
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, darqueau said: pretty sure I'd like this one, were I to ever meet him.
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, bilby said: Hi Rol. I have a few short stories, poems, bits and pieces at au.360.yahoo.com/mondialdreaming.
  Piazza 111 should be published about November. Having said that, I'm not at all sure Green Door (publisher) will have their act together. Might slip over to early 2009. I'll be happy to send you a copy when it's out.
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• about 1 year, 5 months ago, jennarenn said: rolig, every time I see your name I start humming Rawhide to myself. :)
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, frogapplause said: Sorry, rolig. Today is not my day. I just replied to you on my OWN page!
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, frogapplause said: rolig: Thank you! I'd very much appreciate your help with some shoecabs in Slovene; however, I'd prefer to correspondence with you privately regarding the Slovene. My contact address can be found at the older version of the gocomics cartoon website at:
  http://www.gocomics.com/frogapplause/ or http://www.gocomics.com/shoecabbage/. Same email address for both features.
  
  The new gocomics website is at http://www.mycomicspage.com (This site is still being under construction so not all of the bells and whistles are working).
• about 1 year, 10 months ago, treeseed said: Hello rolig,
  Thank you for sharing the word stridulation but even moreso thank you for the wonderful citation about John Collier and Fancies and Goodnights. I plan to try to get a copy of it today.
• about 1 year, 10 months ago, sionnach said: Rolig: Have you seen this site?
  
  fractured translation of Slovak idioms
  
  Some of the "translations" are pretty funny. My favorites were:
  
  It's valid to me like legs to a snake.
  In flight, when it's precise warmthness, everybody is browsing banks.
  
  I cannot even imagine what that last sentence is supposed to me.
• about 1 year, 11 months ago, rolig said: *I am completely blushing* - which I don't often do! Thanks!
• about 1 year, 11 months ago, sionnach said: I second what bilby wrote - rolig's comments and citations are da bomb!
• about 1 year, 11 months ago, bilby said: You write very thoughtful citations and comments rolig so it must be time to thank you for that. Sretna Nova Godina!