Telofy has looked up 12861 words, created 24 lists, listed 9110 words, written 973 comments, added 80 tags, and loved 19 words.
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Hi Telofy, we've fixed the evil problem with your list of evil words: this url should now behave nicely: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/bored-now---evil-words
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Thanks! :-)
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We're talking about nostalgia over on Lost for word. I found "Sehnsucht." Are you familiar with it?
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Hi T, there was a snafu (affecting just the word anpiel, weirdly) on our end. Should be fixed now.
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Lovely, Frog! I used to have that soundtrack on cassette tape--I listened to it all the time.
Recently I made my play-reading group read a long experimental work by Peter Handke just because I had such fond memories of those lines.
And Solveig Dommartin! Ah, well. I especially liked her pronunciation of "Potsdamer Platz." -
I've been enjoying the narration of this German poem:
Lied Vom Kindsein.
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Thank you.
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What's use–mention confusion?
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"Telofy has added 22 lists containing 8,155 words, 887 comments, 77 tags, 33 favorites, and 40 pronunciations."
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Thank you both; you are very dear to me, too.
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Hecko, I love you too--cap T or no cap T.
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I'm not sure if it's possible, Telofy, but I think I love you even more than I did before! ♥
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Why the cap T, telofy? Are you pulling rank on us?
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To me "Telofies" sounds more like a pastry you'd put in a toaster for breakfast - the good kind of pastry, with the extra frosting.
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"Telofies" sounds like some unfortunate brand of tissue paper!
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I suppose that means the plural would now be Telofipodes, right?
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I'm sorry telofy, but before I can upcase you you're going to have to wait a year, just like everyone else.
Uh, kidding :-) We fixed the glitch that was preventing us from doing that earlier, so it's easy now. You should be Telofy. If not, try logging out then back in. -
Neither it nor octopi. Even rhinoceros has been effectively Anglicized by the softening of the c. I find the occasional use of octopodes rather merry and diverting, but platypodes suffers vocalically, in my opinion, because the upsilon has become a short i in the form of y, and thus the archaical forms simply don't flow.
For some reason, though, English has never seriously adopted Greek plurals for any of its words (that I can think of, at any rate), and thus I would approach any claimed English plurals based on Greek rules in the spirit of anything other that classicism or cheerful play with the tendency to cast aspersions. -
Had he been Greek and ancient (to the best of my knowledge) he would have pronounced /ˈkokyges/ for κόκκυγες. Sheldon's pronunciation is typical of loose British-classicist transliterations up to the beginning of the 20th century, which would normalize Greek words into Latin and then normalize the Latin into English, thus giving us soft g's for hard, soft and hard c's for k's, and vowel lengthening. Most words introduced in this way are by now bona fide English words, and are better treated as such than as Greek words. But if they are to be thought of as Greek, they ought (in my opinion) to be thought of so in all aspects.
I'm afraid I'm not really referencing anything; I just needed something to compare inconsistent pedants to, and the phrase came to my mind -- perhaps because I would hear people say "ajos y cebollas" every now and then in Peru, but I have no idea if this is an appropriate context for that. -
Etymologyically coccyx pluralises to coccyges, as a type-3 Greek noun (from a word cognate with "cuckoo", apparently). But if one does that, one also ought pronounce it with all c's hard. An inconsistent pedant is merely garlic and onions.
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I want to use the version that sounds better to you. I uploaded the first version, but amended it. The syndicate's server didn't pick it up initially, but it will eventually. I think I'll post both versions on my blog. Thank you for very much, telofy.
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I reworded my gag because I thought it would be easier to translate!
"Now you see me, now you don't" is the version familiar to me. -
It would be my readership as a whole, so I opted for formality.
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Jetzt sehen Sie mich, jetzt sehen Sie mich nicht.
(Now you see me, now you don't see me.)
I don't trust my German (in my comic strip) unless I get it double-checked! -
Presumably she means doppel-check.
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Calling telofy! Are you around? I need to double-check a short sentence in German.
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Hi telofy, glad you like the corpus additions and the translation feature. Those are provided by the Google Language API—who I intended to credit with a little logo link, like Flickr, but Google is very restrictive about the use of their logo.
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Not there anymore!
*applause*
Your profile is back to normal. Thank you for doing that.
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Oops! I think I'm seeing things differently. After your profile name, there is a big white space (except for the sidebar) before the profile information.
Sorry for the confusion.
: )
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Except for the strange white expanse above.
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Profile looks better again! *hugs*
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Welcome to the Whitelisted Spam Club, telofy!
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Hi t, as you noticed, I had to clamp down on links in profiles earlier this week, necessitated by another massive spam attack. We are at this very moment writing code to better address this, but in the meanwhile I've been whitelisting people to let them use links in profiles. Just added you to the list.
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I left a comment on your blog, telofy.
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Stop spamming us telofy!
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My links work too...
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I'm not sure why my More-About links work while your links do not. I've had them up since my Wordie days.
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Hi, telofy. Kindly pronounce: Frühjahrsmüdigkeit
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Hi t, I believe there's a stats blog post in the works. Once I've read it I'll put a condensed explanation on the stats page itself.
Your en dash is on order—it should arrive from the foundry sometime tomorrow. -
I'll try to get some scripts so we can put 'em in the corpus.
And you forgot the CLOTHES! OMG, the clothes in that show are so good! -
I'm *loving* the Pushing Daisies quotes. Thanks for adding them!
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I like peanut butter, but it doesn't sum me up. I think it's the clarinet.
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so... liking peanut butter doesn't sum you up? if you don't know what in the WORLD I'm talking about, see my profile here.
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Ah, a variant on "Frustkauf" (as supplied to me a contact at the Berlin Philharmonic).
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telofy: Kindly record a pronunciation for "you're something of a hotdog, aren't you".
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Thanks, telofy. Mine has the start of an alveolar trill, but it's not actually necessary. :-)
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Oh, yay--there they are! Thank you for recording the pronunciations of your sobriquet. I like them both.
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Ah, OK... sorry my brain didn't work properly on Friday.
I agree, private messages on here would be good.
By the way, I have noticed that almost no one here in Poland speaks English... and if they do, you don't understand them. There were some minor problems with public transport yesterday, and if this is the case when I go back to Berlin, I will be lost as I won't be able to understand anyone or make myself understood! I really hope I'll be back in Berlin in time!
Telofy commented on the list lost-for-word
I may be mistaken, but I think I knew at one point a word for the rhetorical figure where you facetiously disagree with a completely inconsequential aspect of an argument in order to signal that you do agree with its main point.
“They forgot the part where during her concert X throws up a little in her mouth when she notices Y in the audience.” “Unlikely. Stages are usually so brightly lit that you can hardly see the audience.”
I hope I’m not just imagining it, in which case we’d have to make one up.
Also hi again, everyone!
May 1, 2013
Telofy commented on the word awobble
“ ‘Eat! Eat!’ my mother would shout at our heads bent over bowls, the blood pudding awobble in the middle of the table.” —Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Apr 20, 2013
Telofy commented on the list wordnik-notebooks
Haha, no I hadn’t. That’s wonderful!
I recently managed to find a good use for a form of eisegesis in a news post of mine, and I see it’s also on this list of mine. Perfect!
Jan 7, 2013
Telofy commented on the list wordnik-notebooks
Hecko Ruzuzu! I don’t have one here to check; was alpenglow hidden behind a staple or on the fold? ^^
I’m fluffy! I’ve been doing a lot of pony things over the past year and a half. How about you?
Jan 7, 2013
Telofy commented on the word fesnyng
I’m working for a company called Ferret (or Ferret Go), so my colleagues and I are basically a fesnyng in a way.
Oct 26, 2012
Telofy commented on the list words-you-were-amazed-to-hear-in-a-song
Aww, thanks! I was reminded of it recently when I listened to Emilie Autumn again after a while. :-)
Sep 12, 2012
Telofy commented on the word choo choo train
This video is relevant.
Mar 20, 2012
Telofy commented on the list gene-wolfe
Thanks!
Jan 6, 2012
Telofy commented on the word Increate
Reminds me of Carl Sagan, and yet it’s by Gene Wolfe:
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
Aug 1, 2011
Telofy commented on the user feedback
I can see the word pages again. Marvelous!
Thanks again, Wordnik!
Jul 5, 2011
Telofy commented on the user erinmckean
Thank you, Erin, and thank you, developers!
And—O glory!—I can also access the word pages again. :-D
Jul 5, 2011
Telofy commented on the user feedback
I have this “‘Bored now.’ – Evil Words” list that I can’t access. Might that be the cause of my recent problems? (Here’s the broken link.)
Jul 4, 2011
Telofy commented on the list gene-wolfe
Thanks. :-)
Jul 4, 2011
Telofy commented on the user feedback
I’m in a bit of a pickle here. Words are stacking up, and I can’t list them (or look them up without complications).
There is for example denward, who wants to join the Gene Wolfe list and fisticuff eager to to make it onto the 5-0 list. They are all fidgety with anticipation. I don’t want to stand in the way of their happiness.
Jul 2, 2011
Telofy commented on the user feedback
I just noticed that I can not only not access the word pages, but when I try to add a word to one of my lists (/lists/add_word, where “add word” surely is an allusion to Gene Wolfe’s catachrest) it returns a 500 error as well.
Jun 29, 2011
Telofy commented on the user feedback
A few more details: Whether Chromium 12.0.742.91 or Firefox 5.0 (on Ubuntu 11.04), as soon as I’m logged in, I can’t access the word pages anymore (HTTP status 500). Plz halp…
Jun 21, 2011
Telofy commented on the user feedback
@rolig, I’m getting 500 errors too, as long as I’m logged in. I thought it was a temporary thing, but after a week or so, I now finally decided to check the feedback page.
Looks pretty though—in Chromium’s incognito mode. :-)
Jun 20, 2011
Telofy commented on the word loyalty
—Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New SunJun 10, 2011
Telofy commented on the user ruzuzu
Glad I could help. :-)
Apr 18, 2011
Telofy commented on the list lost-for-word
Sehnsucht, in German, is a longing and yearning mostly for someone or somewhere, but possibly also for somewhen. Nostalgia, then, is a specific kind of Sehnsucht, I think. Here are a few bilingual examples.
Apr 18, 2011
Telofy commented on the word 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001
python -c "print ''.join([ chr(int(b, 2)) for b in '01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001'.split() ])"
Apr 18, 2011
Telofy commented on the word ham
Email that is not spam; non-spam. (Source)
Mar 30, 2011
Telofy commented on the list things-weve-seen-moved-by-ants
For more inspiration, see Apache Ant.
Mar 28, 2011
Telofy commented on the word platybelodon
See uintather.
Mar 27, 2011
Telofy commented on the word uintather
“The Ascians used uintathers and platybelodons as beasts of burden. Mixed with them were machines with six legs, machines apparently built to serve that purpose. So far as I could see, the drivers made no distinction between these devices and the animals; if a beast lay down and could not be made to rise again, or a machine fell and did not right itself, its load was distributed among those nearest to hand, and it was abandoned. There appeared to be no effort to slaughter the beasts for their meat or to repair or take parts from the machines.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
Mar 27, 2011
Telofy commented on the word ransieur
“I saw thousands armed with the ransieur, so that at length I came to believe that all their infantry was equipped in that way; then, as night was falling, we overtook thousands more carrying demilunes.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
Mar 27, 2011
Telofy commented on the word uturuncu
“This old man was said to be an uturuncu, a shaman capable of assuming the form of a tiger.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
Mar 27, 2011
Telofy commented on the word osomy
awesome-y
Mar 21, 2011
Telofy commented on the list words-you-were-amazed-to-hear-in-a-song
Thanks—and I haven’t even added any Rovics words yet.
Update: Fix’d.
Mar 18, 2011
Telofy commented on the word cluck-off
A video from the 1999 National Cluck-Off.
Mar 15, 2011
Telofy commented on the word datanity
“Locking data is a crime against datanity” —Datalove
Mar 6, 2011
Telofy commented on the word paleosilicic
Seen here.
Mar 5, 2011
Telofy commented on the user feedback
Are you aware that the pronunciation pages are currently inaccessible?
Mar 2, 2011
Telofy commented on the list recaptcha-words
Chances are it has appeared on a reCAPTCHA at some point.
Feb 25, 2011
Telofy commented on the user john
Marvelous, thanks!
Feb 20, 2011
Telofy commented on the user feedback
I wanted to add anpiel to my Gene Wolfe list, but the AJAX request 500s and the definition page 404s (yes, those are verbed numbers). This problem is especially grave, because Anpiel is responsible for birds and, as we all no doubt know, the bird is the word.
Feb 20, 2011
Telofy commented on the word fennec
Awww.
Feb 17, 2011
Telofy commented on the list recaptcha-words
Rofl, do you practice nonlinear play reading—everyone reads their lines in the order that seems most natural to them—in your play reading group, ruzuzu?
Feb 14, 2011
Telofy commented on the list recaptcha-words
I wouldn’t wish to confer judgment on such a profound and weighty issue as the fate of digital spirit, automatic, or ghost writing in the 21st century, but with what I can readily furnish all of you is the assurance that you haven’t been missing out on this list for long, as I have created it only minutes before ruzuzu posted her first comment here.
Feb 12, 2011
Telofy commented on the list recaptcha-words
You seem to have one awesome life!
Feb 12, 2011
Telofy commented on the word money
An awkward contingency of history. (Inspired by CMOS 16, 14.98)
Feb 12, 2011
Telofy commented on the list recaptcha-words
It’s the Englished version of the obscure German term Rautavistik. The German Wikipedia article roughly says: “Rautavistics is a form of performance art, whereby actions of no apparent meaning or purpose for the actor or third parties are elevated to an art form.” It may be akin to dadaism—not sure.
Feb 12, 2011
Telofy commented on the word snazzy
Trochee used it here. :-)
Feb 9, 2011
Telofy commented on the word emendate
I may have to up- or emendate this comment.
It’s not even a back-formation, is it?
Feb 4, 2011
Telofy commented on the word Democracy Now!
The Democracy Now! torrent feed is sometimes lagging behind a day or so. I just quickly hacked together a little script to download the torrent files directly—for example into your rTorrent watch directory. Have fun!
Feb 1, 2011
Telofy commented on the word cooccur
co-occur. Looks to me like it were some cute marsupial—or possibly one of those pidgeon-dog hybrids.
Jan 25, 2011
Telofy commented on the list 5-0
(Wow, fascinating!)
Jan 16, 2011
Telofy commented on the word passival
Language Log: A peeve for the ages
Jan 13, 2011
Telofy commented on the word integrious
Integrious: The Adjective of Integrity (The Integrious Project)
Jan 13, 2011
Telofy commented on the list stuff-vegans-consume-instead-of-critters
Jan 10, 2011