erinmckean has looked up 22188 words, created 81 lists, listed 1881 words, written 466 comments, added 3422 tags, and loved 873 words.
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Thank you! These are all good suggestions ... I will look into the Community page stats issue asap.
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I would love to learn (and possibly I am not the only one) how many of my uploaded entries were entirely new to Wordnik (my net contribution). Is there a way to find it out?
The general statistics on the Community main page doesn't seem to be refreshed, at all. It would look better from a PR point of view for Wordnik, if it did. Has it been forgotten?
I may be the only one who uploads masses of collocations (do you need them?) but there had been tens of thousands collocations on Wordnik even before I started mass upload. It would be great to see in the statistics how many words (in the strict sense) and how many word combinations Wordnik has. Surely, it is not too difficult to keep URLs with and without the "%20" tag separate. Please make them appear separately if there is a way.
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Thanks Heather! The floating words were a little too slow for the homepage, but I hope they will get their own dedicated page soon.
I'll see if I can't work Vahowwge into my daily conversation ... -
hey erin, what happened to the floating words? just doing a little blog post on Wordnik - we met last year at Thinking Digital... must remember to get bunnyskantch in sometime soon, but i have a new word now from my most eloquent daughter.... Vahowwge! I think it means Awesome / I'm happy!
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Thanks.
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*ahem*
See astrothesia.
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Thanks Erin! I'm afraid I let go of the wffrogs e-mail years ago. I can't believe I've been on wordie that long. :-/
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Thanks marky! We really appreciate all the feedback you've given us as we work to make Wordnik better ...
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so the site is working much better now. I can certainly tell the difference. fairly usable. I need to get used to the interface I suppose. some things I like, other things just not sure yet. the main thing is the site is working faster! thanks.
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Ruzuzu's was using the email address "ameworn.ew@gmail.com" but it's probably a throwaway.
So weird! We're working to find a way to keep these "Uniclones" (b/c they are Unicode mimics) out. -
Can you figure out where ruzuzu's and hernesheir's clones originated?
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Thank you, Erin, and thank you, developers!
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Many thanks, Erin, John, and Tony for all your efforts! At last I seem to be able to view word pages. I guess it was that funny č in one of my list names that was causing the problem. How peculiar.
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Erin, as I just wrote by email. Once I cleared the cookies, I did get access to word pages, but after I logged in I started getting the error pages again. This is very frustrating.
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Erin, thanks for responding. I'm using a Mac OS 10.4.11 with Safari 4.0.5. Do I need to update something? (I'm posting on your profile page as well as the feedback page just in case.)
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testing comments
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testing double brackets turtle
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‘Lists,’ Exhibition at Morgan Library & Museum
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thanks Marky! Fixed.
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your first link on pea coffee is a broken link.
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I have seen unabridged dictionaries of various sizes. Makes it more wonderful to wander.
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Goody! It's already swell the way it is--but I'm sure it'll clean up real nice.
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Thanks ruzuzu! We're continuing to tidy up the Century, so expect more niceness from it shortly. :-)
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I just wanted to say thank you for introducing me to the Century Dictionary--I'm starting to think of it as my new bff, and that wouldn't have been possible for me without Wordnik.
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A dear college friend of mine assisted TW for many years in putting together TED conferences and coauthored a book with him. My friend has moved on and is completing a dissertation on Iliazd's books and other art, shuttling between French Canada, Paris, and NYC.
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Hi Mollusque!
Well, it might be hard to get Grant to work on Wordie, since he's now working down in San Diego for someone else ... but John's still here and working hard!
The next big goal, sitewise, is to make it easier for people to contribute in fun and interesting ways. I'm not sure if definitions are the way to go, but we'll be testing all sorts of different things, for sure.
Our goal for Wordnik is still the same: all the words, and everything about them. It's a big goal, but we'll get there ...
Thanks!
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Dear Erin,
Could you spare John and Grant to work on Wordie for a while? They are spending all their time on another site called Wordnik, and the old Wordie spirit is slowly fading away. Two years ago, Wordie was rollicking along at up to 3000 comments a week. Wordnik limps along at one tenth that. Requests for routine fixes often take weeks to months to act on, and some functions/features that we had on Wordie still have not been implemented on Wordnik, making it harder for new users to get oriented and resulting in the loss of long-time stalwarts such as sionnach.
I think the emphasis on portal and other automated functions ignores much of the potential of the site. What about crowd-sourcing? Maybe you could get a grant to train selected users in lexicographic principles and allow them to create and edit definitions. If one percent of the 50,000 users defined one undefined word per day, almost 200,000 definitions would be added per year. Other aspects of the site could also benefit from concerted attention. For example, a slightly upgraded related word function could be the basis of an extraordinary navigable network of words.
Where do you see Wordnik going?
Thanks,
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I think it's fantastic that you were the first person to list Joe Miller.
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I watched your talks on YouTube this week, and they are inspired! I'll never look at ham the same way again. Oh, and you've inspired me to love the word "witticist" into existence.
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Thx Erin, that's what Grant was saying too. I appreciate the notice and look forward to using the list part of the API!!
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Hey marky, sorry not to get to this earlier -- there is a plan for a lists API. Watch the blog, we'll announce it there when it's fully cooked. :-)
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Erin, will the API allow access to user lists? (just the words in the list primarily) thx! ;)
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Oh, lovely -- thank you!
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Add me to the list of fans of The Tetris Dress.
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Clothing, right, another of your fortes. I’ll have to pay more attention to that.
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Thanks, I’ll keep them coming.
Besides the writing I also love the acting, the scenery, the plots and the premises of the series. Only, those are hard to quote.
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Aw, thanks! Y'all are too nice. :-)
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Erin. I love your A DRESS A DAY blog!
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Hey watched your TED Talk. Gave it Funny, Inspiring, Informative! Like to meet you someday! (thx whichbe for turning me onto it) :D
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tank ewe!
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I just watched your TED talk--it's really inspiring. You rock.
erinmckean commented on the user CarlosG
Hi CarlosG! If you want to add citations, leaving them as comments on the entry (such as cli-fi) is just fine.
Thank you!
Jun 6, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word determs
The Cincinnati tax-exempt determinations unit, which employees refer to as "determs," is considered by employees one of the less-attractive IRS posts.
Division in Dispute Followed Own Course, May 16, 2013
May 23, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user replysurbhi81
hi bilby so it seems we had a y2k-type error in our all-time comments total, we're missing a place at the end. :-) It's on the fixit list.
May 20, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
thanks marky -- we're seeing some high loads that we're looking into now, too.
Apr 23, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
thanks marky! We're looking into it, there's a chance there was a regression on the server side of things ...
Apr 22, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word genethliac
dearest ruzuzu
our genethliac wishes
for a happy day
Apr 22, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word moriman
"I've just learned a term so marginal it's not even in the newly revised M section of the OED, but useful enough to occur frequently in books about West Africa: moriman, plural morimen (sometimes written "mori man," "mori men"). It refers to people in Sierra Leone who earn a living from writing Arabic charms for magical amulets, and of course I wanted to know its origin. Assiduous googling made it clear that mori is a Mende word for 'Muslim' (morimo or moremo is "Muslim/mori man"), but the only suggestion I could find about its origin is in a footnote on page 211 of The Mende Language: Containing Useful Phrases, Elementary Grammar, Short Vocabularies, Reading Materials (London: Kegan Paul, 1908) by F. W. H. Migeod (available at Archive.org): "Mori, corruption of Moor, means magician, or Arabic charm writer, etc." Now, Moor goes all the way back to Latin Maurus 'inhabitant of North Africa,' so it's not unthinkable (as dear Prof. Cowgill used to say) that some related form is the source of the Mende word, but I have no idea whether it's plausible." from Language Hat.
Apr 15, 2013
erinmckean commented on the list port-man-teaus
I've just seen "man-gagement" in the sense of "man-gagement rings"
Apr 15, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user Renee1
Thanks Renee! You're on the list, and will get our next monthly newsletter, which will go out next week. You should also begin receiving the word of the day email next week as well.
Apr 5, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word dartcapitation
the process of removing the whistling tip of a Nerf foam dart, to improve accuracy.
Mar 22, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word snipe
I saw this in the context of (I think) promotional material, especially promotional material put up illegally in public places: "At the same time, Mercury did a snipe poster campaign in retail stores and on the streets with the image of the band and call letters of stations playing "Laid."" Billboard Feb 19, 1994
and "It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation
to post, stick, tack, or otherwise affix or cause to be posted,
stuck, tacked or otherwise affixed any bill, snipe, poster, banner,
notice or advertisement to or upon any building, outbuilding or
part thereof, or upon any wall, fence, gate, post, sidewalk, tree,
telegraph pole, telephone pole, awning or shelter pole in the City
of Oakland, except on a regularly authorized bulletin board, bill-
board or structure built especially for that purpose, and then only
on consent in v/riting from the owner or authorized agent of the
property on which the advertisement is to be placed." General municipal ordinances of the city of Oakland, California, in effect November 1, 1912
Mar 13, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word nomophobia
nomophobia: fear of being without a cell phone (from "no" + "mobile" + phobia)
Mar 13, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word attitudical
In the sense of "showing or having a bad attitude."
Mar 3, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word hormental
A blend of hormonal and mental.
Mar 3, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word randonee
Randonee (according to the OED) comes from a French word meaning "a long uninterrupted walk."
Feb 27, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word kenopsia
oh hernesheir & bilby, I didn't know how much I needed this word. Thank you!
Feb 21, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word boodler
Thanks for the heads-up -- can you let me know what link you're trying to share? This one, or the wordnik.com/word-of-the-day link?
Feb 13, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
Hi bilby! We've found the fix, and it will be deployed next week ...
Feb 8, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
Hi bilby! We've found the fix, and it will be deployed next week ...
Feb 8, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word apiaster
This is a bird.
Feb 6, 2013
erinmckean commented on the list trending-words
I keep meaning to let you guys know that cat is the word looked up by the service we use (Pingdom) to test that the website is up and running. It's looked up every few minutes all day every day without fail (unless, of course, we're NOT up and running, in which case it does fail).
It's like Schroedinger's Cat, actually -- until we look it up we don't know if Wordnik is alive or dead. :-)
Feb 6, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word undermimed
I'd rather be undermimed than overmimed.
Jan 31, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
oh weird. Okay, will try to fix! Any way you could send a screenshot?
Jan 30, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
Okay -- so this is what I'm seeing, which I'm assuming is not what you're seeing? (Small matter of username aside?)
http://cl.ly/image/3d2W2c171E0L
Jan 29, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word diarrhoea
We use Flickr's safe filter ... which is, as you say, a good thing.
Jan 29, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
Hi bilby! that should have a black background, I will try to see where it went ... can you let me know what browser you're using?
Jan 29, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user smartypant
Hi Smartypant! Your user information is active -- if you're logged out, your lookups won't register, so please do log in.
Jan 28, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word wordmap
Oh, thanks! The green words aren't synonyms ... they are words that are used in similar contexts. For example, mustard and mayonnaise aren't synonyms, but people talk about them in similar ways.
Of course, even with that explanation the same-context words for Godzilla don't make all that much sense, either. Good thing we're working on updating that data, huh?
Jan 22, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word wordmap
We've added wordmaps to many of the words on Wordnik -- check them out in the Related section. This is still a beta feature, so feedback welcome!
Jan 22, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user mary-ann_sturdy
Thanks Mary-Ann ... we're updating our sources soon and with any luck cire will join the ranks of words with traditional dictionary definitions. :-)
Jan 21, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
marky you're totally right, as usual. There is definitely a better way ... I can't find your email with the suggestion right now, could you resend to feedback and I'll make a ticket for it?
Thanks!
Jan 20, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word alphome
An alphome is a set of alphabetically ordered letters of which at least one arrangement is a word. For instance GHIMNOTU is an alphome because it can be rearranged to spell mouthing.
Jan 11, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word feedback
hi bilby! Yes, I would love it if we could select the examples. There are some hard questions about sorting/indexing that have to get straightened out. :-(
Jan 2, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user michel.reginster1
Hi Michel! We noticed you signed up for our Word of the Day, but our email address for you isn't working. Would you mind emailing us at feedback@wordnik.com so we can get you signed up?
Jan 2, 2013
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
thanks marky -- that would be useful. I'm not sure if we have API support for that right now, I will check!
Dec 22, 2012
erinmckean commented on the user mpgrassfield
Hi mpgrassfield, if you email us at feedback@wordnik.com (or use the feedback tab on this page) we can change your username for you. Just let us know what name you would like.
Thanks!
Dec 22, 2012
erinmckean commented on the word beepstep
James Halliday, otherwise known as “substack”, has been making what he calls computer generated beepstep using two new modules: baudio (npm: baudio, License: MIT) and plucky (npm: plucky, License: MIT). DailyJS
Dec 21, 2012
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
Oh, yes, I know those! I will see how easy that is to add. It must be, or it wouldn't be everywhere ...
Dec 18, 2012
erinmckean commented on the list the-karamazov-bros-blab
I agree! But I was slightly hoping for something related to the *FLYING* Karamozov Bros. :-)
Dec 18, 2012
erinmckean commented on the user feedback
Dear Prolagus, thank you! I know it is frustrating not to be able to find what you need.
We're working on a lot of these things but progress is (a lot) slower than we'd like.
Can you give me more feedback on what you'd like the comment boxes to be like? And I'm not sure I understand the problem with clickable text with a link is -- is it a problem with putting in a href= type tags?
Thank you again for the feedback. I know it comes from a good place ... I wish I had firm dates for certain improvements and updates.
Dec 18, 2012
erinmckean commented on the list sup-bro
I feel I should add brostep. Great suggestion!
Dec 14, 2012
erinmckean commented on the word slidentify
"to slide or expose your passport, driver's license, company-issued ID card, and/or credit card to a machine that identifies you and/or your account." via Dennis Sonifer
Dec 10, 2012
erinmckean commented on the word worm burden
This is also a great name for a band.
Dec 6, 2012
erinmckean commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy
ooh, ry do it. I'm in.
Dec 5, 2012
erinmckean commented on the word Irish nachos
"Irish Nachos are like regular nachos but instead of tortilla chips there are crispy sliced of baked potatoes on the bottom!" What's Gaby Cooking?
Nov 29, 2012
erinmckean commented on the word fuede
"We firmly believe that there is a time for tortoiseshell and a setting ideally suited for faux suede—which we insist ought to be called “fuede.”" Bureau of Trade
Nov 28, 2012
erinmckean commented on the word kaydars
"As mentioned earlier, you will need a heat press, but you then have the task of displaying the printed textile. If you are going to suspend it you may need capability for putting it into frames, creating hems for silicon strips known as kaydars, or to create eyelets, so you need some sewing and cutting capability." Printweek
Nov 27, 2012
erinmckean commented on the word thesdex
a combination thesaurus and index in one document.
Nov 26, 2012
erinmckean commented on the word sesquilingualism
"Mastery of one and a half languages" (Herbert Pilch)
Nov 25, 2012
erinmckean commented on the word autoletic
The story is that “flow” is especially possible for people with an *autoletic* personality. That is, people with high levels of curiosity, persistence, low self-centeredness, and a high rate of performing activities for intrinsic reasons only. (from Dan Russell)
Nov 21, 2012