hernesheir has looked up 79314 words, created 265 lists, listed 52206 words, written 9429 comments, added 46348 tags, and loved 40 words.
Comments by hernesheir
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Nice to hear... (I find myself in your lists every now and then)
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*Pssst.* Check your tags on vectis. Things have gone a bit slanty.
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Speaking of words listed, I see that we now have "999,099 words in 32,279 lists." Those nines sure look pretty....
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Wow--that was a nice round number for comments. Congratulations again, hh!
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Three words: coglioni di mulo.
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Here, hernesheir. I bought a bottle of the new Umbrage-Out Stain Remover, specially formulated for Wordnik pages. This oughta do the trick.
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Hmm. Going to need a little club soda, there.
Umbrage stains like crazy. -
*flees, seeking lost umbrage*
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*takes umbrage and runs off with it*
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I never! Umbrage! Umbrage!
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Do you have a wheat list by any chance?
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I suspect that you're the target of a disgruntled cilantrophobe. Reesetee comes to mind.
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The other hh also wrote a strange comment on sionnach's page.
Could it be chad? -
Loch Ness Monster? Dr Jamieson?
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Seems a bit malicious, wouldn't you think?
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Wormhole? Woody Allen movie?
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Time warp? Black hole?
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Parallel universe? String theory?
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Is it possible that two Wordniks have the same screen name? Or could it be some bizarre glitch that came with the new interface?
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Don't know how that photo got to my profile page. It's not me or anyone I know.
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I am the real hh, the one who gave us Janet's method.
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It's strange, isn't it? I thought I was going bonkers when I saw it.
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See here.
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Do you mean somebody uploaded that photo from your account? Can you say with certitude it's not you?
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Don't know how the photo got loaded onto my profile page. It's not me at all. But the gender is at least correct. Biocon, I too was born in the Gem State.
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lol
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Are you male?
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How did you do that? Which hernesheir is the real hernesheir?
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You are a hottie with a naughty body.
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Thought I'd just upload a quick pic of myself
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Hernesheir, you are the heir to brains (see hernes).
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Hey, I am a native Idahoan.
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Would it be possible to do some kind of dynamic linking between Doctor Jamieson and the medical dictionary you are apparently currently browsing. For instance, it would be really fun to hear Doctor Jamieson's words for pyemesis and omphalorrhea? Or ... ponders ... maybe we could just make them up ourselves.
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No worries, hernesheir. I've been (guiltily) stealing every one of the Scottish bird names you've been listing. (Well, almost every one; a few are already on my "nicknames" list.) It's a delight seeing them scroll by. :-)
As for the birdwatching--I'm insanely jealous! I don't think any of the birds you mentioned have made it to my life list yet, except Canada Goose, mallard, and Red-Tail. How lucky! You must live in an avian wonderland. -
H, I'm loving all these bird names you're posting. Hope you don't mind if I shamelessly nab them. Would it help if you could access my list? :-)
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do you have a 'third person singular present' list by any chance? :P
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Congratulations! I'm hoping that move will provide fodder for more lists.
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I have indeed traded oranges for potatoes, and northern cardinals and bluejays for Canada geese and Gambel's quail. This a.m. I was treated to a skiff of snow. I am privileged to be able to experience the coming of Spring twice this year.
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Have you traded oranges for potatoes yet?
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Really? I see only 654.
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currently, you're showing 666 words listed. |m|
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EEK! Thanks Pro! Fixed.
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You misspelled your name on your WOTD list!
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Hi H, thanks for your comment about the zeitgeist/community rename. I too was fond of the "Watch Your Language" subtitle, though it revealed an issue with the term 'Zeitgeist' as we used it. Zeitgeist implies the overall spirit of a thing, I think, and would have been more suitable for a page that was strictly about site trends. Our zeitgeist/community page is focused on a smaller subset of that--what people are saying. So while the major motivation for the change was as you suggested--'community' is less cryptic and confusing for new users--I think it's also more accurate. Though we might try to work that subtitle back in, or better yet create a "trends" page and attach it to that.
It's also worth mentioning that I flat-out stole the notion of a 'Zeitgeist' page from my old employer, LibraryThing. I'm generally an unrepentant thief, but I figured, now Tim can have it to himself again :-) -
The same joke, "if you don't like the weather...wait five minutes" also has truck in Florida. One suspects this folkloric pronouncement has traveled to many states in this mobile society we live in.
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Yeah, it was 4 degrees last Monday--I'm sure you know us midwesterners like that joke about how if you don't like the weather here, just wait five minutes. :-)
hernesheir commented on the list rare-books
Thanks for the interesting article, ruzuzu!
May 4, 2012
hernesheir commented on the list ghh
My personal preference would be to exclude high-hat from this list of single words.
May 4, 2012
hernesheir commented on the list coal-mining-terms
You might find some more terms In The Collieries.
May 4, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word rasher
It's a fish.
May 3, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word eel-mother
Thanks ruzuzu, for adding eel-mother to my list of things eel!
May 3, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word mafficky
I'm a word you don't meet every day.
May 3, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word eremitically
"Because the Sacred Canons," as he says, "forbid living eremitically without rule, without vows, and without profession." - Camaldolese Extraordinary: The Life, Doctrine and Rule of Blessed Paul Giustiniani. 2003.
May 3, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word eremitical
eremitic
May 3, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word televisor
Now that this word is listed I can go back to watching my shows.
Apr 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word backstun
Do the folks of Chester use a pizzastun, one wonders.
Apr 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the list five-consecutive-consonant-strings
A rare 5-consonant string in English: *chthr - see synechthry. I'm looking for other examples.
Mar 16, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word eschar
The terms kame and eskar are bona fide periglacial geology and geomorphology terms.
Mar 16, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word pockmanky
A nice Scots term for those who don't feel so pretentious as to say portmanteau.
Mar 15, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word endosiphocylinder
Another one of those seven-syllable paleontology terms.
Mar 14, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word nummuloidal
Shaped like a nummulite; that is, shaped like a coin or button.
Mar 14, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word noir impérial
kaiserschwarz
Mar 13, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word ferrofluidic
Fun to say.
Mar 13, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word hypo-eutectic
Here's an adjective you don't meet every day.
Mar 13, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word lincrusta
A langosta ceiling would go well with a prawn-like marble mantlepiece.
Mar 13, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word clutterment
I hope your day is free of clutterment, and beset with pastries and other dainties.
Mar 13, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word chel
I believe chelp is Yorkshire dialect for talk, speech. Uttered somewhat throatily and incoherently if BBC comedies are to be believed.
Feb 29, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word graithly
This word is both adjective and adverb.
Cf. gradely.
Feb 29, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word salleting
In most cases this should be tossed, though gently.
Feb 29, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word hirsutocastaneous
I still like this fine adjective.
Feb 29, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word stone-climber
It's a hellgrammite.
Feb 29, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word kalesa
A 2-wheeled horse-drawn carriage of the Philippines. Also written qalesa.
Feb 29, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word Argus-eyed
Here's an adjective you don't meet every day.
Jan 12, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word headrace
See the extract.
So we are instructed in the definitions given.
Jan 12, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word double hyphen
Thanks for this, ruzuzu!
Jan 12, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word hirsutocastaneous
See the definition for hirsutocinereous.
Jan 12, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word apoptosome
Soda, a pop to some.
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word apoptosis
The postapoptotic part comes afterwards.
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word puttoo
A term for Wordnik's listers of fabrics.
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word changthangi
It's a goat.
Wiki this.
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word serpent-eater
It's a bird. Wait, it's a goat.
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word pilulous
The tiny balls that form on one's woolens with wear are pilulous, if not trifling. Use a fabric shaver or de-piller if you must.
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word sabotage
The etymology gives the origin of the word, rather than the uses to which sabots were put to. Clomping around in wooden boots would require the wearer to invest in a pair of hard-wearing sashoons, no?
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word clithe
The plant burdock, clide, or clive.
See Clive for a definition of clive.
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word electric pig
Cf. pig-hole.
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word Christ-cross-row
See definition at christcross-row.
Jan 10, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word boatswain
It's a bird.
Jan 9, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word torrefying
That hot oven is absolutely torrefying.
Jan 9, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word toilet seat dermatitis
“In two of the cases described in the study, the children's toilet seat dermatitis had been caused by their school's use of harsh chemical cleaners, containing ingredients such as didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride and alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, which have previously been documented to cause severe skin irritation.” --from the Wordnik examples for didecyl.
Jan 9, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word elongase
Compared to the names of many other organic molecules, this one is rather short.
Jan 9, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word putrescin
"Originally found in putrefying cadavers", the definition states. Now where is it found?
Jan 9, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word ornithin
"...obtained from the urine of chickens after feeding them with benzoic acid."
Now whatcha gonna do with it?
Jan 9, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word hobornob
I like the example provided by Wordnik.
Jan 9, 2012
hernesheir commented on the user deinonychus
I've been enjoying the odd and unexpected fish names, and anything biological and paleontological. Welcome.
Jan 9, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word lin
See definitions at Lin.
Jan 9, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word isoxazolyl
This term contains the last three letters of the alphabet.
Jan 9, 2012