john has looked up 11015 words, created 58 lists, listed 2785 words, written 3312 comments, added 2878 tags, and loved 304 words.
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The word John was just trending on the community page, so I added it to my trending words list and tagged it as john.
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Post Scriptum: the mobile website is really pretty. (If only the comment pages were available!)
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Update.
After I chose to permanently deactivate the mobile version, I decided to see what happens when visiting m.wordnik.com.
The "loop" bug disappears, but when I visit, say, my profile page (mobile version) and I select "View this page on regular Wordnik", I am redirected to www.wordnik.com instead of http://www.wordnik.com/people/Prolagus.
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Thanks! I actually still have some trouble. Login now works (I had to empty cache and delete cookies), but:
- when I visit wordnik mobile, and I click "View this page on regular Wordnik", I can't access the "less mobile version" as The Onion calls it but I end up in a loop instead;
- when I try to visit a user page, I am still being redirected to the mobile version, which creates a broken link such as m.wordnik.com/p/
Only permanently blocking the mobile version works.
Thanks for checking that.
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Hi John, is there a particular reason why I seem to be the only person whose comments on the Feedback page go unanswered? We are talking about lots of comments over the last 40 days or so. I'm not offended, but it would save me some time to know if there's something wrong about what I use that page for.
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You cannot escape the charge that you have previously engaged in the amazing pastime that is IDENTIFY THE WORDIE.
You are therefore prime target material for inviting to IDENTIFY THE WORDIENIK.
The whole of the bit of Wordnik that joins in on this would be truly honoured should you participate this time round.
Easily find the right page right now because it is currently the most commented on list shown on the Community page. -
"Watch your language" is a choice and liminal turn of phrase which wryly strides over the threshold of a parental/authoritative warning and turns it into an invitation to witness the spirit of language and the words we use, historically and in real-time. I strongly feel that this phrase should be conserved on Wordnik. What if a "Community Zeitgeist" hyperlink led to a community page still called "Zeitgeist. Watch Your Language"?
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Marvelous, thanks!
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You're welcome!
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I like the personal WotD feature. I've created a Sweet Tooth Fairy of the Day and was wondering how I let everyone know about it, and, conversely, how I discover other personal WotD lists without randomly checking individual profiles.
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The single (there were 2 until late 2/12/11) delete button on personal WOTD pages does not seem to be working... something related to the "+" and "%20" adjustments? Thanks for your efforts at sometimes surprisingly odd hours when we users are relaxing, more or less!
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Thanks John.
After what happened to Gawker, I'm changing my passwords everywhere. -
You're wery wery welcome. I think it should be tomorrow's Word of the day.
Thanks for spending time on the external link thing. I think it would be really helpful. And thanks for the NYC links on your Times People! -
Thanks John! I think you forgot to re-add the "elsewhere on the web" link to pages for more than 1 word (I mean word pages like YSV effect).
Glad you also like scrogneugneu. :-) -
Felicitations to you and kad!
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Congratulations on the second kid!
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i still can't seem to login to my account with my android or with anything other than the facebook login on a computer .. mobile ALWAYS kicks me back to the sign in.. i wonder if this has to do with me essentially having 2 different usernames in 1..
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Hello John, here's a searchbox javascript nuisance in Chrome: as I type into the search box, longer words keep getting redacted; the last few characters will be deleted (perhaps as I'm typing unusual word that no longer have matches? this happens while the list of matching word-endings is updating and getting shorter).
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Now that's what I call service! I haven't been around in a while, but it's nice to see you're still eager to please. :-)
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John's Recent Lookups:
Cupertino effect
Rambo
klingon
craptacular
nutter
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Hi John, any chance of getting the character limit on list descriptions raised to 40,000 or so? I can't keep up with hernesheir's euryvocalic discoveries otherwise.
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Thanks a lot!
Actually, it’s been just recently that I’ve decided to switch to “Telofy” everywhere. The capital T used to scare me a little, it looks so tall and towering, but I’m getting used to it. Also, the “Te” is useful either as a benchmark for the kerning of a typeface or as a test whether kerning works in the browser at all (it always works in XeTeX of course).
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When you delete idiomark and his other aliases, cam you keep his hilarious comment on my profile (after inactivating the links)?
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Gotcha!
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Thanks! I compared other entries with pictures and noticed the CC difference. I changed it over 1 hour ago, we'll see.
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Lucidity must be such a terrible thing.
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fyi DeMoHn, games loves games, affected by demonology, security down
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ah i know that humming song, and the one man bad, not interested in a humstrum that plays for anyone, anytime
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Hi John McGrath, funny but coffee was up a week or so ago,
and then my settings changed walah a teapot came back sigh
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John's tag: *snort*
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*loves john and chained_bear and prolagus*
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*loves John again, some more*
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Been one on and off for years. Here's my tag.
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When did you become an egg? Seen here.
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Hi John,
I just sent a note to Erin on this, but when there is a word in Wordnik but no definition - how should a "regular Joe" let you guys know about this (and even point you to the definition, like I did for "diya")? Seems like it would be more intuitive (and satisfying :) to be able to actually just click on something that says "add/find a definition for this word" and even add a link where a definition for that word can be found to point you guys to it.
Hope your knee is starting to feel better... :)
Katherine -
nice work on the text box expand logic
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Thanks, John, for the warm welcome!
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Thanks for fixing that.
The page design has improved a lot without my noticing. I’ve always used my own Stylish CSS—now I have tried deactivating it and it turns out I hardly need it anymore. Only as a typeface I prefer Gentium and in lists I like my words better with less vertical padding.
But I have to test the new and improved random word feature now.
Take care.
Edit: Perhaps the random word service could still be improved by considering only the stems of lexemes, without grammatical affixes or perhaps generally without too productive affixes. Several times I got pretty common word with just a “-ly” or “-ness” attached. (Not that common words aren’t just as interesting as obscure ones…) There are great libraries for such things, but I guess that is your metier much more than mine. :-) -
Thanks! Especially for letting me know - I haven't spent much time here lately... Blame it on Approximate Bayesian Computation.
Edit: the first random word is bipont. I'm impressed. -
BRAVO to you on sharing the worddoucheoisieto your teapot followers....
-one drip leads to another..
Verbage is hot!
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Thank you! My links weren't working the other day, but they are now. Lovely.
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Wondering if I could be whitelisted too? Missing the "also on" function of the old profiles.
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Great! Thanks a bunch for whitelisting me.
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Database structure comments :-)
1) It would be great to have access to the layered data that wordnet exposes (links through to hypernyms, hyponyms, &c by definition).
2) likewise, I want a way to link one definition to another across sources -- so that 8 sources with 72 (naively aggregated) total senses can be compressed down to 13 different senses...
3) which means having 'sense' as a first-class citizen among data types. sense is the level at which most translations are meaningfully made, so this is important to adding good translations without duplicating information.
3.5) if you have one data element per sense, you can also take in structured data from projects such as OmegaWiki (if you can manage a licensing arrangement). -
Hey! Thank you for your comment on my word list and for welcoming me to Wordnik. That dreaded C-word most definitely does not have another meaning (at least that you or I knows of). I just hate the way it sounds when people say it! Most of the time I can't even eat it because when I look at it I think of its name and just shiver and put my food away. (My friends think I'm insane.)
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Hi, John! Thanks for noticing. I've been living. Will always have a soft spot in my heart (if not my head) for Wordie/Wordnik. It was there when I needed it ... and I still may. All the best to you!
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Thank you for the link to the article about the NYT comment-box poets! I read it with fascination.
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Oh, how romantic! It’s always such a vivifying feeling when you enter your local type foundry early in the morning and you are greeted by the odor of freshly baked—I mean molded—still-warm sorts of letters and dashes, and then, at home, you can start your day with a hot cup of coffee and a fresh mat in the printing press. :-D
I’m looking forward to that blog post and to savoring those lovely statistics to the fullest. (Apropos, I recently used Google Charts to visualize my Free Rice experience.)
john commented on the word diener
"The word Diener is German for servant. In English, it is generally used to describe the person, in the morgue, responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse (though, at some institutions dieners perform the entire dissection at autopsy). It is derived from the German word Leichendiener, which literally means corpse servant."
—Wikipedia
Nov 22, 2011
john commented on the user Prolagus
:-)
Jul 22, 2011
john commented on the user ramesh.pidikiti
Hi Ramesh. Does the email have my name on it?
Jun 23, 2011
john commented on the word municipal bondage
Hat tip to Henry Alford.
Jun 9, 2011
john commented on the word ankle
First time I've seen 'ankle' used like this, as in 'hobble':
"The company is talented enough to win without cheating (or hiring PR firms to ankle competitors)."
Launch, Has Google been Naughty? Yes. Should the Government Get Involved? No, by Jason Calacanis, May 30, 2011
May 30, 2011
john commented on the word flexify
To make more flexible.
May 26, 2011
john commented on the word typoist
A typo prone typist.
May 24, 2011
john commented on the user feedback
Yarb, we recently updated our notifications system, I think the notes/comments on personal WotDs were a casualty. Looking into it today. Pro, also looking into the mangled font issue.
May 20, 2011
john commented on the word acqhire
What happens to a start-up whose business never materializes? One option is to try to peddle the company based on the value of its human capital–aka the “acqhire.”
All Things Digital, Why Buy When You Can Hire? Time Warner Cable Gets a Joost Guy., by Peter Kafka, September 4, 2009
May 18, 2011
john commented on the word hexannual
Occurring every six years.
May 17, 2011
john commented on the word faygeleh
“The word he used was faygeleh, a mild Yiddish pejorative for homosexual. Queer and fairy are close approximations.”
NPR.org, A Party Boy Reflects On Life, Lip Gloss, by Dan Kois, May 16, 2011
May 16, 2011
john commented on the word Peddler, Frankfurter
“Morris opened a restaurant in Paterson, but then "drifted into the frankfurter peddling business," according to his obituary. (The 1900 census lists his occupation as "Peddler, Frankfurter.")”
Word Routes, "Hot Dog": The Untold Story, by Ben Zimmer, May 13, 2011
May 13, 2011
john commented on the list sweet-tooth-fairy-dominoes
War and... Warrant...
update: forgot to add my entry: 'train' after peace :-)
May 10, 2011
john commented on the user feedback
pro, blafferty, will look into those last three reports first thing tomorrow.
re: deleting comments, i can't duplicate that. blafferty, are you experiencing that on all lists, or just that one?
May 9, 2011
john commented on the user Prolagus
Thanks pro--will check out the Twitter link thing tonight.
May 6, 2011
john commented on the word smopple
Hm. Seems like it should be related to a hoople.
May 6, 2011
john commented on the word anent
I'll play--I love tagging projects.
'English preposition' might be gilding the lily, since Wordnik is monolingual.
update: cheatsheet. I'm doing the As & Bs right now.
May 3, 2011
john commented on the user Prolagus
Thanks much for those bug reports, they were super userful--the loop bug and profile link on mobile should be fixed.
May 3, 2011
john commented on the user Prolagus
Just fixed the mobile login issue, I think--let me know if it's still giving you trouble.
May 2, 2011
john commented on the user feedback
Looking into it right now Pro, thanks.
May 2, 2011
john commented on the user Prolagus
Hi Pro, no, absolutely not--I'm sorry I haven't been more responsive. A series of the issues you reported fell into the bermuda triangle zone where they weren't absolute showstoppers, nor were they two minute fixes, so I made a mental note to get to them and have been slow about it.
Though coincidentally, I'm moving some new stuff into production later tonight, including fixes for a handful of the things you've mentioned recently. The mislabeled link when comments appear on word pages is fixed, and most embedded video should start working again too--we upgraded some internal components, and the new versions had stricter embedding policies, which I've adjusted.
May 2, 2011
john commented on the user feedback
Hi marky, tried to respond on your profile but it looks like you've privatized. I'll add the option to delete your pronunciations this week. Been meaning to do it for some time.
May 1, 2011
john commented on the word birther
See also afterbirther.
Apr 28, 2011
john commented on the word afterbirther
“In the continuing controversy surrounding the president's U.S. citizenship, a new fringe group informally known as "Afterbirthers" demanded Monday the authentication of Barack Obama's placenta from his time inside his mother's womb. ”
The Onion, Afterbirthers Demand To See Obama's Placenta, April 27, 2011
Apr 28, 2011
john commented on the word lubency
(Noun) willingness; pleasure
Apr 26, 2011
john commented on the word enigmatology
“Before joining The Times, Mr. Shortz was the editor of Games magazine. He holds the world's only college degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles, which he earned in the Individualized Major Program at Indiana University in 1974.”
The New York Times, Talk to The Times: Crossword Editor Will Shortz, July 19, 2009
Apr 26, 2011
john commented on the word feticide
Monobina Gupta, who has researched domestic violence for Jagori, a nongovernmental organization, draws a direct link between these killings and the abortion of female fetuses: “The dowry is part of the continuum of gender-based discrimination and violence, beginning with female feticide.”
The New York Times, A Campaign Against Girls in India, by Nilanjana S. Roy, April 12, 2011
Apr 13, 2011
john commented on the word fwb
Friends with benefits. Sordid details on UrbanDictionary.
Apr 12, 2011
john commented on the list fads
Love this list. Had never heard of an antiperm, though I knew immediately what it is.
Apr 12, 2011
john commented on the word part-time urine monitor
“Last June, Urban Treatment Associates in Camden hired Mr. Devoureau as a part-time urine monitor; his job was to make sure that people recovering from addiction did not substitute someone else’s urine for their own during regular drug testing.”
The New York Times, A Lawsuit’s Unusual Question: Who Is a Man?, by Richard Perez-Pena, April 10, 2011
Apr 11, 2011
john commented on the word ayibobo
As four drummers pounded rhythmically, voodoo priestesses in bright-colored dresses danced in ecstatic circles, dousing the floor with rum and chanting, “Ayibobo!” — the voodoo “amen.”
The New York Times, Voodoo, an Anchor, Rises Again, by Dan Bilefsky, April 8, 2011
Apr 11, 2011
john commented on the word numeronym
A number-based word, like Y2K, WWII, W3C, and i18n.
Many more good examples on Wikipedia.
Apr 10, 2011
john commented on the word shabab
“There is also the “shabab,” milling groups of youngsters who arrive at the front each day hoping to pitch in, but with scant idea of how. Officially, the shabab are not part of the fight.”
The New York Times, Libyan Rebels Don’t Really Add Up to an Army, by C.J. Chivers, April 6, 2011
Apr 7, 2011
john commented on the word soy
Loving Century def #2. Definitely time to see the term soy-pea come back into vogue.
Apr 5, 2011
john commented on the word loosies
“Rarely does a minute go by without a customer stopping just long enough to pass a dollar bill to Lonnie Loosie, known to the police by his given name, Lonnie Warner, 50. They clench the two “loosies” — as single cigarettes are called — that he thrusts back in return.”
The New York Times, A Cigarette for 75 Cents, 2 for $1: The Brisk, Shady Sale of ‘Loosies’, by Joseph Goldstein, April 4, 2011
Apr 5, 2011
john commented on the word flapdoodle
"The stuff on which fools are feigned to be nourished"? Century, rocking it.
Apr 2, 2011
john commented on the user feedback
I've been noodling with the homepage tagline pretty regularly, so I'm not exactly sure what "bring back the old one" means. But clearly the current one ain't working, so I just flipped it back to the previous version.
"All the words" seems a bit ambitious. How about "Lots of words"?
Apr 2, 2011
john commented on the word poppysmic
From Ulysses, by James Joyce.
Mar 27, 2011
john commented on the word candle bearer
In Catholic and Anglican services, an assistant who carries candles during the mass.
Mar 27, 2011
john commented on the word sextortion
“Or, as in a 2009 Wisconsin case of “sextortion,” a boy, pretending to be a girl online, who solicited explicit pictures of boys, which he then used as blackmail to compel those boys to have sex with him.”
The New York Times, A Girl’s Nude Photo, and Altered Lives, by Jan Hoffman, March 26, 2011
Mar 27, 2011
john commented on the user mollusque
Hi mollusque, looking into the wotd delete bug right now, will get back to you.
Mar 25, 2011
john commented on the list obamulate
Sorry A1, but the word is obambulate, not obamulate.
Mar 24, 2011
john commented on the word obamulate
The real word is obambulate, but this was used by Rush Limbaugh, apparently: "The new word of the day according to Rush is "obamulate", meaning to dither or dilly dally around. LOL! It's a real word!"
Mar 24, 2011
john commented on the word goat rodeo
“You have banks competing with carriers competing with Apple and Google, and it’s pretty much a goat rodeo until someone sorts it out.”
The New York Times, As Phones Become Wallets, Many Have Hands Out, by Tara Siegel Bernard and Claire Cain Miller, March 23, 2011
Mar 23, 2011
john commented on the word tolou
“For centuries, each building, called a tulou in Mandarin Chinese, would house an entire clan, virtually a village. Everyone living inside would have the same surname, except for those who had married into the clan. The tulou usually tower four floors and have up to hundreds of rooms that open out onto a vast central courtyard, like the Colosseum.”
The New York Times, Monuments to Clan Life Are Losing Their Appeal, by Edward Wong, March 22, 2011
Mar 23, 2011
john commented on the word diddley bow
“Mr. Perkins, who dropped out of school after the third grade, taught himself the rudiments of blues guitar on a homemade instrument called a diddley bow: a length of wire stretched between nails driven into a wall.”
The New York Times, Pinetop Perkins, Delta Boogie-Woogie Master, Dies at 97, by Bill Friskics-Warren, March 21, 2011
Mar 22, 2011
john commented on the word orphan seat
“It’s a horrible term,” she said, “but E.M.T.’s call the rear-facing seat ‘the orphan seat’ because in a bad car accident, that child is often the only one who survives.”
The New York Times, Rear-Facing Car Seats Advised for Older Toddlers, by Madonna Behen, March 21, 2011
Mar 21, 2011
john commented on the word Super Pumper
See citation on Hyper Rescue Squad.
Mar 21, 2011
john commented on the word Hyper Rescue Squad
“Key to that success: An elite disaster-response team from Tokyo, the Hyper Rescue Squad, and its massive water cannon known as the Super Pumper.”
The Wall Street Journal, Japan Plant Had Troubled History, by Rebecca Smith, Ben Casselman, and Mitsuro Obe, March 21, 2011
Mar 21, 2011
john commented on the word beerstorming
Like brainstorming, but with beer. And somehow different from a beerstorm. Coined by Wordnik's very own Robert.
Mar 18, 2011