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Dear Santa,
Thanks for my Christmas presents--the fluffy bilby and the chained_bear are my favoritest presents ever! Now that the Christmas season is over, I was just wondering if there's any chance you might be able to allow one of your elves to come visit us--specifically the elf who makes great comments, wears foofy princess dresses, and can speak Latvian.
Sincerely, ruzuzu -
is Beren near?
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Are you still alive? Should we have a Wordie wake?
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*taps paw* You're due back!
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Thanks mia...
you are so very kind....
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I'm really, really smart ;).
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How did you guess, Dontcry? I'm an elvin princess! *twirls around in her foofy princess dress*
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are you an elf?
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Maybe I'll add some Latvian words some time later this year. I don't want to start creating entirely new lists just now, as I'm going to be moving away in two weeks, and will be AWOL from the internets for a while until everything's settled (that will probably take a couple of months, I suppose).
One meow added as per request (see your new and improved list here).
And I'd love for you to engage in some wild speculations! *g* The second part of my nick does Mean Something. Er, well, not really – I've borrowed it form a certain book we've all read. Or should have read *g* -
Hi Mia, are you going to add some Latvian words? I'd love to see some and I'm sure there are others here who would also enjoy the enlightenment. Meanwhile, please miao for me here.
P.S. Does your nick mean anything, or should sionnach and I commence wild speculation? -
Oh... ha, thanks, B_C! I ♥ your snails!
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Have a disorderly conduct
or perhaps a snail...
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or two...
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Sorry, but for me, the delete option is nowhere in sight, and I've tried everything.
Thanks, I'll do that! I'm constantly confusing those two words. -
I use IE and I get delete option after I have edited a comment.
btw check the difference between alternate and alternative -
Why are you so smart??
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Nope. There is no delete link for me, either real or imaginary :/ Could this be attributed to a different browser? I'm currently using IE.
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Click on "edit," then click the "edit" button that appears. You'll next see a "delete" link left of the original edit link.
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But where do the option to delete the comment pops up, then? Sorry for being a bit obtuse, my mind has been temporarily hijacked by a horde of lipstick-wielding aliens in tights.
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No, I just meant that you don't need to change anything in the field after you click on "edit."
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Hiya, Reesetee. So, it's all about maintaining a credible pretense, then? Sneaky, sneaky.
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You don't even need to edit it; just pretend you're going to. :-) Welcome, Mia.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to explain it to me! It really works? It's quite a roundabout way to go about it; I don't suppose there was a way for me to infer it.
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To delete a comment:
First of all edit it, to reduce it to e.g. one letter.
Then after you press the edit button, you are offered a chance to delete. When you select that, you are asked to confirm.
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Daaaang girl. You have more words in one week than I've listed in more than a year!
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You are smart......
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I sleep best when I shouldn't, for example, when there's a lot of work or studying to do, and currently everything's finished, which accounts for my total lack of desire to sleep. I mean, what's the point? Sleep is more valuable when my precious work time is spent indulging in it.
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Pro, sleepless still, even at home? :(
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Pity you can't just wake one up and pester them until they start posting words and lists.
So you speak Italian? -
I actually decided to move to Sardinia just to have more wordies on line when I'm sleepless at night.
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Sleep is for the weak.
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It looks like all the wordies are sleeping.
It's oh so quiet (shh, shh)
It's oh so still (shh, shh)
You're all alone (shh, shh)
And so peaceful until...
:)
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I figured :)
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I am very brave.
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I know, I went and looked at your profile. Does it mean that you never cry? What do you do then, when the mood for crying strikes? Fight it off bravely? Don't mind me, just asking :)
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No, I just don't like crying.
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No, in no way am I related to or affiliated with Midlothian, Virginia, though it is a beautiful name. And uh, hello you, too!
And is your name a subtle and genteel passive-aggressive suggestion to random people out there to cease their sniveling and cheer up a bit? *g* -
Mia - there's a Midlothian, Virginia. Are you related?;)
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Thanks, I'll do that! It seems that it's not easy to find out how to navigate around here on Wordie on your own, you've got to know all these nifty things first – thanks for help, and hi! :)
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:)
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Try the Meta list and the meta tag page for the rest of the manual. (/tags/faq has never been used much.)
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Don't fret Mia. We're pretty easy to get along with. Welcome, have fun.
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No problem. It might be worth looking around a bit, though. Some of the more historic pages that offer insight into how this site works (which isn't like any other site I've seen) are bugs and features. (Read from bottom to top, if you haven't noticed that already.) There's also a list of suggested "rules" someplace, though there really are no rules on Wordie, except "be nice." :)
It isn't that you're flooding anything. But everything you enter, whether comment or word, appears within a minute or two on the front page. :) -
It just occurred to me that I'm probably flooding all those poor unsuspecting folks who've innocently subscribed to the Wordie's Recent comments and citations feed – I'm sorry, I didn't mean to! :)
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Oh, thank you! :) I didn't even look around, to tell the truth. All these words I'm adding here have already been posted on my LiveJournal first, I'm just transferring them here for easier viewing.
I haven't yet fully figured out how this Wordie-thing works, so thanks for your advice! -
Hi MiaLuthien! Welcome to Wordie. I hope you stay with us and enjoy the site!
You may not have noticed the 12 icons below each word on a word page. Each of those takes the user to a dictionary. So you may want to reserve your valuable comment-entering time to enter usage notes, unusual definitions not in any dictionary, or other text, rather than entering a definition on each word page.
Just an idea. Welcome!
mialuthien commented on the list identify-the-wordie-2
Thanks for pointing that out, Bilby, I didn't notice. I copied it straight from my Notepad, where I was shifting around all these words during the last two days to see which one would fit best for each participant. And grawlax is a great word, me likes it too much :P I'll leave it to Rolig then, and try to come up with a new word for Seanahan. Ugh, it's so difficult and discombobulating!
Aug 1, 2008
mialuthien commented on the list identify-the-wordie-2
It really is impossible to guess. I'll be ecstatic if I get three of them right, but even one may suffice. Come on, what are the odds? (Someone calculate, quick!).
Asativum esemplastic
Bilby zoetrope
Chained_Bear pluripotent
Darqueau – that loooooooooong word that messes up this comment
Dontcry sunflower
Frogapplause ingenue
Gangerh hunky-dory
John pluripotent
Oroboros relaxed
Palooka thoughtful
Plethora psychasthenic
Prolagus irreverent
Pterodactyl inexorable
Rolig gravlax
Seanahan cavalier (or gravlax!)
Sionnach sigh
Skipvia mojo
Whichbe groovin'
Yarb stripper
It's pure guessing from my part, based on vague, vaguer than vague, intuitive associations about the participants' personalities and what they would consider an appropriate word for themselves.
Edited.
Aug 1, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word a glaring of cats
A company of cats very uncertain of each other.
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word thuringer
If your comment was any more suggestive, it would be having sex, Skipvia.
*g*
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the list ready-set-guess-this-language
It is a Slavic language, amirite? Czech? Let me improvise: a small boy and a small girl (the emphasis on small) are eating something or walking somewhere, drinking cacao? Don't laugh. It sounds like that (I'm using my Russian to decipher that).
Edited. That's what I get when I don't read the comments!! Darn.
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word wodge
Heh, that's a good one, thanks, Chained_Bear. Surprisingly, it isn't in my 85,000-word bilingual dictionary. It looks like I'll have get out my bulky English-Russian dictionary for a precise translation.
Wodge – ком, комок and ломоть, ку�?. Nice!
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the list ready-set-guess-this-language
Um... er, Serbian? I've no idea. But it certainly looks obscure enough *g*
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word a wedge of cheeses
See also a wedge of cheese.
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word a wedge of cheese
Were were you earlier, C_B? Damn, that's a good point. *added*
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word a glossary of nipples
A glossary of nipples, as suggested by Gangerh (because it has a "good mouthfeel", I suppose), and seen on Sakhalinskii's list of nipples and their derivatives.
Nipples are found in glossaries the same way geese wander around in gaggles, and turtledoves travel around in pityings.
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word ∞
I love it!! And the definition is appropriate, Bilby.
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word a wedge of cheese
Done! It's a collective term for a group of cheese :) See a wedge of geese for comparison.
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word a minge of badgers
*sporfles coffee all over keyboard* Sorry, folks, I didn't check it before painstakingly copying it from my huge list. I innocently presumed that minge is a kind of collective term for a group of something, I didn't even think of looking it up in the first place. Is it even correct? Still, even if it isn't, I'll leave it up for the entertainment value.
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the list 2008-wordlist
You think "a group of nipples" should have a glossary as its collective noun? :P Well, I might add it in that case!
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word a wedge of geese
Er, sorry, but occasionally a joke is lost on me. No matter how hard you study a foreign language, you can't be as fluent and well-versed in the intricacies of language as its native speaker.
When I stop and think about it, other meanings of these words immediately come to mind. However, words in general are much more polysemous in English language than my own, so it's sometimes difficult for me to separate the funniest sense of the word from the most obvious one.
And no, C_B, I don't normally look at birds with an unreserved carnivorous intent, birds are cute and cuddly :P
Edited. I use the indefinite article a so it would be immediately obvious that what I'm referring to is a group, for example, a pitying of turtledoves (won't it sound a little ambiguous otherwise?).
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word a wedge of geese
It is a plump of geese when it's in front of you, making you think of nice, appetizing roasted fowls, whereas when it's above you and in movement, and you are in danger of being defecated on from up above, it is a wedge of geese. Right? Right.
Jul 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word deadpan
"The term "deadpan" first emerged as an adjective or adverb in the 1920s, as a compound word combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for the face). It was first recorded as a noun in Vanity Fair in 1927; a dead pan was thus 'a face or facial expression displaying no emotion, animation, or humor'. The verb deadpan 'to speak, act, or utter in a deadpan manner; to maintain a dead pan' arose by the early 1940s, apparently as a journalistic coinage rather than a theatrical one.
It must be noted that today its use is especially common in humour from the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is also very appreciated in France, by the influence of the "esprit" (dry-humour mostly). Many popular American sitcoms also used deadpan expressions, most notably Friends and Seinfeld. Dry humor is often confused with highbrow or egghead humor. Although these forms of humor are often dry, the term dry humor actually only refers to the method of delivery, not necessarily the content." – Etymology of "deadpan" from the Reference.com
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word wildware
I don't think we have any furries in here *looks around* What we do have is one occasionally irate, but otherwise good-natured, she-bear (mama-bear? ursine specimen?) and one cheery marsupial.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the list a-glossary-of-nipples
Wow. *lost for words*
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word wildware
She is only chained in a figurative sense; wait until she mauls the both of you for throwing around innuendos about her so carelessly.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word wildware
Mwhahaha. Hee hee.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word tektonik
I tried to Google it, C_B, but got a slew of contradictory results back. The word tectonic was already familiar to me from geography, but my little sister is currently obsessed with what she calls tektonik, a very popular new dance with difficult-to-learn moves, supposedly invented (and copyrighted, can you believe it!) in France.
This is what Google regurgitates to me:
Results 1 - 10 of about 4,210,000 for tectonic.
Results 1 - 10 of about 225,000 for tectonik.
Results 1 - 10 of about 160,000 for tektonic.
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,270,000 for tektonik.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the user pterodactyl
Have a good time in California, P.! Make sure to gather up all the peculiar new words the Californians use, and bring them back here to share! :P
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word red-ringed madrona sucker
It sounds sirius-ly dangerous. I wouldn't want to bump into a red-ringed madrona sucker alone in a dark night. Do you know what kind of places they frequent? And who is madrona and why is she (it?) being sucked? And how? *creeped-out* *alarmed*
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word tektonik
Are you sure? Because my sister, who attends these (French?) dancing lessons, prefers the word tektonik. But I know even less about the origin of both this term and dance, so I'm not arguing.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word tektonik
I hope I got the spelling right; if not, correct me.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word cuil
Cuil the search engine does not support Boolean/wildcard queries, which means that it's never going to be my default search engine :/ And its name is a bit off-putting, too, because of its similarity to Latvian kuilis, a (domestic) boar.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word tree octopus
Ahaha, I concur. Octopus should just not be in trees pretty much sums it up. Tree-crawling octopi (octopuses? octopodes?) are just creepy.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word clichache
A cliché-induced headache from the "makes your teeth grind" department :-t
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word croupier
In Latvian, we use a transliterated form of this word: krupjē. For a long time I believed that what it meant was a toad, because of its striking similarity to the Latvian word for this amphibian krupis. I only got the meaning right when I turned about twelve :/
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word godde
← masculine God – Godde – Goddess feminine →
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word cellcert
It's a nice coinage, certainly. And it once more proves it that there's a word for everything, no matter how trivial.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word obscenicon
Language Log, Obscenicons in the workplace, by Benjamin Zimmer, Aug 24, 2006
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word solrad
solrad – (comics) the radiating lines that show a bulb (or the sun) is shedding light (Mort Walker ©)
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word swalloop
See blurgits.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word blurgit
blurgit – (comics) blurgits are the curved lines preceding or trailing after a character's moving limbs (compare with swalloops) – word invented by Mort Walker
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word agitron
agitron – in comic art, agitrons are the wiggly lines around an object that is shaking, or in movement (Mort Walker ©)
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word digiton
digiton – in comic art, digitons are the character's stylized fingers (Mort Walker ©)
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word squean
squean – in comic art, squeans are short lines and circles drawn in a starburst pattern that signify intoxication, dizziness, confusion, or sickness (Mort Walker ©)
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word oculama
Also, Xs over a character's eyes to indicate drunkenness or death (Mort Walker ©).
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word plewd
plewd(s) – the sweat droplets that appear around a character’s head when sweating, working hard, or stressed by a dissertation project (Mort Walker ©)
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word briffit
briffit – the cloud of dust that appears when a comic character is running fast, or clouds of dust that hang in the spot where a swiftly departing character or object was previously standing (Mort Walker ©)
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word waftarom
waftarom – rising serpentine lines indicating odors or heat
Coined by the cartoonist Mort Walker, who also invented words like grawlix, squean, spurl, neoflect, plewd, vite, dite, hite, direct-a-tron, throwatron, sailatron, staggeratron, swishatron, briffit, solrad, whiteope, indotherm, crottle eyed, neoflect, jigg, jarn, quimp, and nittle.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word cross smiley
:-t
Added because I didn't know what a cross smiley looked like* – had to look it up, actually.
*it is, you know, important
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word cellcert
A cellcert is an audio transmission from a live concert which is transmitted to the interested party as-it-happens via cell phone from a person attending the event.
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word wordie ice shelf
*boggles the mind* I hope no Wordies, or words, or Wordies for words, were lost *finds self entangled in own words*
Jul 30, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word personal pleasure
See Commercial categories for reference.
Language Log, Commercial categories, by Arnold Zwicky, July 25, 2008
Jul 29, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word earworm
Thanks, P. I knew it had a name, and now I have one more ****-related name to watch out for!
This would have been listed as my "least favorite word", if I could stand to have it on my profile.
Jul 29, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word earworm
The latter, Dontcry, and I'm not joking :/
BTW, who on earth has an ear phobia? And what do they do, then – cut their ears off? Ow.
Jul 29, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word blunt spoon
Well, I must admit that I'm more partial to the whole merciful beheadings and cancellation of Christmas bit *g*
Jul 29, 2008