ruzuzu has looked up 86794 words, created 453 lists, listed 22591 words, written 7375 comments, added 6602 tags, and loved 1008 words.
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Hi ruzuzu.
It took me a while to find this reply box.
Thank you for the welcome message.
Please feel free to comment on my lists or add words to them.
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Huh! Can't even make the pronunciations play at "hot dog"....go figure. ACK!
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So, the feedback page is otiose? 'Zu, are you able to create pronunciations? I'm having no luck at all. Is it broke? Can we access pronunciations of old?
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And I less than three you! Miss you guys. You know how it feels sometimes, though... I visit often but can't find anything to add to the conversation.
I really wish there was an easier way to follow threads. If you don't spend lots of time here, you have to open all links on the Zeitmunity page. There has to be a different way! -
Thanks, 'zu. I probably would have found it eventually if I'd spent more time. Cheers!
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oh thank you, good catch!
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Thanks! Start -geddon ready to add some words...
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Glad you liked my definition of Bulgar - I'm a total newbie. Don't know how to create a list, or what its purpose is, or how to use it, etc. Tips?
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What's all the fuss about hearts?
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Perhaps I'm as smart as I think I am.
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Hmm.
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Dear ruzuzu,
You are fondness,
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Thanks, Pro!
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I'm happy to hear that! Nobody had said "welcome to Wordnik" before you did, but I've been feeling more and more at home here, lately.
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*grins*
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Aww, shucks. You're awfully nifty yourself. :-)
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Here's another comment. Phew!
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Eek. I'm at 6666 comments. I was going to make a joke about how that's bad luck, but then my browser stopped working.
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kumanan brought it to my attention that the palindrome code was not ignoring spaces, so I fixed it. You'll be seeing "And it's a palindrome" on multi-word palindrome pages by the end of the day. In the interim, here's a list to celebrate to new feature: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/semordnilap
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Dear ruzuzu,
Glad to see you.
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Man, I missed all the excitement--I was busy here in nebraksa watching corn grow and paint dry.
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She's from Nebraska you know.
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Hi folks, I'm deleting the bizarro-world ruzuzu comments.
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I picked Scheherazade number. :-)
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What will be Ruzuzu's 1001st (11 times 13 times 7th) favorite? You do favor a number of prime twists? Ordinarily or cardinally?
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You're welcome. Thanks for having a list where it's appropriate!
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Thanks for suggesting shrimpoluminescence!
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Thank you, Rolig. It's purely selfish on my part--how else would I stay informed and entertained?
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Thanks, Ru. Actually, I'm pretty serious, but that can be fun, too. By the way, I second Prolagus's comment below about your heroicism.
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:-) I love you too, Pro.
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You know I love you. I would never accuse you of being antisocial - your effort to save this whole slo-mo train wreck is heroic.
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Plinth.
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Plinth!
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Thank you for your kind words.
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good idea thx!
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You could just find one of his lists and comment on it--I'm sure that would trigger an e-mail to him. Bilbies are notoriously secretive, of course (somewhat like markies and frogs).
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i'm trying to get a hold of bilby outside of wordnik.. do you know how? this him? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bilby
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whats up ruzuzu? where's bilby been? what do you think of the redesign now that you've had time to mess with it? i'm curious.
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Thanks for your comment! I've had fun putting them together.
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@marky: I've been allowing other things to distract me from playing over here for a couple of days, but that's in no way a comment-by-lack-of-comments. I'll know more when I've played with it more, but I'm especially interested in how things have improved--I'm glad the comments and lists are all on one page with the definitions, I think it seems easier to use brackets to link to words with foreign characters, and I like the changes to the Twitter feed (though it makes it harder for me to use my @FreeBilby account to tease the reluctant marsupial).
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what do you think of the new interface ruzuzu? (honestly)
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Why, thank you! Happy Strangely Orange Snack Appreciation Day to you too!
*offers Cheez-Its, Doritos, and cheese curls all around*
By the way, it's also naked hiking day. I do not advise celebrating both at the same time. -
Your postcard from Paris is winging its way toward you even as I type these words.
Myself, I'll be winging my way back to the U.S. tomorrow, stopping off in DC, then on to SF on Thursday. -
look at the head photo in orchid mantis comments!
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Thanks! I added hawkey, too.
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See hawkie, re your cattle list.
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No! That's wonderful.
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Wholly mackerel, you're welcome. It is such neat word for combining! On the 'which see'list, did you realize that the last words in the Century Dictionary are 'which see' when you began the list? page 7159 of 1911 edition volume X
ruzuzu commented on the word freelance
Over on free-lance the CD&C says: "A mercenary soldier during the middle ages, especially one of some rank, mounted and thoroughly armed and having followers or attendants. (Compare lance.) They were most conspicuous in Italy, where they were called condottieri. Also called free companion."
May 25, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the list quirks-of-grammar
You're still the only person listing whoever's.
May 25, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the list names-of-national-capitals-that-are-often-but-incorrectly-pronounced-with-emphasis-on-the-penultimate-syllable
I adore your lists.
May 25, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the list dominoes
*favorited*
May 25, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word Shelley
Ah, wordnet: "English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)"
May 25, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word rendzina
"This is one of the most interesting of the soil names; it originates from a Polish colloquial word "rzędzić", which means "to chat": the soil of this type contains a significant amount of gravel and stones, which, during plowing, produce various sound effects (clicking, screeching, etc.), i.e., "talk" to the ploughman."
--http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rendzina&oldid=474517689
May 25, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word Glass–Steagall Act
Gulls can be so galling.
May 25, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
Oh, any time, deinonychus!
May 24, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word Fechner color
"The Fechner color effect is an illusion of color seen when looking at certain rapidly changing or moving black-and-white patterns. They are also called pattern induced flicker colors (PIFCs). Not everyone sees the same colors.
The effect is most commonly demonstrated with a device known as Benham's top. It can also be seen in stroboscopic lights when flashes are set at certain critical speeds. Rotating fan blades, particularly aluminium ones, can also demonstrate the effect; as the fan accelerates or decelerates, the colours appear, drift, change and disappear. The stable running speed of the fan does not (normally) produce colours, suggesting that it is not an interference effect with the frequency of the illumination flicker.
The effect was noted by Gustav Fechner and Hermann von Helmholtz and propagated to English-speakers through Charles Benham's invention of his top. The perceptual mechanism of Fechner color is not entirely understood."
--http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fechner_color&oldid=430587100
May 24, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word psychophysics
Wikipedia tells us the following: "Many of the classical techniques and theory of psychophysics were formulated in 1860 when Gustav Theodor Fechner published Elemente der Psychophysik. He coined the term "psychophysics", describing research that he thought related physical stimuli to the contents of consciousness such as sensations."
Then it tells us "Fechner's work was studied and extended by Charles S. Peirce, who was aided by his student Joseph Jastrow, who soon became a distinguished experimental psychologist in his own right. Peirce and Jastrow largely confirmed Fechner's empirical findings, but not all. In particular, a classic experiment of Peirce and Jastrow rejected Fechner's estimation of a threshold of perception of weights, as being far too high. In their experiment, Peirce and Jastrow in fact invented randomized experiments: They randomly assigned volunteers to a blinded, repeated-measures design to evaluate their ability to discriminate weights. Peirce's experiment inspired other researchers in psychology and education, which developed a research tradition of randomized experiments in laboratories and specialized textbooks in the eighteen-hundreds." (From http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychophysics&oldid=492156306)
May 24, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the list guide-to-the-perplexed
Nice!
May 24, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word siren
"See Harpy monument (under harpy), and compare cut under embolon." --CD&C
May 24, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word fall
To pass into a new state or condition;
enter upon a different state of
being, action, or feeling;
come to be, or to be engaged
or fixed: as,
to fall heir to an estate;
to fall a victim;
to fall asleep,
ill, in love, etc.;
to fall calm, as the wind;
to fall into a snare,
into a rage, etc.;
the troops fell into line.
--CD&C
May 24, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word International Fund for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficienty
Sure! Like linty socks or minty-fresh gum.
May 24, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the list welder-words
I just looked up wennish, which is also fun.
May 23, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word Guadalupe
See comment on arroyo.
May 23, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word arroyo
From the examples:
“It is surmised that the very name Guadalupe has its origins in the Arabic wadi lupe, that is, an arroyo of dark sand.”
--The Huffington Post: Susan J. Cobb: The Inner Virgin Comes Out In Revolution
May 23, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the user jbetke
Accordion, eh? Wanna join our band over on almost Solveig?
May 23, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word almost Solveig
Anyone have a pyrophone I can borrow?
May 23, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word latrine
I suppose this is where I should point out that the singular form of the old Latvian coin is actually lats.
May 23, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word upstart
See comment on startup.
May 22, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word startup
That's hilarious!
May 22, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word Napier
"Napier used his rooster to determine which of his servants had been stealing from his home. He would shut the suspects one at a time in a room with the bird, telling them to stroke it. The rooster would then tell Napier which of them was guilty. Actually, what would happen is that he would secretly coat the rooster with soot. Servants who were innocent would have no qualms about stroking it but the guilty one would only pretend he had, and when Napier examined their hands, the one with the clean hands was guilty.
Another occasion which may have contributed to his reputation as a sorcerer involved a neighbour whose pigeons were found to be eating Napier's grain. Napier warned him that he intended to keep any pigeons found on his property. The next day, it is said, Napier was witnessed surrounded by unusually passive pigeons which he was scooping up and putting in a sack. The previous night he had soaked some peas in brandy, and then sown them. Come morning, the pigeons had gobbled them up, rendering themselves incapable of flight."
--http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Napier&oldid=492990103
May 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word table
"The large flat facet on the top of a brilliant-cut stone. See brilliant (with cut)." --CD&C
May 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word amaryllis
"Used in classical pastoral poetry as a conventional name for a shepherdess." --AHD
May 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word henter
"A seizer; a grasper; a pursuer." --CD&C
May 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word soothsayer
"A mantis or rearhorse. See cut under Mantidæ. Also called camel-cricket, praying-mantis, devil's horse, devil's race-horse, etc. Synonyms Seer, etc. See prophet." --CD&C
May 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word jean dimmock
Wait. Did anyone answer nitrocellulose? I'll offer Corydalis.
May 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the user gulyasrobi
You have some fascinating lists, gulyasrobi. Welcome to Wordnik!
May 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word hallux
*sits back and waits for inevitable hallux hyperflexion spam to start rolling in*
May 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word sublime
Thanks, Rolig. If it weren't for Wordnik, I doubt I'd have ever met the Century Dictionary--and so I'm grateful.
May 20, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the user whichbe
Feedback tends to happen on the new feedback whatsit that you can get to from the menu down below. I think I put a helpful link on the word feedback, too. All the word stuff is on one page now--so if you're looking at a word's comments, you're already in the right place. And favorites are still here--you just have to go to the top of your dashboard page and click on the menu.
I'm not sure whether that was helpful at all--I'll just quit by saying how nice it is to see you here.
May 20, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the list we-re-a-band
I'm sad almost Solveig isn't on this list, but I'm glad nightsoil is here.
May 18, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the user whichbe
I also like your comment on checkmate.
May 18, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word sublime
Sublime Synonyms
A poem by the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Grand founds its meanings on the idea of great size,
lofty and sublime on that of height.
Natural objects may be sublime without physical height,
if vastness and great impressiveness are present.
In the moral field the sublime is that which is so high above
ordinary human achievements as to give the
impression of astonishment blended with awe,
as the leap of Curtius into the chasm,
or the death of the martyr Stephen.
In moral things the grand suggests both vastness
and elevation. Lofty may imply pride, but in this connection
it notes only a lower degree of the sublime,
sublime being the strongest word in the
language for ideas of its class.
May 18, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word venue
"In old fencing, a hit; attack; bout; a match or bout in cudgel-play; especially, a contest of regulated length, or of a fixed number of thrusts or blows; hence (because the bout was often ended when one thrust was successful), a thrust; a lunge." --CD&C
May 18, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the list chop
Nice!
May 18, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word fancy
"As commonly used, articles of show and ornament, not including valuable jewelry, but including appliances of dress less useful than ordinary textile materials or garments made of them, as women's collars, ruffles, ties, and the like, and such articles as inkstands, paper-weights, card-receivers, button-hooks, etc., of ornamental design." --CD&C
May 18, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the list old-western-slang
Whoa. Cool list.
May 18, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word sequel
Silly rabbit, kicks are for squids.
*squeezes the Charmin*
May 18, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word loose
"The privilege of turning out cattle on commons." --CD&C
May 17, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word volute
"Many of the volutes being well known, they take more distinctive names. Such is the West Indian music-shell, Voluta musica, so called because the markings resemble written music."
--CD&C
May 17, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word sequel
*squints*
May 17, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word procession
"In some of the American colonies, to go about in order to settle the boundaries of, as land. The term is still used in North Carolina and Tennessee. Compare to beat the bounds, under bound."
--CD&C
May 17, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word disappearing carriage
Not what I expected.
May 16, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word hallux
See comments on macrotis.
May 16, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word sequel
I don't hear any squealing yet. Perhaps we should find his hallux wanting.
May 16, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word sequel
Let's check!
*yanks one of bilby's ears*
May 16, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word hawk
See comments on hock.
May 16, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word hock
It is a variant of hack, but there are a couple definitions over on hawk that seem to support that word's use when loogie-ing (looging?).
May 16, 2012