she has looked up 0 words, created 46 lists, listed 3855 words, written 1299 comments, added 3 tags, and loved 68 words.
Comments by she
Comments for she
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...We miss her so much...
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"she has created 46 lists, listed 3,856 words, written 1,299 comments, and added 3 tags, 88 favorites, and 0 pronunciations."
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your lists are confection! JOY!
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I found you some transport.
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Are you still alive? Should we have a Wordie wake?
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Citing Wordie wisdom, is it she
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*buzzes again*
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Back?! *finger poised on buzzer*
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We're waiting for you, here!
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Hurry back!
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(tinny speakers) Hello! This is your She speaking. Am regretfully away, again, until the 25th!
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She. You are most welcome on Wordie. But you are going to have to stop adding so many marvellous words. One day I won't be able to resist temptation, I'll steal every last one of them, and then your lists will be subsumed into mine, like the Borg.
Resistance is futile.
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Did you ever hear the Smog song "Bathysphere"? Also covered very well by Cat Power.
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Home! Finally! *inhales living-spaces*
Nine hours in a car and I haven't slept, but can't..! Also fandangled my way into a month of OED online. These are not unrelated.
So much catching-up to do! Oh help. -
Oh oh: to answer your question, bilby, I liken my mind to a kind of overintricate cuckoo clock?
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Phone-posting from the car to say that I am in fact gone now (see above)! Shine on, you crazy diamonds! (Christ that took forever to type; I`m getting used to a newfangled QWERTYboard.)
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What kind of timepiece are you?
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Retronym at your service. /grin
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Oh yes please! And several extras.
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Would you like an i'iwi?
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Hi, she. I think the technical term is verbification.
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Hi she. It's 1.55am here. I'm glad you're around.
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Hey now, the tag started as 'cutest goddamned words in the universe' but it felt funny on the individual wordpages. And yes, it is!
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Hey, there are now 2 cutest god-damned words in the universe! I'm glad the universe is a big place!
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Naturally, I'm crushed.
edit: Oh, Mercy! -
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AbraxasZugzwang is a: retronym
Yay! First couple on Wordie!
Oh wait, he's looking for an exonym. -
I was going to say a teddy bear in springtime, but I won't.
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Is it a neighbor hater, bilby?
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Amid all the banter I don't think I officially welcomed you!
*hangs banner out*
*waves*
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You are a userbase possessed! I think I like this place.
..Yes, it took me this long to view my profile. -
Basically,
She
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But we do need a he. Then we can have lots of he-said-she-said conversations.
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Earworm alert!
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She's the one who likes all our pretty words, and she likes to read along, and she likes Erin McKean, but we don't know if she's a she, or know if she's a he. And I say yeah.
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What a wonderful heaping of new words you've added...
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She has been added to fabulous usernames.
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Uh,oh. Are we up for a Wordie Treatment Sunday, she asked
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I secretly hope "she" (username) is a "he".
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sheesh.
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Do I hear wailing? It's the ban she banshee.
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This is me not making a "that's what she said" joke. It's tough.
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I was just thinking that it's a very useful username, indeed.
less than a minute ago, she said... -
She hopes, prolagus. Come on, your English is better than that...
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She, hope you have ideas for a new username since all genders were banned from Wordie a few months ago.
she commented on the word bocspell
Obs. n., A history or narrative (fr. OE boc, book + spell, story).
Oct 21, 2008
she commented on the word lingworm
A fabulous serpent (adapted from Old Norse lyngormr ‘heatherworm;’ cf. Danish/Swedish lindworm). No relation to bookworms/linguistics!
Oct 11, 2008
she commented on the word spasmadrap
Obs. n., A medical plaster (apparently fr. Latin spasma, a healing powder + French drap, cloth).
"He [a friar] carried divers pills, spasmadraps, cordials, and drops for his adult patients." –Horace Smith, 1826
Oct 6, 2008
she commented on the word flunge
v., To fly or be flung out with sudden impetus (cf. fly, lunge).
Hellooo; am still out-of-town 'til Monday.
Sep 28, 2008
she commented on the user she
(tinny speakers) Hello! This is your She speaking. Am regretfully away, again, until the 25th!
Sep 15, 2008
she commented on the word almirah
Anglo-Indian name for a cupboard, cabinet, press, wardrobe, or chest of drawers.
Sep 12, 2008
she commented on the word riroriro
The New Zealand grey warbler, Gerygone igata, a small wren-like bird.
Sep 12, 2008
she commented on the list words-that-have-del-regenerated-del-flourished-magnificently-into-queen-or-beatles-or-johnny-tillotson-songs
It should be <s> </s> or <strike> </strike>, but I don't think it works on Wordie. :(
Sep 11, 2008
she commented on the word atanua
fr. Wikipedia: Atanua (or Atanea), in Polynesian mythology, is the goddess of the dawn; she created the seas, after having a miscarriage, by filling the oceans with her amniotic fluid.
Sep 11, 2008
she commented on the word depreciate
How else is one supposed to browse Wordie and eat sushi!? :(
Sep 11, 2008
she commented on the word depreciate
I'd like to take a moment to depreciate trying to manipulate chopsticks and move a mouse consecutively with one hand. This really isn't going so well.
Sep 11, 2008
she commented on the word help!!
I'll help you if I can, if you're feeling down.
Sep 10, 2008
she commented on the word russwale
n., Walrus hide (ultimately fr. Icelandic hrosshvalr, 'horse-whale').
Sep 10, 2008
she commented on the list words-that-have-del-regenerated-del-flourished-magnificently-into-queen-or-beatles-or-johnny-tillotson-songs
Ha! I was going to amend that comment:
or "Words that have flourished magnificently into Queen or Beatles songs"
Sep 10, 2008
she commented on the word isogloss
Why are some of the prettiest words the ones I'll never, ever-ever-ever find occasion to use? *weeps*
Sep 10, 2008
she commented on the word allozooid
n., An 'animal bud' differing and separated from the compound/colonial animal organism from which it originated (allo-, other, different + zooid); cf. isozooid.
Sep 10, 2008
she commented on the word isogyrous
(Botany) adj., Forming a complete spiral.
Sep 10, 2008
she commented on the word batterfang
Hot diggity damn!
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word git
Admittedly, the name Wordie did surprise me at first — but only because the site itself immediately inspired, deep within me, what I believe bilby has termed a glow-worm symphony of delightedness..
It is a little "web 2.0," but it's cute, memorable, and to-the-point as well — it certainly didn't bother me enough to write, publish, edit, re-edit, and finally delete, when teased about – a blog post.
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word git
Well! That's it, guys — time to find a clerver name for ourselves!
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word smoke your own fish, 1953
"And then she smoked her own fish! In front of everyone!"
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word help!!
*wonders if anyone has made a list for "Words that have degenerated into Queen or Beatles songs" yet*
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word womyn
I assumed it was 'my,' in the way of 'reclaiming ownership.'
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word womyn
Ain't no shame in the game!
ahem, edit: Oh, hello, yarb! That was directed at c_b.
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the list movies-ive-seen
Criticker (my profile) is great for this!
They are with movies a bit like we are with words; you can rank things, or just save them for later, and get (useful!) recommendations — plus, you can give your rankings names, which they call quips, and instead of friends, you have kumpels!* ..All in all, rather satisfying and dorky.
*German for "comrade!"
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word womyn
Oh yes! I wasn't serious.
It seems to me, though, that woman is the sort of word you don't see as implying anything (like so many words in English used daily, remaining oblivious to their roots) until it's specifically brought to your attention. (Funny how, in focusing on the implications of the word woman, one could also choose to disregard the products of intentional misspelling being considered almost universally silly!)
And, by that logic (though faulty — woman is from wífman, a compound where wíf (wife) meant woman, and man meant human being), wife — which, for a time, after originally meaning "woman," meant "woman of lowly rank or employment" — should be just as reprehensible, yes?
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word nomen confusum
Nomen confusum's a taxon based on a mixture of more than one species mistaken as one.
See also: nomen actionis, nomen agentis, nomen ambiguum, nomen conservandum, nomen dubium, nomen illegitimum, nomen novum, nomen nudum, nomen oblitum, nomen rejiciendum
Wouldn't that fall under stupefy? :> (I can't believe I remembered that!)
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word womyn
I've never understood this one. "Yes! We will distinguish ourselves by spelling like popstars."
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the list having-c-m-e
It would be really glorious(ly convenient) to have some sort of program to read through everything I've wordied and just tell me what my history's been with everything you mention, 'be..
But yes. I love them, too — Reining them in by hand is time-consuming and kind of overwhelming (in scope and interestingness and usurious number of possibilities..), but I suspect it's really the most thorough way for me to try to answer the bibliophagists' (or this bibliophagist's) question-of-all-questions: "Why do I love what I love, and what do I love that I don't know I do yet?"
And thanks, Prolagus; I still have a few thousand words yet to look at..!
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word outaouais
Is this pronounced "out-a-ways?"
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word flapse
Temporary absence of, or space between, a flap or flaps?
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the list stellar-six-letter-words
But deplore is seven letters! :o
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word sphalma
Obs. n., An error or slip in writing or copying (fr. Greek, 'to err').
Sep 9, 2008
she commented on the word sepia
I have absolutely no problem with what it entails (or seeing it in print! My mind says "sep-i-a," to appease me)— but it's not a word I enjoy hearing.
I'm sorry, sepia. :(
Sep 7, 2008
she commented on the word isidore
I think Izzy was the name of my childhood friend's iguana, come to think of it.
But yes, it's a cute nickname, and I like how Izi and Isidore have that little extra something without sounding wacky or misguided ("This is my daughter, Annavanessica! With a Q."). Who knows; if no Isidores turn up on reality television in the next ten or twenty years, I may report back with news of so-named spawn!
Sep 6, 2008
she commented on the word obex
n.¹, An impediment or obstacle; a mental barrier.
n.², (Anatomy) A small, crescentic fold of white matter that covers the inferior angle of the floor of the fourth ventricle.
Sep 6, 2008
she commented on the word isatis
Also, the white or Arctic fox (Canis lagopus), named by J. G. Gmelin, 1760, Canis isatis.
Sep 6, 2008
she commented on the word isidore
Isidore/Isadore has got to be the prettiest male name I've ever heard—completely out-melliflues the feminine alternatives.
Sep 6, 2008
she commented on the word bibliopolar
Just a bookseller, really. (Really! See bibliopole.)
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the word master of glomery
The title of an official formerly recognized by the University of Cambridge, apparently the head of the grammar school or schools (Latin: Magister Glomeriæ). Cf. glomerel.
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the word glomerel
A term formerly in use in the University of Cambridge to denote a pupil in grammar school (fr. med. Latin glomeria, likely fr. Anglo-French glomerie/gramarie, grammar); cf. Master of Glomery.
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the word monumental city
Yes, yarb! And, on behalf of being utterly-wrong enough to call for rolig's esteemed correction — you're welcome. :)
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the word gutfoundered
Was this your 12,000th word, c_b? (Hooray, 12,000!)
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the word master of the mint
Ooh!
(I am mistress of the mint, I think, when nummulating choice desserts..)
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the list gems-from-i-1811-dictionary-of-the-vulgar-tongue-i
I am (predictably) very fond of this!
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the word queer as dick's hatband
HA! I could've sworn this said "queer as a duck's hatband" when I saw it on the front page. (It was much more convincing than my usual misreadings—! A duck's hatband would be pretty queer-looking, I imagined, and left it at that.)
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the list having-c-m-e
After pondering it for a bit, I decided c, m, and e were likely to blame for my suddenly finding "c'mere" to be very nice-looking (pronunciation aside), and I happened to be investigating this when I decided to finally start adding these lists to Wordie. There's a whole mess of other noted letters and sounds—some of which are already overlapping with (or closely related to) words I have on this list. And I'll probably end up pruning a few others, when I go back to edit for quality (ideally, I want words whose look/sounds I love, not just words that qualify). Bah—I'll figure it out eventually!
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the word intussuscept
Whoops!
Ahem. *quietly brushes word into neighboring pile*
(What's more, this most likely isn't the only neat word I've accidentally put here while browsing for candidates..)
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the word monumental city
I stand corrected! (Who was the Wordie posting Melvillean quotes all over the place? He should be pleased with this.)
Sep 5, 2008
she commented on the word smersh
SMERSH: Smert' Shpionam, lit. "death to spies."
Sep 5, 2008