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Thanks Henry, and thanks for taking people's feelings into consideration. I appreciate it, and I'm sure others do too.
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New baby daughter keeping you awake, John? I vaguely recall all that (it happened to me about 39 years ago). Take heart; it will pass.
Best,
Henry -
Yeah, you're right, I could have left that threat out. An ambiguous one at that -- I was threatening to be annoying, nothing more nefarious.
You don't have to delete anything (they'll live on as orphans in any case), and I'm not scared of words, or think anyone here needs to be protected against them.
But I'm very, very protective of Wordie and the community, and want it to be a civil, friendly place where all feel welcome. I ignored the first few rounds of cunt words, but when it was clear that it was a pattern, I came down, perhaps too hard. If it helps explain anything, I didn't sleep much last night, and am wearing my cranky pants.
Repairing to the Verbal Arms is always a good idea. Also, free speech seems like a good place to discuss individual rights vs. community mores, public vs. private spaces and the hybrid zone Wordie occupies, my latent dictatorial nature, etc.
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Hello John,
I had no idea that I was annoying you; it was not my intention to do so. I will delete those words that are offensive to you.
You might simply have told me all this. There was no need to issue a threat along with it.
Best,
Henry -
TBH. John's right. Words are words and Wordies record them, discuss them, enjoy them. Playing with them is more delicate and needs more appreciation of community feeling. His very simple words of advice to me when I queried something on first joining in was 'just don't be a jerk'. Few of us would claim to getting it right all the time, so no need to leave. Just strive to know where wordplay doesn't offend.
Come over to the Verbal Arms and put a tune or two on the jukebox. Mine's a bloody fbharjy. What's yours? -
Hello TBH. I'm far too tired to mince words right now, so I'm letting you know once that if you add one more "cunt" related word, I'm going to delete your account, and make every effort to find you elsewhere online and annoy you as much as you're annoying me, something I'm very capable of doing.
I value free speech as much as anyone, but Wordie isn't a public space, it's a private web site run by me, and I have no problem whatsoever policing it forcefully if you keep fucking around.
That said, I value your non-sexist contributions, and would much, much prefer that you stick around and join the rest of us in polite conversation, rather than playing the troll.
Best,
John
thebighenry commented on the word beg the answer
riff on beg the question
Jun 12, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word ignore with extreme sarcasm
riff on terminate with extreme prejudice
Jun 11, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word riff
ninja words:
(v) : to improvise in the performance or practice of an art, esp. by expanding on or making novel use of traditional themes
Jun 11, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word terminate with extreme prejudice
The extraction "extreme prejudice" is popularly thought to have originated in military circles and to mean a "take no prisoners" or "show no mercy" attitude by military forces.
Jun 11, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word quantization
Quantization (linguistics)
In linguistics, a quantized expression is such that, whenever it is true of some entity, it is not true of any proper subparts of that entity. Example: If something is an "apple", then no proper subpart of that thing is an "apple". If something is "water", then many of its subparts will also be "water". Hence, "apple" is quantized, while "water" is not. Quantization has proven relevant to the proper characterization of grammatical telicity (roughly, sentences that present events as bounded/unbounded in time) and the mass/count distinction for nouns. The notion was first applied to linguistic semantics by the logician Manfred Krifka.
Jun 8, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word favicon
From netlingo:
favorite icon
The name for a small icon used in Internet Explorer (version 5 and higher) to identify a favorite or a bookmark.
When users visit certain Web sites, you may see a "favicon" in the browser address bar next to the URL, and in your list of favorites next to the title of the Web site you've bookmarked. Favicons act as a branded icon as these small images are often modified versions of a company's logo. Most browsers support favicons, including IE 5/6+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+, Netscape 7+, Opera 7+, Konqueror 3+, and Safari.
Jun 7, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word web page
ninja words:
(n) : a single page in a website, together with any referenced images or scripts etc; often hyperlinked to others
Jun 6, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word tcp-ip
alsoTCP/IP
ninja words:
(abbrev) : Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. This is the standard now widely in use for computers to communicate on networks, especially the internet
Jun 6, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word packet-switched
(adj) : processed via a network technology that breaks up a message into small packets for transmission.
Jun 6, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word routable
ninja words:
(adj) : able to be routed
Jun 6, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word internet protocol
From ninja words:
(n) : one of the computer networking protocols that are antecedents or descendants of that specified by the IETF STD005, "INTERNET PROTOCOL"; all of which are characterized by providing routable internetwork addressing and by being packet-switched, unreliable, and connectionless; the most widely used of these protocols, IPv4
Jun 6, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word world wide web
ninja words:
(n) : an information space on the Internet in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called uniform resource identifiers. Abbreviations: WWW, 3W
Jun 6, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word you know
From ninjawords --
(interjection) : expression signifying a pause or hesitation
synonyms: er, erm, um
Jun 5, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word lighten up
Note to myself: Try to have less fun on Wordie.
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word tautonym
lighten up, bilby;
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word lighten up
(v) : to become less serious and more cheerful or casual; to relax
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word cyber
(adj) : pertaining to the internet;
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word bot
Short for 'robot', specifically a cyber-robot, almost exclusively used on the internet.
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word surf the web
Yes, if one is a bot.
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word tautonym
Since "hotshots" is also composed of "hots" + "hots", it is a tautonym.
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word hots
square root of hotshots
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word hots
(n) : to have the "hots" for someone means to be physically attracted to them
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word hotshots
hots squared, as in, "She has the hots² for him!"
Jun 3, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word lobhen
It could be, but my intention was to coin the female form of lobcock.
May 30, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word lobhen
n. 1. A dull, sluggish woman.
May 29, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word lasso
lariat
May 27, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word querope
a Continental Spanish lasso
May 27, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word timshel
From the famous passage in East of Eden:
A great book; a wonderful passage; and a word loaded with nuance and implication.May 24, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word timshel
Verily, I jest thou not; que será, será. If your comment, Sir yarb, concerns my use of the archaic "thou" and "mayest" in defining timshel, it is simply because I am quoting the passage in Steinbeck's East of Eden, where the biblical meaning of timshel is discussed. The passage is conveniently accessible online at the URL:
http://timshel.org/timshel.php
May 23, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word entropy
The Second Law of Thermodynamics specifies that entropy, the measure of randomness in a closed physical system, increases with time. Entropy is that physical phenomenon responsible for the inexorable expansion of the universe toward a state of complete dissipation of useful, creative if you will it, energy. This, crucially, does not obviate the possibility of temporary localized reductions in entropy, however.
May 23, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word negentropy
negative entropy
May 23, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word timshel
Timshel is a transliteration of the Hebrew word that means "thou mayest." It is a succinct exposition of the philosophical concept of Free Will. 'Timshel' memorably appears as the last quote in Steinbeck's East of Eden, and is, arguably, the principal theme of that novel. 'Thou mayest' suggests a divine (or from an as yet unknowable source) grant of potential. If we define an adjective "timshel" as a contextual extension to mean 'Thou mayest cause', it gives us the means to express, in local spacetime (i.e., in local 3-dimensional space and also temporarily), that aspect of potential for a reduction in entropy, which offers a possibility for an increase in useful, and conditionally creative, energy.
May 23, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word life is timshel negentropy
TheBigHenry's definition of life that not only does not violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics, but also incorporates potential creativity.
May 23, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word opportenism
unsportsmanlike conduct on the tennis court
May 22, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word apoortennism
alternative spelling for opportenism
May 22, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word staphyline
people waiting for antibiotics
May 20, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word brend
a retro trend
May 18, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word epact
epact (n): an electronic international treaty
May 14, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word heimlichoke
an artichoke lodged in the windpipe
May 14, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word typo recycling
Coining new words from typos, as, for example, lovelty.
May 14, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word lovelty
Truth be told, I found it online. It was a typo for lovely, which I appropriated for my own purpose.
May 13, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word lovelty
nice and new
May 13, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word moobs
see Urban Dictionary
May 13, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word boobs
I'm with sushiaddict. If we struck boobs (the word) we could get rid of moobs, which would be a good thing.
May 13, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word jerk
The speed of acceleration, as well as the acceleration of speed.
More at Distance, speed, acceleration, and time.
May 13, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word deathspan
Fer shur, gangerh, but it may actually be more complex than that.
May 13, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word imaginary
The auto-generated definition is mathematically correct for a complex number, though in common usage it also applies to an imaginary number. The mathematically correct definition for imaginary number is:
(n): (mathematics) a number of the form "bi" where "b" is a real number and i is the square root of -1
May 13, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word complex
complex number (n): (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1. The term "a" is the real part and the term "bi" is the imaginary part.
May 13, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word deathspan
There is negative, imaginary, as well as complex deathspan.
May 13, 2008
thebighenry commented on the word deathspan
synonym for infinity
May 12, 2008