User:DCDuring

I don't believe in some of the practices followed as they have changed.

This is not a dictionary I would rely on without checking other authorities or data.

A mathematics professor is giving a lecture and has made an assertion as part of his presentation. A student, not understanding the basis for the assertion, asks why it is true. The professor responds that "It is obvious." Then the professor steps back, stares at the board and ponders for several minutes. Then he turns and walks out of the lecture hall. He is absent for a fairly long time and finally one of the students goes to look for him. He sees the professor in his office working on the blackboard which he has covered with mathematics. The student returns and reports to the class. Finally, just before the class is scheduled to end the professor reappears, and announces "Yes, it is obvious."

My idiolect

 * Parents not native speakers (German [Lower Franconia] and Letzebergisch). My father's accent was about as thick as and similar to 's (Middle Franconia)
 * Born and schooled (through grade 8) in Brooklyn, NY, 9-12 in Manhattan, 12-14 in Indiana, 4 years in Boston area, balance of time in Manhattan and Westchester.
 * No cot-caught merger.
 * No pin-pen merger.
 * No r-dropping.
 * bad does not rhyme with had.
 * father rhymes with bother.
 * I don't do the prototypical New York pronunciations except in jest:
 * first as foist
 * these as dese
 * them as dem

Usability stages
The Nielsen-Norman Group posits 8 stages of usability development, of which the first four seem somewhat relevant to en.wikt.
 * 1) Hostility toward usability: We don't need no stinkin' users
 * 2) Developer-centered usability: Hey, I'm a user! (WE ARE HERE, mostly!)
 * 3) Skunkworks usability: I'm too smart to be a typical user.
 * 4) Dedicated usability budget: (which might mean a respected cadre of admins and users with such a focus).
 * The above are summarized at.

Our motto, annotated
All1 words2 in3 all4 languages5

The ordinary-word meaning of this slogan is somewhat misleading. The following notes explain the qualifications:
 * 1Not every word is included at all, let alone in a meaningful way. Obviously we haven't gotten around to all of them. Attestation requirements exclude many. Due to the narrowness of our contributor base many languages are unrepresented and many specialized contexts are unrepresented, even in English.
 * 2"Word" can include letters, numbers, symbols, abbreviations, proverbs, idiomatic expressions, some non-idiomatic expressions, clitics, affixes.
 * 3Some "words2" could fall between languages. A multi-word expression borrowed from a foreign language could be non-idiomatic in its original language and thereby not includable in that language. It may also only be found in italics or quotation marks in running text in other languages, indicating that authors and editors don't think it has entered the lexicon in that language.
 * 4See Vote on Serbo-Croatian.
 * 5Translingual is not a language. Many non-words are better characterized as things. Things that are not words are not part of languages.

Quotations

 * on Categories: 




 * On excuses
 * 17 And he sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden. Come, for all things are now ready.
 * 18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
 * 19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
 * 20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
 * 21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
 * 22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
 * 23 And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Luke XIV 17-23


 * 951,, first Caliph of Córdoba (15 October 961)
 * I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to Fourteen: — O man! place not thy confidence in this present world!








 * 1747,, The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language


 * 1778,
 * It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.”






 * 1847,, , Chapter 7
 * A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.








 * a 1922,, quoted in ''
 * When we Americans are through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.


 * 1924,, Chosen Thoughts (unknown translator), quoted in The Neuroscience of Intelligence (2017), Richard J. Haier, page xiii
 * Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.




 * 1957,, 
 * colourless green ideas sleep furiously








 * Originally delivered as the keynote address for Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on March 30, 2001
 * Bits have no archival medium. We haven't invented one yet. If you print something on acid-free paper with stable ink, and you put it in a dry dark closet, you can read it in two hundred years. We have no way to archive bits that we know will be readable in even fifty years. Tape demagnetizes. CDs delaminate. Networks go down.


 * 2008, June 26,, 
 * The problem I am pointing to, however, is not about web programming or sorting technicalities. It is a simple problem that afflicts us all: people with any kind of technical knowledge of a domain tend to get hopelessly (and unwittingly) stuck in a frame of reference that relates to their view of the issue, and their trade's technical parlance, not that of the ordinary humans with whom they so signally fail to engage. I have written about this before — in Per bus per journey, for example, and probably on several other occasions. The phenomenon — we could call it nerdview — is widespread.





Based on his own direct subjective and other experience, DCDuring is a fallibilist.

Things I favor in making Wiktionary choices
 * Economizing on user time
 * Making the first screen that a user sees have as much as possible of what is needed while encouraging the user to look for more
 * Not misleading users or WP editors (an important retail channel of distribution for Wiktionary)

Level 1 is an exaggeration of my language capabilities in any of the four languages shown in the box on the right.

Topics of interest

 * How to give WT users access to generic names given trademarked names. (easy: redirects or )
 * Improving the requested entries list by having some kind of structure for new entries designed to elicit more info from requester. (Maybe, but not soon and probably not with help or push from me.)
 * Improving the handling of those trying to make a contribution to WT for the first time. (More patrolling, commitment to hand holding. Yuck.)
 * Measures of Wiktionary success (search engine hits, click-throughs, etc.). (Not enough of those with skills care, esp in light of community indifference)
 * Wiktionary user data (demographics, interaction) (deemed against the rules. see immediately above)
 * Accommodating dialectical entries. (Not a big problem)
 * Accommodating new terms rapidly. (We try)
 * Making entry pages more loaded with what users want, not what they don't (Evidence ignored)
 * Linguistic theories:
 * Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG),
 * Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), and
 * Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG).
 * Discourse-Functional Grammar
 * Cognitive Grammar, and
 * Construction Grammar.

Posture

 * eye on the ball, open
 * shoulder to the wheel
 * head on one's shoulders, level
 * ear to the ground
 * nose to the grindstone, clean
 * mouth shut
 * chin up
 * pecker in your pants
 * feet on the ground
 * wind at one's back
 * finger to the wind


 * shake a leg
 * turn the other cheek
 * stand on one's own two feet
 * toe the line

Phrasebook
If we were a different wiki (possibly with radical differences in the interface for users and contributors), we could be the best phrasebook ever. We could be tuned principally for mobile devices with pronunciations recorded for all entries, with different stress patterns and usage advice for those patterns where warranted. We could take requests, including in the forms of recorded sounds and images.

But we are what we are: a participatory but otherwise largely conventional dictionary of pan-lingual ambition and multilingual accomplishment, that competes ably with commercial sites, exploiting timeliness, flexibility, and completeness, against selectivity and uniformity of quality.

Projects

 * Autocategorization of diachronic etymological and synchronic morphological derivation. BOTH.
 * Construction grammar (snowclones)
 * quantization/quantification
 * Ostensive definitions
 * Images
 * rhetorical and grammatical examples
 * other classes for use of examples boxes
 * New Latin
 * Modernizing definitions
 * Quality improvement of English entries
 * Remove overly technical terms from labels, eg, ergative

To Do

 * Redlink_dumps
 * Appendix:English nouns with restricted non-referential interpretation in bare noun phrases
 * Appendix:Snowclones


 * some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you, some days you get the bear and some days the bear gets you
 * some days you are the bug, other days you are the windshield, some days you are the bug and some days you are the windshield


 * Variety glossary}}
 * actioner an action movie
 * cabler - cable system or network operator
 * cleffer - songwriter
 * icer an ice show
 * laffer a comedy
 * meller a melodrama
 * oater a Western film
 * ozoner drive-in movie theater
 * praiser - publicist
 * romancer a romantic movie
 * scripter
 * showrunner
 * sudser a soap opera
 * suspenser a suspense film
 * tooner a cartoon
 * topper man in charge of an organization
 * tuner a musical
 * presser a press briefing or conference
 * yawner - boring show


 * User:DCDuring/Categories to watch
 * User:HippieBot
 * Appendix:English adverbs / Category:English adverbs / degree
 * Category:English sentence adverbs: modal / evaluative / domain / speech-act
 * Category:English temporal location adverbs / Category:English frequency adverbs / Category:English duration adverbs
 * Category:English intensifiers
 * Category:English verbs, Category:English predicates
 * Category:English idioms, Category:English set phrases


 * User:HippieBot/English conjunctions with mismatch between heading and category
 * User:HippieBot/English interjections with mismatch between heading and category
 * User:HippieBot/English idioms with mismatch between heading and category
 * User:HippieBot/English phrases with mismatch between heading and category
 * User:HippieBot/English proverbs with mismatch between heading and category
 * User:HippieBot/English abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms with translations


 * sportpony / sport pony 2/18/08

User:DCDuring/Latin suffixes


 * service
 * hochepoche
 * go
 * volgivagant
 * will
 * discourse marker
 * brick missing der/rel terms
 * date
 * account
 * abdico
 * claudo
 * dico


 * Appendix:Collocations of in
 * in
 * discretization words Beer_parlour
 * Discretization User_talk:DCDuring/Discretization
 * Classifying parts of speech
 * Distinguishing parts of speech
 * Pengo species words
 * User:Visviva/Cobwebs
 * Candidates for reclassification: Header and Category
 * Category:English phrases
 * Category:English interjections
 * Category:English idioms
 * Category:English proverbs
 * Category:English sentences


 * spot (adj)


 * 1. Delete buffoon
 * 2. Move Transwiki:Buffoon to buffoon
 * 3. Delete buffoon again
 * 4. Go to Special:Undelete and restore all revisions
 * To merge histories, delete the existing main-namespace page, move the transwiki page to mainspace, and undelete. Then edit/undo/rollback the page as needed to update it to the best version. This is fast and easy once you get the hang of it, but I don't know (to answer your question) whether it's documented.—msh210 ℠  18:19, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * And Dmcdevit has just commented elsewhere that the first step, deleting the existing page, need not be done separately, but can instead be done as part of the move by checking the "delete the target page" box. Even better.—msh210 ℠  19:28, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

cat cleanup Where can i find out more about using "HotCat" as you did recently. ?

See my importScript line User:Bequw/common.js and for documentation see w:Wikipedia:HotCat. It makes category cleanup much easier. Horizontal scroll bar appearing on browser window
 * Due to long link. Ungoliant
 * Confirmed. I've now wrapped the relevant comment in &lt;div style="overflow:scroll"&gt;, so it has its own scrollbars and won't cause the whole page to need them. (This may not be the most elegant solution, but it's the first one that came to mind.) —Ruakh


 * Regex fragments:
 * \{\{IPA\|en\|([^|{}]+=[^|]+\|)*[^|}=]*y


 * User:DTLHS/WantedPages

Taxonomy

 * humor
 * names & derivations
 * somewhat more comprehensive, but overlapping list of same
 * Appendix:Names_of_characters_in_plays_of_Plautus


 * WikiSpecies Project to do
 * Protist discussion at WikiSpecies
 * Category:Entries with redundant template: taxlink
 * User:DCDuring/MissingTaxa
 * Requested_entries_(Scientific_names)
 * Category:Entries using missing taxonomic names
 * Category:Taxonomic names needing vernacular names
 * User:Pengo
 * User:Pengo/epithets on the page
 * User:Pengo/missing epithets
 * Category:Species entry using missing Translingual specific epithet
 * Category:Species entry using missing Latin specific epithet
 * Biodiversity_of_Westchester_County,_New_York - endangered, etc.
 * User:DCDuring/Taxonomic name section attributes
 * Taxonomic names
 * User:DCDuring/Sequenced species genomes
 * LSJBot for species articles
 * Category:Taxonomic_names
 * Category:mul:Taxonomic names
 * Beer_parlour/2009/October
 * Beer_parlour/2010/July
 * Virus classification
 * Category:Taxonomic name templates
 * Recent dumps
 * Appendix:English terms of Native North American origin
 * User:Pengo/common epithets/missing/first
 * User:Pengo/genera_needed_to_75%25


 * Category:Translingual_entry_maintenance
 * ; ; ; sp. (sea star),  ("an Antarctic sea worm") and  sp. (worms),  (sponge); Parvancorina, Tribrachidium

Lawn wildflowers

 * Centaurea cyanus
 * (candytuft)
 * (Virginia stock)
 * (candytuft)
 * (Virginia stock)

Other

 * User_talk:Jyril
 * Cleanup of hard-formatted super-generic names: []

Quotation/Attestation

 * Category:Requests for date
 * Category:Requests for quotations
 * Abbreviated Authorities in Webster
 * Usenet group verification

Review

 * Engl. phrasal verbs
 * Feedback
 * Links
 * English terms needing attention
 * Category:Requests
 * Wiktionary:Todo
 * Category:English initialisms
 * Entries with level/structure problems
 * Kassadbot Contributions
 * User:Liliana-60/en-infl
 * Dishwashing
 * Bolded spaces in 1-word entries
 * "action of the verb"
 * Requests for date
 * Uncategorized pages
 * Entries with non-standard headers
 * English acronyms


 * give
 * pay
 * make
 * put
 * have
 * raise
 * take
 * set?
 * do
 * get?
 * offer
 * go?
 * let?

Terms

 * often: /OF-tuhn/. Similar words with a silent -t- are "chasten," "fasten," "hasten," "listen," "soften," and "whistle" per Garner. ???


 * scissors
 * pants
 * spectacles
 * shackles


 * box nail - a wire nail with a head; box nails have a smaller shank than common nails of the same size
 * bright nail - no surface coating; not recommended for weather exposure or acidic or treated lumber
 * casing nail - a wire nail with a slightly larger head than finish nails; often used for flooring
 * CC coated nail - "cement coated"; nail coated with adhesive (cement) for greater holding power; also resin- or vinyl-coated; coating melts from friction when driven to help lubricate then hardens when cool; color varies by manufacturer (tan, pink, are common)
 * common nail - a common construction wire nail with a head: common nails have larger shanks than box nails of the same size
 * duplex nail - a common nail with a second head, allowing for easy extraction
 * finish nail - a wire nail that does not have a "head"; can be easily concealed
 * galvanized nail - treated for resistance to corrosion and/or weather exposure
 * helix nail - the nail has a square shank that has been twisted this makes the nail very difficult to pull out; often used in decking
 * ring shank nail - small rings on the shank to prevent the nail from being worked back out often used in flooring
 * sinker nail - Same thin diameter as a box nail, cement coated (see above), the funnel shaped head is easier to nail flat and the head has a grid on the strike surface to keep the hammer strike from slipping; these are the most common nails used in framing today
 * spike - a large nail (usually over 4" - 100 mm)
 * Length - distance from the head to the point of a nail
 * Phosphate-coated - a dark grey to black finish providing a surface that binds well with paint and joint compound and minimal corrosion resistance
 * Point - sharpened end opposite the "head" for greater ease in driving
 * Electrogalvanized - provides a smooth finish with some corrosion resistance
 * Mechanically galvanized - deposits more zinc than electrogalvanizing for increased corrosion resistance
 * Hot-dip galvanized - provides a rough finish that deposits more zinc than other methods, resulting in very high corrosion resistance that is suitable for some acidic and treated lumber; often easier to bend than other types of nails


 * head - round flat metal piece affixed to the top of the nail; for increased holding power
 * shank - the body the length of the nail between the head and the point; may be smooth, or may have rings or spirals for greater holding power


 * nittle
 * squean (an asterisk with an empty center)
 * phosphene for a character who's "seeing stars",
 * jarn Hashmark graphic
 * quimp Saturn-like graphic
 * spirl


 * haiku
 * tanka
 * cinquain
 * diamante


 * yesteryear tools


 * business: zombie S&L, zombie institution, zombie company, zombie business, zombie organization
 * philosophy: zombie hypothesis, zombie world, zombie thought experiment
 * social science: zombie effect
 * computing: zombie network, zombie process, zombie client, zombie system, zombie program, zombie computer, zombie state, zombie version, zombie host, zombie path, zombie user, zombie software
 * dance: zombie dance
 * cinema: zombie film, zombie genre


 * aischrolatry
 * angelolatry
 * anthropolatry
 * arborolatry
 * arbrolatry
 * archaeolatry
 * archeolatry
 * astrolatry
 * ballatry
 * bibliolatry
 * christolatry
 * coplatry
 * cosmolatry
 * cynolatry
 * dendrolatry
 * diabolatry
 * ecclesiolatry
 * episcopolatry
 * gamidolatry
 * gastrolatry
 * geolatry
 * grammatolatry
 * gynaecolatry
 * gynaeolatry
 * gyneolatry
 * gyniolatry
 * hygeiolatry
 * hygieiolatry
 * ichthyolatry
 * iconolatry
 * idiolatry
 * lexicographicolatry
 * litholatry
 * lordolatry
 * mechanolatry
 * monolatry
 * neolatry
 * onolatry
 * ophiolatry
 * ousiolatry
 * papolatry
 * parthenolatry
 * patriolatry
 * physiolatry
 * planetolatry
 * plutolatry
 * poetolatry
 * prelatry
 * pseudolatry
 * selenolatry
 * statolatry
 * staurolatry
 * symbolatry
 * symbololatry
 * thaumatolatry
 * theolatry
 * theriolatry
 * topolatry
 * uranolatry
 * verbolatry

Copulas

 * Appendix:English copulae


 * List of English copulae


 * be
 * seem
 * become


 * act
 * appear
 * prove
 * sound
 * look
 * taste
 * smell
 * feel
 * come
 * fall
 * get
 * go
 * grow
 * lie
 * remain
 * stay
 * turn
 * run
 * emerge
 * hatch
 * steer
 * drive
 * arrive
 * depart
 * leave
 * wax
 * wane?
 * read?
 * play?


 * be
 * become
 * grow
 * get
 * feel
 * seem
 * appear
 * taste
 * sound
 * smell
 * look
 * remain
 * act
 * go
 * turn
 * make


 * make
 * prove
 * imagine
 * consider
 * think*
 * deem*
 * run*
 * work*
 * suck*


 * laugh
 * worry
 * eat
 * drink

Reference links

 * User:Dixtosa/SuffixIndex
 * PetScan
 * How do if find a diff I know only by number and wiki?

I know a specific edit number for a WP edit that allegedly triggered a ban of a veteran user. I'd like to see it and the context and judge for myself. I don't know what page was being edited, nor the date. If you don't know how to do this, do you have any idea where I can look? DCDuring (talk) 12:03, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

@DCDuring: If I understand correctly, you can look up the diff by entering https://[wiki domain=]en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=[edit#=]895438118. You don't need the page name because all edit numbers on a wiki are unique. If you then want to look at the history for more context, you can note the date, click the History tab, and enter the date to view edits around that time. — Eru·tuon 18:16, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. It worked perfectly. I am right now finding the confrontation that probably led to the ban. DCDuring (talk) 19:14, 12 June 2019 (UTC)


 * [shneid - cited entry without def]


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 * How OED handles rejects
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 * Idioms_that_survived_RFD
 * units of measurement
 * example of how to find which MediaWiki pages are invoked to construct a page
 * Astronomy:
 * Here are all the terms used in astronomy desciption?
 * website has also a list of every single surface feature name approved by the IAU.
 * TemplateTiger
 * Beer_parlour_archive/2007/November
 * Beer_parlour_archive/2007/May
 * Talk:quaint
 * User:Visviva/POS_testing
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 * DuBay, W. H. 2004. The Principles of Readability. A brief introduction to readability research]
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 * Help:Customizing_your_monobook
 * 10 usability heuristics from NNG
 * WT:TR; Talk:ground beef; and Beer_parlour_archive/2009/June.
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 * Thematic relations
 * Case grammar


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 * Falsikon -- most popular pages at English Wiktionary
 * 
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 * AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage


 * references
 * CGEL (2003) !!!
 * Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999), Douglas Biber and Stig Johansson
 * A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik (1985)
 * A Grammar of the English Language, George O. Curme (1935)
 * Webster's International Dictionary Second edition
 * Webster's Third New International Dictionary and Seven-Language Dictionary
 * Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (New Edition) (1987)
 * Collins COBUILD English Dictionary (New Edition) (1995)
 * The American Language, H. L. Mencken
 * Dictionary of American Regional English Volumes 1-3 (A-O)
 * APA Dictionary of Psychology (2006)
 * Penguin Dictionary of Psychology
 * What's What: A Visual Glossary of the Physical World (1982)
 * A Topical Dictionary of Statistics
 * The Way Things Work
 * A Dictionary of Philosophy, Flew
 * Modern American Usage (2009) !!!
 * MWDEU
 * McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
 * less notable
 * The Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed)
 * Black's Law Dictionary (3rd ed)
 * Fowler (2nd ed)
 * Modern American Usage
 * Some dictionaries of business and economics
 * Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations, Patrick Hanks (2013) !!!
 * Semantics, James Lyons (1977)
 * Lexical Semantics
 * Cognitive Linguistics


 * WP on JS errors