Talk:mystery

Hiflyer - two entries have a w: -- Jesus Christ and Skull and Bones, I think the style under help has a different format for links to Wikimedia - will look for it under Editing help (right next to cancel when editing) and make changes - If I find format before you do, that is...rob chamberlin 07:12, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Hiflyer - I removed the :w: in the entries mentioned and that cleaned up the links. I think the new form for links to internal wiki do not require the :w: anymore. I need to play with this in the sandbox myself before I figure it out. Gosh are you ever busy. But you do good work. I suspect I am older than you, but very new to the Wiktionary edit league, so pardon me if I look over your shoulder from time to time. Cheers,rob chamberlin 07:41, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

:::Hi Rob. I'm new here as well, and just getting the feel of the editing process. I find the best thing is to read up all you can and then jump in and have a go. The other people in here, especially the more regular 'players,' are too happy to micro-manage the entries.

That's what we do! It's all fair game until the word is agreed upon to the extent that no one makes any more edits to it and gets on with the next page. I value the input of every single person, and I would hope you have as much fun in here as I have had. I'm sure I'll find some things to do with your entries as well. And if you can explain your positions on the 'talk:' pages, then many times the items will change back to your original post. Oh well, back to work ;-)) or I mean back to learning... "AJ" --HiFlyer 17:33, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Re: Erroneously (&/or, INCOMPLETELY)-published Etymological Analysis for the noun: mystery!!!

Hello there,

I would like to point out to you the FACT (that has perhaps evaded you-hence, has been inadvertantly ignored..) that in Hebrew. the word for mystery is: מִסְתּוֹרִין=mees'to'reen (with an -een suffix typical of words borrowed & introduced into Hebrew from Aramaic)-a word whose radical or root letters are: ס-ת-ר (from the verb meaning: HIDE & CONTRADICT) but then, in turn, borrowed from Greek, where rhe word: μυστήριον (mees'te'ree'on]=mystery has exists until current day!

AK63 (talk) 08:21, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Possibly an adjective

Colloquially, the phrase "mystery meat" has been around quite a while, at least in the US. This usage has expanded to describe other things: "New Yorkers are contending with a bewildering and miserable mix of symptoms as Covid, flu, R.S.V. and various mystery illnesses circulate." This is not quite the same as "mysterious." It is more like a synonym for "unknown." There is a discussion here I think this is somewhat ungrammatical but the use of nouns as adjectives is more prevalent in English every year. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric