Talk:snake
ερπετόν, όφις edit
Ancient Greek seems to be missing its rough breathing judging by the transliteration. — Hippietrail 14:18, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, there should be a rough-breathing mark on the initial ‛ε of ‛ερπετόν, and there should be a smooth-breathing mark on the initial ’ό of ’όφις. I don't have Ancient Greek on my computer, so I can't type or see the breathing marks. I believe that ‛ε is Unicode 1F11, and that ’ό is Unicode 1F44.
- --Stephen 16:11, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Okay I've added the psili and dasia and converted the acutes to oxia. You should put a note if you add translations without 100% correct spelling so we can fix them. Thanks. — Hippietrail 07:39, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Reply to Hippietrail edit
Yes, I should have included a note with that one. Ordinarily I wouldn't have made an entry such as that at all, but it was already there...I just added the Greek script to an existing entry. I figured that whoever originally included "herpetos" didn't think it was very important to show it in the Greek script, but I thought it was important (because of the two different Greek e's and the two Greek o's). Later, after I stopped to think about it, the word "herpetos" didn't seem correct to me, so I looked it up. Whoever it was that made the original entry had simply copied and pasted from one of several Internet sites that had it incorrectly. --Stephen 08:10, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- That's great! It's exactly how Wiktionary is supposed to work. People add what they know, people who know more or know just some missing bits come along and improve it. I hope you can keep doing this! — Hippietrail 02:04, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Possible missing sense edit
"Most archives have snakes (mid-weight chains wrapped in soft cotton), and stands (so that materials can be held open at less than 180°). Ask for both. Use both." [1]
Missing translations edit
The "translation" section asks for users to add missing translations into a number of languages, including Hawaiian, Samoan and Niuean. We shouldn't forget, though, that no snakes occur in the islands where these languages are spoken, so there is most probably no indigenous word for it. Can we just take these requests away? Steinbach (talk) 18:17, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
MLE edit
Anyone who watches S1E3 of ‘Top Boy: Summerhouse’ will hear ‘snake’ used widely throughout to refer to an informant, or as a verb which means ‘to inform’. I’ve added those senses. Also ‘snake’ meaning a deceitful, untrustworthy person is clearly not only used in Ireland but here in the U.K as well, so I’ve added ‘U.K.’ as a tag. I’m sure it is used throughout the whole of the English-speaking world like that but perhaps it could be labelled ‘especially Ireland’, as it stands it’s now ‘Ireland and U.K’. Overlordnat1 (talk) 14:45, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
- Very good point, I’ve now included this synonym as part of the definitions of some of our senses to reflect this. Overlordnat1 (talk) 07:11, 18 August 2021 (UTC)