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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Vininn126 (talk) 15:03, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi

Nice to meet you. No offence meant but you generally don't seem to know what you are doing at all. Now you have two choices: slowly take a breath and try to learn how all this works (quite a lot of reading, but the links posted above by somebody else will help); or else maybe use pages like WT:REE if you want an entry for a word but you can't do it yourself. Thank you for your consideration. Equinox ◑ 01:56, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

it is very nice to meet you too!

yeah that makes sense, i don't really know what i am doing; i am basically using what i've gotten from existing pages and made some myself (it makes me proud to see my pages in a way?? stupid reason i know haha)

i will chill with my [crap] for a bit. i am sorry for any incorrect stuff i did. i will calm down with it now, do not expect much from me after this message (i will revert most of my current edits and leave it to others until i can do it correctly.)

i hope this is alright. glory to Arstotzka. i will delete this message in about 10 minutes? thank you for reading - ▶ Rockrugged ◀ (talk) 02:28, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

If you delete stuff, people will never know what happened. But you do what feels right. Glory to Ritimba. Equinox ◑ 02:30, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

oh alright, got it. scratch the delete stuff, but leaving stuff to others feel right.

thank you, dictator (lol). glory to Ritimba, yes? Rockragged (talk) 02:34, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

esculate

i went to this page in the book, and although it indeed says esculate, i wonder if it's a typo for escutate which occurs two pages prior in the exact context where we'd expect it. We dont have a page for escutate either, but perhaps it could be ex- + scutate. If this were biology, i'd say that it means scaleless, .... it's geology (I think?), so I cant say for sure what the meaning is. But I do suspect it's a printing error in the original book. —Soap— 21:50, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

The page link doesnt work, I think perhaps because this book is stored as graphical images rather than OCR text. It's on the very top of page 339. Also, although I said typo up above, it's better described as a printing error plain and simple, as I believe in those days they didn't have typewriters, and therefore the use of an l for a t is even more likely. —Soap— 08:57, 3 May 2023 (UTC)