Appendix talk:Kangaroo words
Latest comment: 11 years ago by 108.66.129.231 in topic Difficult to read
questionable
edit- caravan and RV
- complements and completes
- dream and REM -- REM is an acronym for rapid eye movement
- emasculate and cut
- exorcise and excise
- facet and face
- overwhelm and whelm
- rotator and rotor
- sorcerer and seer
- transportation and train
anti
edit- cremator and creator
- therapist and rapist
Shouldn't kangaroo words exclude those that have all letters consecutively, e.g., overwhelm and whelm?
Difficult to read
editI think this would be easier to read if the "joey words" were separated out, so rather than e.g. yearning we would just have yearning: yen. Equinox ◑ 23:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
- Actually, some users might want to solve for joey word as puzzles. Keeping them "bold" and hidden inside, makes it easy to cut and paste to a text editor and lose the joey. This way, it won't be a dead-giveaway for word-game puzzle solvers. 74.211.225.34
- Other users might want to be able to read the words :) Equinox ◑ 20:38, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- That would also allow us to easily link to the terms. What about having both? (yearning: yearning, yen)? — Ungoliant (Falai) 20:39, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- If we have "yearning, yen", the cutting-and-pasting can't be done (unless one cuts-and-pastes each word individually, at which point one could just as well cut-and-paste only the first word of the pair). I support splitting the parent and joey words. - -sche (discuss) 20:41, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- Perhaps we could do it in a table, with a column for the entire word (sub-bolded) and columns for the sub-word(s). Then at least people could easily paste it into a spreadsheet and cut out the unwanted columns. Equinox ◑ 20:43, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- Or do what I do; ignore it every time it appears in the recent changes. We have enough troubles with the main namespace before we start tackling appendices too. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:49, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- Perhaps we could do it in a table, with a column for the entire word (sub-bolded) and columns for the sub-word(s). Then at least people could easily paste it into a spreadsheet and cut out the unwanted columns. Equinox ◑ 20:43, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
- I support putting a table with the joey word hidden by default. The user has to click a "show" button to unhide the joey. Wikipedia has elaborate mechanisms for hidding/showing columns in a table. I don't know about Wiktionary Powerslide (talk)
- It is actually easy to read the joey words if you zoom-in on your browser. Internet Explorer and Google chrome have controls that allow you to enlarge the webpage. I can easily spot bolded italics when zoomed at 200% 108.66.129.231 18:52, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- If a page requires manual zooming to be read, then it is clearly poorly designed! Equinox ◑ 19:00, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- Well, it's a compromise between readability and obscurity. We want to expose enough of the joey word so that one can find it when required, but also prevent it from being a dead-giveaway :) 108.66.129.231 19:14, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- I created a template for this (
{{kword}}
). For example * {{kword|prematurely|early||pr|e|m|a|tu|r|e|ly}} produces:
- Should it be used? — Ungoliant (Falai) 18:59, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
_ic versus _ical
editSince Equinox introduced "electric" and "electrical", here are related kangaroo pairs
- cyclic and cyclical
- mystic and mystical
- conic and conical
series
edit- quintuplet: quintet
- sextuplet: sextet
- septuplet: septet
- octuplet: octet