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A Greek-Geordie actuary called Stelio.

A more detailed breakdown of my exposure to languages

• Born and school-educated in Newcastle upon Tyne, so a native speaker of British English with dialectal exposure to Geordie.
• My father is Greek and we speak solely in Greek, in which I am fluent (including thinking and dreaming), but I have had no formal education in the language.
• At school: 5 years of French to GCSE level, 5 years of Latin to GCSE level, 2 years of Ancient Greek to GCSE level, 1 year of Arabic for a Certificate in Arabic and Arab Studies.
• Through personal interest and working in various countries, I have picked up smatterings of various other languages. In order, from most knowledge to least: Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Japanese, and others.

Incomplete work

Linguistic terminology

x...yz	tmesis, infixation, tumbarumba
xxxyz	gemination
xyzxyz	tautonym, reduplication
xyz xyz	epizeuxis, reduplication, redoublement, conduplicatio, palillology
xyz ... xyz	diacope, semi-reduplication
Xyz ... xyz.	epanalepsis, epanadiplosis
xyz. Xyz	anadiplosis
/xyz/ ... \xyz\	isolexism

• Wiktionary favicon - design discussion then vote?

beardy

1. (UK) An overcompetitive gamer who utilises any means of personally winning at the expense of all participants having fun.
   • 1998, Pete Marshall, Is there anybody out there?, The Citadel Journal, Issue 27, page 76:

     Beardies, in my experience, are generally drive by ultra-competitiveness and the need to win at all costs - be it in the types and numbers of figures, the features on their PC's and games consoles or the speed they drive their cars.

   • 1998, Is there anybody out there?, The Citadel Journal, Issue 27, page 77:

     Just recently, we received a couple of letters complaining about our use of the term 'Beardy'. Now, we would like to take this opportunity to explain that this actually bears no reference to the amount of facial hair you may or may not possess (we are not in the habit of teasing for the sake of it, indeed your very own Journal Co-ordinator, Steve, is the semi-proud owner of a mildly unusual chin tuft!).

     The popular, if misleading, term 'Beardy' actually refers to those gamers who have no concept of the 'spirit of the game'. They are obsessed with ludicrous Wargear and Magic Item combos, only play to pound their opponents into the dust then laugh at them in a condescending manner afterwards and, when they lose, make a spectacle of themselves by screaming, shouting and throwing dice and miniatures in a childlike rage (do you know anyone like this?). So, that established, if we offended anybody because of their 'facial folicles' we apologise profusely. If we offended you because you are a Beardy and know it, get a life! Play properly and for fun.

     Remember, be bearded, not Beardy!

Reference links for BBC Learning English phrases

• The English We Speak partially complete: done from the proof is in the pudding to eat humble pie, as well as go around the houses.

Joe Miller (24 January 2018), “Davos jargon: A crime against the English language?”, in BBC News‎^[1], BBC

• benchmarking
• circularity
• cyber realities
• deep dive
• flashpoint
• implementation mode
• influencer
• interplay
• linkage
• material improbabilities
• multifaceted metrics
• multi-stakeholder platform / multi-stakeholder principle
• negative feedback loop
• pathway
• resilience imperative — also: “Davos: What does the 'resilience imperative' mean?”, in BBC News‎^[2], BBC, 19 January 2016
• risk interconnections
• stakeholder
• systems leadership
• takeaway
• telegraph — is this a different sense? "To hint at one's intended action", intentionally rather than unintentionally?
• thought leader
• transformative impact
• visioneering
• web of interconnectedness
• where we net out with this

Joe Miller (9 February 2018), “Are these the worst examples of business jargon?”, in BBC News‎^[3], BBC

• agile
• as of yet
• bafflegab
• bandwidth
• centre around
• de-risk
• forward planning
• high net worth individuals / HNWIs
• learning receptor units
• negative feedback loop
• onboarding
• paradigm shift
• quarterback
• variable geometry

British university term names

Autumn term	Spring term		Summer term	Birmingham, Nottingham, Sussex, York
Michaelmas term Michaelmas	Lent term Lent			Kent, KCL, Lancaster, LSE
			Easter term Easter	Cambridge, Lampeter
	Epiphany term Epiphany			Durham
	Hilary term Hilary		Trinity term Trinity	Oxford
Martinmas term Martinmas		Candlemas term Candlemas		St Andrews

• last - new idiomatic senses for so and very.
• Look at maintaining system messages in different languages in parallel (especially en*).

International Business Times: relationship terminology

• roaching (roach): "behaviour wherein the partner hides his or her "side" romances or hook-ups and attempts to downplay the problem when discovered" [1]
  • phubbing
  • stashing
  • zombieing
  • breadcrumbing
• microcheating: "seemingly small actions that indicate a person is emotionally or physically focused on someone outside their relationship" [2]
• shaveducking: "the lingering unease that emerges when you realise that you're not quite sure if you're attracted to a man, or just his facial hair" [3]
  • ghosting: "describes a date who, instead of letting you down gently, simply vanishes to the point where you wonder if they're dead"
  • cuffing: "trying to find a partner during the cold winter months, who can be ditched once your social calendar fills up again in the spring"
• mosting (moster): "gushing with compliments and nearing a declaration of love, then disappearing without explanation" [4]
• flexting (flexter): "digital boasting to impress a date before meeting IRL" [5]
• caspering: friendly ghosting [6]
  • firedooring: "when the effort in a new relationship only seems to go in one direction, with one partner trying hard to please and stay open to romance, whilst the other remains hurtfully closed, unwilling to enter a fairer two-way exchange no matter how much they're pushed"

• orbiting: Man Repeller, BBC.
• Template:U:en:adj more vs er - standardised template for relative usage of alternate comparatives/superlatives.
• Use a consistent approach when handling multiple colours in colour table templates.

Bot wishlist

• Remove DEFAULTSORT from pages where not required.

Identify and populate Greek entries with red links in inflection tables.

Initial investigation shows that it is impractical to complete this work manually: αβαθμολόγητος, αβαλσάμωτος, αβανιάρης, αβανταδόρικος, αβάρετος, αβαρής, αβαρυγκόμιστος, αβασάνιστος, αβασίλευτος, αβάσκαντος, αβάστακτος, άβαφος, άβαφτος...

A possible algorithm:

• For each page listed in Category:Greek lemmas:
  • Identify any use of an inflection table. Possibly by searching for <div class="NavContent"> (ignoring capitalisation) within a section (if it exists) with the title "Declension" or "Conjugation", within the "Greek" section of the page.
  • If there is an inflection table:
    • Search for any red links within that table.
    • For each red link:
      • Find all red links within the inflection table that have the same text (to be able to generate a single page for all forms).
      • Create the new page with the appropriate template:

Noun

==Greek==

===Noun===
{{el-noun-form|gender}} copy any qualifiers

# {{el-form-of-nounadj|source page name|c=case|n=s/p}} ← one row like this for each red link

Adjective

==Greek==

===Adjective===
{{el-adj-form}}

# {{el-form-of-nounadj|source page name|g=gender|c=case|n=s/p}} ← one row like this for each red link

Verb

==Greek==

===Verb===
{{el-verb-form}}

# {{el-form-of-verb|source page name|pers=person|tense=tense}} ← one row like this for each red link

• Beware! One page may need to cover both Modern and Ancient Greek. Consider, for example, τρέχει which should include definitions for both but currently only has a "Greek" section and not an "Ancient Greek" section; accordingly it does not show as a red link in the conjugation table for the Ancient Greek τρέχω.

• Populate entries listed at Requests for Greek inflections (particularly verbs) — automate by reference to Βικιλεξικό?

Identify pages with inconsistent links for Modern/Ancient Greek. Examples include...

• A link from the etymology section of an Ancient Greek word leads to a page with a Greek definition but no Ancient Greek definition (example: Γρηγόριος to γρήγορος).
• A link from an inflection table in one form of Greek leads to a page with no definition for that form (example: Ancient Greek τρέχω to τρέχει).
• Ultimately could be extended to work for other languages (for example Vulpecula links to Afrikaans Vos, which doesn't exist).
• Visually identifiable using OrangeLinks under Preferences > Gadgets > User interface gadgets.

• Identify non-red-linked missing parts of speech: for a given lemma, for linked pages in the inflection template, check that an appropriate part of speech entry exists. List missing entries as table rows with: language, lemma, target page, part of speech (e.g.: | en || trace || tracing || verb).

Code wishlist

• Pronunciation guide for Greek words — compare with: Module:grc-pronunciation / Template:grc-IPA.
• Declension tables for Greek nouns and adjectives — compare with: Module:grc-decl / Template:grc-decl / Template:grc-adecl.
• Conjugation tables for Greek verbs — compare with: Module:grc-conj / Template:grc-conj.

Subpages

Stelio/Financial Terminology Stelio/Greek Numbers Stelio/Lexical List of Lovely Loanwords Stelio/Tyneside Songs Stelio/Woad Stelio/have a thirst on Stelio/snoil