Hello, again. I'm about to quit for a few hours, so I won't be able to respond if you write back until later. I'm mostly entering obscure historical words, and I've noticed you're doing a lot of obscure words as well. Any chance you could provide some quotations for where you're finding them? I'd be interested in reading some of the sources you got things like the carriage list from (it sounds historical). -- CoryCohen 21:43, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I'll do my best to put references where I have them – and I'm a big fan of having quotations with adequate citation information illustrating the usage of words – however a lot of my sources are old notebooks where I have made lists (such as the carriages one) by doing daft things like searching through various dictionaries -- DavidL 07:49, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hi David. I see you took the "arna" rhymes out of the "-a:n@" rhyme page. This is good, because they don't belong there. Could you put them on the "-a(r):n@" rhyme page, please? It's empty at the moment but I'll set up the skeleton of it for you. — Paul G 14:58, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Sure, will do. — DavidL 15:08, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
David, just so you know, the French for "flat" is "bémol" rather than "bemol", as you have been using. I can move some the currently incorrectly titled French pages for you. &mash; Paul G 13:40, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks!! One typo and copy and paste can cause havoc. Thanks for picking this up so quickly. I see you have already done Si bémol majeur and La bémol majeur ... I think that is as far as the damage went. I'll check the "dièse" entries now. Thanks again! — DavidL 13:57, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hi David, Thanks for your help with the articles. I will try to emulate your updates so you do not have to clean up after me as much in the future. Armaced 17:32, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- No problems ... I actually think tidying-up each others' pages is part of the great value of this thing ... one person adds an entry, which spurs others to add bits and pieces. — DavidL 10:06, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi David, Where do your entries come from? I see you are doing a whole load of "oblique xxx" ones at the moment, as if these are coming from some word-list or dictionary. If this is the case, what is the situation regarding the copyright of this material? — Paul G 17:37, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Hi Paul: All those slightly strange "oblique xxx" entries came from refactoring the horribly messy old entry oblique ...(which I ended up at because I was adding askance) I simply moved all the material that was in that article into the separate articles; my guess is that it might be from Websters 1913, but I haven't checked. — DavidL 10:06, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- OK, that's great - thanks for that. Good job. — Paul G 11:19, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hello - I've added a reply to your comment about synonyms on my talk page. — Paul G 10:16, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi David - I've marked piosity as uncountable; Wiktionary policy is that abstract nouns don't, in general, have plurals, but if you can find a plural citation, please do add it. Which of the two definitions is "sanctimoniousness" a synonym for? If it is both, then maybe the two definitions can be merged - they do seem quite similar to me. — Paul G 13:02, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks Paul. I've merged the definitions as you suggest. I agree with the marking as uncountable, at least until a citation crops up showing otherwise. — DavidL 14:29, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hello again. Wiktionary policy (that is, thrashed out in the beer parlour a while back) on the phonetics to be used for pronunciation of final unstressed "ee" (as in "happy") is IPA /i/, which is intermediate between /ɪ/ (as in "bitter") and /iː/ (as in "beater"). I'll move the contents of your -ɑːdʒɪ rhymes page into -ɑːdʒi. Do you know if you have created any other rhymes pages in this way? — Paul G 11:41, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for the background info, and for fixing the page. I believe I have not created any other pages containing the same mistake. — DavidL 18:10, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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Hello,
I'd like to thank you for your inspriration. Because of the whacky stuff you did, I ended up doing a frequency count of all the texts from Project Gutenberg.
--Connel MacKenzie 05:44, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
- Hi ... nice that I inspired something, but what whacky stuff do you mean? Was it stuff like that list of words used in Shakespeare's sonnets? The gutenberg frequency count is a great idea! I bought a while ago a frequency dictionary of Russian which I find very useful for making the most of what little learning time I have. I could probably do the same sort of thing myself ... I've been downloading a lot of texts from lib.ru. What tools did you use for the gutenberg frequency count? I've got some pretty bogus java code somewhere which will do things like frequency counts, or list words that appear in one text that are not in some other collection of texts etc... It will work for single words or phrases of length n. I seem to recall that it was fairly memory hungry when n > 2 · DavidL 10:49, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
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