Wordie: Typology: Comments

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:42:09 +0000

And, for those who don't like Greek*: wordstem cutting. So sad you don't use talea for stem cutting (in Italian, I would suggest talea listatoria that sounds so Latin).

*I can hardly think of something so... against nature.

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:29:51 +0000

Of course it exists... from now on: logocladogenesis* (and logocladogenesimania).

*"creating a (new) branch out of a word".

Comment by gangerh, 5 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:06:41 +0000

Your comment here, reesetee, apart from being fun, has co-incided with a thought I had this morning. I'm posting on features.

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:57:14 +0000

There must be a word for the strong urge to turn a Wordie discussion into a list. ;-)

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:13:39 +0000

What I know is that soon we'll have an omphalological list.

Comment by mollusque, 5 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:06:55 +0000

Omphalosepsis? I had no idea introspection could be so dangerous.

Comment by Asativum, 5 months ago

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:55:31 +0000

Better than omphalosepsis, I suspect. But yes, I aspire to be a leading omphalologist.

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:03:00 +0000

Wow. Some major omphaloskepsis here, all right. ;-)

Comment by Prolagus, 5 months ago

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:08:58 +0000

I consider myself among the "well-balanced wordies". (Do they exist?)

Comment by yarb, 5 months ago

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:56:48 +0000

I think the main activities engaged in by Wordies are: listing, citing, sniping from the gallery, list-making, tagging, and self-analysis.

Comment by mollusque, 5 months ago

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:55:27 +0000

Don't forget tagging (see discussion there). Some Wordies are more taghappy than others.

Comment by Asativum, 5 months ago

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:26:07 +0000

Further broken down between useful listings or citations and mere sniping from the gallery.

Put me down for the sniping section.

Comment by frindley, 5 months ago

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:34:08 +0000

A typology of Wordies might begin by looking at the propensity for listing versus contribution of citations.