Hi Pro, saw your comment on Wordnik. Wordie material hasn't moved over there yet, so for now I think it makes sense to just carry on wherever you want--for most of us here that means Wordie, I imagine. I don't think merging of comments and threads will cause much if any disruption at all when it happens.

Prolagus, have you seen Yaybob's HH list?

Thanks for pointing out more traps.

High-fructose corn syrup!

Rice Krispies!

Regrettably, Santiago has not exactly been all beer and skittles. See discussion under baling for details.

Enjoy your remaining time at home!

Lovely, sionnach. Hope you are having a good time there. I'm in Sardinia for the rest of the week, then back to New York City.

Welcome back, Pro! We missed you. I am in Chile, but not for long more.

I think Pro is currently un-wired.

Where are you, Pro?

Party.

Just noticed all your lovely round numbers, Pro. Congrats on 5000 comments and 50 lists. :) Come back soon!

Piano piano.

Sigh, the Wordie block, again! I don't feel like joining any discussions, although I'd love to!

Back atcha. :-)

I ♥ Wordies.
Seriously.

C_b: I'll take the challenge! Please store your entries here.

Ooh! I'm too poor to bribe, but this means I get a chance to use the power of sophistry!

Well, even if it's not, you're welcome. We'll take anyone.

If babysitting's your thing, you're welcome here anytime.

I propose we all compete to get Pro to come visit us. Who wants to make a list of bribe attempts? ;)

Hmmm...all a college student can offer is coffee in Annapolis, or more likely Baltimore if it's summertime...

*tidies house in case Pro stops by*

Better get cracking, then.

:-) That would make a great list: one word from each place (and Wordie) I visit.

Pro's Wordie World Tour?

... Isn't that a song by Simple Minds?

Oi! DownUnderfy yourself!

*glances at empty porch swing...*

I forgot about Alaska! And dontcry's place! Four invitations!

Surely the other is my invitation to come visit me in San Francisco. Maybe pro isn't keeping an accurate count.

I hope the other one is my invitation to Alaska.

Thank you all for your support, and rolig, it would be great to come!
And now it's two invitations I will be honored to accept someday.

Seriously, Pro, you're invited to visit anytime.

After all, who needs paper?

Ooh! Ooh! I vote for reesetee's solution!!

Or you could post "I won't create my 51st list until I reach 5,000 comments." in 146 separate comments, irritate the heck out of the rest of us, and get your 5,000 comments! :-D

Aw, Pro, just create it on paper and type it in later. :) Why unnecessarily restrict your creative spirit?

I won't create my 51st list until I reach 5,000 comments.
I won't create my 51st list until I reach 5,000 comments.
I won't create my 51st list until I reach 5,000 comments.
I won't create...

Oh yes, that comment comes from my own page; I'm horribly forgetful of what I write that late at night. Well, I'll do what I can do to provide you with one; although as a forewarning, I lack much co-ordination, so it might be a bit of a farce!

All the best,
&c

Hi there, Prolagus:

Thank you for your kind welcome; I am glad that you like my first comments here.

I assure you that I am a brand new user, althoughI'd be intrigued, however, to see the person(s) who you thought I might have been. Is that what the puppet show comment is about, or is there just a higher than average number of ventriloquists here? Either way, I'm probably not the best at puppet shows; sorry if this is a dissapointment.

All the best,
Aaltoilu

Thanks, Pro, for your comment on my Slovene idioms list. By the way, if on your travels you ever plan or want to visit Slovenia (just to the east, north, and south of Trieste), let me know!

Hi, Pro!

I will be in London as well next week, but only for 3 hours in Heathrow. I have no doubt our paths will cross eventually, but most likely in the U.S. That is, assuming you go through with those doctoral plans in the autumn.

In the meantime, buen viaje. I am currently in Drogheda, where the blessed Oliver Plunkett fell martyr to Cromwell's evil genocidal tendencies.

likewise. you had me at Anne (though that's just starters. you gotta go for Emily if you want some real Canadian magic)

grazie :)!

Actually, the reason I didn't make a pasta list in the first place is because others were doing it. But on Friday, I had to get the grisly disgusting stuff I was reading about gladiators out of my head, and that's the first new list I could think of.

Besides, everyone's lists are different in some way--one of the coolest things about Wordie. Don't let that stop you, if someday you decide to make one. :)

It's a pleasure. I was tempted to start my own pasta list once, but there's probably no need now. (I may start tagging "Italian" some of the entries.)

Pro, thanks for adding notes (however many you want) to the Pasta la Vista list words. I appreciate your expertise in the matter! :)

Buon viaggio, tesoro. Ti ringrazio per la email ... ora mi sento meglio (perugino ... mejjo) in qualke modo!

"E' come trascorrere un giorno in campeggio."

I don't know. Thanks for asking.

Pro: how'd you like the Mid-Atlantic? :-)

Also, here's hoping no one you know was caught up in the Abruzzo earthquake. (I have some distant relatives in that area and I'm worried....)

Hi Pro! I hope you don't mind that I used some of your fine Latin expressions on my blog (with credit, of course):
Latin for the traveler redux .
If you would like to be credited some other way (e.g. more, or less, anonymously), please let me know and I will make the necessary edit.

I saw it on Blipr:
"My Italian fa"

Good one! It will be tomorrow's word then. I'll add you as a contributor starting tomorrow, we can alternate if you like! (I only want one word a day because it's my "Italian false friend of the day" on my Twitter)

What about squalid and squalido?

Pro. I thanked you in today's FA (3/20).

What? Outrageous. See, that's what happens when you leave the Wordieverse.

I tried! But I realized that people out there don't talk much about words, would you believe it?

Of course not! Did you? :-)

Prolagus is back. Did you behave yourselves?

The mutt is now Fausta.

Grazie. Much better than Trixie.

I need a good name for an Italian dog.

¡ Felicitaciones ! por haber alcanzado 3K palabras añadidas (y por haber recibido buenas noticias también, claro!)

Wow, 3002 words added!

I was writing my own definitions, and I guess I got oversensitive when people told me it was pointless basically. So I deleted the majority of them already, which hurt because I had done a lot of research.
Also, I liked that I was tagging words by alphabet, but some did not, so there was that.

I know I overreacted, but IRL is a bit stress-filled at the moment, so it probably spilled over onto here.

Pro: Did I hurt your feelings? Should John add "no calling fellow Wordies 'duckface'" to the tos?

Pro, see what happens when you try to be nice... by teaching me a little Italian?!! (See FA).

Congratulations!

I received, ahem, some good news. From Graduate School. Some hints here.

Order! The House will come to order!

What recent achievement, Pro? Did I miss something? Are congratulations in order? On order? Out of order?

In honor of your recent achievement, Pro, you should read this.

Pro, thanks much for drawing my attention back to Forvo--I finally added a link to them on each word. They contacted me last year, and it got lost in my inbox--their email arrived the same week as my daughter. A lot of things fell through the cracks that week :-)

Nycanthro is NYC (because I live in Brooklyn) plus ANTHRO (because I was an anthropology/ethnology major many moons ago). I checked your Flickr link. You're a Brooklynite too?! Awesome. Small world. What 'hood are you from?

P.S. that Sailor Moon list is hilarious. The mere IDEA is funny enough. I think I might change my story regarding the derivation of my name now. Also, why did you choose to name yourself after a defunct branch of the rabbit family (I had to look it up, obviously).

¡Hola Pedro! ¿Cuándo vienes a Madrid? Te esperamos.

¡Hola! Pro. Aqui en Madrid, hace frio.

Saludos.

zorrito.

Sogni d'oroboros.

Prolagus is back.

(No, it's not my facebook status.)

Won't she be back at Easter?

Maybe it was Bon Knee....

Hmm...they're made of harder stuff, pleth. (Sionnach and Prolagus, I mean, not your cupcakes.)

*cupcakes. hee hee*

Bonnie, or bonniee?

*sigh* You're right skip. What can we do?
I'm glad you appreciate my baked goods.

Oh God, dontcry. Don't wish that on us! Nothing is worth that *shudder*

Where's Bonnie when you really need her? She's such a b.

I don't know, pleth--this doesn't seem to be working. *appreciates the cupcake, though*

Skipvia, I take umbrage at being called a boy! *flings cupcake*

I think plethora's on to something.

Boys, boys...how about a newly discovered Sumerian joke?

Q: Why are there no ice cubes in the province of Akkadia?

A: Alas, the wench with the recipe was sacrificed in order to please Enmesarra and prevent a plague in the land.

How about a list of facial cupcake adornment controversies from Victorian era Albania?

YES, PLEASE!

I'm BORED! Could somebody please start a cupcake fight? Or usage controversy? A list of sexual deviances from the Victorian era? Varieties of Albanian facial hair adornments?

I'm no fun, Prolagus. :( I'm denuded of interesting words lately and haven't been doing much reading, so I don't have much to post.

Poo.

Hope things get better for you soon.

Come on, Wordies, entertain me please. I need it :(

Thanks for the help!

danke :-)

I am truly honored, but since I speak Slovene with a distinct American accent, I am probably not the right person to memorialize the pronunciation of these words in the public squares of Forvoland.

Re: the comment on my slovenščina list: Are you inviting me to enter the mystical land of Forvo, Pro?

Great, someone noticed my Wordie PRO profile. I'm using the Web Developer extension to alter the HTML in such away that the menu provides the desired options. Then all I have to do is submit it. Ajax channels the data to the server where it isn't rechecked upon arrival.
Have fun.

Sterling contributions today (especially the cheeses!) Thanks - I'll be range-riding your lists!

Dear Lazy Eutherian,
Xxxx xxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xx x xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx. Xxxxxxxxxx xx xxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxx, xxxx xx xxxxxxxx xxxxx. Xxxxx xx x xxxxxxx xxxxx x xxxxxxxx xxx xxxxx. Xxx x xxxxx xx; xxxxxx xxx xxxxx.
Abby.

P.S. This message was censored by WordiePro.

for a while, yes. I can not be relied upon, Prolagus.
I must admit to my infidelity...I've been spending more time on flickr.

Thanks for the gift, Pro. Sweet and thoughtful as always...

Happy New Year Pro! I'm not in Australia so I'm allowed a few more hours at computer ... yay!

Hello. I suppose you are welcoming me by way of a scold. I find comfort in knowing that others find my ineptitude charming.

Thanks for the welcome. I don't really speak Italian, but I do understand it somewhat.

Hi Pro... I saw this and thought of you. :-)

I added you on Times People :)

Good idea, Mercy! I added open-list to my open lists as well. It will give John some more time...

Here's a link to my open lists, in case you need any of them again. And thanks for the additions. : )

:-) I will send them links to this page...

That does it. I saw the CDs at my library too, so I'm checking them out next time I'm there.

Pro, you should see if B&S will send you some free merch for doing their publicity for them. :)

Hi Pro! I want to thank you -- after reading all your comments about Belle & Sebastian, I finally went and got two of their albums out of the library, and I'm really enjoying the music. Thanks!

Sigh, I didn't go anywhere. Deadlines are too close. I have to wait until Christmas holidays...

Hi Pro. Did you find somewhere for your weekend break?

Prolagus needs a break from the City. If you know some nice country place, not too far from NYC (less than a 2-hour train/bus trip), and feel like recommending it, please contact me via facebook/Flickr mail/comment on my blog/whatever. Thank you, I love you!

Pro: Thought you might enjoy these:
http://tinyurl.com/5l7nq9
http://tinyurl.com/66cast
http://tinyurl.com/5dem7u

One can hope :-)

Maybe the person deleted everything him/herself?

Hmmmm, curious. Maybe it's from Los Angels. In any case, payperpl8 seems to be still alive although its first 30-odd comments are gone and its words have been ghosted.

Sucker just got nuked.

Are you mad?
I'm new and confused

Thanks for the he'p, Pro! Youse a gennemun unt a scholar. I think my also-on ducks are all properly in a row now. :o)

You may well be right about moda, Pro. Many words have come into Slovene from Italian (or Venetian or Friulian). I am not sure when the word came into Slovene, but my guess would be in the pre-WWII period, when "fashion" meant Paris and only Paris. Could it be that Italian borrowed the word (or its use to mean "high fashion") from French?

just remember, no licking the bones!

Ha! Acciuleddi! That's great!

Pro - I just googled "sound lantern" - you might want to take a look.

Sionnach, you return that umbrage immediately to the marathon of phony umbrage taking! I'm not finished yet!

*muttering* Well, I never . . .

you don't annoy me. alot. don't go away.

Hi Progalus,

Thanks for the tip regarding my facebook link! I was unaware that it was broken.

I have never thought of Pro as an ingrate. Others I could mention, yes.

*Flounces out, taking the very last vestige of umbrage in the vicinity.*

On the other hand, we don't know for certain that Prolagus doesn't own a doing grate....

Pro, she wasn't telling you "you're doing great." She was telling you "your doing grate." So, she's SO wrong. :)

Pro, you crack me up. Next time I see "research" spelled incorrectly, I'll think of you. :-)

Do you think Bonnie was trying to be unpleasant? I thought she was telling me "you're doing great".

If you're annoying them, you must be doing something right.

you annoy me. alot. go away

Is this correct?

one kiss (bacio) x
many kisses (tanti baci) xxxxxx
big kisses (bacioni) XXXXXX
kisses and hugs (baci e abbracci) xoxoxox

What are some other kisses?

Or maybe a Wordie timer would do.

Good luck, Pro--and I meant what I said about the book. :-)

We must add voluntary Wordie rationing to Wordie PRO!

Don't worry, Prolagus, we'll be here for you when you take (very short) breaks. And don't worry about "keeping up," as if there were such a thing. :) Study, man! Kick some butt!

Today, something happened.
I arrived home, opened Wordie, and the amount of words and conversations I should read to stay up to date was just too big, since I must study.
It was a revelation: I should really, really study harder. I've been spending too much time here, lately, and I can't go on like this.
I'll try to be a good boy, for a while, and connect less frequently.
I miss you already...

FWIW, I thought it was adorable too. :)

I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or sincere when you called one of my list names "adorable." "He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght" is a quote from Chaucer. I guess I just don't think of it as "adorable." :)

Hey, you stole my mustache!

*swoons*

Best lists ever. Even if I am all new and impressionable.

I think it's time.

I'm working off-line on a new list.

Lost in translation

Hola Pro! Good luck on your GRE's.

I'm headed home to drink a brandy in memory of David Foster Wallace. Crying in the internet café is not really helping anyone.

I took the GRE once. Those snotty bastards at Stanford turned me down as a result.

Oh, right. It is all about the gestures. My father is mute without gestures. :-)

Yeah, Pro. Some of us understand some Italian.

*places cup against profile wall*

not on bilby... judging from the words on his Italiano list, he would immediately get us :-D

yeah paisà :-D from bologna
let's get connected! how many of us are there on wordie?

Haha. I just read your comment on my name (I really haven't looked at wordie in a while). I am glad you appreciate it.

Pro, you're taking the GRE? I have just the book for you. ;->

Good luck! Not that you need it. :-)

It's one of those days when you realize you can't spend the whole day on Wordie. And you also realize you should study for your GRE, and GRE-biology. And you should finally email those possible advisors... random feature, help me.

(now go to epanodos)

Give my regards to Church and Wellesley!

See you in a few days, folks - I'm going to Niagara Falls and Toronto!

Don't forget, we are all armed with an Arsenal for Civil Defunse. That should cheer you.

You don't suck, Pro. You're the best. :-)

Hi Pro!

Are you, like, officially a student now? In Nueva York? I'm sure you will make your fellow-Sardinians proud.

I took so many pictures today I think Flickr is suffering peristalsis. The Uploading Tool is getting distinctly temperamental.

Hasta luego.

Zorrito

Pro, it's not that you suck at anything. It's just that people are going to argue, no matter what. The best we can hope is to keep it civil. I'll buy you a 42, if you tell me what's in it. (chlorinated water?)

OK, I give up. I suck as a peacemaker. You can find me at the Verbal Arms if you want to.

Prolagus! Are you back? Safe and rested? What did you bring us?

Time to go, folks!
Please keep Wordie clean while I'm away. Darqueau might be a temporary night guard.
Don't forget to water the plants, and please keep my "Bookmarks" list updated.
In a nutshell, be good sxʷčšt'qá.
See you next week!

Ti auguro un buonissimo viaggio! A presto, caro!

I heartily approve. Give it a good home and lots of love.

Looks like we have become the proud adopters of an orphaned list... (and people say I'm irresponsible)

She lives! (Or rather, the 2009 season brochure is nearly put to bed, the worst part of the year's schedule is just about over, a fortnight's holiday has brought refreshment, the niblings' birthday presents have all been found, and frindley roams again.)

Ouch!

*bites dontcry, then realizes it's an idiom*

Time for bed, Pro.

Oh, and about being in Corsica tomorrow -- and I say this with love - "bite me!"

CRAP!
PS I'll be in Corsica tomorrow. Just tomorrow.

Your secret is safe with me. Except that everyone else is reading this. ;-> I've lately slid back into insomnia myself. Too bad we're several hours off!

I am! But don't tell dontcry it's 11.40 pm here...

Pro, are you still in Italy?

Nither do i.....

Hi. Would you like to be on Identify the Wordie #2? You'll need to email identifythewordie@yours.com with your Wordie nick and the single word that best describes you. Cheers!

You are oh, so very smart aren't you!

Mars?? Send a postcard! *unpacking goofy souvenirs to hand out to Wordies*

I'm packing again, and will be in Torino (and Bruxelles, perhaps) for a week or so. As I suggested once, if you are in need of quarrels, you can join the discussion here.

Yes you will.

*AUTOMATED REPLY*
Prolagus won't be available for quarrels for the next eternity. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Pro: toccato, toccato, toccato, toccato, toccato, toccato, toccato, toccato, toccato, toccato". Thanks!

prolagus gave c_b a ɐuɐuɐq and i got squat.

That's a good bunny!

Ahem... 1.27 am. OK, I'll go to bed now. :-( goodnight and don't have too much fun.

Pro -- we both know it's not 8 pm in Italy right now. My guess is somewhere between midnight and 1 am.

You know you'll feel better tomorrow if you get a good night's sleep... off you go.

dontcry, here in Italy it's 8 pm now... (trying to sell it)

Good. Now go to bed!

***and is happy***

**then sees the new page**

*realizes there is no way he can follow all discussions*

Thanks for my gift! Here's one for you too: uǝddɐʇ. Enjoy! ;)

Pro:

You might enjoy the comments on this blog entry.

The appellation matches the drapes, I'm afraid— Wait. I mean to say, she's a she (one of those), well and truly, through and through-ly. But, it isn't so bad, really! Just predictable.

Thanks for pointing out the link-FAIL on my blog! It has been fixed. Thanks again!

Ha!

Ebbè!

Thanks, Prolagus. "Duckface" is perfect.
http://mycomicspage.com/frogapplause/2008/06/30/

Prolagus: What are some mild pejoratives in Italian humorously similar to "buttface" or "donkeyhole"?

Will you be making your famous tiramisù for that party, Pro? :-D

Congratulations on becoming the seventh treble millenarist!

I forgot to celebrate my 1000th comment, but I suspect I will be able to have a small party for my 1500th very soon.

NO! And now it's time to get up.

Oh, can I stay out just five more hours? Please!!!

Bedtime, Pro...

Pro, that's a nice pic of the baculum example. Does that come from the Teddy Roosevelt collection?

Nibble.

Aww! Too laping cute!

Oh, white hair. Yeah, maybe my winter coat.

It exists

Um, I didn't see his feet. His ears may or may not have been long and fluffy -- they were hidden under tufts of white hair...

Are you trying to ask me if it was me? Did the guy have long, fluffy ears and huge feet? Otherwise it was not me.

Pro - I was channel surfing today and stopped on something like the Discovery Channel. There was a man, some sort of forensic scientist I guess, (speaking Italian) sitting at a desk with a variety of heads in various stages of...well, reconstruction, I guess is the best word for it. They were, by the way, ancient primate heads....

While there was a voice-over of an interpreter, I had the distinct impression that the Italian scientist had an excellent command of the English language...

I should probably print all the conversations of the day, and hang them on the wall.

Me? A biologist? Perhaps someday I will be. =)

What joke, Prolagus? I'm sure that whatever you said (wherever you said it) was all in good fun.

I'm still trying to find my way around this site. I'm also not sure whether I'm contributing anything wordie-worthy.

Well, thank you for the nice thought. The past month or so I've been doing the work of two people (quite literally) and it has caused me to neglect all my favourite past times. Perhaps I'll create an empty list: something like "I'm too busy to scratch myself, let alone think of cool words to list."

And here I am, top of the list again. *shaking my head*

I think you're right, Pro. Only... Only, it looks like some of the big kids on the list figured out the Wordie Paradox before I did. Oh well.

Thanks for participating on my lists.

How can I be in the "Most Citations, Past 7 Days" top ten? I'm not here SO often now!

Pro, I agree with chained_bear. 'nuff said. :-)

And while we're here, 'gus, why don't we put a few tunes on the jukebox?

Pro, I know what you mean, and I have taken breaks from Wordie before. If it helps any, it's best to just take the break without thinking about it or worrying about it or trying to decide if you should take a break. Getting off the computer and going off to recharge batteries elsewhere, in whatever way, is *never* a bad idea.

That said, if you do take a break, PLEASE come back. Your contributions to the site are much loved. Take care.

P.S. They're only quarrels if you let them be. :)

Hi Pro -- wanna help me come up with words that sound like pickle? If so, meet me here!

Peeps! Let's all slip up to the Verbal Arms for a couple. Mine's a prolager, what's yours 'gus? Perhaps we'll be able to get the dom prolagon put on ice! In fact make mine a double meaning.

Pro: No! Please don't go! My bad! I get caught up in the discussion sometimes and am insufficiently attentive to the tone of my comments.

As dontcry said, it would be a shame to take comments about hairsplitting the wrong way - given the specifics of the discussion, and the constitutional inability of your average Wordie member to resist an opportunity to make a pun, it was more or less inevitable.

I will conclude with an appeal to the quality of life argument. Any decrease in your level of participation would bring with it such a decrease in the quality of Wordielife that ... well, I don't see how you could live with the guilt.

...who can really leave after a post like this...

...but I have to think a bit about it.

You know *trying the guilt bit* you really shouldn't make dontcry, cry. It's just bad karma, man.

Pro -- don't go. I was trying to lighten things up with the "spliting tricho's" bit. The rest was (sorry) all Greek to me. Let ME go. I'll leave. I'll go back to Vicenza (I lived there for 3 years, did I tell you?) I'll really learn Italian this time... I swear.

Please stay, my furry little cupcake maker...

I'm a bit sick and tired with quarrels.
I'm considering a break from Wordie. I'm here to have fun, not to have squabbles in which I am accused of hairsplitting* and silly ideas.
Sorry if this generates a further quarrel - I hope not, and especially not here.
I like you all - but I want Wordie to be a funny distraction to me. And if it's not funny, what's the point?

*Which is something at the very heart of this website, and God bless hairsplitting** - and Wordie!

**Which, funnily (or maybe not), can be translated in Greek as trichotomy.

Please note that frindley-popping has been illegal within the internal and external Territories of Australia since 20 February, 1985.

Hang in there, Pro. You're already a Wordie classic. :-D

You need a hug, 'gus. You're OK.

Glad to help, Prolagus. You might enjoy Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature.

Yes, well. I am technically an adult. Sometimes at midnight I've been known to turn into a loud-mouthed litter lout, the horror of nature reserves everywhere. Anyway, harmoniusly yours,

Tulimeeria

Hey, sorry for biting your head off just now. I was being an impatient, FAQ-ignoring brat. I didn't realise how public adding words were and was a bit ... caught in the headlights by your comment.

Tulimeeria

Look up. Look hard and long with penetrating gaze. Uranus is mother of many treasures.

I'm about as Italian as eskimo boots. I studied for a few years and keep a keen interest.

Hi Prolagus! I hope you don't mind my making smartassed/idiotic comments on your words. Being a compulsive smart alec is my affliction in this life. I'm really enjoying your contributions to the site. Please keep up the good work!

you're a crazy for iroquoisy, I'm a crazy for iroquoisy too. What a great soundplay in that.

Great! I should have checked before posting.

I joined the group yesterday! You can read my post on the wall...

Prolagus, I noticed you're on Facebook. Did you know that we have a Wordie group there ("Wordie Loves Me!" under Common Interest--Languages)? Not much going on there at present, but still.... :-)