Monday, June 27, 2011

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: User talk:Equinox

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User talk:Equinox
27 Jun 2011, 5:11 pm

Poor phrasing:

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:: Somnambulist isn't a basic word. If you encounter a word like that, it's much more likely to be in writing. In speech, I find it more likely that one would hear sleepwalker. If you search for somnambulist and misspell it, our search thing is rather likely to say "did you mean somnambulist?" I really hope you're not advocating making entries for sonambulist, sonmanbulist or whatever else, or even listing them as misspellings on the main entry. That's not what a dictionary does. Not even a nontraditional dictionary like this one. We do have some misspellings here, but only ones that are extremely common, common enough even to rival usage of the proper spellings. — <font face="Lucida console">[&#32;'''[[User:Dick Laurent|R·I·C]]'''&#32;] <small>[[User talk:Dick Laurent|Laurent]]</small></font> — 13:40, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
:: Somnambulist isn't a basic word. If you encounter a word like that, it's much more likely to be in writing. In speech, I find it more likely that one would hear sleepwalker. If you search for somnambulist and misspell it, our search thing is rather likely to say "did you mean somnambulist?" I really hope you're not advocating making entries for sonambulist, sonmanbulist or whatever else, or even listing them as misspellings on the main entry. That's not what a dictionary does. Not even a nontraditional dictionary like this one. We do have some misspellings here, but only ones that are extremely common, common enough even to rival usage of the proper spellings. — <font face="Lucida console">[&#32;'''[[User:Dick Laurent|R·I·C]]'''&#32;] <small>[[User talk:Dick Laurent|Laurent]]</small></font> — 13:40, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
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:::No, not my intention at all to supplant the "did you mean" function. I'm only talking about words that have the same spelling. -- [[User:Avanu|Avanu]] 16:11, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

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