Globins

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Hello and welcome, I'm Globins, punctuation radical from the 20-aughts.

My favorite thing to do here is adding or improving etymologies and trying to trace them as far back as possible (not to brag but check out angary). I was gone for a while but I have just discovered the etymology tree template and I am so in love that I think I have to return to editing now.

—Globins (yo) 19:58, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

(General American) /ˈɡlɑˌbɪnz/, [ˈɡɫäˌbɪnz] (Inland Northern American)

hi

Here's a trimmed-down version of the stuff that used to be on this page:

I've been editing here since high school when I saw this Tumblr post about weird English words and proceeded to add a definition and etymology for yerd (unfortunately that definition is no longer with us). One of my goals is to someday learn some random uncommon language just cuz (e.g. Samoan or something) but that'll have to wait until after I can speak passable Spanish.

soapbox

I think our situation with categorization is kind of an issue because of how incomplete or redundant many categories are. For example, ideally, we should have all English suffixes categorized as either productive or unproductive, but these categories are very incomplete. And what's the difference between rare terms, rare forms, and terms with rare senses?

Other things to do

Write a usage notes section for keysmash

Note to self: do this when you have the chance. I'm sure there's a source out there that explains the pattern we instinctively know, which is that some keysmashes are preferable to others depending on character frequency (e.g., "asdhsfjalkds" is better than "kxhyei84r0hcxur").

Citations

User:Globins/citations

Go through and add those "Wiktionary's coverage of [language] terms" things to language pages that don't have em

Sometimes it's annoying to find the category page for a language.

Add Gamelan-Related Entries

Gamelan is a style of Javanese music. I was trying to look at some Wikipedia pages about it once but discovered that many of them are literally incomprehensible unless you're a gamelan expert, which, unfortunately, I am not (yet‽). We have very few entries for gamelan terms, so you're out of luck unless you speak Javanese or something. (please no one fix that Wikipedia page I love it so much)

Learn how to make templates

I really want to learn how to do this. Examples include adding something to {{User time zone}} that says what time it is for that user (a big priority of course) (yes I'm aware I don't even have that template on my page). There's definitely more useful stuff I could do with the ability to make templates, like making a Samoan verb template, which will definitely come in handy when I learn Samoan.