Comments | jdm314: Latin Wikipedia is famous!

jdm314

Latin Wikipedia is famous!

Sep 29, 2007 00:19

We've had an article in Vox Latina before, but never something as prestigious as this!

Due, I think, to my thoroughly arcane and scholarly interests, I didn't impress Mr. Gomes as much as some of the others did (don't get me wrong though: Josh does makes a fantastic "poster boy." Now I need his autograph!) but I'm glad he did find something he ( Read more... )

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tanagers September 29 2007, 11:53:42 UTC

That's cool! It makes you sound really argumentative. Funny. Congrats!

ioscius September 29 2007, 16:02:14 UTC

Yeah, the errors were far to slight to take away from the absolute coolness of this article. Me aside, I think it puts the project in a great light, and really explains the essence of what we're doing. It's flattering while being honest. It's also certainly nice to see that Lee asked around to find a professional opinion (Gurval) of us (and that the opinion didn't say we suck!)!

jdm314 September 29 2007, 16:04:47 UTC

(and that the opinion didn't say we suck!)

Yes, and that's the most amazing part!

Seriously, I hope my nitpickery doesn't seem ungrateful, because you're absolutely right about the rest.

And welcome to LJ!

ioscius September 29 2007, 16:24:45 UTC

Damned LJ sure isn't wikipedia, though. I wish I could go back and edit my last post with an extra "o" in "far to(o) slight" . . . :::grumble:::

thecanuckguy September 30 2007, 19:16:21 UTC

I usually just hit the "delete" button (after CTRL-Cing the whole thing) and write a new one, fixing the error after the old text is pasted. It's probably inconvenient (and probably a bit of an annoyance to the LJ owner who I'm replying to since it probably generates multiple emails, but I don't know as I've never done it in my own LJ) but, being a bit of a perfectionist, it works.

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thecanuckguy September 30 2007, 19:35:42 UTC

Good job! You come off a little as a contrarian Wikipedian, but I think you take that as a compliment.

I do however, take great credence in what you think a new word should be in Latin. I still greatly prefer "anthematology", one you gave me, to any other description of the hobby, and passionately defend that one.

jdm314 September 30 2007, 19:49:37 UTC

But... but... I was WRONG about anthematology. I mean, I'm glad you like it, but I told you that ἄνθημα isn't a real word. I recall you were a bit disappointed in me for screwing that up, so I'm surprised you're still such a partisan.

And I confess that the impression of contrarianness is one reason why the inaccuracy bothers me (in fact, I sometimes worry that my opinion is given too much weight on Vicipaedia). Of course nitpicking the article doesn't make me seem less contrarian, does it? ;)