I understand people consider "Welcoming" another user as an accomplishment. That's interesting. gohlkus 22:13, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
You might want to think about nominating it for the Baseball AID Kingjeff 01:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I notice where you corrected typos in my work in the article Single-wing. Thanks, any help is appreciated. -- Bill Spencer ( talk) 14:16, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I think it's incorrect to imply that "Brevity is the soul of wit" is not modern English.
Every word in the quotation "Brevity is the soul of wit" is a modern word. Their meanings have not changed. Just because some editor doesn't understand what it means (basically, "shorter is better," but with more nuance -- "wit" is a very meaningful three-letter word) doesn't mean it's not modern. Worse, the statement that is presented as more or less equivalent ("Omit needless words," directly from Strunk & White) is not the same thought at all. The former is a declaration about the essence of being clever. The latter is a simple imperative that leaves much more to interpretation. Equating the two is a bad example of how to make something less tl;dr. I suppose I could unilaterally change it but I'd rather complain about it here.
The whole article comes off as intentionally tl;dr, which I have to imagine was the point (and if it wasn't, wow). gohlkus ( talk) 14:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
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I understand people consider "Welcoming" another user as an accomplishment. That's interesting. gohlkus 22:13, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
You might want to think about nominating it for the Baseball AID Kingjeff 01:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I notice where you corrected typos in my work in the article Single-wing. Thanks, any help is appreciated. -- Bill Spencer ( talk) 14:16, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I think it's incorrect to imply that "Brevity is the soul of wit" is not modern English.
Every word in the quotation "Brevity is the soul of wit" is a modern word. Their meanings have not changed. Just because some editor doesn't understand what it means (basically, "shorter is better," but with more nuance -- "wit" is a very meaningful three-letter word) doesn't mean it's not modern. Worse, the statement that is presented as more or less equivalent ("Omit needless words," directly from Strunk & White) is not the same thought at all. The former is a declaration about the essence of being clever. The latter is a simple imperative that leaves much more to interpretation. Equating the two is a bad example of how to make something less tl;dr. I suppose I could unilaterally change it but I'd rather complain about it here.
The whole article comes off as intentionally tl;dr, which I have to imagine was the point (and if it wasn't, wow). gohlkus ( talk) 14:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Johnny Narron, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page AAA. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
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