User talk:VexVector

N-word edits

The N-word is obviously widely considered racist. Watering this down is not making things more neutral; it is misleading. Equinox ◑ 05:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

To say that the mere use of the word nigger is racist ipsó factó is inaccurate, regardless of whether or not it is popularly conceived as such, and the phrasing, considered racist, reads as if to be biased toward that misconception. I changed the phrasing from considered racist to associated with racism, as this preserves the cultural connotations of the word while providing a neutral view. On Wikipedia, e.g., the page for the color red says things like, red is traditionally symbolic of..., and, red is historically associated with..., rather than, red is considered..., as it informs of the cultural connotations without seemingly being biased toward a particular perspective. I strongly recommend preserving my edits. VexVector (talk) 06:04, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

"swungen one's dick around"

Please don't just lazily copy the inflections from the base word, as you get stupid shit like this: [1]. Theknightwho (talk) 23:39, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

I manually added the infections, as I figured it would still be appropriate to include archaïc inflections, but I’ll take heed that such is undesired here. Vex-Vectoꝛ​​ 10:10, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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Where did you intend Unsupported titles/`vert``vert` to link to, or what definition did you intend to give it? As it is, it just says || is an alt form of || (itself) ... (PS æ/œ ligatures are generally obsolete in English, outside of loanwords from languages that still currently use them, like French.) - -sche (discuss) 21:19, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

It was intended to link to the double, vertical line {‖}; i.e., the cæsura-mark. I’m not sure why I couldn’t correctly link it to the intended destination. The præcomposed Unicode-character is not recommended over composing it as multiple characters, much like the ellipsis. Having an entry for it as an alternative form, at least, is therefore judicious.

With regards to the ligatures {æ} and {œ}, while most orthographical style-guides have dropped them in favor of unligated {ae} and {oe}, or simply {e}—especially in the U.S.A.—they are archaïc, not obsolete. N.b. the distinction between the two. The aforementioned ligatures remained in use into the early XXth Century, and overdate the period of unstandardized orthography in English. Vex-Vectoꝛ​​ 10:08, 18 May 2024 (UTC)