User talk:Korax1214~enwiktionary

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magic cube

It seems highly unlikely that the Rubik's cube was ever called a "magic cube" by Hungarians, since they speak their own language. --EncycloPetey 19:01, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I think you're being over-pedantic. :-) I have it on the highest authority (Professor David Singmaster of the South Bank University, Newington (colloquially "Elephant and Castle"), south London; author of the acclaimed book 'Notes on Rubik's "Magic Cube") that "Magic Cube" was/is indeed the Hungarian name for Rubik's Cube, albeit probably in Hungarian rather than English. According to Notes, it was Ideal (the original Western distributor) who insisted on the name change because they didn't like the occult connotations of "magic", even though "magic" has many non-occult connotations (e.g. "magic square", "magic number"). Korax1214 19:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

If the name was in Hungarian, then the entry must be in Hungarian as well. The way you have set up the entry, it implies that the Hungarians marketed the puzzle under the English name. All our entries are given by language and spelling that was used, not by translation or transliteration. So if the puzzle was not marketed as "Magic Cube" (English spelling), then that should not be given as an entry. Also, we do not use redirects here. Entries are created at the spellings that are used. We can't use redirects because we are a multilingual dictionary and our entries are case sensitive. So, our policy is "no redirects"". --EncycloPetey 23:33, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

stale metaphor

Any chance of this being properly formatted? SemperBlotto 20:05, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I've only been a Wiktionarian for about three hours — I don't know how (mostly, what format is expected) yet!

I too was a bit uncomfortable with the lack of proper formatting as I saved the paged, but reckoned that sooner or later someone is bound to come along and refactor it. -- Korax1214 20:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

con- vs cōn-

Surely "con-" is pronounced like "coffee" and "cōn-" like "cone", the macron indicating a long vowel (as, according to well-known lexicographer J. R. R. Tolkien, does a circumflex)? That's my understanding anyway... Korax1214 19:38, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Not according to continental Latin scholars. Latin pronunciation as taught in English schools differs significantly from what other scholars believe. --EncycloPetey 23:36, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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23:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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07:12, 21 April 2015 (UTC)