Content deleted Content added
update browser userboxen |
Fix link |
||
| (11 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
This user used to be an admin, and decided to [[Kill two birds with one stone]] when he got so daft that remembering his password became daunting: his new account is [[user:JerzyA]], he has a cool set of backups for never again forgetting it again, and the acct does not have admin permissions.<br>--[[User:JerzyA|JerzyA]] ([[User talk:JerzyA|talk]]) 14:51, 8 April 2019 (UTC)<!--
--><br>
== (an odd little tool) ==
This section exists so that i can, almost invisibly, provide a link (in the midst of talk that ''others'' have saved) which can inform others,<br>
who can see no indication (that IMO ought to have been made by a third editor) clarifying whether a short unsigned 'graph and a following short ''signed'' 'graph, on a talk page, represent
* one signed contrib, or
* one '''un'''signed contrib, followed by 2nd, signed, contribution (which was made by a presumably ''different'' colleague).<br>--[[User:Jerzy|Jerzy]]•[[User talk:Jerzy|t]] 00:35 <s>&:53</s>, 8 January 2017 (UTC) (UTC)<br>
= Slightly less odd stuff =
{{newpagelinks}}<br />
<small><nowiki>{{Attempting_wikibreak|[[User:Jerzy|Jerzy]]| in late June|I}}</nowiki></small> Back June 22, '10.<br />
Line 18 ⟶ 29:
{{Template:User Internet Explorer 9}}
{{User:Qoou.Anonimu/User boxes/FFownIE}}<br />
{{User:NerdyScienceDude/Userboxes/iPad}}<br/>
{{Userboxbottom}}
----<br />
Line 46 ⟶ 58:
And thanks for being so neighborly as to gain whatever facility you have with this brash, typically American, and endlessly frustrating language.
----
Somewhere and -when since writing that, i stumbled across the orthodox (and IMO probably correct) explanation of the odd (and seemingly egotistical) casing: it apparently dates back to the age of [[manuscript]]s and [[scriptorium|scriptoria]]. When you're dealing with [[oak-gall]] ink and [[parchment]] from [[Pergamon]] (or with [[papyrus]]) (and [[pen]]s made by cutting off the tip of a goose [[flight feather|quill]] at a sharp angle, then cleverly [[nib (pen)|splitting the new tip]] to [[quill pen|make it feed]] the way a [[fountain pen]] does), you're going to have a fair number of stray marks -- particularly if it's not yet standard to [[tittle|"dot"]] the [[lowercase]] letters i and j (which i conjecture was another means of distinguishing them from strays). I presume that (except in the cases of royal personages) ''that'' need, institutionalized as orthography, was the source of the way i was ''taught'' to spell the nominative first singular pronoun. YMMV, an' dat's 'kay w/ Me!
----
'dja notice i never got around to saying that capitalized "I" (especially with handwritten [[serif]]s) is a lot more distinguishable from a stray mark than is "i", which does not become much more distinctive by including that silly dot?
(And, by the way, that lower case I and J share the dot, bcz (i've observed and/or heard or read that) I and J are variations on a single letter (in a language that didn't make a distinction between an "ee" or an "aye" phoneme), and the Y-like consonantal sound you end up hearing when someone draws out "ee" or "aye" long enuf, and then slides into a following vowel, as in ee-aye-(y)ee-(y)o. And is it mere coincidence that I and J are not distinguished in ancient Roman jnscriptjons, and that the Latin alpha-beta didn't distinguish U from V, nor have a W, but the name of W is pronounced "double ee-yoo" (or, in some languages a version of "doop'l-yoo") and the letter looks like "VV". And the W-like consonantal sound you end up hearing when someone draws outwhen someone draws out "oooo" long enuf, and then slides into a following vowel, as in ooo-(w)ee.<br>
(I haven't checked, but i'll bet our articles on I, J, U, V, &/or W, and/or those in other Romanized-language editions of WP, would confirm my [[Decalcamamia|cockamamey]] [[WP:original research|OR]] ravings. Or not.)
== One of Your Friendly Local Neighborhood Admins ==
Line 118 ⟶ 137:
::'' 17:01, 25 Oct 2003 and modified through''
::'' 02:31, 28 May 2004.''
:'' I now consider it obsolete, except for the parts that have been copied above. In particular, i eventually noticed that the [[List of people known as war heroes]], which survived [[Talk:List of people known as war heroes/delete|one AfD]], and whose relationship to people gaining political power by being ''perceived'' as war heroes [[Talk:List of people known as war heroes|interested me for a while]], was [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people known as war heroes (2nd nomination)|later deleted]].]''
Yes, i like it here. I'm doing a lot of random editing, and editing that diffuses out from something regardless of the fact that the post-diffusion subject matter doesn't interest me.
Line 175 ⟶ 194:
<br />
----
== Before you edit this page .... ==
<big><big>I am likely to miss messages you leave for me on this page, for as long a month or more. Messages belong on [[User talk:Jerzy]], generally at the bottom of the page.</big></big><br>And by the way, no one is supposed to edit "user pages", such as this one, except the pages' respective owners, whose username makes up most of the page's name.<br>--[[User:Jerzy|Jerzy]]•[[User talk:Jerzy|t]] 00:22, 8 January 2017 (UTC)<br>
| |||