Talk:zamazingo
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Equinox
User:Equinox, beg my pardon, but this word is a name. Why do we call it a noun? — This unsigned comment was added by Moonpulsar (talk • contribs) at 00:35, 20 June 2022 (UTC)..
- @Moonpulsar: First of all, your listing of your English proficiency as "en-4" on your user page is seriously wrong. There is no such phrase in English as "beg my pardon", and any native speaker with any education at all wouldn't need to ask that question. In English grammar, the name of a person, place or thing is called a noun. "Name" isn't a part of speech. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:44, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chuck Entz: I'm sorry, but I wrote this message at 3 o'clock in the night. I may have made some mistakes because of my drowsiness, there is no need to be rude. I'm new to Wiktionary and I'm trying to do my contribution as good as I can, what you said at the beginning of the text really upset me. I confused "noun" with "adjective" because of my drowsiness. Sorry about that again. Moonpulsar (talk) 06:33, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Moonpulsar: Makes sense, you mixed up the phrases “beg your pardon” and “pardon me”, and maybe it just sounds overly stilted if you try to be polite in front of the public of the internet, nonetheless I think you should downgrade to at least en-3 since overall you somewhat sound like a computer texting, though rarely technically wrong. Please look into WT:EL if you haven’t yet, there you see the allowed headers, including “noun” but not “name”. Note also that since this word itself does not mean “joker name” this cannot be part of the definition but only of the context label (
{{lb}}) or a non-gloss ({{n-g}}– this is a term we made up, but there are lots of templates to learn; there are at least some important ones you should memorize). Fay Freak (talk) 09:59, 20 June 2022 (UTC)- @Fay Freak Thank you for explaining. I changed my English level. I will read the pages you mentioned as soon as possible. Moonpulsar (talk) 14:01, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- For the record: I was tired, I was annoyed, but I didn't intend to be rude or insulting. My apologies. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:13, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Fay Freak Thank you for explaining. I changed my English level. I will read the pages you mentioned as soon as possible. Moonpulsar (talk) 14:01, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Moonpulsar: Makes sense, you mixed up the phrases “beg your pardon” and “pardon me”, and maybe it just sounds overly stilted if you try to be polite in front of the public of the internet, nonetheless I think you should downgrade to at least en-3 since overall you somewhat sound like a computer texting, though rarely technically wrong. Please look into WT:EL if you haven’t yet, there you see the allowed headers, including “noun” but not “name”. Note also that since this word itself does not mean “joker name” this cannot be part of the definition but only of the context label (
- @Moonpulsar: It's true that a noun is a name for something (an object or a concept), and in some languages it's the same thing (if I remember right, in French, a noun is called nom, which also means "name"). But the standard grammatical word for this in English is "noun" (or, if you dig back a bit further, "substantive"). That's not a special Wiktionary rule: that's just everyday English language. I don't edit Turkish because I don't understand it properly. If you have this issue with English then maybe also leave it alone. No offence. Equinox ◑ 06:19, 30 June 2022 (UTC)