User:Vuccala/Fun

These are all extremely good ideas that Wiktionary should immediately implement so it can become more good.

Meronyms

A "meronym" is part of something larger. For example, "claw" is a meronym of "paw", and "paw" is a meronym of "dog". And Wiktionary entries can list meronyms too.

So logically, the ====Meronyms==== section of every animal entry (and so on) can have thousands of meronyms listed. The word for every body part. Every organ. Every muscle and bone. Every molecule and protein. Every chemical element. Every fundamental particle.

The entry for universe will in its Meronyms section pretty much have to include every word in Category:English nouns.

More pronunciation audio varieties

We could have loads more pronunciation audios, in all the differents varieties of spoken language. For example, pronunciations spoken by toddlers, children, electrolarynx users; people with gay lisp, speech impediments; in different registers like sarcastically, angrily, while yawning, while crying, while singing; in rooms with different acoustic properties such as caves, in a noisy restaurant, in a bathroom while showering; through a cheap laptop microphone, spoken by Microsoft Sam, played back from a 1964 Mattel See 'n Say, etc.

(un)capitalized misspellings

Capitalization or lack thereof can double nearly every entry via 'misspelling of'-type entries. You'll find united kingdom, rebecca, tuesday, etc. are all attestable.

Interjections! More!

Almost every noun can also be an interjection, and as such should have a relevant POS entry like so:

Interjection

rug

1. Attention call of a rug merchant.
   • "Rugs! Beautiful Persian rugs! Reasonably priced!"

Won't somebody please think of the children?

A proposition to bring up in WT:VOTE - any definitions that are vulgar, obscene, sexual or otherwise Category:English swear words should be:

• blurred and require clicking an "I am over 18" button to view
• or preferably, be hidden behind a login wall (and upon account creation, also confirm that they are over 18, via age verification service)

On choosing pictures

The images we put next to definitions need to be more child-friendly. I suggest choose images like these:

• 
  terrapin
• 
  telluric planet
• 
  ursine
• 
  aster
• 
  neonate
• 
  chiropteran

-zilla augmentatives

Since -zilla is the English augmentative noun suffix, all noun headers should look something like this:

mom (diminutive mommy, augmentative momzilla)
dog (diminutive doggie, augmentative dogzilla)
cat (diminutive kitty, augmentative catzilla)

Sponsored usage examples

Wiktionary could help raise money for Wikimedia by including paid sponsorships in its usage examples, like so:

crab cake (plural crab cakes)

1. A type of fishcake popular in the United States composed of crab meat and bread crumbs.

   I got 50% off my first order of crab cakes from SeafoodShack.com by using coupon code "Wiktionary" at checkout.

Informal register definitions

Is the formal academic register really the best at explaining word meanings? What if we instead used the informal register?

car key

1. That little metal thing on your keychain that you put inside the hole by your steering wheel and then twist to make your car start.

Nationality photos

For pages of the names of nationalities, the chosen photo should represent the nationality in question in its most salient cultural imagery. Here are examples of the kinds of photos we should use:

• 
  Englishman
• 
  Australian
• 
  Frenchman
• 
  Russian
• 
  Irishman
• 
  Italian

Not just humans

There is an obvious supercategory missing from Wiktionary: Category:Human language. And we could have even broader supercategories like Category:Mammalian language, and Category:Animal communication. Such categories would be useful in allowing us to expand into listing broader ways of communication like Category:Avian mating calls, Category:Arthropod pheromone signals, and Category:Extraterrestrial lemmas once we make contact.

IPA: International Parrot Alphabet

Ringneck parrot demonstrating a creaky voiced rising open front unrounded vowel.

Since parrots also speak, and this speech is attested in YouTube videos, we should add IPA phonetic transcriptions of parrot speech to the Pronunciation sections where available. The question worth asking is whether we need a new set of IPA symbols altogether, since parrots have no lips nor teeth yet can still make bilabial plosives and dental fricatives. I've petitioned the International Phonetic Association for an Psittacine Extension to the IPA, but they are yet to email me a reply. Until they do, we can go forward as so:

• (Psittacine) IPA^(key): [ˌpɹɪti.ˈbɝːːːɖ]

Mirror-reflected forms

Since every word can be viewed off a reflected surface, it would be wise to cover such variants as well. You'll find they're all attested simply by viewing their original attestation in a mirror.

These entries would look like this:

Noun

ƨɔilduq

1. Mirrored form of publics.

Noun

ƨcoob

1. Vertically-reflected form of scoop.

Noun

dooɔs

1. Vertically-reflected and mirrored form of scoop.

The lack of mirrored character glyphs in Unicode presents a problem. We can start by making entries for all words that only use bd,cɔ,i,l,o,pq,sƨ,u,v,w,x. The rest can be added like so: Unsupported_titles/mirrored/`facetious`) with CSS to rotate them in the headword: facetious.

In the interest of neutrality, all existing entries should be templated as Template:unmirrored form of, unless they're already horizontally and vertically symmetrical, like oxo. Since all these additions can be done by bots, Wiktionary will be able to nearly quadruple its size within days and make it to the top of Wikipedia:List of dictionaries by number of words.

Electronics

Since Wiktionary defines the names of the common batteries AA and AAA, we ought to continue this pattern by creating an entry for all the rest. Thanks to service manuals, attestability is guaranteed. Let's start: CR2025, LR44, CR-V3, A23, PP3, A27, CR2016 ...

After that, we can add the names of vacuum tubes, LM-series integrated circuits, integrated circuit packaging types, and so on.

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