User talk:Chemistrygeek

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Ƿidsiþ 13:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Ballbusting

How on earth is Ballbusting a bad entry title? You go onto google and type it in and thousands upon thousands of sites come up. Please explain why you deleted the entry. Chemistrygeek 13:17, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

It shouldn't start with a capital letter, unless you're saying it's German. Ƿidsiþ 13:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Please refrain from facetious remarks about the German language. Bogorm 14:24, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Or what? Ƿidsiþ 14:25, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

That is just a polite request - you see very well that there is no way for a noun ending in "-ing" to be from German origin, that is a suffix typical for English. And, well, if you are going to deride the greatest and foremost language of Western Europe, I can complain where necessary. Bogorm 14:40, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if you are deliberately looking for fights now or something. My point is that German nouns start with capital letters whereas English ones do not. I'm not sure why you think German is the foremost language of Western Europe, but at any rate I wish you luck pursuing your complaint. Ƿidsiþ 14:43, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

And my point was that it is facetious to suppose that any noun ending in "ing" could stem from the German language. The rule about the majuscule goes without saying for every novice in the language. I am not going to complain yet, since I do not yet suppose that your remark was derisive and am assuming your good will. As soon as such one (derisive) appears, my complaint would follow. Wikipedia is not a forum, and since I presume that Wiktionary is not either, I shall not be expounding wherefore German is the foremost language of Western Europe. Greetings. Bogorm 14:56, 13 August 2008 (UTC)