User talk:Premeditated Chaos

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Please format entries according to our style, not that of Wikipedia. Here is our standard welcome. SemperBlotto 18:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

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I'm quite at a loss - your username is certainly blockable by our standards, but you seem to mean well?

Please do not do the non-GFDL compliant style transwiki anymore. Simply tag it on WP with w:Template:Copy to Wiktionary and wait a few hours (up to a day.) --Connel MacKenzie 20:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Just here to confirm that username is blockable, oh wait, no it isn't at all, Connel, you loon. Equinox 03:26, 4 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Nice to have a white knight in my corner, even if you are ten years late :P Premeditated Chaos (talk) 03:34, 4 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Deletion of Jarpnoonk

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As I said in my deletion summary, "jarpnoonk" isn't a real English word, but probably a transliteration with a typo. I don't speak any Indian language, but "pn" strikes me as a very unlikely combination, while "ph" is a very common sound with its own letter in pretty much all of the scripts for those languages.

At any rate, when I typed "jarphoonk" into google, it suggested: झाड़ फूंकjhāṛ phūṅk which seems to be Hindi झाड़ (jhāṛ) + फूंक (phūṅk). My guess is it refers to "clearing the undergrowth" in the mind with a breath.

I deleted it because Wiktionary doesn't go by reliable sources, but by verifiable usage- and all I could find on Google were mentions apparently parroting that one source.

Also, conjurer strikes me as a rather dismissive POV description for any spiritual or religious figure that mercifully fell out of use decades ago in that context. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:01, 17 August 2019 (UTC)Reply