I may be the only person to suffer with this, but from time to time I have found my self writing key technical terms as
WikiNames in documents. This came to a head when I found that I had
hand written Dental
Appointment in my diary.
--
ChrisBrooking
It's a meme. You've been infected. MeToo!!! -- JeffGrigg (...and I'm beginning to think that that's the correct way to write my name! ;-)
But isn't it heartening to note that more and more businesses use
TradeMarks written in the same way... before we know it all
CompoundWords in the
OxfordEnglishDictionary will be written as
WikiNames. --
GarethCronin
I actually find it useful that
WikiNames become engraved... when it gets tough, thinking things like '
RefactorLowHangingFruit' are a godsend... --
ShaunSmith
If this keeps up, English will be an
AgglutinativeLanguage like Turkish and Hungarian.
DoublePlusUnGood!
(in NewSpeak)
It would have helped my reading of Orwell's NineteenEightyFour if he had
used the WikiName "NewSpeak" instead of "Newspeak". I mistakenly parsed the latter as "news speak", and spent most of the book wondering how the language was supposedly geared toward news. Using a WikiName would have made the mistake impossible. A rare case, true, but I would have appreciated it.
Another approach:
WikiNames are
CombinationsOfWords which constitute a singular entity or concept. as in
JeffGrigg is a separate and distinct individual,
AnswerMe is a call for an explanation or an answer to a question, again singular. A
DentalAppointment is singular (a commitment of a block of time - both of the patient and the dentist). It is in fact closer to the way the mind conceives of things. When we see a tree that produces apples, the thought is
AppleTree.
It is a
UsefulDevice when used for
WikiPageTitles and for
HyperLinks, so it should not seem strange that the usefulness of
WikiNames should not carry into usage in
RealLife. Perhaps
InTheFuture the usage of words like
WikiNames will become so widespread that dictionaries will carry the meaning of words used singly and also those used as a conglomerate. In a sense, though this
WikiIsNotaDictionary, a page in this wiki can become a definition of the meaning and usage of a
WikiName.
I use
WikiNames for more and more things in
RealLife, thinking prophylactically, there might one day be a page for that issue in my or another's Wiki, so better too many than too few
WikiNames. - As I am a German native speaker I am used to building
CompoundWords and use
UpperCase for every nominative, so I liked the
WikiName convention right away. - My philosophy: The
GermanLanguage should adopt from
WikiNames the
UpperCase inside a word and the
EnglishLanguage should adopt the
CompoundWords, as part of the process of an emerging
WorldLanguage. I imagine, in the future, everybody writing many issues as
WikiNames, making them a standard. Yep! There is
RealLifeInWikiNames!
-- (orig)
FlorianKonnertz, 11-28
-- (mod)
DonaldNoyes.20080511.2017.m06
Generative grammar as practiced by linguists like
JimMcCawley treats individual words (lexical items) as having the same "internal" structure as syntactic constituents such as noun phrases (
WikiName) or verb phrases (
RefactorLowHangingFruit). --
TomRossen
I just wrote a few e-mails in which I wanted to include table information. I immediately -- and without conscious realization of it -- wrote TWiki tables. In other words, I put
| Instead of this | Do this |
| Beating me over the head | Pat my head gently |
| Yelling at me | Talk to me calmly |
... and so on. --
JbRainsberger (was Talking In Wiki)
CategoryRealWorld