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Metatalktail Hour: Can I eat this ... word?
Happy Weekend, friends! For today's metatalktail party, I'd like to ask about your experience of synesthesia, if any. Obviously all of us are not synesthetes, but I think most of us have distinct sensory reactions to at least some words, for example. Do you hear, taste, smell, see, or feel certain words? Tell us about it! [more inside]
Open thread, and words we like
For some Mefites it's Thanksgiving today, which can mean travel and family etc (or not). For everyone else it's just midweek. So here's an open chit-chat thread where we can celebrate what we're thankful for, or take refuge and gripe about traffic and family, or alternatively, celebrate its not being a holiday and gripe about regular midweek nonholiday stuff. I really like the word "blustery", do you have a word you like?
Wordshore will speak words for you in an English accent
Following a short but successful experiment, the result of which being that Mr Bondcliff of the USA is now the happy owner of a most unusual phone ringing tone, I have decided to speak words of the choosing of MeFites. "Hit me up", as the young MeFites apparently say, with some words and I will - within reason - create a sound file of spoken delights for you and others to listen to. [more inside]
Metatalktail Hour: Mispronunciations
Good Saturday evening, MetaFilter! In honor of this hilarious thread, I want to know what words you well-read MeFites mispronounced when you first attempted them out loud! What words are you still avoiding? And of course your life updates!
Metatalktail Hour: Favorite Words
Good Saturday evening, MetaFilter! This week's conversation starter: What is your favorite word, and why? [more inside]
Can we focus more on the intent of a post, and less on the phrasing?
It seems to me that people are often attacked over a poor choice of words, while the rest of their post goes unacknowledged. [more inside]
Metafilter gets a Mention
Not in so many words
Pony request for a hard word limit on what shows up over the fold of new posts. [more inside]
"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often." - Mark Twain
O come, all ye MeFites,
Fav'riting and Flagging!
O point ye, O click ye to...
The Third Annual MetaFilter Wordcount!
(Brought to you by the generosity of cortex, no grant from National Science Foundation, and Viewers Like You) [more inside]
Fav'riting and Flagging!
O point ye, O click ye to...
The Third Annual MetaFilter Wordcount!
(Brought to you by the generosity of cortex, no grant from National Science Foundation, and Viewers Like You) [more inside]
The Joy of FPPing
To people who have done this; why did you create Front Page Post(s) on MetaFilter? The motivations are interesting in themselves, and may also provide positive reasons for people to cross the rubicon from lurker to poster. [more inside]
As Balzac said, 'There goes another novel.'”
Last year, cortex went out of his way to quantify our participation on MetaFilter. I asked if he'd be willing to do it again, and he agreed. So if you want to know how many words you've typed into MetaFilter instead of that dissertation/novel/revolutionary manifesto, now is the time and here is the place.
That's a lot of words.
What is the longest metafilter comment that wasn't a stunt post?
Whatever
Talk about talking about talking about words.
Better late than never: Issue 8 of MeFi Mag is here
It's taken a while, but Issue#8 of MeFi Mag has finally arrived! [more inside]
Words words words
This comment about getting past one's first million words got me thinking: is there a way to find out exactly how many words I've written on MeFi?
Dump "awesome"
Aren't you tired of "awesome"? [more inside]
How to find old AskMeFi answers?
How to find old AskMeFi answers? [more inside]
the only words left to add are irrelevant
Do we really have to have a post every time the OED adds a couple of flash-in-the-pan words? [Glasgow kiss inside]
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