Talk:Dichotomy

message: I put a new example using the term used in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and linked it back to that page as well. The problem is I do not know enough about the therapy itself (as in, I don't have time to read the book given to therapists who work in DBT, I am a patient) to know about dichotomy in DBT enough to write about it there. I also added two new "see also" links to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Borderline Personality Disorder (it is used in the treatment of BPD). Hopefully all this suits others. Although, it is late, and it may not be written as well as I could have. So feel free to edit.Charmedguy18 (talk) 06:27, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New example, new "see also" and new external link  

message: I removed the words "non-overlapping", which appear to be redundant: if two conditions are mutually exclusive, mustn't they also be non-overlapping? — Dan | Talk 04:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  non-overlapping 

message: "either" in the first sentence should be "neither", should it not?
-Adam
::Definitely.  Someone who had no understanding at all of what the sentence said thought that "neither" was an ungrammatical double negative and changed it to "either".  I've rephrased it. Michael Hardy 21:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there any chance of putting in an average joe example? Dumb people need smarts too you know :p I recall the phrase 'Microsoft Works' is an oxymoron, and in fact the only reason I ever heard dichotomy was because I played Diablo 2 but it's like a whole load of other words I never look up in any dictionary because I figure dictionaries are full of too much opinion. Words change, and their meanings depend on the people who use them. I guess what we really need to do is add dictionaries to games i.e. GTA 4. They could change the tag line to 'seek your fortune, destroy a city, improve your vocabulary and get revenge!'. It's perfectly plausible that he could hijack a book mobile at some stage, maybe read clockwork orange and have an epiphany of some kind...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.51.85 (talk) 23:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  definition 

message: Merge with Binary opposition?--BMF81 22:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with Binary opposition?

message: Refer to the sentence: "In biology, a dichotomous key divides a set of organisms into two groups smaller groups, typically based on a single characteristic present in exactly one of the groups."
The phrase in red should be into two smaller groups, shouldn't it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.7.147.78 (talk) 10:25, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor sentence correction 

message: I think the introduction needs the inclusion of subdivision as a type of dichotomy. That is Dichotomies can be split into two types of dichotomies, opposites and complements (subdivision creating subsets).
e.g.
	
The subdivision example is probably best described as complementarity. http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting/dicho.html has some information on opposites vs complementarity.
--Zven (talk) 02:46, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction 

message: The definition encompassing 'execution' is completely bogus, neither existing in any English dictionary nor in any known, legitimate literature. How did it get here? Why is it here? It is precisely this kind of nonsense which de-legitimizes the fine work so many Wikipedia authors do.Busterbarker2008 (talk) 18:35, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bogus Definition 

message: I think we ought to include the correct (IPA) pronunciation of this word in the lead, and possibly an audio recording of the same. When I was younger I always thought it was pronounced "dick-otomy". I'm sure there are a lot of other people who, if they've only read the word in print and never heard it word spoken, might tend to mispronounce it the same way, which would obviously be embarrassing. Stonemason89 (talk) 20:10, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: This looks like a fan site to me, so I removed it from the external links:
Farscapeworld.com, Episode reference to the series Farscape (Season 2, Episode 22) Roseclearfield (talk) 02:27, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removals of External Link and Sentence in Lead Section