Talk:Syzygy

message: Could someone add a pronunciation for this? Privong 23:36, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In American dictionary respelling it's /siz'.i.jē/; In X-SAMPA it's ["sIz.I.dZi]; in IPA it's . --Damian Yerrick 05:48, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Or it's the first half of scissors plus the second half of prodigy. Do you want a recording? --Gus N 23:31, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, a recording might be useful on the page. Privong 19:46, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Is this really a disambiguation page? There are relatively few internal links -- for most uses of "syzygy," the definition is right here on this page. --Dantheox 17:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree something should be done, but I haven't figured out what to propose yet.  As it is, though, it is a syzygy of pages, no? I'll be back with more positive suggestions. 
John (Jwy) 20:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation? 

message: I think Zenzizenzizenzic is the ONLY word with 6 z's so can't have any anagrams. I will pull the claim from here for now. A Geek Tragedy 21:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that by "anagram", the original claim referred to anagrams using subsets of the original word, which this obviously fails ("zen", "nice", etc.).  Maybe the terminology is wrong, but I do believe the claim, that no words can be made from any of the letters of "syzygy" is correct.  Will refrain from reverting to await confirmation or refutation. Thanks, Fractalchez (talk) 05:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Longest with no anagrams?

message: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the longest english word that doesn't contain one of the 5 "standard" (or whatever they're called) vowels?  Jjchong 13:32, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for popularity 

message: The article states that syzygy is tied with rhythm as the longest English word without a vowel. I don't want to sound too picky, but shouldn't rhythms (with an emphasis on the "s" at the end) be considered the longest word? Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think sygyzy can be pluralized simply by adding an "s" at the end. S@lo 05:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Longest English word without a vowel?

message: The word syzygy also appears in the executable of Avoid the Noid (noid.exe). It looks like a parameter, but I don't know what it does. Does anyone here know what it does? Calvero2 13:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, it enables some cheat codes in the game. Calvero2 12:23, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Avoid the Noid]]

message: describes a "graphical, 3D adventure game" which  "borrows some elements from the Star Wars movies."  It was written by Scott Cabit and published by Spectral Associates.
The Dragon and Color Computer were very similar: Dragon_computer#Differences_from_the_CoCo
Does anyone know if this be the same game as the one published by Microdeal?
ColorfulNumbers 03:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: CoCo vs Dragon video game?

message: Syzygia comes from the Greek "syn" (con) and "zygos" (balance). Syzygia (looses the "n" as usual in Greek) means among others arrangement of a pair and AFAIK is not Latin. Derivatives are used for the married couple ("syzygos", both male and female) and extended even to oxes yoked together (hence the reference in the article) often called "ypozygia"(pl.)=oxen under the yoke, expression used for enslaved people or nations, thus linking marriage, oxen and slavery in an imperative manner.Dpser 22:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've consulted two dutch/latin dictionaries and did not find the word in either. Kleuske (talk) 14:50, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

message: The article says that syzygy is the word without vowels that score the most points in Scrabble. (It is already marked with citation needed, though.) I guess this depend on what words are allowed in the game. If scientific names are allowed then the wasp genus zyzzyx should score pretty high too. Does anyone know he rules of Scrabble? :)  --Imraith-Nimphais (talk)
:According to Scrabble_letter_distributions, S=1, Y=4, X=8, G=2, and Z=10.  However, there are only 2 Y's and 1 Z, so some of the letters in syzygy and zyzzyx have to use blanks, worth zero points.  Thus
:syzygy=(S1)(Y4)(Z10)(Y4)(G2)(Y0)=21 points, the last Y being a blank.
:zyzzyx=(Z10)(Y4)(Z0)(Z0)(Y4)(X8)=26 points, the two Z's being blanks.
:Therefore, you're correct, so long as zyzzyx is permitted under Scrabble rules (which I can't rule on).  --ScottAlanHill (talk) 01:42, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syzygy score in Scrabble 

message: Although the redirect leads to this article, I believe that planetary alignment should have, if not it's own article, then at least a paragraph; when will the "perfect" allignment be, how rare are they, mathmatics behind it, astronomical influence et cetera. Any thoughts about this? - 212.10.52.184 (talk) 20:30, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps Eclipse or Occultation or Astronomical transit? What astronomical influence do you mean?—RJH (talk) 21:45, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planetary Alignment 

message: At the top of this article it says syzygy is "the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a plane", but later it says that it is along a line. Which is it? Is new/full moon always a state of syzygy, or is it only at eclipses?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.100.76.206 (talk) 22:43, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plane or Line 

message: * http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=107  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.47.167.178 (talk) 21:56, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture 

message: I've split almost all of the previous content of this article to Syzygy (astronomy), Syzygy (mathematics), and Syzygy (poetry). See the  template at the top of this talk page for full details.
If you want to challenge this action, now's the time! You know, before other editors spend a lot of effort changing incoming links to target the newly split pages. Melchoir (talk) 07:06, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry I made some changes before completely seeing your splitting work & comment here.  I don't think there is actually any serious disagreement, so let me try to forestall any here with a brief explanation of my three changes.  (1) Epirrhematic syzygy is totally unrelated to the other use in poetry; they should not be combined in a single article.  (2) I don't really care whether we use the redirect Syzygy (Gnosticism) and don't want to argue over WP:PIPING. What I do want to insist on is that the particular section of Gnosticism "aeon" be linked, as that's a huge article and (while yes, I do know about CTRL-F), I do not think the reader can be expected to find the discussion of syzygies buried in such a massive article w/o a section link.  (3) I realize that the techno music usage lacked blue links at Syzygy (disambiguation); now that it has one, I assume the need to include it is clear. Wareh (talk) 19:42, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good! I think the best outcome for Syzygy (Gnosticism) would be to split Aeon (Gnosticism) from Aeon#In Gnosticism and put the word syzygy in bold at the top of the new article. Melchoir (talk) 22:00, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: ...and done. Melchoir (talk) 00:10, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

text: By the way, what would you think about removing the sentence "Syzygy is derived from the Late Latin syzygia, "conjunction", from the Greek σύζυγος (syzygos)."? After all, this information is already present in the Wiktionary entry. Melchoir (talk) 00:09, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that should be trimmed.  The Late Latin does not figure in the etymology of every meaning here, and the definition is also awkward (for example, the cited entries do not use the word "unity," for the good reason that it's generally less accurate and useful than, say, "union."  So I will trim this down.  Thanks for creating Aeon (Gnosticism).  Since it has as much to say about gnostic syzygies as the monster article, linking it [PS: as I see you've done by changing the redirect] will fix has fixed the needle/haystack issue I mentioned. Wareh (talk) 15:12, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split 

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