Talk:Sniglet

message: "Many sniglets are portmanteau"  Stop linking to portmanteau, please. It's really gotten out of hand.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.193.170 (talk) 03:27, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should this be merged/redirected with neologism or word coinage? Martin 20:35, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, those terms don't seem like authentic sniglets to me as well, and I was a fan of NNtN too back then... :) misternuvistor 08:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

text: One does wonder if any of them actually went into general usage (besides "sniglet" itself). Schizombie 00:01, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted all the examples of portmanteaus, which are their own thing. That helped pare the list down. JDoorjam     Talk 01:52, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Many sniglets were portmanteaus, though.  I think I have all the books, and could add cites for all the words, if that would be helpful. Esquizombi 14:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

text: What sort of citation style should I use to cite the sniglets to the books? Esquizombi 15:56, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Also, do you know anything about adding book covers?  The cover of one of the books would be nice. Esquizombi 16:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Book covers are kosher; there's even a specific fair-use boilerplate for licensing them. JDoorjam     Talk 16:04, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know how to do that, I suppose I'm going to have to learn? Esquizombi 20:25, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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message: I removed the word "Arping" which I did not find in the books and replaced it with ARG which was - and which matched the definition for Arping.  Same with Snotch - actual sniglet for that definition was Sniffleridge.  It's possible they were used on TV or in another Hall source, or they could be from similar sorts of books, or they could be completely made up altogether. Esquizombi 21:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like "Sniglike", if the word Sniglet is reserved for the words devised by Rich Hall, or from NNtN. But if it extends to other authors who've invented words to describe something that could do with one, here are a couple from Terry Pratchett's Discworld book, Equal Rites:-
* Squernt:The feeling upon finding that the previous occupant of the privy has used all the paper.
* P'ch'zarni'chiwkov:The nasty sound of a sword being unsheathed right behind one at just the point when one thought one had disposed of one's enemies.[[62.6.139.11 11:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sniglet or sniglike? 

message: I'll fix the reference style later, I just wanted to drop them in as I found them in what should be a temporarily acceptable way.  There are some others I want to add too, and some more sniglets themselves! Esquizombi 22:28, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Anything in an article of this type that is not referenced is open to the accusation of OR.  So contributors or would-be contributors: reference it or lose it. Kevin McE (talk) 17:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced examples

message: Who or what is "Powers 2008?" Шизомби (talk) 17:34, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted: I've deleted the unsourced contribution of an IP unregistered editor.  Kevin McE (talk) 18:41, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Figures.  Coincidentally, on King of the Hill last night, Dale explained away an inappropriate laugh as having been caused by remembering a funny sniglet! Шизомби (talk) 14:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Powers source?

message: The notation someone added on "perdiddle" being a regional variant of peddiddle (how can a Hall sniglet have a regional variant?) made me wonder (along with "spork" Hall 1984: 76) whether there are sniglets that predate Hall, or which while not predating Hall, went into common usage because of the Sniglets books.  (I wondered about the latter above.)
On Amazon, I found "perdiddle" in Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume IV, P-Sk (Dictionary of American Regional English) by Joan Houston Hall (interesting coincidence) with the earliest reference being 1959.  For "spork" see spork.  So it would seem that there are at least some sniglets do predate Hall.  This may be worth adding to the article in some way, if I can think how.  These do still perhaps fit the definition of "any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should" even if they don't fit the definition of "a word contained in one of the Sniglets books."  Though in the case of "spork" it did appear in the Century Dictionary, as that article notes, before it appeared in Sniglets.  Perhaps it did not appear in one of the popular dictionaries like Webster's or the OED.  Шизомби (talk) 16:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular sniglets 

message: If the examples given are genuine examples of Rich Hall's work, then they violate WP:COPYVIO, and if not, they violate WP:NOR.  Either way they have no place here, so I am removing the section.  Rob T Firefly (talk) 10:29, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt if you're right about the COPYVIO, although it had been an open question for me what the selection process for examples ought to be.  I had added citations for most of the examples that were there, although people kept adding more (and perhaps making some up or taking them from from places other than Hall), when there's no reason to do so. Шизомби (talk) 22:16, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't Sniglets from Hall's books and TV appearances be copyrighted material?  It seems to me they are owned by either Hall himself or whoever holds the rights to the books and videos.  This would seem to make copying that material verbatim into Wikipedia a major COPYVIO, and I cannot see an appropriate way of rewording definitions or anything to create a suitable example without either including the original copyrighted Sniglet, or making up a new one which would be original research. Rob T Firefly (talk) 05:03, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree making them up isn't appropriate.  I still find your claim of COPYVIO strange.  Quotes appear on most WP pages. Шизомби (talk) 05:53, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: How can the originator claim that these "should be in the dictionary" and then object to their circulation? WHPratt (talk) 14:27, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Examples" section needs to go 

message: I'm not a wiki editor, so please forgive me if I've done something wrong , and I'm not sure if this is a common enough reference to merit adding, but in the television series 'Black Monday' they frequently refences sniglets as a gag, since it's a white guy saying it around his black co-workers and it sounds like the derogatory term. Is this worth adding to the page, or is it too obscure a reference?  2.27.97.37 (talk) 00:29, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  References - Pop Culture and whether to add.