Talk:Apneist

This is certainly a valid first attempt at a definition, but it seems paradoxical that you would even want to define a word that you never heard of. By doing so, you are the one who "invents" the word. --Eclecticology, Wednesday, June 12, 2002

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Well, it does seem to be used in at least one place in that sense: http://www.jp-petit.com/dangers/danger_eng/apnea_eng/apnea.htm

It also appears to be the name of a make of dive computer.

Oh, and Elba links to Apneist. -- Anon

Which is where I found it. I made the link to Apneist from Elba, looked up the guy's name, and guessed what the word means. -phma

http://www.iafdusa.com/ofrec.htm list apnea diving as one form of free diving but I couldn't find an explanation for what it meant. --rmhermen

I was more humored by the entry than anything; notwithstanding the "Wikipedia is not a dictionary rule. I was also piqued by the paradox.  I'm sure somebody will be interested enough to make the article into something more than a mere dictionary  type definition.  The magazine site at apnea.fr looks interesting.  I'd always considered apnea to be a medical condition, but as they say, "Different strokes for different folks."  --Éclecticologie.

Today I came across the term Apnoeist on the website http://www.ioua.de/iuoa.htm (which seems to be some kind of maybe sexistic insider joke) and due to I never heard about that word before (I was looking for pictograms at Google), I looked first for a Wikipedia entry and with Googles  feature, but without success. It then took me a while to find the appropriate Wikipedia entry (Apnea) with help of Googles "do you mean" feature, so I also added Apnoeist as an redirect to Apnea as well as two other redirects for the american and british spelling of some of the related term apneic (resp. apnoeic) used in the article itself. --XTaran | Talk 17:58, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)