User talk:DocRuby

hello, who are you? you were removing all kind of information, but i dont have any idea who you are. i am not against improvements, but you  should introduce yourself, if you want to be taken serious by me. Taksen (talk) 21:27, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't know what you want me to tell you about who I am. I'm just a guy editing those pages, as I mentioned to you in your talk page. I explained why I moved the info around in my Edit Sumamries and the note I included in your Talk page. I expect you to take me seriously on that basis. So do you have a good reason for me not to make the changes? DocRuby (talk) 04:57, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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Pointing out the Upton Sinclair was a cousin of the King of England while claiming to speak for the working man is absolutely relevant and adding to the discussion in the hopes of improving an article that tells a false story (as is typical on wikipedia). Erase it again, and I will broadcast it across twitter and Nostr for all to see forever. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.144.246.119 (talk) 21:49, 14 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I had nothing to do with the edits you made. And now you're injecting your misunderstanding of how Wikipedia works into my Talk page in some random section. I'm going to delete this part of my Talk page that you're messing up. You can broadcast whatever you want, and anyone looking will see that you're silly. DocRuby (talk) 22:11, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

What the heck was that about? See Homosexuality in ancient Rome for an explanation of the term, which is not act-specific. See also Sexuality in ancient Rome for further information on act-specific terminology. Translators may choose to represent the power roles variously, but the article is trying to give a strict and not a literary translation. Cynwolfe (talk) 04:08, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * In article Catullus 16, I revised the English translation of the Latin "Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi" from "pussy Aurelius and catamite Furius" to "cocksucker Aurelius and catamite Furius". I was guided by the explanation in the next section Sexual terminology:
 * "A male who suckles a penis is denoted as a fellator or, equivalently, a pathicus (line 2)." referencing Forberg 1824, pp. 190–191


 * However, on closer study, "pathice" is "vocative masculine singular of pathicus"; which is "(of men) someone submitting to sex (anal sex) or unnatural lust, pathic, lascivious; of catamites, prostitutes or books". American English doesn't have an exactly corresponding term indicating the recipient. "Buttfucker" is close; if "butfuckee" was an English word it would be the translation.


 * But "pussy" is definitely wrong. "Pussy" means vagina. The anus is no pussy; the poem refers to Aurelius and Furius (each a man) as recipients of sex by Catullus, but not as feminine. DocRuby (talk) 04:21, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, I don't want to get into the question of whether "pussy" is the best translation; it may not be. But it's better than "cocksucker," which is too act-specific. Remember that when we insult a guy by saying "you pussy" we often mean "you coward; you aren't a real man", which is the kind of insult intended by Catullus. Pathicus does imply that the male allows himself to be used sexually, and there's an explanation somewhere in the lengthy Sexuality in ancient Rome that particularly in sexual invective the anus and vagina are equivalent: the dominant male might have a preference for a woman or a boy, or not, but the point was that they both served as receptacles. So in the sense of Carmen 16, implications that the pathicus might be used like a woman are part of the "I'm a bigger man than you" rhetoric, since the poem deals with the speaker's character as a "real man". Wiktionary can't be used as a source for an article, only as a link. There are at least a couple of RS used for the explanation of pathicus in the article link above. Here's a useful description by way of comparing pathica, but while Williams refers to the pathicus throughout his book, Holt (cited in the linked section) seems to have given the term a closer and more nuanced examination. There probably is no magic best translation, but the point of pathicus seems to be that it's a general role or attitude. Cynwolfe (talk) 04:42, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I do want to get into the question of whether "pussy" is the best translation, because it didn't seem consistent with the meaning of the poem when I read it. Catullus doesn't feminize the targets of the poem, and the question of who isn't a "vir" is considered only in rejecting the targets' postulated thinking of Catullus as less than a man. Right in that line he refers to Furuius as a catamite, which is still male, though an insult to an adult (and is also a recipient of anal sex). "Pussy" rings false. I'm not saying now that "cocksucker" is a better translation, but there should be a better one than "pussy". Which now seems to be pathic, the English word I noted earlier. It's obscure, but so is "catamite"; even the Wiktionary notes their relationship.

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You messed up on your revert on Universal Serial Bus you reverted to the wrong version, I fixed it this time, just don't do it again kapeesh?Prabash ''' What?  02:54, 5 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I don't know what happened there. I got a message from Wikipedia that the USB article was changed, and it was obvious vandalism when I looked at the diff. I clicked to revert to the previous version noting that I was reverting vandalism. But after the revert it looked like I had made the vandalism edit. So I clicked "Undo", but the history showed you reverted it back, not my undo. Very strange. DocRuby (talk) 02:54, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Bro it's all cool, there was probably an edit conflict, and Twinkle usually knows when a revert has become an edit conflict, and it stops reverting but in your case it just did it. --Prabash ''' What?  02:54, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I think it was something else. It couldn't have been an edit conflict. If you look at the time, I reverted an edit at 5:42 PM PT. Doc Ruby made his revert at 7:30 PM PT. - Amaury (talk) 04:50, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * What do you think could have caused my clicking to revert content (that looked like vandalism) that I saw in the diff to result in that content appearing to have been posted by me? While it's possible I clicked something other than a revert link, it's not possible that I posted that content.

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