User talk:Thomas Mills Hinkle

Hello there Thomas, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit How does one edit a page and experiment at Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice work at Luis Cernuda. Cheers! --maveric149

Hello. I've taken a look at your Oulipian wiki. Very interesting! I've fixed a few typos on the way, but I'm not sure if the layout of the first paragraph of http://tommyrot.arrr.net/qwiki/index.cgi?ScrapBook is intentional or not, so I've left it as I found it. I've taken the liberty of adding a link on the OuLiPo page to the article here on Oulipo too. I couldn't find anything on signing in; maybe a guestbook page would be handy. Anyway, it's on my list of wikis to drop on from time to time. I'll see if anything suitable for the text springs to mind! -- Tarquin 13:27 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC)

Thanks! I just added a guest book http://tommyrot.arrr.net/qwiki/index.cgi?TheAuthors -- thanks for the idea.


 * Just tinkered with "LetTime". The "last letter of text = last letter of page name" rule tripped me up! I agree with you, "TheAuthors" sounds better than plain old "guestbook". Have you read Rudy Rucker's

Infinity and the mind? In that he proposes a "fractal novel" ... -- Tarquin

No, I've never heard of it, but I'll look into it -- sounds like he's into my kind of project.


 * masculine: stress on final syllable of word. Eg "rhyme", "sublime", "crime"
 * feminine: stress on penultimate syllable of word. Eg "wiki", "tricky", "sticky"

Thanks for the examples in rhyme but could you explain what you mean by "penultimate"? I know the word but not in this context, and I don't see any difference between the two sets of rhyming words. In both cases, the final syllable is pronounced identically.

I didn't write the definition, but I can explain: The question here is the rhythm of the word, not where the rhyme occurs. Penultimate means next to last. The stress on the penultimate syllable means wiki is pronounce WI-key, not wi-KEY. A side note -- Antepenultimate means next to next to last. Elaborate (e-LA-bo-rate) has its stress on the antepenultimate syllable.

In general, rhyme requires that you make the final stressed syllable in a line and all following syllables have like sounds. Hence, "wiki" and "sticker" don't rhyme, but "align" and "resign" do.


 * Good luck finding a rhyme for "elaborate" ;-) -- Tarquin

Excellent article on Nella Larsen! --KF 16:23 Dec 4, 2002 (UTC)

Literal and figurative language is now much more readable. Tiles 23:42, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Prada
Hi, Tom!

The article was frighteningly like the text of a promotional folder of some kind. I feel that any claim that a specific handbag (and its price) was the genesis of the rise-and-rise is, at best, subjective- hence the deletion. Just my opinion, of course, and you've already done as you think best, so. :) --Puffy jacket 00:33, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

User categorization
Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new User Categorization scheme. I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in Rhode Island (Category:Wikipedians in Rhode Island) since your name was listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Rhode Island page.  The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Rhode Island page is scheduled for deletion.  Thanks!   Roby Wayne  Talk &bull;  Hist 00:27, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you...
...for sourcing the Brown "traditions" entries. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:06, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

np Tom

Thanks for effort on iambic pentameter scansion layout
Thanks for putting in the hard work to format the Donne example in iambic pentameter... something that was long overdue. Your comments on the talk page certainly made me do a lot of thinking, and I've finally made some changes to the article, and tried another option on the talk page. I'm certainly no fan of the labour involved in creating these tables, and they really do provide a barrier to many editors, which I think is probably a serious issue, but I'm also keen to try to get the articles to have the same look as contemporary books on the topic, and I still tend to think the tables give us the best shot at it. I'm going to keep pondering the question as to whether having the feet line up vertically is desirable or not; unfortunately I'm stranded thousands of miles from my books on the subject at the moment, so can't do a quick scan to see what is 'normal'. &mdash; Stumps 21:12, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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