User talk:Macdonald-ross

Words:
Every now & then we get editors changing words on the basis of their ideas on what is simple. Words also have to be accurate (we are an encyclopedia).

• Big: certainly simple and popular with children, but a term almost never to be used about living things. Is a giraffe bigger than an elephant? Think about it. It is almost always better to use a more exact word, such as longer, heavier. Is a star big? Does that mean its apparent size or its intrinsic size? Ditto stars being bright.
• Rich is an ambiguous word. A cake can be rich, and a person can be rich. However, only a person can be wealthy, so prefer that word. Neither word is on the extended list of simple words, incidentally, so use the more precise word.
• Very: another childhood favourite. In spoken English it is an intensifier, but it has almost no function in prose. It may be the most frequent word copy editors cut out as redundant.
• Die: we all die, but species become extinct.

Now here's the tricky bit. Technically, a species which is not extinct is extant. Extant is the opposite of extinct. However it is a very rare word, and we use the common word "living". So we talk about living species. It sounds natural, and is right for us.

• Animal: that includes jellyfish and beetles. If you mean mammals, say so.
• Reside: On Simple you don't reside somewhere, you live there.
• Rare: an essential word in ecology, and supported by definitions in the literature. Steaks can also be rare, but that would not be good to use on Simple.

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Punctuation

Hi :-) Can I ask you why you reverted this change of mine? Was the template I added the problem or something else? If it was just the template, can I add everything else again (except for that template, obviously)? I am not mad at all, just very confused, because it was such a non-controversial change XD

Dream Indigo 19:38, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, it looks unnecessary also to me. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:51, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Bjorn Gulden

Aloha. Actually, if you compare this to my creation at en.wikipedia.org, it's rather different as I simplified it, and there was no other way to make the wording "simpler". Please revert this deletion, I think it's incorrect. Coop (talk) 10:54, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

A.I.

Hi, if you ever have a chance to look at this

simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artificial_intelligence&oldid=9519341

version, then please let that talk page know in which paragraph comes the first instance of something non-simple.--Of course, please ignore paragraph two, for now.--And thank you for your previous comment on that talk-page. Cheers! 2001:2020:345:C41E:6598:11A6:3013:EFAF (talk) 10:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)