User talk:Fuhvah

Thank you!

Thank you for adding a number of high-quality entries! Please, keep in mind that this is the simple English wiktionary. Entries such as that at eugenic could be simplified.--Brett (talk) 12:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your message! I tried simplifying eugenics. Thanks for your feedback :) Fuhvah (talk) 18:39, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

The entries really look good. Do you have a background in lexicography?--Brett (talk) 11:31, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

No, but I've been out of work for 6 months due to illness and got into editing on Simple Wikipedia to keep from going too stir crazy. I think it's helped me write "simpler," though that is always still a challenge! Thanks for helping me learn the ropes. Fuhvah (talk) 12:51, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

6 months is tough. Wow! I hope there's a good prognosis.

With your entries, it's not just the simplicity. You understand how the sentences should illustrate typical meanings, and you've got the format pretty much down. It's extremely rare to find folks like you. Perhaps the next step, if you're interested, is to try to use strong collocations in the example sentence.

If you go to http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ and click on the word COLLOCATES in the left-hand column, an input field will appear. Put your headword in the WORD(S) field surrounded by brackets, like this: [neuroscience], and then click SEARCH. This will show you a list of strong collocates such as cognitiv, university, research, professor, etc. If you click on a word, you can see examples of how it's used. If you've got a word like heap, which can be a noun or a verb, then you search for [heap].[n*] or [heap].[v*] to differentiate.--Brett (talk) 12:30, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Related words

This is used for derivationally or inflectionally related words, not for those that are merely semantically related.--Brett (talk) 12:59, 19 March 2016 (UTC)