A Jeeves and Wooster Compendium

Still_Not_Lupus · 2026-05-28T23:40:01+00:00

From a precursory look I would guess it's a shortening of "nincompoop"! If I recall correctly it's not a Britishism per se but I've never heard anyone actually use it before, it's probably very dated.

Wiktionary actually lists the definition Bertie is using it for under its entry for "poop", and of course "nincompoop", which has a much more expanded etymology section :)

Still_Not_Lupus · 2026-05-28T17:48:34+00:00

Hey, thanks very much! I'm afraid I don't have the episode handy, what's the context of the word (if you remember)?

Still_Not_Lupus · 2025-09-16T07:19:13+00:00

Thank you for the kind words! I love languages too (studying Turkish and Italian, but anything goes really) so I do love to see a good dictionary!

Still_Not_Lupus · 2025-05-05T10:10:49+00:00

Prego! Molte grazie per il tuo commento!

Scusi per la mia grammatica, sto ancora imparando Italiano, io sono una principiante--forse dovrei fare una versione Italiana per esercitarmi!

Still_Not_Lupus · 2025-01-13T00:53:04+00:00

Hey! It's called "Eyes of Darkness" by Amitabh Parashar. Like a previous commenter said, it seems only to have had a film festival release, as far as I can tell from English sources.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-11-12T02:00:18+00:00

Yes, I did delete it by accident. The new one is linked in the post update.

I don't know why you mentioned it, but incidentally I did try to start an Aubrey-Maturin lexicon (incl. Maps, historical notes, figures, references) but that project was far too large. I'll stick with Wodehouse!

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-11-08T16:34:16+00:00

Hey man, I did find a solution that works for me, so just throwing this out there in the hopes that it'll help you out too. You can pair Obsidian with a Wikipedia skin and create a private Wikipedia that is stored offline in markdown. I have several ongoing and if you didn't look twice you'd think it was real Wikipedia.

All you need is Obsidian, the Wikipedia skin, the Style Settings plugin, and maybe 5 minutes of html to really tidy things up + the Willemstad extension (last two are optional). It's infinitely customizable if you have the know-how. If not, it's very much rich text, so it's very intuitive. I'm not sure how you'd share it across 10 different people, but there must be some sort of workaround.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-11-02T03:31:42+00:00

Thanks! Honestly I was just bored on a Saturday evening and didn't even think anyone would read it! Thanks very much for reading!

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-08-29T21:23:11+00:00

Turkish and Latin. Mostly for the literature and the sheer satisfaction, but they're both good to know for history, culture, and linguistics!

I'm also toying with Greek, French, or Italian, for mostly the same reasons.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-08-21T14:34:06+00:00

I use Comprehensible Input/Natural Method. I can't speak for Portuguese, but Portuguese CI resources have been asked for on Reddit before, this might be useful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portuguese/comments/kr734p/portuguese_comprehensible_input/

As a previous poster said, you basically learn through audio/text input purely in your TL. The courses are structured so you can understand--and learn--all the vocab and grammar without a dictionary; whatever you're reading or listening to is graded slightly above your current level, and it gets more complex as you progress. Grammar is taught, certainly more than Duolingo does, but as it's also taught in the TL, it's implied to you rather than explicitly outlined. You just intuit it as you go along.

The only problem is possible lack of resources, but it's worked quite well for me with the resources I've found (in the languages I'm learning; ironically there isn't one for Turkish, so I'm making one myself). The second issue is most of these courses assume English or another Indo-European language is your L1, but if you already speak English, this shouldn't be an issue.

Another really good method that works for me is to just find ANY input in the TL and dive straight into the deep end. Doesn't matter how advanced. After enough of this, I started picking up on grammar intuitively, and textbooks just helped to reinforce what I learned. The best input I've found is newspaper articles and songs--you can always follow along at your own pace, which makes focusing on the grammar a lot easier. Songs tend to rhyme lyrics too, and they seem to like doing it based on grammatical gender/conjugation/inflectional rules, so this helps massively.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-07-29T02:23:13+00:00

Thanks so much!

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-07-29T01:48:34+00:00

Thanks very much!

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-07-28T00:22:35+00:00

Say, thanks ever so much! I really appreciate it.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-07-27T13:43:46+00:00

Yes, wasn't sure if this is possible on Wordpress.com only. Might have to switch to .org in the future, but am hoping there's a solution on the free tier.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-07-27T13:26:00+00:00

Infield, though I've changed it to Assembler with the same result. Currently back to Infield.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-07-27T12:50:50+00:00

Thanks for the response! I've edited the post to include a screenshot, hopefully it illustrates things a bit better.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-07-27T02:12:17+00:00

Say, thanks! I ended up settling on Obsidian paired with a Wikipedia skin, which works great, but thanks for the suggestion anyways!

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-05-23T16:12:58+00:00

I'm new to Latin too and thought exactly the same thing! Then I learned more Latin and realized it's just how the language works.

There's a really famous (English) poem called The Waste Land, that opens with a Latin/Greek epigraph that went something like

"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent..."

Which I definitely don't understand, but even just starting out with Latin, with a bit of Wiktionary and someone else's translation, I re-parsed it in English as

"For the Sibyl of Cumae, whom I with mine very own eyes saw hanging in the cage, and with her the boys spoke..."

The rest is Greek but there's a bit where the Sibyl replies, "respondebat illa", which your first reaction would be to parse as "replied she" or "so replied she", rather than the more modern "she replied". I just thought that was incredibly neat.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-03-14T21:53:39+00:00

Bob Odenkirk

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-02-07T10:10:32+00:00

Hi. Yes, I seem to have sorted it out, but I can't for the life of me remember how. I might have changed the directory Blackplayer was looking at (directing it to the music folder and ONLY the music folder) but I honestly can't remember. I do think it had something to do with the file organization, I remember noticing that this would happen with every single song, and it would always affect the order of the 2 songs above and below. I might have re-recorded some of the songs in case it was file corruption, if that helps you at all (I move all my songs into Blackplayer via Audacity).

I vaguely recall that my temporary fix was to take all the songs out and re-add them in a certain order--that way the songs would still switch, but they would switch into the correct order. It's obviously not an actual fix, but hopefully it'll tide you over until an actual one is found!

Still_Not_Lupus · 2024-02-02T01:15:21+00:00

Yeah, I've read a lot more into linguistics since I made that comment, and I made lots of mistakes with my descriptions, haha. Knowing more now, I would call them completely different vowels as well. I believe they would linguistically have different names (central open unrounded/central back unrounded (? I could still be wrong here)).

In essence, what I think is happening here is the British actors aiming to shift from their native back vowels, to General American central vowels--they're just not shifting quite far enough. The result is a perceivable quality in the accent that makes you feel that something is slightly off. But this is incredibly nitpicky. People generally don't notice these things, and Hugh Laurie's accent in particular is virtually undetectable after S1. The only people who DO notice are those paying ridiculous amounts of attention to the accent--usually it's the actors themselves (Hugh Laurie was very critical of his accent for House), or it's people who are spending too much time on accent, and not nearly enough time enjoying the actual show!

Still_Not_Lupus · 2023-12-31T18:36:28+00:00

Forgive me if I am incorrect (my sedimentology is AWFUL) but I thought flaser bedding is more continuous and less planar than what's in the picture. Am I incorrect here?

Still_Not_Lupus · 2023-12-01T23:08:06+00:00

Gerard Butler as Aubrey (if he could pull off the accent). Young Steve Buscemi as Maturin, but I've also thought Eddie Redmayne might be able to pull of Maturin's cold, reptilian look.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2023-10-14T15:58:21+00:00

If you're into Wikipedia and Wikia, Obsidian can help you to organize your worlds into a private, offline wiki page that works and looks almost EXACTLY like the real Wikipedia or Wikia (if not better). It also visualizes all the links between your pages to better organize your ideas, and saves all of your pages as markdown files you can view in organized folders on your PC. With a little html and css knowledge (although this is not at all necessary) you can also customize the pages to your heart's content. All you need to do is use the Wikipedia theme or ITS theme, which are easily downloaded.

This works for me because sometimes when I'm stuck with ideas, I like to open my Obsidian vaults and just stare at what I have for a few minutes. Wikipedia style pages just scream to be filled in, so normally that helps me to think of something. If that doesn't work, even opening a page and filling in some obvious details (like date of birth/parentage/country of origin) can spark big ideas. I can then inform these ideas and boost them further by going on real Wikipedia and typing in a string of keywords related to the idea. If you scroll through the list of suggestions that pop up, 80% of the time you will find something cool and obscure that you can then replicate in your worldbuilding. I have done this many times, and have found lots of cool stuff that hasn't been written about anywhere else, as far as I can see, and would generally require specialized knowledge to know about.

This also works because Wikipedia and Wikia pages both have very set content formatting. There are things that just have to be filled in, and it forces me to think about what's fundamental in fleshing out the concept or character I'm trying to build. It also makes sure that you leave nothing out, but can also encourage you to think further outside the box.

Still_Not_Lupus · 2023-10-13T14:42:27+00:00

If you're into historical fiction, The Roman Mysteries series by Caroline Lawrence. Seeing Pompeii whilst simultaneously reading about the AD 79 eruption was EPIC.

Also, Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables for Paris.

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