For clarity, Mark, I am Australian , lived in Papua new Guinea and New Zealand as a Child, tiddler always implied small and diminutive, but the children's game TiddlyWinks is a dominant thought. The idea of a tiddler as a fish to throw back if caught may have proceeded my discovery of tiddler in tiddlywiki. >From memory now clouded by what I know now, was a Tiddle or Twiddle was used for a pee.
Not withstanding these similar sounding words, uniqueness is of great value, and we learn to assign meaning. It is only in the outreach to new users where somewhat arbitrary names do not carry information and this can be addressed by surrounding the use of the word with information and explanation. Look at a google search of tiddler, first page I see the following that money could not buy; [image: Snag_19d10b0a.png] *Meme* There is a thing called an *internet meme*, but if you are interested please research the original meaning. It is a cultural / intellectual corollary of the Gene coined I thing by Richard Dawkins. The thing is memes can survive and propagate in in minds and culture. To degrade the meaning of meme to popular cats is degrading our language and the word. But it can also get people to look that may otherwise not. Traditionally a tiddler would also be considered a *record*, with its unique key, this has a specific technical meaning but also to some degree a common English meaning. I wonder if this is the case in other languages? *Record* As I have voiced at length in the past, tiddlywiki places the "record" at eye level and treats it as an every day object the tiddler, this is perhaps one of tiddlywiki's key features, in other cases records are hidden, or there contents in attachment's. Tiddlywiki then provides the tools to list and tabulate records, including those that describe the UI and add functionality. The synonyms of "record" list many of the things someone may use tiddlywiki for. see here https://www.lexico.com/synonyms/record And I notice tiddlywiki is also "record breaking"; *record-breaking*, best ever, its best, one's best, optimum, unbeaten, unsurpassed, unparalleled, unequalled, superlative, second to none, never previously achieved Tones On Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 04:27:23 UTC+11 Mark S. wrote: > It would be interesting if people posted their approximate geographical > location, where they grew up, and what the word "tiddler" suggests to them. > > When you've never heard a word, your brain reaches for the closest one it > can think of. > > To most members of the largest English speaking country on the planet -- > larger than the UK by a factor of 6 -- "tiddler" doesn't mean anything. I > grew up with fishermen, and no one used "tiddler". > > However, this very bad, very similar-sounding word > <https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Diddler> does mean > something to anyone who reads modern literature or watches Netflix. Be sure > to scroll down to look at definition #2. To be sure, it's a recent > definition, coming in the last 30 years or so. But that's how language > changes. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/76e72482-f86c-4411-b0f1-a088d6853316n%40googlegroups.com.
