And certaynly our langage now vsed varyeth ferre from that whiche was vsed and spoken whan I was borne
And specyally he axyed after eggys. And the good wyf answerde that she coude speke no frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry for he also coude speke no frenshe but wold haue hadde egges and she vnderstode hym not. And thenne at laste a nother sayd that he wolde haue eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel
Loo what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte egges or eyren? Certaynly it is harde to playse euery man by cause of dyuersite and chaunge of langage
All seems Infected that th' Infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye.
~ Alexander Pope ~
Scholars, like princes, may learn something by being incognito. Yet we see those who cannot go into a bookseller's shop, or bear to be five minutes in a stage-coach, without letting you know who they are. They carry their reputation about with them as the snail does its shell, and sit under its canopy, like the lady in the lobster. I cannot understand this at all. What is the use of a man's always revolving round his own little circle? He must, one should think, be tired of it himself, as well as tire other people.
--William Hazlitt
Important to remember: Never let debate become more important than article creation/improvement. There will always be someone else with whom you can argue – it will never end – but while you and some other editor are chasing each other in semantic circles, Wikipedia is not being improved. I've fallen pretty firmly into this trap at WT:N, and now I'm trying to dig my way out.
Slogan Proposal... tell me if I missed anything
Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that you can use (for the most part, excluding fair-use content that may not be legally available to you, depending on how you'd be using it) without paying anything beyond the price of your internet-ready device and any applicable utility or service bills even though it costs the WMF a lot of money, not to mention the costs incurred by various owners of web servers and services due to the amazingly high level of bandwidth dedicated to people and electronic entities surfing and editing the various articles and media on the site, which (by the way) any conscious, technologically-literate human being with an active internet connection in a country with relatively relaxed censorship laws and no unfortunate firewalls or other technical, biological, psychological, or societal obstacles can, if they so choose, edit under the condition that they don't violate any policies or run afoul of the WMF in ways that aren't specifically enumerated by policy but which nonetheless endanger the project, its goals, or other users.
