04:38 pm - Language Question
I've just posted a poll at Dreamwidth, with a single question: Have you ever made up a word on the spot because you didn't already know a word for what you meant, and later found your word, with basically your definition, in a dictionary (published before your nonce coinage)?
Apparently, anonymous users are (unsurprisingly) unable to vote. But if you have a LiveJournal, Insanejournal, Blogger, Wordpress, or Gmail account (or any of a host of others), you can log into Dreamwidth via OpenID and then fill out my one-question survey. If you're already logged in at Dreamwidth because you've left a comment using OpenID in the recent past and checked the "leave me logged in" box, this'll be transparent. Unfortunately, I see no built-in "use OpenID right now" button on the poll form, so if you're not already logged in at Dreamwidth, you'll need to (a) go to the OpenID login page first (there's also a "Log in with OpenID" link in two places on the main login page), do the OpenID dance there, and then go back to my entry with the poll in it; or (b) leave a comment over there, logging in via OpenID in the process, and then answer the poll. Or, of course, you can just leave a comment right here and not get tallied in the poll results but still answer my curiosity.
Note that folks stuck in the Facebook tar-pit can't do this, because Facebook is poopyheaded about that: FB allows OpenID logins to Facebook, but does not support using OpenID to log in anywhere else as your FB-self -- they want every other site in the world to add a another, just-for-Facebook, cross-site authentication method, instead of letting their users make use of the generic tool that's already there. Pbbbt! So if you're also on MySpace, Gmail, Deadjournal, Yahoo!, Steam, or Typepad, you're fine, but if you're a Facebook-only user, you'll just have to leave an anonymous comment instead of having your vote tallied above. I'm assuming that if you're reading this anywhere other than Facebook, you probably do have a non-Facebook identity.
... And if you want a Dreamwidth account of your very own, I have some DW invite-codes to give away.