2013年2月21日 · The “goof” was serious and good-hearted, but prone to forget his assignment, and schedule and made mistakes that outraged his clients many times. He made many mistakes, but wasn't stupid. The ‘goof’ eventually became the general manager of the Tokyo branch of a multi-national ad agency after I retired from the office.

2017年3月29日 · Of course, Ted was already a popular nickname for Theodore, which makes it one of the only nicknames derived from two different first names. PEGGY from MARGARET: The name Margaret has a variety of different nicknames. Some are obvious, as in Meg, Mog and Maggie, while others are downright strange, like Daisy.

2014年10月1日 · If you consider "Old Blighty" to be a good answer, you might include it. Read this is a piece of advice I got at meta from a high-rep member: "The ideal is that we end up with a single acknowledged "best" answer to each question. If two good answers give you the same information, go for the most succinct/clearest.

2013年12月3日 · Diligence would be a good name for a character in a game. If you remember the allegory The Pilgrims Progress, author Bunyan had several characters with similar names: Help, Pliable, Evangelist, Christian, Obstinate, Worldly Wiseman, and Pliable.

2013年3月30日 · Graphoria relates to the ability to do "number checking" tasks quickly and efficiently without a great deal of effort. People high in graphoria are detail oriented and are able to scan words, numbers, lists, and symbols and manipulate them in numerous ways with a good deal of accuracy. They make good speed readers.

2016年7月31日 · Nicknamer — Wiktionary. nickname +‎ -er ‎(plural nicknamers) One who bestows a nickname. There is no particularly good or bad intention mentioned here, though.

2015年3月15日 · Good suggestion. I've edited it for clarity. In terms of absent-minded, I'm after something that would give an impression of someone who might actually try quite hard to remember names but still fails to do so - I'm not entirely sure absent minded does the trick. –

2017年8月17日 · A good example of how to do this can be found Fritz Leiber's short story, Kreativity for Kats, which you can read in its entirety online. Using the name (i.e. capitalized) form of an endearment can be used to emphasize a perspective, i.e. it's a tool you can use, not merely a grammatical rule.

2013年12月7日 · Apparently there isn't a single good word for this. You'll go around and around defining your word. articulate: having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently. eloquent: fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing. fluent: able to express oneself easily and articulately. expressive: effectively conveying thought or feeling.

(The article also uses the similar phrase in good form.) In good nick shows up in many other editions of The Press and also The Obago Witness in the late-1870s, all applied to racehorses. An origin? Another meaning of the noun nick dates from 1824 and, according to the OED: 10.