Comment by TeMPOraL

8 years ago

A bit of a tangent, but I'm looking at the (official? shown on site) Tiddlywiki poster[0], and I just have to ask: what is that fish doing, and does this really communicate something positive about the product?

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[0] - https://tiddlywiki.com/poster/images/TiddlyWiki_TiddlerPoste...

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OJFord  8 years ago

Never used Tiddlywiki, just guessing from your link:

the fish is a tiddler [0], it's consuming a mess [several entangled lines] and excreting something unified and cohesive [single line].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddler

('Tiddler' is perhaps BrEng slang? I'm British, and I'd say it's slang - especially when applied not to a fish, but to something or someone small - but I don't know how widespread it is.)

  • tofof  8 years ago

    From that wiki page:

    > A small fish, especially the three-spined stickleback

    My wife, a neuroscientist researching three-spined stickleback, has never come across the term 'tiddler'. Midwestern US.

    So, yes, I would say it is solitarily British slang.