Ghyll:Graphorn - Revision history

Jcowan: Linkifying "horse"

2005-07-09T02:44:22Z

Linkifying "horse"

Undrhil: * Doh! That wasn't the Talk page. :( *

2005-07-08T03:08:19Z

* Doh! That wasn't the Talk page. :( *

Undrhil: * Snicker snicker *

2005-07-08T03:07:53Z

* Snicker snicker *

Morbus Iff: Removing the C to standardize with his previous mention.

2005-07-05T23:59:46Z

Removing the C to standardize with his previous mention.

Morbus Iff: Editing. It's Tuesday. I'm late.

2005-07-05T23:56:38Z

Editing. It's Tuesday. I'm late.

Jcowan: Scholarly comment

2005-06-28T01:28:49Z

Scholarly comment

Joe Bowers: hurray!

2005-06-28T00:12:39Z

hurray!

Joe Bowers: thumbnail

2005-06-28T00:12:07Z

thumbnail

Joe Bowers: the frame didn't working out.

2005-06-28T00:02:03Z

the frame didn't working out.

Joe Bowers: figure framing?

2005-06-27T23:59:46Z

figure framing?

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−	"Graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family"? Old Kmuppens must have been half-asleep when he named that taxon. On the other hand, what can you expect from someone who defined "horse" as "the well-known quadruped" and "Ghyllian" as "Know thyself"? --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 21:28, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)	+	"Graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family"? Old Kmuppens must have been half-asleep when he named that taxon. On the other hand, what can you expect from someone who defined "[[horse]]" as "the well-known quadruped" and "Ghyllian" as "Know thyself"? --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 21:28, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)

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	"Graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family"? Old Kmuppens must have been half-asleep when he named that taxon. On the other hand, what can you expect from someone who defined "horse" as "the well-known quadruped" and "Ghyllian" as "Know thyself"? --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 21:28, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)		"Graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family"? Old Kmuppens must have been half-asleep when he named that taxon. On the other hand, what can you expect from someone who defined "horse" as "the well-known quadruped" and "Ghyllian" as "Know thyself"? --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 21:28, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)
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−	~~:Well, as long as it wasn't "Know thyself" as in the Biblical sense of the verb ''to know''... --[[User:Undrhil\|Trousle Undrhil]] 23:07, 7 Jul 2005 (EDT)~~

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	"Graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family"? Old Kmuppens must have been half-asleep when he named that taxon. On the other hand, what can you expect from someone who defined "horse" as "the well-known quadruped" and "Ghyllian" as "Know thyself"? --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 21:28, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)		"Graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family"? Old Kmuppens must have been half-asleep when he named that taxon. On the other hand, what can you expect from someone who defined "horse" as "the well-known quadruped" and "Ghyllian" as "Know thyself"? --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 21:28, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)
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		+	:Well, as long as it wasn't "Know thyself" as in the Biblical sense of the verb ''to know''... --[[User:Undrhil\|Trousle Undrhil]] 23:07, 7 Jul 2005 (EDT)

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 [[Image:Graphorn.jpg|thumb|One of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design.]]
-Graphorn (and their wild cousins) are members of the graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family according to [[Kmuppens' Taxonomy]]. Graphorn herding and selective breeding of graphorn are a recent innovation; before -6,000 [[EC]], early Ghyllicans likely followed the migrating herds of graphorn, relying on speed and skill for gathering charts and presentation materials left behind by the animals on their travels. This hypothesis is supported not only by archeological and linguistic evidence, but the surprising prominence of "Grass eaten versus manure produced" graphics found in [[Early Ghyllian Sales and Marketing Practices|surviving sales presentations over 6,500 years old]].
+Graphorn (and their wild cousins) are members of the graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family according to [[Kmuppens' Taxonomy]]. Graphorn herding and selective breeding of graphorn are a recent innovation; before -6,000 [[EC]], early Ghyllians likely followed the migrating herds of graphorn, relying on speed and skill for gathering charts and presentation materials left behind by the animals on their travels. This hypothesis is supported not only by archeological and linguistic evidence, but the surprising prominence of "Grass eaten versus manure produced" graphics found in [[Early Ghyllian Sales and Marketing Practices|surviving sales presentations over 6,500 years old]].
 Even the modern, carefully bred "domestic" graphorn is still prone to occasional bouts of wiliness, and many a country data analyst has woken up in springtime only to find his morning's bar charts covered in gratuitous drop shadows, poorly labeled or misleading scales, and gaudy graphics without clear semantic value. In fact, some scholars have speculated that the [[Modern Standard Ghyllian]] word "graphorn" has its roots in the Olkuull words "grphr" (meaning "that's pretty wily") and "rn" (meaning "but has a great natural aptitude for the visual display of quantitative information.") Of course, these scholars are both ignoring the obvious and making stuff up.

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-The cherished and timeless image in the Ghyllian imagination of the
+The cherished and timeless image in the Ghyllian imagination of the rustic statistician, alone in his fields with his data sets, is incomplete without his herd of '''graphorn''', that fixture of rural life throughout Ghyll. This little, yellow, different and better relative of the wily wild orn and the even-wilier wild orn are bred for their natural aptitude at data visualization and information design.
-Graphorn (and their wild cousins) are members of the
+[[Image:Graphorn.jpg|thumb|One of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design.]]
-[[Image:Graphorn.jpg|thumb|One of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design]]
+Graphorn (and their wild cousins) are members of the graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family according to [[Kmuppens' Taxonomy]]. Graphorn herding and selective breeding of graphorn are a recent innovation; before -6,000 [[EC]], early Ghyllicans likely followed the migrating herds of graphorn, relying on speed and skill for gathering charts and presentation materials left behind by the animals on their travels. This hypothesis is supported not only by archeological and linguistic evidence, but the surprising prominence of "Grass eaten versus manure produced" graphics found in [[Early Ghyllian Sales and Marketing Practices|surviving sales presentations over 6,500 years old]].
-Even the modern, carefully bred "domestic" graphorn is still prone to
+Even the modern, carefully bred "domestic" graphorn is still prone to occasional bouts of wiliness, and many a country data analyst has woken up in springtime only to find his morning's bar charts covered in gratuitous drop shadows, poorly labeled or misleading scales, and gaudy graphics without clear semantic value. In fact, some scholars have speculated that the [[Modern Standard Ghyllian]] word "graphorn" has its roots in the Olkuull words "grphr" (meaning "that's pretty wily") and "rn" (meaning "but has a great natural aptitude for the visual display of quantitative information.") Of course, these scholars are both ignoring the obvious and making stuff up.
-'''Citations''': [[Modern Standard Ghyllian]], [[Kmuppens' Taxonomy]], [[Early Ghyllian Sales and Marketing Practices]].
+'''Citations''': [[Early Ghyllian Sales and Marketing Practices]], [[Kmuppens' Taxonomy]], [[Modern Standard Ghyllian]].
 --[[User:Joe Bowers|Joe Bowers]] 19:49, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)
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-"Graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family"?  Old Kmuppens must have been half-asleep when he named that taxon.  On the other hand, what can you expect from someone who defined "horse" as "the well-known quadruped" and "Ghyllian" as "Know thyself"?  --[[User:Jcowan|John Cowan]] 21:28, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)
+"Graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family"? Old Kmuppens must have been half-asleep when he named that taxon. On the other hand, what can you expect from someone who defined "horse" as "the well-known quadruped" and "Ghyllian" as "Know thyself"?  --[[User:Jcowan|John Cowan]] 21:28, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)

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 Graphorn (and their wild cousins) are members of the
-graphorn-and-their-wild-cousins family according to
+graphorns-and-their-wild-cousins family according to
 [[Kmuppens' Taxonomy]]. Graphorn-Herding and selective breeding
 of Graphorn are a recent innovation; before -6,000 EC, early
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 [[Category:Wildlife]]

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	[[Image:Graphorn.jpg\|thumb\|One of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design]]		[[Image:Graphorn.jpg\|thumb\|One of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design]]
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−	~~Above, one of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design,~~
−	~~reproduced with the permission of Godfroi Hasawithe from his private collection.~~
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	Even the modern, carefully bred "domestic" graphorn is still prone to		Even the modern, carefully bred "domestic" graphorn is still prone to

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 [[Early Ghyllian Sales and Marketing Practices|surviving sales presentations over 6,500 years old]].
-[[Image:Graphorn.jpg|One of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design]]
+[[Image:Graphorn.jpg|thumb|One of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design]]
 Above, one of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design,

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		+	Above, one of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design,
		+	reproduced with the permission of Godfroi Hasawithe from his private collection.

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−	[[Image:Graphorn.jpg\|"One of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design"]]	+	[[Image:Graphorn.jpg\|frame\|"One of the oldest surviving examples of wild graphorn information design"]]