ArticlesDear linguists,
Almost two years ago, I started to write this post.
I noticed a modern linguistic phenomenon where people linked to several words in a row in their post. Each link was to a web-page giving an example of what they were talking about.
I wanted to point this new phenomena out to the world. I was going to have linguists say “Oooh, look! He’s right! How intelligent and observant he is!” They were going to call them “Julian links”. I was going to be linguistically famous.
I didn’t have enough examples for a full sentence, so I started keeping an eye out, gathering more proof.
Then I didn’t see any for a while.
Then I started seeing some, but was too busy or bored to jot them down.
Eventually, I forgot.
Today, I read a page where they were identified as “train links”.
My fame and fortune! Stolen!
Comment by DeeJuggle on November 6, 2007
In the page you linked to, where Julian links were referred to as “train links”, the quotation marks indicate that this is not yet considered an official term. As long as we can get enough people to keep calling them Julian links (or julian links) instead of “train links” the cause may not yet be lost! (Although since you’ve already got the Julian calender and Julian day/date named after you, I’d think you’d be happy enough)
Comment by ron purewal on November 8, 2007
Time to take action, dude:
Step one: Create the Wikipedia article for ‘Train links’ (which doesn’t exist yet, as of this writing).
Step two: Create the Wikipedia article for ‘Julian links’.
Step three: Make the former redirect automatically to the latter.
It’s worth a shot. If it works, then, well, you’re welcome.