okay, okay!

If you didn’t know, I include language and origin in every post. For example, euneirophrenia: it’s tagged with #english and #origin: greek. Reasons why I put extra info in tags:

• it keeps the image looking neat—just word and definition
• it’s faster than putting it elsewhere
• it means you can search posts by language or origin

Reasons why I really ought to put it elsewhere:

• no one reads the tags

Well, some people do. But after the post has been reblogged, the tags are almost always lost. As a consequence, I get tons of asks saying “Can you include what language the word is in?” and I keep having to resist responding with “arghlasdflj it’s in the tags you guysss”.

A lot of people also reblog to say “That’s not English!” “That’s not a word!” or other, often less polite variations of the same. So I’m caving—I’ll start adding the language and origin in the actual text of the image. It’s super tiny in the bottom right above the URL credit, but that’s the best place I could find for it. At least it’s there, right? Thank you for your suggestions, you over-persistent crazies (which I promise you I say with the utmost fondness).

unbounddecay asked: I think it'd be great if the word's language was included in the picture, like in the bottom left or something. I know it's in the tags, but if there are a lot of tags in can be hard to see on my dash, plus you can't just save the picture to a computer without losing that information...unless you include it in the file name, which is a tad inconvenient. Either way, great blog!

I definitely understand what you mean. So far, tags have been the easiest way to include any other info that’s not the word itself, part of speech, and definition, but it’s nowhere near a perfect system.

I’m currently working on a way to put things like origin and pronunciation into the main body of the post. I was actually thinking of doing a photoset of two images, one for the word and a second for the other info… I take it you don’t think that’s a good way, since you want to save it out. I’ll look at including it all in one image! I’m sorry, it’s taking a while ‘cause I’m busy and also a bit lazy, but it’ll happen soon.

For now, the language is usually tagged right after the word itself and the part of speech, so it should show up even on the one measly line of space Tumblr allows for tags on the dash.

Thanks a million for your input! Keep an eye out for changes coming soon. And thank you for the compliment.