Talk:-nik

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Glossaries, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.GlossariesWikipedia:WikiProject GlossariesTemplate:WikiProject GlossariesGlossaries articles

English Language Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject English Language, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles related to the English language on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.English LanguageWikipedia:WikiProject English LanguageTemplate:WikiProject English LanguageEnglish Language articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

Older comments

All-rightnik <-- 80 google hits
Neatnik <-- 8,000 google hits
Nogoodnik <-- 4,700 google hits
Peacenik <-- 102,000 google hits
computernik <-- 1,500 hits

real-estatenik
Protestnik
Draftnik
Vietnik
Folknik
Nudnik (noodnik)
straightnik
Freudnik
Meetnik

Any more -niks? I'd suggest to ignore those coinages that have less than, say, 10 unique google hits.

mikka (t) 21:33, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"person related to the thing"

Yeah, brilliant description. It's called an agent noun.Kyle McInnes (talk) 21:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK smartnik, you nailed me here. Thank you for improving the article. `'mikka (t) 00:02, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hebrew, Yiddish and Yinglish

This article needed new categories beyond the existing Mainstream, Casual, and East Slavic languages, so I added Hebrew, Yiddish and Yinglish and moved into it these words: Alrightnik, Ka-tzetnik, kibbutznik, Likudnik, Moshavnik, No-goodnik. Perhaps ideally Hebrew words should be separated from Yiddish and Yinglish.

Alrightnik was misspelled and misdefined as a relentless optimist and I corrected it. Anomalocaris 01:38, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jewish culture??

I changed the "Jewish culture" section to "Jewish adaptation" because there isn't such a thing as "Jewish culture" and writing that is misleading. Sure, different Jewish communities have unique cultural practices but there is no homogeneous Jewish culture. Why do you keep reverting it back (who ever is doing it)?

Slavic Languages??

I added Russian because Russian is a Slavic Language.Rusf (talk) 22:38, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]