Talk:ratio

The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) — This comment was unsigned.

Thanks DCDuring TALK 16:59, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Also Spanish for "score"?

Is this also Spanish for "score" (i.e. points scored by a player in a game)? Saw it in a game screenshot. 86.128.49.27 14:48, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Ratio as verb on Twitter

Apparently "ratio" can be used on Twitter to indicate that the public has responded very negatively to one's Tweet. It refers to the number of replies being significantly larger than the number of likes and retweets. - TheDaveRoss 15:33, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Latin

@JohnC5, Rua: How would you parse the Latin word? rat(us) +‎ -iō or reor +‎ -tiō? --Barytonesis (talk) 11:50, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

The -iō suffix, according to its page, is suffixed to the present stem of the verb. That's not the case here, since *rat- isn't the verb stem. That means it must be the -tiō suffix. —Rua (mew) 11:55, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Done. By the way, I've revised -atio and emptied Category:Latin words suffixed with -atio, but I'm sure it will fill up again... --Barytonesis (talk) 12:09, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

@Rua: Also, I want to cleanup Category:Latin words suffixed with -io (abstract noun), but there are a few cases in there that leave me unsure... positio, impulsio. I don't think we should parse them as we're doing currently (positus + -io, impulsus + -io), but how do we account for the use of the supine stem instead of the present stem? Why don't we have **pontio/ponsio or **impeltio/impelsio?

Last thing: I know you don't like it, but I really think we should categorise by allomorphs somehow, it would make it clearer for the readers not versed in morphology. Perhaps we could make a CAT:Category:Latin words suffixed with -sio (allomorph of -tio), which would be a subcat of CAT:Latin words suffixed with -tio? --Barytonesis (talk) 13:46, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

RFD discussion: April–June 2022

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ratio

Interjection sense, 'indicating disagreement'. This doesn't really differ at all from its literal interpretation of wanting more likes than the OP. Twitter doesn't have a dislike button so people comment 'ratio' to stuff they don't like in an attempt to ratio the user to show them their tweet is unpopular. There isn't currently much special about it though I can see that it may be starting to lose this literal meaning. So this is just too early I think. – Nixinova [‌T|C] 22:08, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

FWIW, I saw this today on Discord (not ours!) and had to look it up (not here either!) to understand it. I gathered maybe the person meant "more people are talking about your message than 'liking' it" (like the Twitter "ratio"), but that couldn't really make sense, since on Discord people mostly do talk rather than merely exchanging emoticons. This interjection seems to explain it. If anyone is really curious I can post the anonymised conversation. Equinox ◑ 01:20, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Ah, well, this conversation occurred more than 12 hours after previous talk, so it was a self-contained unit. <user1> I will continue screaming about nuclear for the rest. Of my life <user2> IDC <user2> ratio Equinox ◑ 09:49, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Keep. It makes more sense as an interjection to me. AG202 (talk) 03:33, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Keep. Binarystep (talk) 23:44, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Keep per above. Theknightwho (talk) 19:54, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

RFD-kept. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 16:32, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

ratio'd

Ratio'd is a spelling of ratioed (the Twitter/X thing) - alex the mid person (talk page here) 18:47, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

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ratio

Rfv-sense "(Internet) ratio (the amount of comments relative to the number of likes)". — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 04:53, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

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