| Wiktionary:Tea room Aug 2nd 2011, 02:20 'connexion' is not obsolete.: | ← Older revision | Revision as of 02:20, 2 August 2011 | | (One intermediate revision by one user not shown) | | Line 1,482: | Line 1,482: | | | :I can confirm that in the UK it always refers to booze. Why is this term in category "en:Polari"? [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] 07:49, 31 July 2011 (UTC) | | :I can confirm that in the UK it always refers to booze. Why is this term in category "en:Polari"? [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] 07:49, 31 July 2011 (UTC) | | | ::Not an answer to your question, but: we also have [[:Category:Polari]] and [[:Category:Polari language]], which seems... messy (in that, if it's a "Polari language" word, it would seem to need its own language section, like Scots). [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 01:55, 2 August 2011 (UTC) | | ::Not an answer to your question, but: we also have [[:Category:Polari]] and [[:Category:Polari language]], which seems... messy (in that, if it's a "Polari language" word, it would seem to need its own language section, like Scots). [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 01:55, 2 August 2011 (UTC) | | | + | :::I think it's very doubtful that Polari can be considered a fully-fledged language deserving its own section. It seems more appropriate to treat the words as English and put such information in the etymology section. [[Special:Contributions/86.176.211.251|86.176.211.251]] 02:15, 2 August 2011 (UTC) | | | | | | | | == Bad Boy as slang == | | == Bad Boy as slang == | | Line 1,500: | Line 1,501: | | | | | | | | ::It seems more accurate to call it "archaic" than "obsolete": we [[Wiktionary:Glossary|define]] "obsolete" as "no longer likely to be understood", which does not seem to be the case. "Archaic" — "no longer in general use, but still found in some contemporary texts" — seems a better fit, given that some churches and Usenet-posters still use the spelling. [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 01:52, 2 August 2011 (UTC) | | ::It seems more accurate to call it "archaic" than "obsolete": we [[Wiktionary:Glossary|define]] "obsolete" as "no longer likely to be understood", which does not seem to be the case. "Archaic" — "no longer in general use, but still found in some contemporary texts" — seems a better fit, given that some churches and Usenet-posters still use the spelling. [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 01:52, 2 August 2011 (UTC) | | | + | | | | + | ::I am a BrE speaker, and to me "connexion" reads like something out of a Jane Austen novel. [[Special:Contributions/86.176.211.251|86.176.211.251]] 02:20, 2 August 2011 (UTC) | | | | | | | | == Stench == | | == Stench == | | |
