| Wiktionary:Requests for deletion Nov 28th 2011, 08:30 car accident: | ← Older revision | Revision as of 08:30, 28 November 2011 | | Line 2,649: | Line 2,649: | | | *'''Bring it back:''' per common sense and Lucifer. Mgloves' "if a native speaker can figure it out, we don't need it" is weak and not based on policy. Any native speaker can figure out what "the" means...guess we don't need a definition for it [[User:Purplebackpack89|<font color="purple">Purplebackpack89</font>]] <sup>[[User talk:Purplebackpack89#top|<font color="FFAB00">(Notes Taken)</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/Purplebackpack89|<font color="FFAB00">(Locker)</font>]]</sup> 15:11, 26 November 2011 (UTC) | | *'''Bring it back:''' per common sense and Lucifer. Mgloves' "if a native speaker can figure it out, we don't need it" is weak and not based on policy. Any native speaker can figure out what "the" means...guess we don't need a definition for it [[User:Purplebackpack89|<font color="purple">Purplebackpack89</font>]] <sup>[[User talk:Purplebackpack89#top|<font color="FFAB00">(Notes Taken)</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/Purplebackpack89|<font color="FFAB00">(Locker)</font>]]</sup> 15:11, 26 November 2011 (UTC) | | | : No, people can't "figure out" ''the'', because it's not easily decomposed into two parts like "car accident". '''Delete''' this nonsense, and also delete {{term|taxi accident}}, {{term|helicopter accident}}, and anything similar. [[User:Equinox|Equinox]] [[User_talk:Equinox|◑]] 15:13, 26 November 2011 (UTC) | | : No, people can't "figure out" ''the'', because it's not easily decomposed into two parts like "car accident". '''Delete''' this nonsense, and also delete {{term|taxi accident}}, {{term|helicopter accident}}, and anything similar. [[User:Equinox|Equinox]] [[User_talk:Equinox|◑]] 15:13, 26 November 2011 (UTC) | | | + | ::Yeah they can, it's the, it's the simplest word besides a or one we, and ye and nay we learn as lil niggaz.[[User:Luciferwildcat|Lucifer]] 08:30, 28 November 2011 (UTC) | | | '''Delete'''. Yes, overanalysis is our enemy. But using this argument for deleting is very dangerous. I would state instead: ''If it 'feels' like belonging to the vocabulary of the language to a native speaker, it is includable.'' [[User:Lmaltier|Lmaltier]] 17:24, 26 November 2011 (UTC) | | '''Delete'''. Yes, overanalysis is our enemy. But using this argument for deleting is very dangerous. I would state instead: ''If it 'feels' like belonging to the vocabulary of the language to a native speaker, it is includable.'' [[User:Lmaltier|Lmaltier]] 17:24, 26 November 2011 (UTC) | | | :How exactly does a native speaker figure out what 'the' means? [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 17:28, 26 November 2011 (UTC) | | :How exactly does a native speaker figure out what 'the' means? [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 17:28, 26 November 2011 (UTC) | | |
