| | ::I think the use of either a slash or a vertical bar (in a more geekish register) to indicate alternative words, morphemes or letters is part of orthographic practice. The characters can, in principle, link any two of these. The specific use of the slash in ''he/she'' just puts the term in the group of synonymous efforts to come up with a gender-free, but non-neuter, pronoun, not a mere concatenation of terms. It is the membership of the term in the synonym group that makes it a lexical item. | | ::I think the use of either a slash or a vertical bar (in a more geekish register) to indicate alternative words, morphemes or letters is part of orthographic practice. The characters can, in principle, link any two of these. The specific use of the slash in ''he/she'' just puts the term in the group of synonymous efforts to come up with a gender-free, but non-neuter, pronoun, not a mere concatenation of terms. It is the membership of the term in the synonym group that makes it a lexical item. |
| − | ::The use of the parentheses in ''behavio(u)r'' seems distinct because it uses the parentheses to indicate an optional letter, little different form the generic case{s) of the use of parentheses. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 03:02, 29 December 2012 (UTC) | + | ::The use of the parentheses in ''behavio(u)r'' seems distinct because it uses the parentheses to indicate an optional letter, little different form the generic case{s) of the use of parentheses. There is no shift in meaning from the the meanings of the constituent lexical items. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 03:02, 29 December 2012 (UTC) |
| | == [[get your coat love, you've pulled|get your coat love, you've pulled]] == | | == [[get your coat love, you've pulled|get your coat love, you've pulled]] == |
