| Wiktionary:Requests for deletion Dec 29th 2012, 03:02 behavio(u)r: why I think it is non-lexical vs (s)he | ← Older revision | Revision as of 03:02, 29 December 2012 | | Line 4,413: | Line 4,413: | | | | | | | | :I think [[(s)he]] (and [[s/he]]) deserves its entry. I also like [[he/she]], but I don't know if I could articulate a cogent argument for it, given that I think [[behavior/behaviour]] doesn't deserve an entry because slashes can divide words just like spaces can, and I wouldn't want an entry for [[[[attested/unattested]]]] regardless of whether it was attested/unattested. I'm on the fence about [[behavio(u)r]]; I'm not a fan of it having an entry, but I don't see a cogent argument for deleting it. [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 02:32, 29 December 2012 (UTC) | | :I think [[(s)he]] (and [[s/he]]) deserves its entry. I also like [[he/she]], but I don't know if I could articulate a cogent argument for it, given that I think [[behavior/behaviour]] doesn't deserve an entry because slashes can divide words just like spaces can, and I wouldn't want an entry for [[[[attested/unattested]]]] regardless of whether it was attested/unattested. I'm on the fence about [[behavio(u)r]]; I'm not a fan of it having an entry, but I don't see a cogent argument for deleting it. [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 02:32, 29 December 2012 (UTC) | | | + | ::I had started to try to address this an hour or two ago and couldn't. | | | + | ::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. | | | + | ::''{s}he'' is similar. | | | + | ::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) | | | | | | | | == [[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]] == | |  |
