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Wiktionary:Grease pit Apr 2nd 2012, 06:27 ‎c. and cf. in etymologies: Reply, counterarguments ← Older revision Revision as of 06:27, 2 April 2012 Line 1,288: Line 1,288:       : Even less self-explanatorily, we use an asterisk to indicate reconstructed words.&nbsp;''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2012-04-02&nbsp;06:05&nbsp;z</small>''   : Even less self-explanatorily, we use an asterisk to indicate reconstructed words.&nbsp;''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2012-04-02&nbsp;06:05&nbsp;z</small>''   +   + :* My mention of running speech was an allusion to what the non-Wiktionary community might be most familiar with. Some of my less-educated acquaintances and less-English-fluent acquaintances would read "''about 1905''" and understand, but see "''c. 1905''" or even "''circa 1905''" and not necessarily know what that meant exactly.   + :* "''terse symbolic expressions help a competent reader do this quickly''" -- sure. And spelling out things like "''f''" and "''pl''" to "''feminine''" and "''plural''" 1) don't slow me down one jot, so long as things are consistent; and 2) help less-competent readers. Bear in mind that WT in any language is also used by language learners.   + :* The asterisk strikes me as less of an issue, largely because these are all words in appendices, and anyone clicking through will see either that the entry doesn't exist (which seems to be most of them), or that the entry is for a reconstructed language. This is qualitatively different from the "''f''" and "''pl''" initialisms that have a direct bearing on how a word is used, and that may be opaque to potential users. We could at least link them through to the respective entries, and even do that at the template level for a minimum of work; but whereas {{term|lang=en|pl}} does give "plural" as a meaning, the entry at {{term|lang=en|f}} does not give "feminine" anywhere in the entry except, confusingly, for a translation table header. -- [[User:Eirikr|Eiríkr Útlendi]] │ <small style="position: relative; top: -3px;">''[[User talk:Eirikr|Tala við mig]]''</small> 06:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC)       == add script to {{template|hyphenation}} ==   == add script to {{template|hyphenation}} ==

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