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Latest comment: 18 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Request for clean-up: check whether the unclassified synonyms exist, and then add those that do to the list for the appropriate sense. — Paul G15:26, 11 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
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I cleaned up a bit in response to RFC.
Deleted some of the syns, as these were just 'movie' (or flick or film) preceded by the word 'porn'.
Added Adjective heading, which is more appropriate to the above.
Moved all other syns to list below to save space in article. Add them if you can confirm usage.
Latest comment: 16 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I agree with the removal of "porns" as a pl. - I've only ever heard the uncountable pluralization "porn" or alternately "pornos". Additionally, I'd question the inclusion of "porno" as a derived term of "porn"; both are simply derivations of "pornography".
I agree wholeheartedly that "porno" should be moved to the "pornography" page as a derivation. The word "pornographic," for example, with the long o before the g (in contrast to the short o before the g in pornography), is more probably the specific source; hence, a porno movie. StavinChain20:28, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply
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Latest comment: 14 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion
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See citations:porn for lots of cites of "porn" being used to describe things that aren't pornographic ("garden porn", "railway porn", etc). It means lots of, or gratuitous, pictures, videos, or other things (e.g. "timetable porn", although that isn't durably archived) related to whatever someone's hobby or interest is. E.g. "garden porn" is is beautiful gardens, "car porn" is fast/otherwise desirable cars. I don't know how to write this as a concise definition though. Thryduulf (talk) 14:51, 26 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
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The second definition at pornography is a starting point: "The graphic, detailed, often gratuitous depiction of something." Perhaps it needs to be supplemented with the notion that the depiction has the effect (is prepared with the intent) of appealing to human desire in a way analogous to real (sexual) pornography. DCDuringTALK16:33, 26 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
On a more technical angle, the second definition ("(countable, informal) A pornographic film") implies that we'd say "I'm watching a porn" (or maybe "some porns"). Perhaps there was some confusion about which entry this was under as it seems to me to belong under "porno" but definitely not under "porn", which I have never heard used as a countable noun.
As far as as the "food porn" thing goes, isn't this just a very understandable extension of the word "porn" to refer to anything that might be intended to elicit desire in viewers?--Person1208:09, 28 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
Regarding your comment about "foot porn", yes that's clearly the origin of the term, but the meaning is different - you don't get arrested for showing food porn to the vicar's 9 year old daughter. Thryduulf (talk) 09:14, 28 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
The plural is easily attested via b.g.c, also based on the edit summary I am not sure that the tagger knows what they are talking about; what do they mean by stating that "a porns" doesn't make sense? "Some porns" does make sense though, and is in common usage. - DaveRoss19:20, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
Cited, but I've changed the def to "a pornographic work", and tagged it as "especially in plural". CodeCat (talk • contribs) says that porns is a plurale tantum, which is mostly true, but this being the entry for countable porn, I specifically added cites where it was either singular or numerically quantified (as opposed to cites where “porns” could be changed to “porn” without any noticeable effect). —RuakhTALK23:34, 5 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
I haveno idea what rules we're supposed to be using. (Wt:English adjectives hasn't AFAICT met with community support yet.) But this doesn't sound like an adjective to me. (Specifically, some of the wt:English adjectives tests sound off.) So probably delete. Cites would help determine whether it meets the wt:English adjectives (or other) tests.—msh210℠ (talk) 20:24, 27 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
It's used as an adjective for lack of a proper term "pornsome" "pornly", or instead of the complicated "pornographically" or the ignorant sounding "porny" but it is used in an incorrect but idiomatic manner. I added a usex to exemplify the usage that I have heard. I highly suggest we hold off on deleting this and put in an honest search for citations. I think it will take a while since most searches would result in having to swim through the much more prevalent noun use.Lucifer10:32, 4 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
... but won't nearly all the cites we find be just attributive usage of the noun? I'm not sure that the idiom "so (noun)" counts as evidence of adjectival usage. Dbfirs10:40, 4 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
What about "very porn", "its porn", "too porn"? It's definitely used as an adjective because their is lack of a clear and usable one, such as "pornly"Lucifer07:45, 5 December 2011 (UTC)Reply