Talk:short-legged

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RFD discussion: January–February 2018

Latest comment: 6 years ago12 comments7 people in discussion

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This type of compound possessive adjectives is very common in English (cf. CAT:English parasynthetic adjectives) and their meaning is predictable; unless they have acquired a figurative/idiomatic meaning (green-eyed, tight-lipped), I don't see a good reason to keep them.

See Wiktionary:Tea_room/2018/January#broad-winged and the RFD debate of big-dicked for relevant discussions.

--Per utramque cavernam (talk) 01:48, 4 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Delete. Would open floodgates for "purple-haired", "mild-flavoured" etc. which are all totally transparent, like this one. That's just how hyphens work in English. Equinox ◑ 06:49, 4 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Because it has the secondary meaning of thievish, yes. It would be a bit silly not to include the primary meaning: I could have used the "&lit" I suppose. Do you really want entries for red-haired, yellow-haired, blue-haired, green-haired, long-nailed, short-nailed, long-tailed, short-tailed, two-fingered, three-fingered, four-fingered...? Whom will this serve, apart from some misguided god of "all words in all languages"? You would be the first person to delete an entry like "red hair" or "long fingers", so why does a hyphen make a difference? Please think about this hard. Equinox ◑ 05:47, 7 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Delete for the reason given by Equinox. — SGconlaw (talk) 07:59, 4 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Delete. I agree with the rationale. -- · (talk) 18:03, 4 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Given consensus to delete but a previously un-noted WT:COALMINE variation, I have refactored to an "alternative form of" definition and moved the translations to shortlegged. bd2412 T 04:12, 25 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Well closed: should be kept per WT:COALMINE. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:03, 3 February 2018 (UTC)Reply


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