Talk:-forsaken

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Sgconlaw in topic RFD discussion: June–July 2017

Quotations edit

    • 1848, Robert H. Taylor, Poems, page 100
      "THE SONG OF THE JOY-FORSAKEN" Tho' all is bright / 'Mid mirth and light, / Wherever beauty dwells, / No scene from me / Wakes song and glee, / No joy my bosom swells.
    • a. 1909, John P. Sjolander, "To Daphne, Dead", in eds., Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent, Library of Southern Literature
      O Daphne! Daphne! Daphne! The land is song-forsaken / The stream runs slow and shallow 'mong reeds that break, wind-shaken.

RFD discussion: June–July 2017 edit

 

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I don't think this is a suffix. Even the usage notes are sceptical about it! Equinox 13:04, 21 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

I'm not so sure, godforsaken does not use the hyphen. Kiwima (talk) 22:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

That's not a reliable sign. "Teaspoon" and "soupspoon" can have no hyphen, but it doesn't make "-spoon" anything like a suffix. Equinox 22:41, 28 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
Delete per nom. Compare how goddamned is not using a suffix *-damned (nor a prefix *god-!), but just the word damned. - -sche (discuss) 00:27, 2 July 2017 (UTC)Reply
Delete, godforsaken is clearly god forsaken that's become one word, not from stem + suffix. 2.30.98.172 11:35, 2 July 2017 (UTC)Reply
Deleted. — SGconlaw (talk) 19:32, 10 July 2017 (UTC)Reply


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