Talk:it's a pleasure
Latest comment: 10 years ago by Mr. Nile
- Passed RFD 6 Dec 2008
- DISCUSSION
- I must say, I'm kind of torn on this one. My initial thought was to simply delete on sight, but it is a common phrase, and it really doesn't mean what an SOP would mean......not really. Additionally, we have entries for all the synonyms, which seems to argue for this entry remaining. In any case, I thought this warranted a bit of discussion. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 05:05, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- I would keep this one, particularly as it has more than one meaning, (including don't mention it) with some better usage notes mentioning "It's a pleasure to meet you" and "It's been a pleasure" etc. Also put it into Category:Phrasebook. But I think a link to pleasure is in order, because there are a lot of formations, such as My pleasure and variations thereof, some of which are already in the entry, I see. -- ALGRIF talk 12:03, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- Keep. IMHO, way too formulaic and archaic in structure even in expanded form to pass as ordinary current English. DCDuring TALK 19:11, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- I'm afraid that if we delete this one, we may just as well, using the same reasoning, go on to deleting as SOPs also good night, how are you?, see you later, bon appétit#French and so on and so on and so on... I don't think that would be an improvement for a dictionary. --Duncan MacCall 22:52, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- Kept Subsequent comments have convinced me of my initial misgivings about deletion. rfd removed. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 05:52, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
- ENTRY IN Wiktionary:Idioms that survived RFD -- ALGRIF talk 10:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
- How is this an example of Once upon a time? "it" refers to that which has been done, and was a pleasure. Mr. Nile (talk) 17:51, 27 November 2013 (UTC)