Talk:priority
Adjective edit
There was a problem in that section: "priority" was defined as a noun ("quality or state") and translated as a noun ("prioridad" in Spanish). Could someone check that the Finnish translation indeed corresponds to the adjective?
132.248.81.29 16:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
- Problem is larger than that; it is a noun, not an adjective. Recently, it has been misused as an adjective (I can probably find an online dictionary to support the new adjective sense,) but the primary definition is still a noun. --Connel MacKenzie 17:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
- I didn't think that it was non-standard to use a noun as an adjective. This link [1] suggests that it is orthodox usage. I'd certainly look for a better solution than using jargon in a sentence. If someone says: "This a priority project", you could consider it an elision of "This is a high-priority project." In both cases the noun is used as an adjective, correctly as far as I can tell. DCDuring 17:42, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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the "earlier in time" adjective sense. At best, that is redundant, as the event happens at an earlier time only as a by-product of having greater urgency. --Connel MacKenzie 17:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. --EncycloPetey 20:00, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I have heard it used that way as an adjective, but certainly I think as a noun the temporal sense is distinct from the sense of precedence of importance. Eg a scientist "claiming priority" for their research is not saying it is more important but that it came before other similar research. Widsith 14:34, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
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One adjective sense was RFVed in 2007 and, for all intents and purposes, failed yet was not deleted. (See the talk page.) I am hereby requesting verification of any and all adjective senses. Please prove this isn't just a noun that is sometimes used attributively. - -sche (discuss) 23:13, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 01:00, 27 March 2012 (UTC)