Talk:神食

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Metaknowledge in topic RFV discussion: December 2016–April 2017

RFV discussion: December 2016–April 2017 edit

 

The following information has failed Wiktionary's verification process (permalink).

Failure to be verified means that insufficient eligible citations of this usage have been found, and the entry therefore does not meet Wiktionary inclusion criteria at the present time. We have archived here the disputed information, the verification discussion, and any documentation gathered so far, pending further evidence.
Do not re-add this information to the article without also submitting proof that it meets Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion.


google:"神食" -"神食の値段" -"食の神" does not convince me of this term's existence. Did anon seriously take the title of some obscure manga (whose cover tells you to pronounce it as 神食(アンブロシア), not 神食(しんし)) as proof of this term? —suzukaze (tc) 11:02, 29 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

This IP certainly has been known to create entries from misinterpretations of random phrases in manga, but they've also been known to use Bing Translate. They're convinced that there has to be a Japanese term for everything, including obscure details of non-Asian mythologies that Japanese people rarely or never discuss anywhere a random person in the UK would have access to. Since they know next to nothing about the language, any method producing something vaguely like Japanese seems as good to them as the most meticulously-researched content that others might contribute. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:20, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply
  • Oh dear, this fellow again? <sigh.../>
There are enough hits on Google to lead me to think this is a term -- that, and the kanji compound is reasonably straightforward, as (shin, god) + (shoku, food). However, the reading the anon used is horribly wrong -- should be shinshoku if anything -- and this just means “god food, food of the gods”, not necessarily ambrosia. See also google books:"神食" -"神食の値段" -"食の神" "は" (throwing in the は to focus on JA hits and exclude ZH ones).
For that matter, Eijiro has an entry for this and amusingly glosses the term as theophagy. Google hits suggest that this meaning, if used, is decidedly in the minority.
Rework or delete. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 06:55, 31 December 2016 (UTC)Reply


Return to "神食" page.