Talk:1984

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1984

Not quite sure what to do with this. Not an adjective but the proper noun used attributively. Having said that the formal title is Nineteen Eighty-Four not 1984, though 1984 is a de facto working title for Nineteen Eighty-Four. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:45, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Not that this particularly means anything, but I have found a few uses like this:

• 1996, Kate Allen, Takes one to know one: an Allison Kaine mystery, page 106:

  There's currently a very 1984 overtone to the whole camp.

and a lot of uses like this:

• 2011, Charles Forbin, The Diaries of Ay'esha: Trapped and Trained, page 171:

  A truly 1984-ish paradox. What had gone down the memory hole?

• 2007, Jerome Sala, What if someone were listening? Contemporary poetry and the problem of popularity, p. 140:

  The poems were then posted on a Library of Congress website, and high school principals were encouraged in the slightly 1984-ish task of reading them over their loud speakers each morning at the beginning of the school day.

• 2011, John E.B. Myers, The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, page viii:

  All these technologies sound a bit ominous and 1984-ish when taken out of context.

• 2000, G. R. Evans, ‎Martyn Percy, Managing the Church?: Order and Organization in a Secular Age, page 128:

  I have no idea what this 1984-ish-sounding organization actually does, though I suspect it has something to do with industrial processes.

The attachment of "-ish" suggests to me that the unadorned term is not an adjective by itself. bd2412 T 19:24, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

I agree, we should convert this to a noun entry ("a totalitarian society" or something) with the note "often used attributively". Ƿidsiþ 20:08, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps 1984-ish merits an entry as a single word which is attested. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:25, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

• I treated this as an RFC and converted the page into a noun entry with citations. Also I created (deprecated template usage) 1984-ish. Ƿidsiþ 07:38, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Closing, please re-open if disputed. DAVilla 12:58, 2 January 2014 (UTC)