Talk:Aesop-like

RFD discussion: July 2020–April 2021

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Aesop-like

SOP, delete per Wiktionary:Votes/2019-10/Application of idiomaticity rules to hyphenated compounds. PUC – 16:06, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Keep as there is an alternative form, Aesoplike, which has been used by some writers. Aesop-like is the form preferred by most people however. DonnanZ (talk) 12:29, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

• Keep - Dentonius (my politics | talk) 17:19, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
• If the definition of "X-like" contains no more information than "like X" then it should be deleted on sight, per the vote: there is absolutely no need or reason to have a trillion individual definitions telling people that "X-like" means "like X". Although the present definition, "Resembling an Aesop's fable or moral", is framed as if it might provide more information than this, probably it ultimately doesn't in any important way, so Delete. Mihia (talk)

Further to this, I might mention also that it is extremely common for "X-like" not to mean strictly literally "like X", but rather to mean "like something created by, said by, or otherwise associated with X". Just to give one example, a "Bush-like gaffe" does not mean that the gaffe is literally like Bush, since that is comparing two incommensurable things. Instead, it means that the gaffe is like something that Bush would have uttered. In my view this is again a ubiquitous feature of language that cannot be explained in a dictionary separately for every instance. Mihia (talk) 00:22, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

• Delete. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:11, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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Keep, if Aesoplike exists. --幽霊四 (talk) 15:07, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Oh great, let's hope that someone can find some instances of Aesoplike, while I go and kick the cat (again). Mihia (talk) 23:37, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

@Mihia: Cited. J3133 (talk) 00:16, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Hilarious. Mihia (talk) 00:21, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Keep per above. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 10:25, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Kept. Also, bear in mind that WT:COALMINE exists in part because the use of unhyphenated forms reflects a specific real-world expectation that the term at issue is, in fact, a word. bd2412 T 05:45, 19 April 2021 (UTC)