Talk:condolence

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condolence

The two senses are obviously the same, but I'm reluctant to merge them myself without someone looking through the translations to see what impact it will have on those. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:07, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Nobody will be able to deal with all translations. The normal procedure is to move all translations to "translations to be checked" -section, mark them with {{ttbc|Languagename}} and be happy. --Hekaheka (talk) 19:58, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

The definitions seem very similar, but the glosses ("uncountable" and "countable, usually in the plural") seem very different, too different to merge them. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:14, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

The senses seem completely different to me. One is countable ("The deceased had three sons who are not on speaking terms with one another, so I expressed three separate condolences") and the other un-. We can discuss whether the countable sense exists in the singular or not, and other questions, but that it's distinct from the other sense is, I think, pretty clear.​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:32, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Kept. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 01:56, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Pronunciation

There is a discrepancy between the IPA pronunciation (ˈkɑndələns) and the spoken recording (kən'doləns).

Dictionary.com, the Cambridge Dictionary and Merriam Webster list kən'doləns as the primary pronunciation. Merriam Webster lists ˈkɑndələns as a secondary.

It seems like the recording and the primary pronunciation IPA should agree with the recording, at least, and then other pronunciations can be listed as marked alternatives.