Talk:folk house
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Smurrayinchester in topic RFC discussion: July 2014
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I can't make heads or tails of the current definition. After it's cleaned up, I think the entry would benefit from a picture. - -sche (discuss) 17:16, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- I'm not sure, but after reading some passages at b.g.c that use the term, I think it just means "the predominant form of house among the ordinary people in any given location". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 17:41, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- The definition needs to describe the house, rather than what kind of people live in it. Unless the term is independent of style and only refers to whatever happens to be the predominant style among ordinary people at a given place and time, which I doubt. --WikiTiki89 17:46, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- Well, to judge from what I saw at Boogle Gooks, that is what it means. One book talked about folk houses in India, another about folk houses in Kentucky, another about folk houses in the Mid-Atlantic states. These books had terms like folk culture and folk architecture in their titles, making me wonder if sense 2 of the adjective [[folk]] is sufficient and this term can be deleted as SOP. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:04, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- I think we need an extra definition at folk, the same as we currently have at vernacular (which is more-or-less a synonym here): "(architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported". Smurrayinchester (talk) 21:16, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- (By the way, if you want to see some folk houses, Wikipedia has tons of great pictures.) Smurrayinchester (talk) 21:18, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- Well, to judge from what I saw at Boogle Gooks, that is what it means. One book talked about folk houses in India, another about folk houses in Kentucky, another about folk houses in the Mid-Atlantic states. These books had terms like folk culture and folk architecture in their titles, making me wonder if sense 2 of the adjective [[folk]] is sufficient and this term can be deleted as SOP. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:04, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- The definition needs to describe the house, rather than what kind of people live in it. Unless the term is independent of style and only refers to whatever happens to be the predominant style among ordinary people at a given place and time, which I doubt. --WikiTiki89 17:46, 10 July 2014 (UTC)