Talk:lytty

This page is useful as REDIRECT, because Finnish adverbs lytyssä and lyttyyn look like they were inessive and illative forms of a (non-existing) noun or adjective lytty. A user familiar with Finnish grammar might thus want to know what lytty means. Explanatory usage notes will be written to the entries for lytyssä and lyttyyn. --Hekaheka 17:08, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

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See talk:lytty, a redirect for a word that does not exist, and maybe never did. Surely this violates all sorts of Wiktionary policies. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:21, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I didn't realize that adding it was such a horrible crime. I added it because I have explained many Finnish peculiarities to a user that tries to learn Finnish in Wiktionary:Requested_entries:Finnish, and he thought it might be useful for people like him. But by all means, go ahead. On a second thought, the usage note in the entry lytyssä does the same thing just fine. --Hekaheka 17:54, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Well clearly it's not a horrible crime, but your own analysis seems pretty good. It would be like having talenting redirect to talented because talent is not a verb. Also, on the talk page you seem to think it could redirect to more than one page, which is currently impossible. But it's just a word on a website, don't lose sleep over it (smile). Mglovesfun (talk) 20:05, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

All right, I wasn't going to. Why don't we just speedy it? Nobody ever wanted to say it exists. --Hekaheka 21:42, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Since you seem okay with this, I have deleted it. There might be a better approach to this kind of thing (people looking up "plausible" words that don't exist), but we'd have to decide on a standard way of doing it. Equinox ◑ 00:54, 20 January 2010 (UTC)