Talk:nudiustertian

Hapax legomenon

Hi, @Mr. Granger. Concerning this edit – is there an exception to CFI for words appearing in the OED? This one does (and is labelled there as a hapax legomenon). I did a search using Quiet Quentin, but all citations are just repetitions of the one already included. — SMUconlaw (talk) 20:32, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

No, there's no such exception (we've deleted words appearing in the OED before, such as invision), but fortunately, there are more citations of this word available on Usenet, here and here. Though come to think of it, if people are using it on Usenet, maybe it isn't completely obsolete after all... —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 20:35, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Hmmm, it's a bit hard to tell from the Usenet quotes what the writers mean by using the word. Should we add those to the entry? — SMUconlaw (talk) 20:38, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

it seems like most people dont know how to use the word

many of the quotes are stilted things like "i had it nudiustertian afternoon" and "nudiustertian, [...] Aaron and I went" which indicates people dont understand what part of speech this is. It doesnt mean "the day before yesterday" (for which we have ereyesterday), it means "pertaining to the day before yesterday". This would convert to *I had it of yesterday afternoon. Of yesterday, we went out. (I used yesterday just to make clear that it doesn't work even with more familiar words.) Anyway, I'm not actually sure this would survive an RFV if we went for it, but I haven't looked for more quotes either. Above, we talked about Usenet, but never added the quotes to either this page or the Citations page, so perhaps there are examples of proper usage after all. —Soap— 15:47, 2 June 2023 (UTC)