Talk:kime

RE: User_talk:Robbie_SWE#kime.

It's not clear why this user User:Robbie_SWE removed the addition by Special:Contributions/141.213.169.240 that includes the complex-time (kime) definition listed below. There was no justification of this removal other than "leave a message on my talk page".

Kime is a composite noun for complex-time where "complex" refers to the mathematical "complex numbers", as in the field $\mathbb {C}$ containing numbers $z=x+iy$ , where $x$ and $y$ are Real numbers and $i$ is the imaginary number ( $i^{2}=-1$ ). Combined with space, kime leads to a higher-dimensional universe, space-kime (spacekime), with three spatial and two "time-like" (kime) dimensions.

If the community agrees with this inclusion of kime, it should be reinstated.

Thanks. 141.213.169.209 15:52, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You added it out of sequence (English comes first) and it had no formatting. SemperBlotto (talk) 16:11, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Makes sense. Thanks for fixing it! 141.213.169.209 16:14, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

RFV discussion: March–April 2023[edit]

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Definition 2, a misspelling found in a typeset book from 1807. But how do we know it means knife? Even if it does, can we really call this a common misspelling? The author of the book almost certainly did not believe the word "knife" was actually spelled kime .... it seems more likely this is some little-known word borrowed from a language of India, possibly a word that is already in our dictionary but not in the Western alphabet. —Soap— 17:44, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The idea of kime being a common misspelling for knife that existed only in the 1800s–1810s strikes me as a bit trollish. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 00:34, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I see it's discussed at the Wikipedia page for Ghost word, which claims (without citation) that it "turned out that "kimes" was a misprint for "knives", but the word gained currency for some time". The discussion of the kimes affair by Skeat can be read here. There are a few things to note: first, the current citation is incorrect, the passage first appeared in a book review in the Edinburgh Review in 1808 (here) and it was the author himself who confirmed that it was a printing mistake for knives. Second, Skeat does not mention anyone actually using kimes as a word for knives—all that happened was someone thinking that it was a torture device of some sort invented by Indians, and being corrected shortly afterwards. So on that evidence I don't think this is worthy of a dictionary entry. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 00:44, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RFV-failed. It doesn't appear that this made it into any dictionaries, so it doesn't go on Appendix:English dictionary-only terms. This, that and the other (talk) 01:37, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RFV discussion: April–June 2023[edit]

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