Talk:pundit
Spell checker changed Brahmin to Brahman. I am more familiar with the new term, but if someone likes Brahmin better, more power to them! I hope my spell checker doesn't find out it was wrong... --HiFlyer 14:05, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I don't think the first definition is quite correct. Unless, of course, the word has changed meaning in the last few years and I missed it. Wjbean
I think that definition needs to be removed: "one who can regurgitate a substantial quantity of political slogans" is anecdotal and does not make clear the meaning this person intended. Definition 2, "a political commentator or prognosticator", seems to accomplish this fine. KyleWild 07:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense: "a scholar or learned person". I'm not convinced this is used in such a way as to be different from sense 1, ‘learned person in India, Hindu scholar’, or sense 4, ‘professed expert in a particular field’. Ƿidsiþ 07:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- Could you clarify a bit what sense 4 means? Specifically — in "professed expert", does "professed" mean "self-professed", or "professed by the speaker", or "professed by anyone"? In the first and third cases, I think we should make that more explicit; in the second case, I think we should simply remove "professed". Either way, I think that will help clarify what would be necessary for this sense to be different from sense 4. —RuakhTALK 11:43, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- I think it means ‘self-professed’ – I read it as covering such cases as sports pundits etc. on television. Ƿidsiþ 12:32, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. I've now changed our def to read "self-professed". —RuakhTALK 14:45, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
- Move to RfD: This seems more like an RfD matter than an RfV matter. Any of the three sentences in the nomination can very easily be verified; the question of whether they are redundant or not is an RfD Purplebackpack89 (Notes Taken) (Locker) 00:27, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 08:41, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
pundant[edit]
probably citable and could be added to Category:English_misconstructions. perhaps spelling as pundent would provide additional examples. —Soap— 09:41, 28 October 2023 (UTC)