Talk:standby

Gaming usage

There seems to be gaming usage (apparently not attestable under current standards). It seems to occur with the following inflections: "standbys", "standbying", "standbyed". DCDuring TALK 14:00, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed that, too. Nota that Google Groups hits, since they have permanent URLs, are durably archived, and therefore count for verification purposes. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 14:48, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

The usage is findable on Google Groups, but is neither on Usenet nor Google Groups. Where is it written that that counts? Does anyone besides Google have permanent copies? Is there an expectation of durable archiving? DCDuring TALK 15:14, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant my comment to apply just to the Usenet and other such posts. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 17:02, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

I only found it in nonqualifying groups. DCDuring TALK 18:26, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

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standby

standby claims to be a verb ("please standby while I check that for you"). I think that the verb is always two words, stand by, even if the person waiting is "on standby". Otherwise wouldn't there have to be inflections like standbyed, standbying? 86.131.85.9 18:10, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's a good example of the reasoning behind attesting to the existence of a word. I hope that you could register as a user and help. DCDuring TALK 03:06, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Cited. Citations can be found for "to standby" (4 shown) as a verb and for "standbying" (only 2 found shown). This should be enough to warrant inclusion as verb, but I'm not so sure about the inflection line. DCDuring TALK 03:46, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Even if cited, certainly this is a misspelling or misconstruction or something? At the very least a neologism. DAVilla 07:01, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

RFV passed, but I've tagged it proscribed, I hope that's O.K. Thanks for the cites, DCDuring. —Ruakh_TALK 13:48, 11 May 2009 (UTC)