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Protologism? Proper noun? Why {{term|liberal}} rather than {{term|left-of-centre}}? [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] 22:30, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
Protologism? Proper noun? Why {{term|liberal}} rather than {{term|left-of-centre}}? [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] 22:30, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
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*See also [[wingnutosphere]] that has only a single citation. [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] 22:33, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
*See also [[wingnutosphere]] that has only a single citation. [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] 22:33, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
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: '''Cited'''. I ended up using every single uncapitalized Usenet hit from Google Groups; there are a few uncapitalized hits on {{google|type=archive|"leftosphere"}}, but I can't tell if they're durably archived, so I didn't use them. |
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: I changed it to "proper noun" because that's what it seems to be — it's always definite ("the leftosphere"); if you're talking about a lot of it, you'd say "a lot of the leftosphere", not *"a lot of leftosphere" (uncountable common noun), nor *"a lot of leftospheres" (countable common noun). Do you disagree? |
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: Feel free to change it to "left-of-center" (but not "left-of-centre"), or to "left-wing"; they're all synonymous in the U.S. |
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: —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 23:02, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
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