Talk:rosa

Slavic plurals

Are the plurals of rosa in the Slavic languages (Czech, Polish, Slovene, and Serbo-Croatian) really used? If so, what must their specific meaning then be? --JorisvS 21:08, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Meaning: instance of a dew (see dew, sense #2). Basically all uncountable nouns have countable senses when referring to a specific instance, or when used metonymically. --Ivan Štambuk 21:12, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Is the 'an instance of' in this case general or more specific (e.g. that one would be able to count dews on objects, but not dews over the days)? --JorisvS 21:33, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Search indicates that it's usually used to refer to instances of dew occurrence across time periods. --Ivan Štambuk 21:44, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

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rosa

This was added back in 2011 by an IP from Australia as "Australian slang", but it has all the marks of a fairly common type of vandalism: someone is angry at someone else, so they add a definition to the entry for that person's name for an alleged bad aspect of their behavior. In this case, that would mean someone in Australia was stood up by someone named Rosa, and decided to get even by making rosa mean "to hide, vanish, shadow", and "no-show, someone who does not show up as expected".

Note: If someone from Australia is familiar with this in actual use, I will gladly retract the rfv without putting anyone through the trouble of citing a regional slang term. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:28, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

As an Aussie I've never heard of this. Expected collocations such as "done a rosa" or "gotta rosa" turn up nothing. This, that and the other (talk) 06:55, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

RFV-failed This, that and the other (talk) 12:58, 13 June 2023 (UTC)