Talk:assoline
Citations[edit]
The citations are (all?) mentions, not uses, and very repetitive, quoting the same single source. We need some proper uses. Equinox ◑ 15:07, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
- Okay, well we've got four (4) citations to Usenet, but I'll try to find some time to do some research to find some more, but I've been a bit sick and under the weather lately so playing catchup on work. :( -- Cirt (talk) 02:55, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
- Did a Usenet search on Google Groups but didn't find any genuine usages, just mentions. ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 19:47, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
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I see a lot of scannos, names and mentions. Any uses? - -sche (discuss) 23:35, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
- One book hit: First there is a geyser of blue flame as the tank's puncture wound jets a stream of ignited assoline skyward. Prior reference to "methane-breathers" makes this definitely the right sense. It seems this was a neologism reported to the American Dialect Society in 2002. I had a couple of mentions on usenet also, but no real cites. SpinningSpark 02:10, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
- One from Google groups you guys are missing the point of alcohol. yeah, when you burn it in your engine that was designed to run on assoline, you get poor mileage but I don't think it is usenet and possibly not considered durably archived. SpinningSpark 02:20, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
- Failed RFV. - -sche (discuss) 23:06, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
- Not really relevant to RFV, but I just thought you would all like to know that this was Duden's Most Outrageous Word of the Year in 2001, for which the German translation is the much more satisfactory Arschbenzin.[1] SpinningSpark 14:23, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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The entry comes with lots of citations, but they are all mentions rather than uses. Can we find actual uses of the term? I have only come up with one:
- 2015, Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, →ISBN:
- First there is a geyser of blue flame as the tank's puncture wound jets a stream of ignited assoline skyward, and then it blows back into the tank and boom, the fartmobile is in one billion shards, rising like a parachute in an updraft.
Kiwima (talk) 19:43, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
- I thought I remembered this one, it's been here before Wiktionary:Requests for verification archive/2012/even more#assoline. I remembered finding that quote above. SpinningSpark 18:20, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- Looking at that entry, it is marked as failed, so why is it still there? Kiwima (talk) 18:48, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- It was deleted, but User:Cirt added the citations and recreated the entry. I'm sure they thought at the time the citations were adequate. From what I remember of their participation here in the past, I'm not sure how well they really understand CFI. Chuck Entz (talk) 19:27, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- Looking at that entry, it is marked as failed, so why is it still there? Kiwima (talk) 18:48, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
- RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 04:30, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
- Comment: Please help with research at Citations:assoline if anyone can find additional uses. Help would be most appreciated, -- Cirt (talk) 15:35, 15 March 2016 (UTC)