Talk:for fun
2010 deletion debate[edit]
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I'm seeing for + fun. See also #just for fun above (or Talk:just for fun when it's been archived). Mglovesfun (talk) 16:09, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
Strong delete as per nom. Easy SoP. Facts707 10:54, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
- Keep I think "for fun" also means "for no good reason", especially when applied to actions that have negative aspects from the speaker's PoV (difficulty, criminality, cruelty, etc). Also, three OneLook lemmings have this as an idiom in a run-in at "fun": RHU, Cambridge, AHD Idioms. Also McGraw-Hill. All of them have this as meaning the same as in fun. All of them have more literal-seeming definitions than fit my reading, however. DCDuring TALK 11:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
- Do you want for yuks, for laughs, for giggles, for grins and giggles, etc.? I've heard these many times too but they are blatantly obvious as is for fun. What the writer considers "fun" is up to him to explain. If he thinks cruelty or difficulty is fun, then that will have to become clear from the context because there is no way to infer that from simply the term for fun. Facts707 09:14, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
- A: Why did you put the hamster in the microwave oven?
B: I did it for fun. or I thought it would be fun. or It made me smile. or It was just in fun. Facts707 09:20, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
- A: Why did you put the hamster in the microwave oven?
- Do you want for yuks, for laughs, for giggles, for grins and giggles, etc.? I've heard these many times too but they are blatantly obvious as is for fun. What the writer considers "fun" is up to him to explain. If he thinks cruelty or difficulty is fun, then that will have to become clear from the context because there is no way to infer that from simply the term for fun. Facts707 09:14, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
- Delete per nom, Facts.—msh210℠ (talk) 16:55, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Deleted. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:24, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
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2020 undeletion debate[edit]
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Deleted per previous RFD. I'd like to restore/undelete this. It seems sufficiently idiomatic, it's found in several other dictionaries, and it would be useful for hosting translations. See also for a laugh / for laughs (which I've created, admittedly), Talk:for kicks. Canonicalization (talk) 16:28, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
- From a translation viewpoint I can see that this is valuable. It is a unit. Doing something "for fun". So at the very least it should be in phrasebook. Regarding the entry I will boringly abstain. Equinox ◑ 10:46, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
- I note it is included in the OED: for fun (or for the fun of it) - in order to amuse oneself and not for any more serious purpose: I paint a bit for fun. Let's keep it. ---> Tooironic (talk) 03:18, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- A keep for me. --Vealhurl (talk) 21:39, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
- Undelete (=Keep) per WT:LEMMING: M-W[1], Lexico[2]. As for translations and WT:THUB, none were mentioned so I can't tell; some uses would be translated into Czech as pro zábavu, other uses probably as z legrace, none of which is terribly supportive of WT:THUB. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:11, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
- Undelete Purplebackpack89 12:00, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
- Undelete. Come back from the dead, oh beautiful collocation. - Dentonius (talk) 12:53, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
- Undeleted. - -sche (discuss) 07:15, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
for/in fun --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:53, 16 April 2021 (UTC)