Talk:frontier
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Verb.- To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.? Andrew massyn 11:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
No cites. No comments. Verb sense deleted. Andrew massyn 03:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Implications[edit]
When Captain Picard says: "Space, the final frontier, does his use of the word frontier imply that he thinks there's something beyond space? Does the word generally imply such a thing? Gambler Justice 14:10, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
I have finally found an answer to my question which I believe to be correct. Transcribed here to sate the curiosity of anyone with a similar query:
>>>>It's mostly an American term, we used to call the Western United States "the new frontier" which just meant "a wide new area to explore" and everyone who lived there were called "frontiersmen". So when they say "Space, the final frontier" it just means "the last place humanity can explore" basically. Gambler Justice (talk) 20:22, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
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I think this is the sort of adjective we ought to look at more closely. I feel this is attributive use; a frontier town is a town on the frontier after all. And why is it classed as a comparative adjective? A comparative of what? The thing that concerns me is the translations, they could be moved upstairs to the noun. DonnanZ (talk) 14:50, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- Delete, not an adjective. (The comparative bit was added by a bot with a sense of humor: you folks may be fronty pioneers, but we are frontier pioneers). --Lambiam 19:55, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- fronty, unsurprisingly, is one adjective not listed, lol. DonnanZ (talk) 20:27, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- A bot with a human failing - to err, diff. DonnanZ (talk) 12:21, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
- RFD-deleted. I moved the Khmer translation to the noun section, but deleted the adjective translations in other languages. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 17:47, 9 April 2022 (UTC)