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Rfv-sense: the Google search term qualifier. Is it attestable in use in English? Is it per se to be excluded? DCDuring TALK 14:32, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
- It's surely not an adjective! I would have deleted this on sight, but I won't now since there's an open RFV. Equinox ◑ 22:17, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
- The contributor was trying to respond to a request. Unlike most of our entries, this one actually meets an actual, known, specific user need. I felt a little mean-spirited even putting it here. As to its PoS, well, it might be the subject of the copula ":" in Google. Is Google an unrecognized (by ISO) language or a dialect of English? DCDuring TALK 23:49, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
- Neither. intitle is a keyword, just as REDIM (re-dimension) is a keyword in BASIC and bool (Boolean) is a keyword in C++. We don't document such things unless they enter English in their own right (e.g. (deprecated template usage) enum). Equinox ◑ 23:06, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
- Agreed in this case, though I actually think that (deprecated template usage) bool and (deprecated template usage) redim may have entered English as well (see e.g. this b.g.c. hit for "bool" and this b.g.c. hit for "redimming"). —RuakhTALK 02:14, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- As the contributor who "was trying to respond to a request", I'm quite happy to have this deleted because I wasn't happy about my attempt ( -- I should have referred it here -- thank you to DC for doing so). I notice that we do record keywords such as "rem" (though it is possible that this word has entered the language outside its programming origin). Since our aim is "every word in every language", should we not find some legitimate way to record specialist usages, even if it is only in an appropriate appendix? Dbfirs 07:16, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
- ... (later) ... The word occurs in quite a number of books, but only as a keyword, so I agree it is not part of the English language, but it is part of database search language in English (not just Google). I feel that it should be recorded, but I don't know how or where. Incidentally, I was shocked to see how many books use "intitle" when they mean "entitle". Are they all mis-spellings? Dbfirs 14:03, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
- As the contributor who "was trying to respond to a request", I'm quite happy to have this deleted because I wasn't happy about my attempt ( -- I should have referred it here -- thank you to DC for doing so). I notice that we do record keywords such as "rem" (though it is possible that this word has entered the language outside its programming origin). Since our aim is "every word in every language", should we not find some legitimate way to record specialist usages, even if it is only in an appropriate appendix? Dbfirs 07:16, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
- An appendix for all programming keywords would be quite unimaginably vast and I don't think it would serve much purpose: the place to look them up is in the language documentation, not a general-purpose dictionary, and people know that. Equinox ◑ 14:28, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
- Deleted. Equinox ◑ 01:59, 24 June 2009 (UTC)