Talk:starvate

RFV discussion: February–March 2017

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starvate

To starve. Listed in a handful of textbooks as a non-existent form. Equinox ◑ 22:55, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Also found in a number of texts, but I am inclined to at least give it a proscribed. Kiwima (talk) 23:29, 25 February 2017 (UTC):

Kiwima -- your cites strongly suggest that it's used mainly by non-native speakers... AnonMoos (talk) 02:38, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

I agree - I noticed the same thing. Kiwima (talk) 03:04, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

I disagree. Only a couple of them seem to be written by non-native speakers (although I can't say I looked them up to read the surrounding text). It seems to be limited to scientific contexts though. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 00:40, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

• A simple glance at author names and locations suggests non-nativeness. I checked a few of the quotes, and found (working backward up the list):

• 2010, Z. Ogumi -- text here, definitely non-native.
• 2003, Tang-Long Shen -- text here, but I can't see enough to judge the native-ness of the writing.
• 1992, Eero Tikkanen etc. -- text here, definitely non-native.
• 1985, Masakuni Suzuki etc. -- text here. Not much to go on, but there's a conspicuous case of a missing "the" that suggests non-native.
• 1976, European Poultry etc. -- text here. Again, not much to go on; looking elsewhere in this same text shows non-native.

I'm not spending more time on this, but so far, every indication is that this is non-native usage: a mistake only made by language learners. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 08:37, 2 March 2017 (UTC)