Talk:vendo

From Wiktionary:Requested entries:Japanese

• vendo -- practice of staying beside the drinks vending machine to consume one's purchased drink. Equinox ◑ 22:51, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

• @Equinox: the closest I can find is ヴェンド語 (Vendo-go, “Wendic, Wendish”, the language of the Wends), but that's not what you're looking for. Can you provide any context for this term? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 08:03, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

• I found it at Etiquette in Japan, but I see this blogger writes "vendo isn't anywhere else on the Internet, leading me to suspect that this is a clandestine Wikipedia edit that went unchallenged" [1]. Equinox ◑ 12:54, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

• Looks like Nbarth added it in this edit from January 2011. Nbarth, can you provide any more detail on this term? I've never encountered it, and I can't find anything likely in katakana. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 07:13, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

• Sorry about that: please disregard this word. There's no evidence of use in Japanese, and it's most likely an Anglophone coinage, particularly from the highly productive -o in Australian English (many Australians in Japan).

Removed from Wikipedia in this edit. I believe that I just added a link to an existing article, which was deleted as a hoax (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vendo (activity); looks like it was deleted before I added the link, so I'd probably read it earlier and just linked to it). I don't know where I saw or heard it; here's an earlier use (Vendo!, 2010-05-08).

Having since lived in Japan, I recall asking (Japanese) people about this word and getting blank stares, so at best uncommon/dialectical; normally you'd just say 立ち飲み (tachi-nomi, “drinking while standing”). It's a plausible Japanese word (by clipping/mutation of "vending", though this is uncommon AFAICT; usually say 自販機 (jihanki) for "vending machine"), but at best unlikely, certainly unattested, and very likely a nonce or English coinage.

Thanks for the catch!

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 06:08, 3 February 2016 (UTC)