Talk:poster
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Lingo Bingo Dingo in topic RFV discussion: October 2019–March 2021
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Etymology 1, "one who sets out posts, such as sentinels". I'm not sure what it means, so I reckon that makes the definition a shitpost. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 12:13, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
- There is a Dutch word wachtpost, which according to the Dutch Wiktionary can mean “person keeping watch”. I guess post can be used in Dutch as a shortening of wachtpost. I suspect that the editor who added this was Dutch-speaking. See sense 2 of the verb posten, added by the same editor. If that sense 2 exists, poster would be the standard corresponding agent noun – which does not imply the term is in actual use in this sense. (If used, the pronunciation will not be the same as for the homographs borrowed from English.) --Lambiam 15:17, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, Verbo is a Dutch speaker. There seems to be a specific sense, included by the WNT, for a trade union member who tries to deter strikebreakers. [1] [2] [3] I doubt that a more broad sense ever existed, there doesn't seem to have been any word poster in Dutch until the trade union movement coined that one.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:58, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, Verbo is a Dutch speaker. There seems to be a specific sense, included by the WNT, for a trade union member who tries to deter strikebreakers. [1] [2] [3] I doubt that a more broad sense ever existed, there doesn't seem to have been any word poster in Dutch until the trade union movement coined that one.
- @Lambiam Are you okay with it if I delete the current etymology sense and add a new one for the trade-union sense, with a differing pronunciation?
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 16:51, 8 February 2021 (UTC)- No objection. I trust that this is pronounced the Dutch way, with an /ɔ/ instead of an /oː/. The verb of which this is the agent noun should also be added; English post does not have a corresponding intransitive sense. Next to the strike-related sense,[4] the verb appears to have a more general sense of keeping a demonstrative presence as part of a protest held at the entrance of a facility against which the protest is directed.[5] It furthermore appears to also have a sense, other than the trade-union one, of “to be on the lookout”, such as by the police being on the lookout for a criminal.[6][7] --Lambiam 18:07, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
- RFV failed, replaced the disputed sense with an attestable sense. The corresponding definition of posten still has to be mended.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 15:07, 11 March 2021 (UTC)