Category talk:Mongolian English

RFD discussion: December 2023–January 2024
Only one entry. I don't think "Mongolian English" is a recognized variety of English. Ioaxxere (talk) 07:50, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete, but categories like this keep cropping up because our labelling system doesn't (or at least inexperienced users don't) distinguish "used chiefly by people from/in country X" vs "used by everyone, when discussing something that exists in country X". Compare the conflation of "term is used only/chiefly by members of academic discipline Y" vs "everyone uses this term, which denotes something pertaining to topic Y": we have facioauriculovertebral labelled en because probably only anatomists use it, but also have elbow labelled en because "der, elbow is anatomy", even though everyone uses the word. - -sche (discuss) 16:20, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I think we've never had a proposed solution for how to display topic, register, and usage-context labels in these cases. It would be tedious to have parameters for 'topic', 'register', and 'context' within label and we would still need to make sure that we had display that made sense.
 * Perhaps we can mostly agree that "en The joint between the upper arm and the forearm." should appear as "(anatomy) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm." (I'd still disagree, preferring to eliminate topic labels altogether.)
 * But how should we display "lb Relating to the face, ears, and vertebrae."? As:
 * (anatomy, anatomy, academic) Relating to the face, ears, and vertebrae."?
 * (anatomy, academic) Relating to the face, ears, and vertebrae."?
 * (anatomical, in anatomy, academic) Relating to the face, ears, and vertebrae."?
 * (anatomical, academic) Relating to the face, ears, and vertebrae."?
 * Is "academic" a suitable register name? (It seems better than formal or scientific or medical.)
 * Is the topic, usage context, register order the best?
 * Could we rely of PoS differences to communicate the difference between 'topic' and 'usage context'?
 * Most importantly, does anyone care to address the nonsense and confusion at all? DCDuring (talk) 19:09, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Anyway, I've cleaned up the one entry (ninja, where "Mongolia" was given as a label but belonged in the definition) and deleted the obviously-bad category. - -sche (discuss) 18:28, 17 January 2024 (UTC)