Talk:テメ

RFV discussion: November 2011–March 2012
New entry by Special:Contributions/2.125.74.75, not the other IP user who has similar interests but no competence--so don't hold that against this contributer. However I can't find this word in any dictionary, but it looks very much like 手前, which is pronounced colloquially as temē, which sounds like "teme" to a Westerner's ears, and might have the same meaning in context, since it is a rude form of "you." Should this point to 手前--which needs a little work too, as it lists a pronoun as a noun--or is this something else? Thanks Haplology 18:30, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
 * ♬ Booooooooguuuuuus. ♫ (Imagine a foghorn kind of sound. :)  This looks like a pretty clear case of a non-Japanese speaker trying to add Japanese entries without knowing the language.  I strongly agree that this entry was added in ignorance of the fact that the word is temē, spelled variously, , or , among other variations.  I'd say move to  and edit into a stub entry pointing to .  -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 05:41, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I thought so. At least we can say it's bogus in good faith.  I happened on a real テメ, although probably rarely written in katakana, namely 手目.  Maybe we can keep the page but replace the current definition with one for 手目.  Haplology 14:07, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps - how often is it written in katakana, though? If it's extremely rare, it might make more sense to have the stub entry at  instead.  -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:32, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, dear -- it looks like this same IP user created an identically mistaken entry at . -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:38, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
 * My question is, why the hell would it be written in katakana (other than for styling reasons)? If it is indeed a loanword, then... where was it borrowed from? Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 01:50, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The katakana is a big hint that this user is coming from a background in manga -- manga authors/artists love to use offbeat styling to catch people's eyes, and katakana is a common part of that. I cannot think of any possible borrowed word that would be spelled テメ.  -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:43, 28 November 2011 (UTC)


 * The original entry has been deleted as RFV-failed. Other editors are working on talk pages to sort out whether or not to keep the current entry, "deception". - -sche (discuss) 21:21, 22 March 2012 (UTC)