Talk:ポテトチップ

Divergent enought?
What do you mean "divergent enough"? How enough is enough? How "separate" is potechi from poteto chippu? Is it used totally differently from the source word (as in rad from radical)? Or is it overwhelmingly more common (as in gym compared to gymnasium)? ばかFumiko￥talk 03:11, 25 August 2016 (UTC)


 * By way of analogy, on the extreme end, one would say that is derived from ,   , but not that  is an alternative form of the longer expression -- even if the usage is nearly identical.  Separately,  is an alternative conjugation of  as the past tense, but it is not an alternative form of .  For your suggested example,  is short for , but it is not an alternative form.  On the flip side, in English,  is an alternative form of , and in Spanish,  is an alternative form of  or  -- the former stands for the latter, and is even pronounced the same way, even though usage is different -- the former versions are generally restricted to humorous or texting contexts, and would not be deemed acceptable in formal writing.
 * In Japanese, is an alternative form of  and of : same pronunciation, similar meanings (depending on context).  However, the terms here --  and  -- are not alternative forms of each other despite the same meaning, as they are pronounced differently.  One is derived from the other, as a shortening or abbreviation.
 * In short, from what I've seen, the ===Alternative forms=== header is generally for cases where a single term might have multiple spellings or other renderings, where they all share the same pronunciation. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 04:00, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

RFV discussion: June–August 2016
Rfv-sense ばかFumiko￥talk 09:53, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete the etymology 2. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 16:21, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Rfv failed. ばかFumiko￥talk 12:56, 2 August 2016 (UTC)