Talk:委婉說法

RFD discussion: November 2015–January 2016
Not a word in Chinese. Not in any dictionaries at my disposal. 委婉 + 說法. Can also be expressed as 委婉講法. ---&#62; Tooironic (talk) 09:44, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. bd2412 T 16:12, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. Entered to mean "euphemism". 委婉 (tactful; polite) + 說法 (way of saying something; wording; version). The simplified form is 委婉说法, which is in bab.la, dictionary.cambridge.org, and cn.bing.co. Should 委婉語 be deleted as well, as 委婉 (tactful; polite) + 語 (dialect; language; speech)? Is the reader really better off without these entries, or should they be there so that the reader know one actually says that in Chinese? --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:31, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Undecided. Reliability of lemmings should be checked. means "tactful/polite way of saying". One could also say  "tactful/indirect term/expression". Both are fine in an English-Chinese dictionary but may not be as Chinese entries. As Tooironic said,  can replaced with the synonymous  ("way of saying").  can replaced with . --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 11:47, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I recommend having a closer look at the example sentences at cn.bing.co; really interesting material. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:46, 21 December 2015 (UTC)


 * , on the other hand, is included in major dictionaries and is never used separately, only as a component. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 12:45, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * As an aside: are any of these major dictionaries online? Do we have reference templates for them? --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:52, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yesterday I have checked in Wenlin (uses ABC dictionary) and Pleco. Here's an online dictionary MDBG. We need templates for Chinese dictionaries, I'm not sure if there are any.--Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад)|

No consensus. bd2412 T 02:11, 9 January 2016 (UTC)