Talk:dead simple

RFV discussion: July–August 2018
The noun sense. Needs a headword if OK. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:54, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:18, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

RFD discussion: July 2018–January 2019
= dead + simple. The adverb section of the entry for dead has a pretty good set of definitions and usage examples. DCDuring (talk) 12:43, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Apparently we need an entry for . Or does it just mean "very simple"? Is it only used informally, as dead simple would be? DCDuring (talk) 12:49, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, πανεύκολος (usually as the neutral πανεύκολο) does indeed mean "dead easy" (which is a far more common phrase than "dead simple" in the UK) or "very simple". In my experience it's not exclusively informal in everyday usage. But I'll ping as someone who has had a more formal education in Greek, to confirm or correct me. -Stelio (talk) 09:26, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you . απλούστατος is used both formally and informally: = highly simple, simplest & dead simple. Same for πανεύκολος= very easy & dead easy. ευκολότατος on the other hand is more formal., because my English is not good, I like to see examples for such expressions: their context, their formal equivalents. They are difficult to translate. And they are so many! sarri.greek (talk) 03:22, 28 July 2018 (UTC)


 * doodsimpel can be used in fairly formal conversations. Alexis Jazz (talk) 22:47, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I would find it interesting as a translation hub. If entries for Greek or Esperanto are made, there will be no way to link them because non-English entries are not allowed to have translation tables. I thought this would also exist in German (toteinfach), but I find little use of that. Alexis Jazz (talk) 23:41, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Not everything needs to be linked to from English entries. Per utramque cavernam 07:25, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I think it is telling that no one thinks we need an entry for [[very simple]] because it would be a translation target, even though it is much more common than dead simple. Isn't this just for the dead obvious reason that dead is less common than very and actually has to be looked up to determine that it has adverbial usage with meanings other than the common adjectival one and the various derived metaphorical meanings? It is maddening to me that some believe that every spelled-solid term in any FL needs to have a corresponding single English entry no matter how utterly transparent the English multi-word expression may be. DCDuring (talk) 03:53, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
 * in which language is very simple a single word? Not Dutch, because that's heel simpel (or heel eenvoudig). If translation tables are allowed to be added to all FL entries when there isn't an English entry to serve as a translation hub, that would be fine with me too. Alexis Jazz (talk) 19:44, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * To respond with another question: Why does English Wiktionary have to act as if [[dead simple]] is worth an entry merely because there are languages that have that as one possible English translation? DCDuring (talk) 20:20, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I understand. Doodsimpel is dead simple, literally. Alexis Jazz (talk) 10:00, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * So what? In English dead simple = dead + simple and is synonymous with very simple. DCDuring (talk) 01:55, 24 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. - -sche (discuss) 03:48, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per proponent, but the relative frequencies of dead easy - dead simple in UK vs. US English should be documented on, methinks (i.e. I'd want to know what Stelio said above). Per utramque cavernam 10:13, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete, this “dead” can be prepended to every adjective. Fay Freak (talk) 01:14, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 17:13, 29 January 2019 (UTC)