Talk:deconvert

deconvert
Sense of a house (rental vs. residential.) How could you say "deconvert" and not mention the house or the appartment, yet arrive at this meaning? --Connel MacKenzie 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what you're getting at. I have certainly heard the phrase in London, and know that a deconverted house is one that started life as a house, had been converted to flats, and has since been made back into a single house (thus does not have the ambiguity of reconverted, which is also used).  Are you saying that it is obvious what it means even if you haven't come across it before? Perhaps so. --Eng in ear 22:08, 26 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Ahhh, a British idiom then? It isn't listed in other dictionaries online.  --Connel MacKenzie 06:39, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Have cited this and the other verbal senses (couldn't find any cites as a noun). It seems from b.g.c. that the first 40 yrs of this usage (perhaps developed from wartime usage re commandeered ships, and moving to buildings in 1963) was by the US government, with wider usage only in 21st century.  However, I've found this trend on a sufficient number of semi-technical words to believe it may be b.g.c.'s 20th century non-fiction corpus which is skewed, rather than necessarily a reflection of actual usage.  --Eng in ear 02:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks...obviously, I never would have guessed. --Connel MacKenzie 17:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Rfvpassed. --Connel MacKenzie 17:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

convert
Not very important, but I could mention that the deconvert article was originally created (by a non-linguist) using the convert article as a template (but simplified). --83.253.36.136 16:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Usage as a noun
For what it's worth, usage examples from Google. --83.253.36.136 17:13, 11 May 2007 (UTC)