Talk:j:mföra

RFD discussion: June–October 2023
I don't think the page for j:mföra should exist: the attestation relies on a sentence in a newspaper where jämföra looks like j:mföra, but looking at the source that just seems like the page is missing some ink.

Page was created by - do you know if this form is used consistently or is there just this one possible attestation?


 * This looks suspicious to me too. The quoted sentence contains two supposed colon-based abbreviations: one for jemföra (note that jemföra was the standard spelling before 1889) and another for tredjes. However, the supposed colons in both words only contain one clear dot each. I'm no expert in old Swedish literature, but I don't believe printing colons like interpuncts was the norm in 1871.


 * From a broader and less technical perspective, it just seems unlikely that someone would abbreviate these words like this. Writing jemföra as j:mföra does nothing to actually shorten the word, and neither does writing tredjes as tredj:s. The customary shortening for tredjes is 3:es and has been that for a very long time. Without more evidence, I'm inclined to think both j•mföra and tredj•s here are simple misprints. Delete. Glades12 (talk) 14:08, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Agree. How is it an abbreviation and not a misprit? Delete. Tollef Salemann (talk) 16:28, 9 June 2023 (UTC)


 * RFD-failed. Ultimateria (talk) 19:17, 21 October 2023 (UTC)