Talk:moral Mafia

An uncited PoV definition. Is it attestable with this defintion? DCDuring TALK 14:53, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Here's a citation that looks like it's specifically non-religious: http://books.google.com/books?id=zC6u20RcEeIC&pg=PA254&dq=%22moral+Mafia%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pQRwT56HN6qviQepxvH-BQ&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22moral%20Mafia%22&f=false

And here is one that means religion: http://books.google.com/books?id=JSRqvtkhbHoC&pg=PA177&dq=%22moral+Mafia%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MgVwT_SbN6akiAfU-oGMBg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22moral%20Mafia%22&f=false

BenjaminBarrett12 (talk) 05:58, 26 March 2012 (UTC)


 * It doesn't seem to me that there is anything idiomatic in the usage, though it is conceivable. This usage seems parallel to collocations found at COCA of Mafia/mafia with digital, fossil-fuel, geriatric, literary, military, and nuclear, for which the constructed meaning is something "a mafia-like entity in the X arena", where X is some appropriate adjective. This is distinct from those collocations which have to do with attributes of the members, often ethnic. DCDuring TALK 18:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC)


 * If mafia is redefined, then I can see this could just be the SOP. BenjaminBarrett12 (talk) 07:55, 8 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I've added the missing sense to "mafia". Shall we delete "moral mafia" now as SOP? - -sche (discuss) 01:05, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * German also has this "X arena" sense of the word, btw (see e.g. de:Content-Mafia). - -sche (discuss) 01:10, 26 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Moved to RFD. - -sche (discuss) 23:51, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

moral Mafia
SOP, moral + mafia (or Mafia, if you prefer). As DCDuring said on WT:RFV (q.v.):
 * "It doesn't seem to me that there is anything idiomatic in the usage, though it is conceivable. This usage seems parallel to collocations found at COCA of Mafia/mafia with digital, fossil-fuel, geriatric, literary, military, and nuclear, for which the constructed meaning is something "a mafia-like entity in the X arena", where X is some appropriate adjective."

- -sche (discuss) 23:53, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 08:49, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 15:50, 22 April 2013 (UTC)