Talk:ovine

Tea room discussion
Ovine needs to have both (more, most) comparable and not comparable specified in the en-adj template but I don't find any way to do this in the adj template help page. Can someone tell me how to do this and also please add it the the adj template help page? - dougher 18:31, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I will attempt to use the existing custom capability. But you have identified a problem that may recur because we have pushed comparability down to the sense level. I would think that we would want this to behave in a way analogous to the en-noun behaves when there are both uncountable and countable senses. DCDuring TALK 18:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I tried and failed. Perhaps a better template trickster than I can make the existing template work. This one didn't even let me put (also not comparable) on the inflection line in the most direct way. I inserted at the appropriate sense as a partial solution. DCDuring TALK 19:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I think it's fine the way it is: each part is self-contained and self-explanatory. Probably better than it would be with an ambiguous "comp. and not comp." in the inflexion line.


 * But can something not pertain to sheep more than another thing? —Michael Z. 2008-05-26 19:23 z 
 * I personally like it the way it is also, namely with the forms in the inflection line and "not comparable" on the sense. I'm not sure, though, that it's user-friendly.&mdash;msh210 &#x2120; 19:35, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * What might make it more user-friendly? An appendix with some explanation of the comparability and gradabiilty of adjectives and adverbs? Change inflection line or sense line template wording? A usage note? Custom wording at the inflection? Or at the sense line? DCDuring TALK 20:23, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think what you and the OP suggested sounds good: make it like .&mdash;msh210 &#x2120; 21:44, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I think the discussion is mooted by the fact that the sense of ovine deemed non-comparable is in fact citably comparable. DCDuring TALK 15:40, 9 October 2008 (UTC)