Talk:pleuvable

pleuvable
(French.) Rainable? Equinox ◑ 12:22, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * That word is absurd (what the hell could it mean?) and does not exit. Immediate delete. --Actarus (Prince d&#39;Euphor) 12:29, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * We are looking for verification because languages include and included things beyond any one individual's ken. There are very few people whose on-sight deletions we accept. DCDuring TALK 12:41, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * There are no valid attestations of the word. For the good reason that pleuvoir (“to rain”) is intransitive and impersonal. Can you pleuvoir something? Of course, not! That's why I'm asking for deletion. --Actarus (Prince d&#39;Euphor) 13:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedily deleted. I see there are only four Google Web matches, they aren't all in French, and the most promising is a linguistics book that has the word asterisked as an intentionally erroneous construct. Equinox ◑ 13:03, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Good job, Equinox!--Actarus (Prince d&#39;Euphor) 13:10, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * If something comes here, our process provides for it to remain here for 30 days. I suppose that if the nom "erred" in placing it here, there is nothing to prevent correction with an explanation, such as that provided. The low number of raw web hits (single digits, say) would be strong evidence of likely unattestability.
 * It would be more difficult with the purported English gloss: rainable. There are abundant raw bgc hits (let alone Web hits). I have not found a OneLook dictionary that has it, of course, and all of the first 100 bgc hits are scannos. As rain is a transitive verb, morphogically there is nothing to prevent "rainable" from having a sensible interpretation, however unlikely or rare it might be. ("We can all agree that cats and dogs are not really rainable?") I could not speak with equal confidence about whether "pleuvable" is as plausible in French. I wonder whether Google has had much success in getting French libraries and newspapers to offer material for scanning. DCDuring TALK 16:14, 14 June 2010 (UTC)