Talk:poster

RFV discussion: October 2019–March 2021
Etymology 1, "one who sets out posts, such as sentinels". I'm not sure what it means, so I reckon that makes the definition a shitpost. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  12:13, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * There is a Dutch word wachtpost, which according to the Dutch Wiktionary can mean “person keeping watch”. I guess post can be used in Dutch as a shortening of wachtpost. I suspect that the editor who added this was Dutch-speaking. See sense 2 of the verb, added by the same editor. If that sense 2 exists, poster would be the standard corresponding agent noun – which does not imply the term is in actual use in this sense. (If used, the pronunciation will not be the same as for the homographs borrowed from English.) --Lambiam 15:17, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, Verbo is a Dutch speaker. There seems to be a specific sense, included by the WNT, for a trade union member who tries to deter strikebreakers.   I doubt that a more broad sense ever existed, there doesn't seem to have been any word poster in Dutch until the trade union movement coined that one. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:58, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Are you okay with it if I delete the current etymology sense and add a new one for the trade-union sense, with a differing pronunciation? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  16:51, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * No objection. I trust that this is pronounced the Dutch way, with an instead of an . The verb of which this is the agent noun should also be added;  does not have a corresponding intransitive sense. Next to the strike-related sense, the verb appears to have a more general sense of keeping a demonstrative presence as part of a protest held at the entrance of a facility against which the protest is directed. It furthermore appears to also have a sense, other than the trade-union one, of “to be on the lookout”, such as by the police being on the lookout for a criminal.  --Lambiam 18:07, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * RFV failed, replaced the disputed sense with an attestable sense. The corresponding definition of still has to be mended. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  15:07, 11 March 2021 (UTC)