Talk:pseudocide

RFV discussion (1)
Some b.g.c. hits that might cover these meanings, but not in any other dictionary (nor even Wikipedia.) --Connel MacKenzie 22:54, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Lots of Goggle hits, including the BBC News and a medical publication: --EncycloPetey 23:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1972 — Hamblin, R.L., & Jacobsen, R.B. "Suicide and pseudocide: a reanalysis of Maris's data." J Health Soc Behav. 13(1):99-109. (Mar)
 * 2000 — BBC News, Pseudocide: Doing a Reggie Perrin (14 Feb)
 * The Americans know it as pseudocide. The British refer to it as doing a Reggie Perrin. ...Some suspect Lord Lucan of pseudocide after he vanished in 1974 on the night of a murder in the Lucan household. His family, though, are convinced the peer killed himself for real.
 * 2001 — Janet Tashjian, The Gospel According to Larry
 * I am lying on my bed doing my homework in Greek and Latin roots for Advanced English. 'Ped' for foot, 'homo' for man, 'nym' for name. I sit with the dictionary in front of me, coming up with as many words as I can to complete the assignment. Pedestrian, homicide, pseudonym . . . I have more than thirty of them. By accident — that's always how these life-changing things happen — I connect two halves that don't seem like a word until I look it up. 'Pseudo', false; and 'cide,' to kill = pseudocide. To pretend to kill (yourself).

Added first two cites to page. Third fails use-mention. DAVilla 21:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Here's a third quote then (already added to entry): --EncycloPetey 02:36, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2005 — Philip M. McCarthy, An Assessment of the Range and Usefulness of Lexical Diversity Measures and the Potential of the Measure of Textual, Lexical Diversity (MTLD). PhD Dissertation, The University of Memphis.
 * Osgood examined suicide notes and compared them to pseudocide notes predicting that greater motivational levels would lead to more frequent use of high frequency words.

RFV passed. DAVilla 17:27, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

RFV discussion (2)
"An emotional death that leaves the body alive but barely functioning." Equinox ◑ 21:46, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * This was the only ever contribution of User:Dragonfire75, which included a third definition "killing something fake". The word's so silly that I'm not sure it can be cited - what is an "emotional death"? Mglovesfun (talk) 17:54, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that the three quotations we have all support the same meaning. 'Pseudocide' on Google Books seems to represent a lot of meanings, almost like a protologism created separately by different people at different times with totally different meanings. Only one of the three supports the current definition unambiguously. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Deleted. Equinox ◑ 01:58, 2 October 2010 (UTC)