Talk:skip a generation

Sum of parts?
This seems like SoP to me. A trait could "skip four generations", or six, or seven, or it could "skip my brother's family but affect mine". Equinox ◑ 04:48, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

RFD discussion: February–April 2021
SOP per Talk:skip a generation. PUC – 23:20, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. Equinox ◑ 02:55, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Imetsia (talk) 15:59, 13 February 2021 (UTC)


 * I would keep this one anyway. It's not all that clear how you would get the meaning from skip and generation. bd2412 T 07:18, 17 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep &mdash; Dentonius 08:40, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Vote is stricken. Imetsia (talk) 00:13, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete, --Robbie SWE (talk) 19:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Noting the existence also, in the same sense, of jump a generation and miss a generation. Mihia (talk) 01:33, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * "Skip" is orders of magnitude more common. bd2412 T 07:13, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. —Mahāgaja · talk 11:30, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Origin as mid-19th century phraseology indicates to me that it wasn't natural to say 'skip a generation' before then. Begins in the year 1842 on Google Books/archive.org --Geographyinitiative (talk) 02:35, 5 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Perhaps the informal verb "skip" just wasn't used like that before then. Equinox ◑ 02:37, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete; I'd say the meaning can be parsed quite easily. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  19:54, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * RFD-deleted. Imetsia (talk) 00:13, 3 April 2021 (UTC)