Talk:stop to think

RFD discussion: August–December 2018
IMO pretty transparent and should therefore not have an entry. --Robbie SWE (talk) 06:26, 21 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. It's not an accurate definition, and it's SoP. --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 23:23, 21 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per StMin. Equinox ◑ 23:25, 21 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fay Freak (talk) 18:47, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Sum of parts. Delete. ---&#62; Tooironic (talk) 00:29, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete, SOP (compare stop to ponder, stop to consider, etc.). Per utramque cavernam 10:32, 23 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per PUC. - -sche (discuss) 05:09, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 22:27, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep: We don't say it in Czech, and therefore it is general:idiomatic, while not enwikt:idiomatic. Furthermore, it is ambiguous (does it mean "stop thinking?"), and is in Merriam-Webster (WT:LEMMING), which marks it as an idiom. The reader better off with the entry. The definition is somewhat inaccurate, it seems, and could be fixed along MW lines. stop to ponder and stop to consider result from synonymous replacements, and such is expected to work. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:28, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's ambiguous. Verb + to-infinitive and verb + ing-form generally have different meanings in English (compare the difference between "I regret doing something" and "I regret to inform you"). "I stopped to V" means "I stopped doing something else so that I could V", not "I stopped Ving". As a side note, the definition doesn't seem quite right to me either—"stop to think" doesn't mean "consider" but rather "stop to consider something". —Granger (talk · contribs) 13:29, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you, my mistake about the ambiguity. Out of curiosity, I checked . The other points stand, I think. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:56, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The M-W definition is "to take a moment to think about something", which seems pretty close to SOP to me. The phrase "stop to consider" can be used with roughly the same meaning as "stop to think" (though of course "consider", being transitive, requires an object). "Stop to ponder" sounds slightly less normal to me, but I think that's because of the meaning of "ponder", which implies slow, drawn-out thinking. The fact that you don't say it in Czech is interesting, but the phrase still seems SOP to me, especially when I stop to consider the example of "stop to consider". Delete. —Granger (talk · contribs) 14:11, 23 September 2018 (UTC)