Talk:take a test

take a test
To take: a test. Bit surprised that this was created by DCDuring as IMO, he's usually the first to nominate this sort of thing for deletion. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:22, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Erm, this is probably SOP, but the sense of take that corresponds to it has a bad usex IMO: To participate in, undergo, or experience. Aren't you supposed to take your math final today? When will you take your vacation? I had to take a pee. (That last one only.) Undergo a pee? Undergo an act of peeing, I suppose? Perhaps, but I think "take a pee" really belongs under some other sense of take (along with "take a crap" and similar), one we don't have yet. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 10:34, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Created as a consequence of a related "idiom" write a test being included (now deleted). There is the Pawley criterion that would declare something an idiom if, say, US English has one way of saying it and UK English (or South African English) has another. I am agnostic as to the wisdom of following that particular criterion, but I see the potential for confusion from having just one variety's expression among our entries. DCDuring TALK 16:15, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, one would hope that the sense and the usage examples would be sufficiently coordinated so the sense would be substitutable in the usage example. DCDuring TALK 16:20, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * For reference take a pee was deleted (a few years ago, I think). Mglovesfun (talk) 16:23, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, you're right. Delete. DAVilla 05:57, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Deleted. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 15:49, 28 October 2010 (UTC)