Talk:underway

RFV discussion: July–August 2019
"(computer science) A subroutine." The single cited book is actually reproducing this academic paper by a German, and I think the word is a single NNES's mistake or invention. The paper also has e.g. irradiate misused for radiate. Equinox ◑ 15:34, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It does look like an NNES (handy abbreviation) error. German does have the adverb unterwegs ("en route, in transit, underway"). But it is hard to see how Weg ("way, path") could be made to mean routine or program. DCDuring (talk) 15:41, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The word is used once more in the paper, in the (apparently translated) text of an assignment: “The effort involved in implementing phonecode depends on how many mistakes you make underways.” Both uses are consistent with the hypothesis that they are meant to be adverbs, being miscalques of . If you replace the term each time by “in the process”, you get correct and understandable English. Conclusion: this supposed sense is based on a misunderstanding resulting from assigning the wrong POS to a mistranslation that – if that is not already enough of a problem – has only one independent attestation. So it is wrong in all conceivable ways (and perhaps also some inconceivable ones). --Lambiam 18:34, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:35, 4 August 2019 (UTC)