Talk:uninferant

RFV discussion: April–May 2022
Apparently a nonce word only used in the single (Faulkner) citation given. Equinox ◑ 10:15, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 22:27, 4 May 2022 (UTC)


 * No, the citations do not all have the same meaning. Definition: "From which an inference is unable to be made." The 1975 one is pretty much gibberish to me, but the 2020 one refers to a person, so apparently it means the person cannot make an inference, rather than that no inference can be made from the person. Equinox ◑ 22:34, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't see that the definition is substitutable into any of the citations. Can someone see how to reword it? The 1975 Willams cite seems so unwilling to depart far from how Faulkner used the term that it scarcely seems independent. We are stuck trying to infer a definition from morphology, as in non-so-well-attested dead language. DCDuring (talk) 01:07, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I hadn't realized that Faulkner could be as bad as Joyce in this regard: often worthless as a source of unambiguous cites and a positive geyser of lexicographic time-wasters. DCDuring (talk) 01:18, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Not quite as bad as Joyce, Falkner is more at the level of Shakespeare. Kiwima (talk) 22:34, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * "Snopes" in the title of the 2020 source looks like a clear Faulkner reference. I think I'm starting to see a theme here. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:30, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 22:34, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. Can the definition as written be substituted into any of the citations? I think not. I don't think any of the other authors could figure out what Faulkner might have meant by the word and nor could the author of our definition. The 1975 cite is little more that a copy of Faulkner's usage.
 * Is the meaning supposed to be "not providing a basis for inference"? If so, that would not fit the 2020 cite, as Equinox suggests. Accordingly we do not have three cites that support a plausible definition and no cites that support the definition as written. DCDuring (talk) 00:29, 14 May 2022 (UTC)