Template talk:equative of

RFD discussion: August 2022
This is an form-of template for adjectives of the equative degree, which are adjectives that mean something along the lines of "as X as". "As big as...", "as good as..." etc. We currently have 37 for Welsh (e.g. ), and 1 for Veps.


 * 1) The important reason for deleting this is because it's ambiguously named, and creates a clash with the (admittedly rare)  for nouns. This is a marginally used case in certain dialects of Mongolian and Ossetian, but was apparently also found in Sumerian historically. As this applies to a different part of speech, we can't really treat it as the same thing. I'm currently working on inflection tables for Mongolian, so expect to be adding a handful of equative (case) noun forms in the near-ish future.
 * 2) The template's obsolete, as I've replaced all uses of it with inflection of.

I can't do the edit myself, but it would be useful if inflection of could be updated so that it adds terms to the language-specific Category:[lang] equative adjectives automatically, which would fully deprecate all functionality of equative of. That should be a trivial change, as the functionality is already there. All current terms were redundantly categorised, so there's no rush, but that won't necessarily apply to any other languages that may have these in the future.

Theknightwho (talk) 08:07, 17 August 2022 (UTC)