User talk:Burzuchius

Chuck Entz (talk) 21:55, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Unadapted borrowing note
Hi, I don't think adding es-unadapted to pages is a great idea. For one, we often refer to the RAE for definitions, etymologies, etc, but Wiktionary is based on descriptive, not prescriptive use. In older texts, and commonly in practice, you won't see e.g. bestseller in italics. It's not an intrinsic property of the word; it's just one typographic preference. I believe this is important for Spanish speakers to know, but it's one of many linguistic features that just doesn't belong in a specific dictionary entry. Ultimateria (talk) 02:12, 1 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Adding to this, I rolled back a few of your recent edits that only added this template to the Etymology and italics to the es-noun headword and I hope this causes no hard feelings. For Spanish entries, the headword line should be a single head or one of the es- part of speech templates without any additional formatting. The Etymology section is simply not the place for es-unadapted. If it's to be used at all, it would belong in the Usage Notes like es-note-noun-f-starting-with-stressed-a and es-note-noun-mf. Having said that, I was not previously aware of this RAE prescription and I'm happy to have learned it. Thank you.