User talk:Mdssm

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Critera for inclusion for Serbian
I've noticed that User Dijan has a mild affinity towards orientalisms. Adding Turkish loanwards is, of course, perfectly OK, but pushing them as a standard language when they are not is not OK. Someone being "native speaker" cannot possibly be reasonable argument, either pro or contra a specific lexeme. One may find it dubious that the basic term such as that for uncle can have so little Google hits (amidža, daidža) :)

I suggest that for further such words you cite specific paper dictionaries that mark the lexeme as dialectal, regional, nonstandard or whatever. For example, Hrvatski enciklopedijski rječnik (and a few other ones) marks as a "regionalism", so I happily marked it as such). I suggest you do the same for any words you find "suspicious". And you can also provide references in ===References=== header at the very bottom. Cheers :) --Ivan Štambuk 17:41, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

One addition advantage of using context labels, such as and  [no longer in use], is that the meanings/words carrying it are not listed in language statistics in WT:STATS, i.e. - they fall into same category such as misspellings, slang, archaisms etc., not being representative examples of lexemes. --Ivan Štambuk 17:54, 6 January 2008 (UTC)