Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of heterological words


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The result of the debate was delete as described below [#List_of_heterological_words]. — Feb. 28, '06 [10:58] 

List of heterological words
Pointless. We have List of autological words, and every adjective that isn't autological is heterological by definition (except the word "heterological"). The overwhelming majority of words are heterological. - Sikon 04:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Bobby1011 04:55, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * BJAODN, it's amusing, but unmaintainably large Night Gyr 13:07, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. JPD (talk) 14:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete- there are hundreds of thousands of words in the English language, and most of them are heterological. To include them all would make the list too huge to be meaningful. Unless there's some criterion for deciding which are "good" heterological words this list will be pretty much arbitrary. Reyk 19:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * BJAODN and delete. Stifle 15:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's intended at a joke. Better than deleting would be making a redirect to List of autological words, where it currently says: "(A word which is not autological is heterological. These are also listed)," which I find a bit wry.  Obviously, the criterion to be an interestingly heterological word is that it represent a category that is generally applied to words: e.g. "long" is not a long word.  It's not interesting that "tentacled" isn't tentacled, because we don't generally think of words as falling into tentacled and untentacled categories, whereas we do categorize words as long and short.  If we were to keep it, with a criterion for determining which heterological words should be listed, that's the criterion you want. -GTBacchus(talk) 16:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)


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