Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oatha

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 01:07, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Oatha
As a native speaker of Tamil, I feel this is not notable enough to warrant a separate article. In the local culture, use of expletives in formal documents or before elders is considered indecent, though most people use it during their teens and a few years after that and also occasionally later when they are in a verbal fight. Also, the English transliteration seems to be incorrect.

If Wikipedians feel it should be present, I would suggest the following version:

Othaa is a Tamil expletive. In the local culture, use of expletives in formal documents or before elders is considered indecent, though used by younger people in casual conversations and by some of the older people when they are quareling or fighting.

The word corresponds roughly to fucker. The root of the word is believed to be Ol, which means to "fuck".

-- Sundar 11:56, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete, not notable. Stombs 06:51, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * I will trust the nominator's assesment of this subject and vote Delete Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 14:58, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, dictionary definition. Megan1967 02:18, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, then, but wouldn't interlanguage wiktionaries be nice? Samaritan 07:58, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * wiktionary.com is a little-known interlanguage wiktionary. Kappa 11:34, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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