Talk:desert
Add topicthe first DESERT is the one the pronunciation of which I would especially like. I have always heard it pronounced like DESSERT but the accent on the IPA is on the first syllable.
- dee-ZERT(s) is what you deserve. DEZZ-ert is dry, arid land. There is also dee-ZERT that means to abandon. —Stephen (Talk) 02:20, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Definition order
[edit]The first definition presented appears to be the least common. Not sure what policy is here, but shouldn't the 'deserve/desert' definition be last based on common usage? Also, can a more concise TOC be used, just showing major headings? Not sure what options there are. LaTeeDa (talk) 14:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
- We do this sort of thing all the time. I dont like it either but its clearly not an accident. —Soap— 18:31, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
- For an example, see slot. The definition we list first is clearly by far the less common one, and yet it is similar enough to the common meaning that an English learner might be genuinely confused. —Soap— 00:56, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Sandel quotation
[edit]The quote (for desert in the sense of "what is deserved") that's from Sandel's Justice: What's the right thing to do? is more specifically from the section "Justice, telos, and honor" within chapter 8, "Who deserves what? Aristotle"; it appears on p 187 of the NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010 edition (ISBN 978-0-374-53250-5; which is one year newer than the first edition because it's the paperback). I am very inexperienced in Wiktionary, and thus although I hazily perceive that a citation sufficiently informative to help the interested reader find the actual quotation would require Template:RQ:Sandel Justice or similar, and that this in turn would require a template for works by Sandel (which in turn might require yet more), I'm reluctant to attempt to create these (and probably screw up, creating work for other people). -- Hoary (talk) 00:16, 22 November 2024 (UTC)