Talk:duka la vitabu

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duka la vitabu

Swahili: bookstore. Not a set phrase; literally means "shop of books" or "shop that has books". —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 17:14, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

• Keep assuming this is a common Swahili term for bookstore. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:55, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

  Commonness is not a valid reason for keeping it; idiomaticity is. How is this any more deserving of an entry than duka la vifaru ("rhinoceros shop"), were that to be attestable? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 15:25, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

• RFD kept: no consensus for deletion after months since nomination. Pro deletion: Metaknowledge, pro keeping: Dan Polansky. --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:48, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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duka la vitabu

I'm nominating this one again in hopes that more people will comment. It is the Swahili for bookstore, and is not idiomatic IMO; it literally means "shop of books" or "shop that has books". —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 04:34, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Delete. It's like Russian книжный магазин (knižnyj magazin), which I also think should be deleted (I remember it being nominated before, but there is nothing on its talkpage). Of course, the English book store is unfortunately protected by WT:COALMINE. --WikiTiki89 04:42, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Delete per my comments here: "We don't keep SOP terms [in other languages] just because they translate into non-SOP things in English." - -sche (discuss) 06:27, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

• Keep as a non-English term serving as a common translation of single-word English term; thus, possibly outside of CFI. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:41, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Delete. List translation as {{t|sw|[[duka]] [[la]] [[vitabu]]}}. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 13:39, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Keep per Dan Polansky. In addition, it is a construction that an English-speaker probably would not be able to deduce, and the plural form makes it even more complex. In Swahili, noun-class accord has a much larger footprint than gender accord does in European languages. —Stephen ^(Talk) 04:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Kept as no consensus. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:00, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

--Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 03:51, 19 March 2014 (UTC)