Talk:miniaturism

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miniaturism

Verification of the sense of ‘hobby of collecting, creating and/or displaying scale miniature items’ is needed. I'm not quite sure which sense the quotation I supplied pertains to, by the way. — Beobach972 17:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

It is the hobby of the miniaturist² as expressed by the -ist/-ism relationship. — Joe Webster 19:20, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

But is it in use? — Beobach972 20:12, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Isn't -ism automatically implied by -ist? — Joe Webster 23:10, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Not unless you want to claim that the existence of artist, typist, flautist/flutist, and heck, mist and fist automatically makes artism, typism, flautism/flutism, mism, and fism words. (Some of them do actually have enough b.g.c. cites to pass RFV, but are you really claiming that the mere existence of their -ist counterparts would mean we should include them?) —Ruakh_TALK 00:18, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

"Fist" and "mist" do not contain the morpheme -ist. The examples given above seem to be the exceptions rather than the rule. For the adherent/adherence relationship, such as hedonist/hedonism, atheist/atheism, creationist/creationism, etc., they seem pretty inseparable. — Joe Webster 07:30, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, -ed and -ing are included when a verb gets accepted, whether used or not. — Joe Webster 22:48, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

rfvfailed Cynewulf 21:19, 15 June 2007 (UTC)