Talk:nihilarian

Tea room discussion

Note: the below discussion was moved from the Wiktionary:Tea room.

The same people I was talking to above reckon that (deprecated template usage) nihilist is the only one that is correct in the UK. Thryduulf 13:39, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Bishop Berkeley is the apparent coiner. I have made an entry at Nihilarian. His use of the word is often cited in commentaries. I think that might make it a well-know work. As to the entry, it doesn't seem accurate. I find mostly mentions. DCDuring TALK 15:48, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Going on the only citation præsent in our entry for Nihilarian, it is incorrectly defined — it is quite clearly a use of the word as a plural (and thus, common) noun; the citation supports an entry for Nihilarians defined as “Plural form of Nihilarian.” whose lemma should be defined as “An adhærent of Nihilarianism; a nihilist.” or somesuch. As for the UK/US issue: FWIW, I’m an UKian and have never heard this word before; for me, the only valid word is nihilist. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 20:13, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

There is basically only one user of term, the famous Bishop, apparently in works not intended for print. He used it solely to make fun of some mathematicians who dealt with trivialities, in his opinion. I really can't find terribly much usage to base any other definition. Those second-tier dictionaries that have tried to define it, define it as here. DCDuring TALK 20:35, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Should we then mark it as {{pejorative}}? 93.97.214.183 21:09, 27 November 2008 (UTC)