Talk:riddle me that, Batman

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Doesn't make any sense. No formatting. Bad capitalisation. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:15, 2 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

Per https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Tea_room/2015/November#Riddle_me_that.2C_Batman. My keyboard broke yesterday, and I am using a virtual keyboard to type this key by key, hence the formatting issues. Batman is capitalised because it is a proper noun. Tharthan (talk) 15:20, 2 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
Uh... no. The arguments above demonstrate the exact opposite. It is a fixed phrase. I don't know what hat you pulled that statement out of. There are also enough attestations of this phrase to warrant inclusion. Tharthan (talk) 17:12, 8 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
I wonder whether the this "forthcoming" - that "just passed" pattern is followed widely. DCDuring TALK 12:52, 9 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
I would regard it as a temporal reinterpretation of the use of this for something physically close and that for something distant. As such, it seems natural enough, but is basically a metaphorical usage.— Pingkudimmi 07:44, 10 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
  • RFD kept as no consensus for deletion. Keep: Aɴɢʀ, Renard Migrant, Tharthan, 0.5 * Pingkudimmi; delete: SemperBlotto, bd2412, Tooironic, P Aculeius, msh210, WikiTiki89. Unclear or abstain: Dan Polansky, DCDuring. If more votes come soon, can be reopened, or else it gets archived. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:47, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Reply