Talk:verbate

RFV discussion: July 2024

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verbate

I added the one cite which the OED interprets as being this sense; I also added two other cites which seem to be two different senses to the Citations page. Forms of this word (verbates, verbating) also occur as an error for verbatim occasionally. It does not initially seem like any one sense (or logical combined sense) of verbate has even two let alone three cites, but I would be happy to be mistaken. - -sche (discuss) 20:56, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Not sure how usable these are, but this blog post collects examples of two relatively recent journalism-specific senses: one a verb meaning "transcribe" and one an adjective, as you say, meaning "verbatim" (or maybe a noun meaning "verbatim quote" - "Here's the full verbate on John Kasich's women/kitchen comment"). I've added a couple of examples of the verb to get that up to 3 cites. Smurrayinchester (talk) 09:00, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! The verb passes. I'll leave off adding any noun or adjective sense of verbate until more cites exist; I suspect the one use of verbates to mean verbatim may be using ety 5 of -s (which presumably also exists as -es), shortening and then informalizing or 'hypocorizing' verbatim. I suspect the uses of verbating to mean verbatim are errors, whether of transcription or typesetting or OCR or just of spelling. - -sche (discuss) 17:13, 28 July 2024 (UTC)