Talk:yell silently
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Do you feel we should include all instances of any rhetorical device that anyone is inclined to enter (subject to attestation, of course) ? DCDuring TALK * Holiday Greetings! 16:05, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
- Delete. This isn't even as common as “scream silently”. —RuakhTALK 16:17, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
- Unsure. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:37, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
- I assumed on seeing the nomination that the phrase meant to quietly talk in a rebuking tone of voice. Bgc does not seem to have it that way: all its hits for the phrase are either for our current definition (to have a strong but unarticulated emotion) or ambiguous. So keep as undecipherable from parts.—msh210℠ 17:52, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
No consensus. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:21, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Msh, wouldn't that be to yell quietly? Delete. DAVilla 04:07, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
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The first deletion request was inconclusive. SOP. Per utramque cavernam 10:46, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
- Keep, per msh in Talk:yell silently: "I assumed on seeing the nomination that the phrase meant to quietly talk in a rebuking tone of voice. Bgc does not seem to have it that way: all its hits for the phrase are either for our current definition (to have a strong but unarticulated emotion) or ambiguous. So keep as undecipherable from parts." From my perspective, we do not say this in Czech and I would not know I can say this in English to the effect described in the entry. The fact that this is not literal speech is of note. However, yell silently, yell quietly, scream silently at the Google Books Ngram Viewer. gives me a pause: the term seems rather one-off and therefore possibly a non-lexicalized rhetorical construction, in this case oxymoron. screem silently gives less doubt. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:14, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
- RFD kept: no consensus after many months. To address my hesitation given I am the sole keeper: over 5 months have elapsed during which people cold post. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:53, 16 February 2019 (UTC)