Template talk:semantic loan

RFM discussion: January 2018–May 2020

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Template:semantic loan and Template:learned borrowing

Should we perhaps rename these to match Template:borrowed? At the very least I suggest that {{sl}} is renamed to {{sbor}}. —Rua (mew) 21:22, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

I was thinking about this. I know we went down the other route already, but I'd prefer we use nouns for all of them; I feel it makes more sense on a conceptual point of view.

We'd keep these as is (or {{semantic loan}} > {{semantic borrowing}}? Is that used?), and change those:

• {{borrowed}} > {{borrowing}}
• {{inherited}} > {{inheritance}} (that sounds rather clumsy though)
• {{derived}} > {{derivation}}

{{learnedly borrowed}} sounds clumsy; {{semantically loaned}} (or {{semantically borrowed}}?) and {{calqued}} are passable.

And we have {{back-formation}}, {{cognate}}, etc. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 21:40, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

If we must have consistency, I think it would be less confusing for them all to be nouns rather than all adjectives, so we should move {{borrowed}} to {{borrowing}}, {{derived}} to {{derivation}}, and {{inherited}} to {{inheritance}}. However, I actually don't see that consistency is required here; I find nothing wrong with having some of our Foreign derivation templates being adjectives and others being nouns. —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 11:40, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Not moved. User:Per utramque cavernam, feel free to propose moving the other templates to nounal titles if you feel consistency is desirable. - -sche (discuss) 17:28, 3 May 2020 (UTC)