Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cora-bora

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The result of the debate was - deleted - SimonP 03:11, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

Cora-bora[edit]

NN neologism invented by some college students. Rl 06:34, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete vanity neologism Gazpacho 06:45, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
?"neologism"? {and ?originality in the original creation]-- is this not Corroboree under a modernised name ? ?Merge'? --Simon Cursitor 07:21, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, in that case Redirect. I thought it was some sort of play on Tora Bora. What language do Australians speak again? Gazpacho 10:04, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- English, but I have never heard Corroboree being referred to as Cora-bora. Megan1967 11:39, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, neologism. Megan1967 09:50, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Neologism. utcursch | talk 11:52, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
Delete a lot: Middlebury College super vanity idiolect. Not a neologism as much as it is a prank on Wikipedia. Geogre 12:00, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Polite Query :: for how many centuries, and in how many cultures, does a word have to be used before it is accepted (by Wikipaedians) as no longer a neologism ?--Simon Cursitor 06:59, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The criteria is rather how wide-spread the use of such a term is. But even if this term was notable, it would be hardly worth an entry in WP and would likely be merged or tagged for a move to the wiktionary. Rl 08:32, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The issue is usage. If a word is used only in a small area (Rochester, MN), it is a regionalism when it has been in use for a while. If a word is used only in a class/profession, it is jargon or slang, but it has to live for a while, and it has to have quite a few speakers. The reason it has to live for a while is that lexicons are always behind the usage (even Wiktionary). Linguistic atlases try to explain and catalog what's happening now, but all lexicons are attempting to explain to someone else what a word means; they are all translations. There can be no someone else if the word is used for a season or a month. However, all of this is kind of irrelevant, because Wikipedia is not Wiktionary. Geogre 11:19, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, vanity. Cora-bora is definitely not a "modernised" name for a corroboree, the word corroboree is still in use. --bainer 13:18, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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