lets me preview, hyphenate it as war-wood (which we don't have an entry for). (Perhaps it's any wood wrested from the natives in wartime?) I suggest a separate RFV/RFD if you want to pursue that! Equinox ◑ 15:49, 18 October 2010 (UTC) Reply Some editions of Moby Dick, including the earliest ones that b.g.c. Mglovesfun ( talk) 14:13, 18 October 2010 (UTC) Reply Well, since the novel is supposed to be about real whaling in real ships made of real wood, I feel pretty sure about this. I mean Melville's characters were fictional too. Equinox ◑ 10:22, 18 October 2010 (UTC) Reply Ha! If we don't know what it means, we don't know if it's fictional universe only or not. I'd say cryptex is more comparable to Tardis. I couldn't find out what it was, unfortunately. Mglovesfun ( talk) 10:18, 18 October 2010 (UTC) Reply Right, I was thinking of ( deprecated template usage) lashwise (Melville, but not Moby Dick), but you mean ( deprecated template usage) warwood I don't think warwood is a new, sci-fi type of wood that Melville invented, but an unusual (nonce) name for some actual kind of wood that really exists. The word from Moby Dick was just a newly-coined poetic adjective, something along the lines of stormtossed can you remember what it was? Also, Dan Brown sucks :) Equinox ◑ 10:16, 18 October 2010 (UTC) Reply I think it was a noun, somethingwood. Equinox ◑ 09:40, 18 October 2010 (UTC) Reply Didn't you create that Moby-Dick nonce word a few months ago? How is this different? Mglovesfun ( talk) 09:54, 18 October 2010 (UTC) Reply It's different because a "cryptex" is a specific invented thing or device that exists only in that universe. Dan Brown's book is fiction, so its universe (with all of its invented characters, events, and places) is a fictional one. Thoughts? NB see Talk:cryptex Mglovesfun ( talk) 10:38, 15 October 2010 (UTC) Reply I would say that a fictional universe doesn't have to involve anything really "out there" like time travel or elves. ![]() I think this is just a nonce word used in a well-known work, ergo it meets CFI. Is the Da Vinci Code set in a fictional universe? I don't think so. It's used in the Da Vinci Code, which by any imaginable standards is a well known work in English. Equinox ◑ 23:00, 14 August 2013 (UTC) Reply RFV discussion įor some reason, I was thinking about this last night. But yes, a word will usually decline according to its familiar ending. Would the plurals be girltrixes and girltrices? Some help? - BiT 10:27, (UTC) Reply Since this is meant to be a descriptive dictionary, we'd just have to study actual usage. Ok, to rephrase my question does a compound word decline according to the latter word? E.g. Like the word penis, people might not use the plural penes a lot (why the hell would you want to refer to many penes in the first place?), but it's still correct. Robert Ullmann 00:06, (UTC) Reply No I'm not talking about whether it's popular, just grammatically logical. ![]() ![]() Would the plural of this include cryptices, since it is a portmanteau of the Latin word codex (which has the plural codices)? - BiT 00:02, (UTC) Reply With 115 Googles, half of them discussing whether that might be a plural? -) I think not.
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