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Another ridiculous flyer

Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I've deleted the synthesis flyer on the following grounds: 1. The poster failed to make his case here as stated. 2. It's nonsense to challenge a poster years after he posted it - he's moved on. 3. All postings are syntheses of other thinking, or they fall foul of original work. This is therefore fish-in-a-barrel contentiousness. IAR. 4. Nothing has been done about it in 2 years. If the poster can't get around to sorting out their hassel themselves, then they lose their case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.242.184.145 (talk) 23:13, 24 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Parody Section, Use of "a noun" Euphemistically

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The Parody section contains the sentence
Nicholas fondles Alisoun's "queynte", a noun, while Absolom is described after his humiliation as having his ardour "yqueynt" or quenched. Rather than defining "queynte", just as the same sentence does for "yqueynt", it uses the parenthetical "a noun" (something that should already be obvious from the sentence, even without knowing what the word means). Here, "a noun" only serves as a euphemism to cover for defining the word as "cunt". This parenthetical (ie, "a noun") should be replaced with an actual definition, if not with the words "her cunt" then something less strong like "her genitalia". However, as Wikipedia has the policy of no euphemisms and a policy of no censorship, I would suggest "her cunt" as the appropriate parenthetical definition at this point in the sentence in question. — al-Shimoni (talk) 03:20, 9 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

While queynte is clearly cognate with cunt, is that actually the best translation into Modern English? The modern word cunt has a level of vulgarity which I don't think was present in the mediaeval word, though I'm not an expert on the subject. TRiG (talk) 01:20, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Use in pop culture

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Amy Farrah Fowler recites a part of the millers tale at a slumber party in Season 4 Episode 8 The 21-Second Excitation of the big bang theory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.46.116 (talk) 13:08, 20 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Completely irrelevant to the info this article should be including. Simply being mentioned in a TV show is not relevant and brings nothing to people researching the story or its themes. Including something for adaptations is much better because it suggests an actual physical presentation of the story. A one off joke is not notable.--Mr. 123453334 (talk) 13:25, 20 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Robin or Robyn?

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The page currently has 2 instances of each spelling, which should we use? --Khajidha (talk) 04:55, 4 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

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