MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
Wikipedia should not define individual words, it's
not a dictionary, but if
encyclopedic articles can be written about phrases (like the recent FA Bush
quote) and words (or rather the concept behind the word), there's nothing
wrong with creating lists to make them easily searchable. For example, I
have nothing against a list of phrases.
I agree. There is a distinction between phrases that have become a part
of the language, and the kind of quotation that belongs in Wikiquote.
One possible distinction is that a person with a normal ability in
English will understand a quotation on a literal level when he first
reads it.
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