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Add `green` to https://en-word.net/id/oewn-90016161-s #1015

Open aclueless opened 3 months ago

aclueless commented 3 months ago

Affected synsets https://en-word.net/id/oewn-90016161-s

Proposed changes Add green as a member of the mentioned synset

Motivation See definition number 9 at: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/green#Adjective

aclueless commented 3 months ago

A related term to consider is go green. Currently I can only find this in Cambridge dictionary.

jmccrae commented 3 months ago

I agree, not having 'green' as a synonym of 'ecofriendly' seems to be a big oversight. I note the oewn-03081365-a is a very similar sense, but I think we can keep both.

For 'go green', I think the only question is compositionality, but I think it is okay and we have other terms such as 'go Dutch' that are similar.

arademaker commented 3 months ago

I would vote against 'go green,' but the limits are always hard to impose. The argument "because we already have X" is not strong enough to me.

jmccrae commented 3 months ago

'go green' has 233 occurrences so is certainly a term with enough significance, and is more frequent than similar terms ('go red' @ 109 and 'go black' @ 103).

The compositionality question is whether this synset for 'go' already covers the meaning of the collocation. I would say probably not but it is a borderline case...

@arademaker is right that 'go Dutch' is a poor justification as this term has not much to do with the Netherlands, where as 'go green' can be paraphrased as 'become ecofriendly'