Talk:Jock
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This looks like more of a dictionary entry. . . .
Plus I don't totally agree with it. Like most Scotsman, I'm often nicknamed Jock by non-Scots English speakers who don't know me or my name but are trying to be friendly. It's never sounded offensive to me. -- Derek Ross
- I agree that it looks like a dictionary entry. IMHO it is a fine line to cross between dictionary and encyclopedia. I have an Encyclopedic Dictionary at home, not sure where that one fits in. The problem with racial offensive remarks is they are only offensive if taken so by the recipient. -- User:Jim McKeeth
- It all depends on the underlying meaning. When I lived in England, I used to get very upset if anyone called me "Jock". Unfortunately, an old school friend of mine, also living in England, would refer to us as "Jocks". Made me cringe every time I heard it. I considered the modern meaning to imply that I was some kind of yokel - the british version of a hill-billy, if you will.
Surely an additional item should be added to this? Jock is also a slang term for a radio DJ.- I suggest that you add further meanings to the Wiktionary article for this word. Uncle G 12:22, 2005 May 1 (UTC)
- Actually, it's a pretty straightforward distinction. The dictionary takes articles about words (their pronunciations, etymologies, meanings, inflections, relations to other words, translations, usages, and so forth), and the encyclopaedia takes articles about concepts, people, places, and things. If this were an article about a concept/person/place/thing named jock, then it would be an encyclopaedia article. But it's an article about the meanings of the word "jock" (which Wiktionary has, as usual, managed to do a better job of in days than Wikipedia has done in years). This should be turned into a disambiguation article. Uncle G 12:22, 2005 May 1 (UTC)
- It all depends on the underlying meaning. When I lived in England, I used to get very upset if anyone called me "Jock". Unfortunately, an old school friend of mine, also living in England, would refer to us as "Jocks". Made me cringe every time I heard it. I considered the modern meaning to imply that I was some kind of yokel - the british version of a hill-billy, if you will.
