Okay. But if we're talking about closing the "kill" question, shouldn't we also be talking about closing the "kill" question? I'm agnostic on the question of closing either of them, by the way, but it seems to me that if we close/require edits on one we should close/require edits on the other.
Our tour is back to unicorns and daisies: latin.stackexchange.com/tour It seems that the previous example post lost one upvote due to the shortening edits and became ineligible.
@JoelDerfner The first one was framed much better, and I would let it be. The "killing" question is worse, but admittedly similar. I would be happy to reopen it, if the question was narrowed down to a couple of words with similar dictionary entry.
@Cerberus Yes, that'd be impossible. It's not clear at all how to count how many words for killing a language has, and to get a good count in a given language you need excellent command of that language. That takes as far beyond Latin.
I've been hesitant to make changes since I don't want to step on the OP's toes.
But now it seems that they (!) abandoned the question, so we might just as well reformulate it as we wish. I don't know which formulation would be best, though, since they did not explain what is it exactly that they want.
I would suggest picking three words that seem to have an identical entry in some dictionary, and then ask for their differences in meaning and usage. How does that sound? I'm open to suggestions.
@Cerberus @JoonasIlmavirta To me it'd be ideal if the OP gave us some context, or at least direction, but I've gone ahead and assumed that he (!) is looking for an overview-type answer, like the "think" question appears to. I've included wording that makes it clear that we can't provide something comprehensive.
As updated it's still broader than I'm used to, but given CM's nice answer to the think question I'm inclined to think that it can be answered in its current format.
Should we give the list I gave in my first comment as a comment there? It might help someone get started to have a slightly longer list: caedere, occidere, trucidare, iugulare, concidere, effligere, mactare, letare.
FWIW, my 2c would be to allow the current version of it, which is a much better question than the original, but I think the original would have been fine, too. Not a good question, but fine.
What made me second-guess that was when I started editing a question of his: I always assumed that the mal-formed lists were just bad use of markdown, but the source shows that he purposely misnumbers it...or maybe just deleted extra questions and forgot to change the numbering
so if I start from 2, the list will go 2,3,4,5 no matter what I put afterwards
The weirdest thing is the backslash before the period in the last item, which doesn't appear in the post but unindents the list item...it kills my eyes! :D
