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Add green
to https://en-word.net/id/oewn-90016161-s
#1015
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A related term to consider is |
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. |
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. |
'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' |
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https://en-word.net/id/oewn-90016161-s
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Add
green
as a member of the mentioned synsetMotivation
See definition number 9 at: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/green#Adjective
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