Talk:salable
Latest comment: 17 years ago by Jeffqyzt
Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups:
- saleable: fa.works - 23 Jun 1981 by Lars.Ericson
- Mr. Liddle also seems to forget that the reason PARC efforts are so immensely saleable these days is precisely BECAUSE of their participation and open-ness (as opposed to IBM, say) in the ARPA/university research community, and not in spite of it.
- salable: fa.space - 14 Dec 1981 by Bill Vaughan
- Your power plant will actually be producing salable power less than 25% of the time.
- salability: net.movies.sw - 7 Jun 1983 by AMSLER
- I even think there is reason to suppose that Lucas made the plot up BEFORE he was turned to the Dark side of the Force of money--and gave in to those begging for more merchandisable muppet toys in the film, more cuteness, more salability.
- saleability: net.sf-lovers - 1 Nov 1985 by A Andrews
- Found the best indication I had of the saleability of stories was to submit them to a friend of Analog leanings for comment.
- saleables: alt.atheism - 1 Jun 1992 by Ka Chun Yu
- The group Bad Religion also has lots of anti-Christian saleables.
- salables: alt.support.attn-deficit - 20 Dec 1996 by John Palmer
- One note: the world doesn't have finite resources insofar as salables are concerned; as new services crop up, more "consumables" exist, and can be bought and enjoyed.
- saleability's: rec.collecting.books - 21 Jul 2002 by Sandy Malcolm
- As far as saleability's concerned, things may have changed recently, but my impression is still that old bibles/BCPs, at least from the 19th century, are generally considered hard to sell in the UK, because there are so many of them around, and because, to be honest, not many people are interested in them.
— Hippietrail 12:56, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
This appears to be a chiefly US variant of saleable.
The two definitions are inconsistent.
The definition of salable is ungrammatical.
- unsigned comment: 05:17, April 6, 2006 user:217.207.145.188
- Cleaned. Jeffqyzt 20:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
RFC Comments[edit]
- "From: WT:RFC"
This appears to be a chiefly US variant of saleable.
The two definitions are inconsistent.
The definition of salable is ungrammatical.
- unsigned comment: 05:17, April 6, 2006 user:217.207.145.188
- Cleaned. Jeffqyzt 20:42, 5 September 2006 (UTC)