Talk:Pivot

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[edit] Move to Wiktionary?

Notice Informal vote: Should this article be moved to the Wiktionary?
  • Disagree. It's a useful disambiguation page which gives some extra information and links to detailed articles. The first paragraph looks like a dicdef but only because no-one has taken the time to expand it. --Pablo D. Flores 29 June 2005 10:27 (UTC)
  • Disagree. I have reorganized it a bit to make it into a more standard disambiguation page. IMHO, only the second paragraph (etymology) now belongs in wiktionary. --Macrakis 29 June 2005 13:28 (UTC)
I moved the 2nd paragraph to wiktionary and removed the move template. --Macrakis 29 June 2005 13:36 (UTC)


[edit] Pronunciation

IMPORTANT: Is "pivot" pronounced "'pivet" (the English one, as in "privet") or "pi'vou" (based on the French pronounciation)? Everyone around here at German universities uses the French one, but my dictionary tells me "pivot" has identical meaning both in English and French and thus could well be pronounced the English way. And since no professor or student ever seems to know how to proncounce things - e.g. "ubiquishous computing" (ubiquitous computing), "trail" (trial), not to speak of names like "Lebesgue" ... - there's no way for me to find out by asking. Comments here or on de:Benutzer Diskussion:Thetawave, English welcome. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.180.24.184 (talk • contribs) 07:32, May 23, 2005 (UTC).

[edit] Missing entry/article

I read loads of books. Some of them contain military, and therefore rank names. This also happens in movies. But what the *** is a Pivot-Major/Pivot ? "Against all Odds" by Elizabeth Moon has someone "busted down" to Pivot, so it's a rank? Then why can't I find a clearcut definition of what rank it is or is equivalent to? This disambiguation page would seem the ideal place to enlighten me and others like me. (Oops, wasn't logged in when I wrote this originally.) Lokimaros 00:59, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages are not really intended to give information, but to direct readers to articles that do give that information (in this one, that rule has been somewhat loosened, but it shouldn't). If you do find out about a "pivot" rank, then by all means collect the information and write something about it, maybe creating a new article Pivot (rank). —Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 01:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC)