Talk:Dinner
Okay, Derek, you've defined it; but can you serve it? I skipped lunch, and I'm absolutely famished... --Ed Poor
<heh>, <heh> First things, first, Ed, look after the inner man properly and you'll have more energy to create better articles. I made sure that I had my dinner before I rewrote the article. ;-) Sorry I can't give you anything more 'filling'. -- Derek Ross
May I ask why you redefined what was already available under the less ambiguous term supper? -montréalais
- Sorry but I don't think that it is unambiguous. I live in Britain and as far as I'm concerned supper is a light meal to be had before bedtime. Dinner is not supper. I'm afraid that I will be changing supper to reflect that information too. The main reason that I redefined it was that the article needed to describe the actual structure of the meal and the previous version didn't really do that. If you look at High Tea you'll find that I didn't need to do such a wholesale reconstruction as you provided good solid info there -- as you have done in supper for the most part.-- Derek Ross
Well, as you see fit. Please do the following, however:
- retain the information in supper (move it to dinner if you prefer);`
- note that the word "supper" refers to dinner in Canada and the US, and that "dinner" sometimes means "lunch";
- add links to dinner to breakfast, brunch, lunch, high tea, supper, and dessert.
Other than that, I leave it in your capable hands. montréalais
- I sit down to dinner quite often in the United States and only have one course. Your description might be good for "formal dinner" or some such. --rmhermen
- To Montréalais: No problem, I'll do all that. Your description is obviously fine for North America, so I don't intend to remove it. It just doesn't describe a British (or at any rate a Scottish) supper.
- To rmhermen: I'd hesitate to call a one course dinner, dinner. It would seem more like a generic meal to me. However I'm no expert on US dinners. Each to his own. If I'm just describing British dinners, you should add a note to the article.
- -- Derek Ross