Talk:Porch sitting

"porch sitting" expression, not to be taken literally

Porch sitting is not just about sitting on a porch. Its about the socialization which is referred to by many reliable sources already found, as "porch sitting". A porch in the back of the house is called a deck, having the same purpose. It is also called a veranda, whose Wikipedia article even says "A veranda or verandah is a roofed opened gallery or porch." Dream Focus 13:51, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

We in no way can make that assumption. Socializing on a porch should go under porch, this should be about porch sitting.--Yaksar (let's chat) 13:54, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Do you honestly believe that "porch sitting" is just the act of sitting while on a porch? Read some of the news articles about it. Dream Focus 14:50, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

@Yaksar: Dream Focus is correct. See the article as it is now (as you may well have done in the past seven years, sorry!) and the sources. "Porch sitting" ≠ "sitting on a porch". --Thnidu (talk) 18:11, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Informal merge discussion

Anyone interested please see:

• Talk:Porch#Informal merge discussion concerning the possible consolidation of articles such as
• Screened porch,
• Sleeping porch,
• Veranda and this article into:
  • Porch

not in linguistics

§ In popular culture says

"Porch-sitters" form a recognized group in marketing, literature, and linguistics.

The last of these interested me, as a linguist, so I looked at the reference, which I have filled in here from the sketchy one that was in the article:

Atwood, E. Bagby (April 1954). "[Review of] An Introduction to a Survey of Scottish Dialects by Angus McIntosh". Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 53 (2). University of Illinois Press: 226. ISSN 0363-6941. Retrieved 2017-11-23. [...] keen and sober analysis of dialectal problems has especial value to students of American English — to us who have long been plagued by vacationers and front-porch-sitters with their random and haphazard jottings of quaint sayings. {{cite journal}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 12 (help)

That certainly doesn't sound like a "recognized group", or a term of art of any kind, at least not in my field. And this is the only occurrence of "porch" in the review. Consequently I have removed the mention of linguistics. --Thnidu (talk) 18:43, 23 November 2017 (UTC)