Talk:I need a Bible

I need a Bible
I question the usefulness of this phrase. As long as you're not a Mennonite you do not need a Bible to survive, and there is almost no situation where you would need to say this. This phrase gets only 62 b.g.c hits, it would fail the proposed Phrasebook CFI. -- Prince Kassad 01:34, 14 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Phrasebook is a bizarre self-parody. Equinox ◑ 01:36, 14 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. It's also hard to imagine a situation where you would say "I need a Bible" in a language you don't speak and expect to get a Bible that you'd find useful, since Christian Bibles generally contain only a vernacular translation. (I suppose that Jew A might conceivably ask Jew B for a Bible, where Jew A is a Hebrew-speaking user of the English Wiktionary and Jew B does not speak Hebrew; but that's a bit far-fetched.) —Ruakh TALK 06:18, 14 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment. Even as a militant atheist I somehow think this phrase might be useful. Just because you say "I want a bible" in a foreign language doesn't necessarily mean you expect a foreign language bible in return - I would imagine many tourist places would supply generic English ones since the language has become a kind of lingua franca in many parts of the world. Still, it's hardly a common phrase, apparently... ---&gt; Tooironic 07:33, 14 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - along with most phrasebook entries that were written by non-English speakers. SemperBlotto 08:20, 14 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete per SB and the Prince. DCDuring TALK 18:46, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps do you have a Bible would meet CFI (whatever that means in this case, I have no idea anymore). But don't rename as you'd essentially have to remove all the translations and start again - useless. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:02, 14 November 2010 (UTC). Oh, delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:54, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Huh? Why would one have to remove all the translations and start again? --Yair rand (talk) 16:20, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per Prince Kassad: fails several candidate criteria for phrasebook entries; finds mere 6800 hits. --Dan Polansky 08:50, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per SB. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 16:24, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Deleted. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 06:04, 17 November 2010 (UTC)