Talk:I need a bath

I need a bath
This is too vague. What kind of bath does the speaker need? Does the speaker need a bath tub? Do they need to wash themselves? Do they need a bathroom? —CodeCat 14:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Seeing as bath has three wildly different meanings, this cannot ever be accurate. It would fail the proposed phrasebook CFI, so send to RFD -- Prince Kassad 15:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)


 * There is also I need a guide, which simply lists two possible senses. Couldn't the same be done here? —CodeCat 15:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * For I need a guide it's better because the two meanings are very similar, and from the word guide you can understand the person wants something to lead him, be it a book or a person. You can't do this for bath - you have no idea what the person wants. -- Prince Kassad 15:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I need a bath
This is way too ambiguous. What kind of bath does the speaker need? Does he need a bath tub? Does he need something to wash himself? Does he need a bathroom? There's absolutely no way to guess from this phrase, which makes it unsuitable for a phrasebook. -- Prince Kassad 10:46, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think, according to usage, most of the time this is going to refer to needing to take a bath. However I think we probably need to research some Google Book hits - for a start, how many are there, and how many refer to taking a bath (washing oneself in a bath tub). I think anything less than 200 for the latter and it could be consider too rare to be "extremely common". Mglovesfun (talk) 11:43, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The form "you need a bath" is more common, unsurprisingly. Maybe we should give that a phrasebook entry? --Mat200 11:59, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure. DAVilla 19:34, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Surely I need a shower would be more common and useful anyway... ---&gt; Tooironic 20:23, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Deleted by DAVilla who 'moved' it and replaced the entire content with something else. It's probably best if I do a delete and selective restore to show that DAVilla is the only author of this entry. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:03, 22 December 2010 (UTC)