Talk:I need a sanitary napkin

I need a sanitary napkin
Very obscure phrase, it gets only five hits on b.g.c. I have no idea who would use this, anyway. -- Prince Kassad 23:46, 4 January 2011 (UTC)


 * ? I think most adult women who don't use tampons would use this.--Prosfilaes 03:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I've never heard it called a sanitary napkin either, so if it is to be included there should be a sanitary towel equivalent. —JakeybeanTALK 03:16, 5 January 2011 (UTC)


 * To provide counterpoint, I have never heard it called a sanitary towel, but have heard sanitary napkin. Another common generic name would be maxi pad, but a googlefight amongst the three puts sanitary napkin at the top of the heap.  As to who would use this...a menstruating women who is caught in a foreign country unprepared?  I do hate the phrasebook though so I guess delete.  -  03:29, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * If you hate the phrasebook then why are you participating in a phrasebook entry's RFD? --Yair rand (talk) 09:39, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * One valid reason would be that this is a wiki. Full stop.
 * Another is to provide a useful datapoint, particularly needed in the absence of any consensus on what makes a good phrasebook entry. DCDuring TALK 11:02, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. "Sanity napkin" is not exactly rare in the U.S. (unlike "sanitary towel", which I'd never encountered until now), but I would do a double-take if I heard it (as opposed to seeing it written). A flight attendant might get away with it ("In the event of a water landing, your sanity napkin may be used as a flotation device"), but I don't think anyone else could. If a non-native speaker used it . . . I would probably err on the safe side and try to help them get their hands on a maxi pad, but part of me would wonder if they thought the term meant something else, and if I was about to create a very awkward moment . . . —Ruakh TALK 03:37, 5 January 2011 (UTC)


 * (Unless they asked it with a look of panicked embarrassment on their face, in which case I guess I wouldn't wonder. —Ruakh TALK 03:40, 5 January 2011 (UTC))


 * Delete (along with lots of others). We just need an entry for "I need" that can be followed by any noun phrase. SemperBlotto 08:30, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * That's completely impossible for many languages, and anyway, that would entirely ruin the point of having a phrasebook. --Yair rand (talk) 09:36, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Which languages? DCDuring TALK 11:02, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per erm, everyone. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:09, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, delete. For the sake of clarity, I do not oppose Phrasebook as such. --Hekaheka 14:21, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * No comment on this phrase, but this is a hell of a way to create a phrasebook. Surely phrasebook editors could do more productive work if there were clear rules on what is and is not acceptable, like there is non-brand-names under CFI.--Prosfilaes 20:56, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * To put it in perspective, there are exactly as many Google Books hits for this as for "don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die". If we have agreed on little else, phrasebook entries should be common. DAVilla 06:58, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Deleted. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:40, 20 February 2011 (UTC)