Talk:late enough dates

RFV discussion: June–July 2019
Any takers? Supposedly used in the phrase "for all late enough dates" - which has zero Google hits. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:43, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Seems SOP to me. Similarly in mathematical texts you can find 'for all large enough numbers', 'for small enough values of p', and so on; AFAICT there's nothing idiomatic about the construction with 'late' and 'dates' slotted in. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 17:37, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I expect it can be attested (barely) in our usual corpora, but the meaning seems SoP: "dates that are sufficiently late (relative to some reference time)". DCDuring (talk) 18:22, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It claims to be "plural only", but "a late enough date" is abundantly attestable.
 * To summarize the attestation-relevant facts:
 * One part of the usage note is wrong: "all late enough dates" is not attestable.
 * The other part of the usage note ("It is also equivalent to the phrase for all sufficiently late dates.) implies that the expression is SoP.
 * The inflection line is wrong: it is not plural only.
 * Delete. DCDuring (talk) 18:36, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * This whole thing is weird to me. What is a "constant" moment in time? I don't even understand the "hurricane Matthew" example sentence -- I'm not sure if this is because there actually is an idiomatic expression here that I don't know. The two quotations, about the baptisms and the sheep, seem to have nothing to do with the definition. Mihia (talk) 20:15, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * The "constant moment" wording seems to me to be a naive attempt to cover the fact that the phrase requires a reference time, either explicit or implicit. Since we have no context for the "hurricane Matthew" usage example, we need to look at actual uses, which are rare for the plural form. DCDuring (talk) 02:41, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Looking at usage of late enough date (ie, singular form) provides much more evidence, especially of the SoPitude of the expression. DCDuring (talk) 02:53, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Of course, I understand the phrases "late enough date" or "late enough dates" in ordinary usage, such as in the quotations given, and in the Google results that I see. However, since I don't understand the "hurricane Matthew" sentence, with or without any additional context that I can easily imagine, I wondered if there might be another special usage. OTOH, maybe the whole entry is just misconceived. Mihia (talk) 09:31, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd go with misconceived, given the outright errors. DCDuring (talk) 11:21, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed. There is no attested usage other than the SOP one. Kiwima (talk) 23:18, 6 July 2019 (UTC)