Talk:loquerisne anglice

RFV discussion: October 2020–January 2021
Latin. Tagged by Sasha Gray Wolf on 22 November 2019, not listed:

“Compare Google & Google Books.” J3133 (talk) 06:51, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * But that’s the correct way to say “do you speak English?” in Latin. Although, it is maybe unrealistic to ask this in Latin. Fay Freak (talk) 23:38, 1 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Is it correct? Is it anglice or Anglice? Or isn't it "loquerisne linguam Anglicam?" which gets 1 GB result? And even if correct, if there's no attestation, the correctness doesn't matter at all. What about "Loquerisne Latine?" or "Loquerisne linguam Latinam?" which do get more GB hits? --17:18, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * All of them are. The capitalization of nation and language names in Latin is controversial, and it is also a naïve assumption that every spelling a term is included in needs to be attested. I am not sure phrasebook entries need to be attested. Phrasebook phrases should be common, true, so one reasonably expects attestation for those in living languages, but what about dead languages? There is a limit, sure, so that adding certain sentences in Gothic or Akkadian would be surreal, but again in Latin it is not so arbitrary. Fay Freak (talk) 23:44, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Am really wondering when a Latin phrasebook would prove useful. When visiting the Vatican City?? — SGconlaw (talk) 11:03, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Or when asking directions at . —Mahāgaja · talk 12:33, 21 November 2020 (UTC)


 * RFV-deleted. Eminently silly to have a phrasebook for the sake of having it; if the phrase has no BGC hits, it can go. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:49, 4 January 2021 (UTC)