Talk:tous les quinze jours

RFD discussion: August–October 2020
SOP. PUC – 10:52, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Move to since "fifteen days" for "fortnight" isn't really predictable (a priori I would have expected ). —Mahāgaja · talk 10:57, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Question from a non-French speaker: when French speakers use the phrase, do they mean a fortnight, or are they actually referring to a 15-day period? If the latter, then the definition is simply inaccurate and the entry is SoP. — SGconlaw (talk) 11:09, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Not a native speaker obviously, but when I took French at school we were explicitly taught to say quinze jours, not deux semaines, to refer to a period of two weeks (as Americans we didn't use the word fortnight at all). —Mahāgaja · talk 13:02, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree with move. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Yep, git moving, but omit the etymology (or follow the Frenchies and explain that the present meaning evolved from an earlier sense of a half short moon) and adjust the pronunciation; also change the POS to "Noun" and the definition to “a period of 2 weeks, a fortnight“. --Lambiam 16:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * is also often used in the sense "week", is it not, ? Do we need an entry for ? Not a precise term, it seems colloquial. What do you say when you want to be more precise and include the last day when saying "eight days" or fifteen days". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 00:52, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The term "quinze jours" doesn't mean at all a specific period of 15 days but simply "two weeks" (a fortnight is the best English translation we can do), though two weeks have 14 days but anyway. That's just because saying "quinze jours" is shorter to say than "deux semaines". However I never heard "huit jours" this is not in the modern French usage. Malku H₂n̥rés (talk) 16:27, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Not familiar with "huit jours" either. PUC – 10:22, 5 September 2020 (UTC)


 * RFD resolved (moved to quinze jours). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:44, 6 October 2020 (UTC)