Talk:virginibus puerisque

RFV discussion: October 2019–February 2021
As Citations:virginibus puerisque is not Latin but English. --Marontyan (talk) 08:15, 10 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Besides the language issue, I think the definition is wrong. In the citation there and others I can find, it seems to be used in the literal sense of "to/for girls and boys". It seems more like code-switching than an English phrase, albeit a form of code-switching conventionalized among English speakers? --Lvovmauro (talk) 08:31, 10 October 2019 (UTC)


 * As a Latin entry, it's clearly SOP, so if it's to be kept at all, it can only be kept as an English entry. I think "suitable for children" would be a good definition, but we do need more cites than just the one that's there. Some people don't like it when foreign terms are italicized as that indicates that the term hasn't really been assimilated into English yet. —Mahāgaja · talk 10:26, 10 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Deleted as SOP in Latin and lacking enough citations to show that it's English. The ety was "From Horace's Odes 3.1.4: virginibus puerisque canto ("I sing to maids and youths")." The def was "Without offense; morally safe for the young or naive." - -sche (discuss) 21:08, 8 February 2021 (UTC)