Talk:achromia

RFV discussion: October 2011–March 2012

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achromia

The whole entry is really suspect.

First of all, there's a Translingual entry at the very top. I highly doubt any medicine terms can be properly considered "translingual", since languages like Chinese obviously won't use these. In the page history, it can be seen this used to be an English term - we should return to that.

Directly below is a Latin section, but the etymology gives it as a New Latin term. Was this ever used in Latin proper? -- Liliana • 13:43, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

If both fail RFV, we can revert back to Visvisa's initial version, which is just plain 'English'. Latin only needs one citation as a dead language, for the translingual, not sure how to cite it. Would three citations in any language suffice? And if it therefore passed, wouldn't the Latin be redundant to the Translingual? Mglovesfun (talk) 22:01, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

In Wiktionary I thought "translingual" just meant "several languages", not "all languages". There are thousands (probably) of "translingual" definitions for Chinese characters, even though these characters are obviously used in only a very small fraction of the world's languages. 86.179.116.3 13:41, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

There was some discussion (which I can't find right now) about replacing all of pizza with a single Translingual section, since it is used in quite a lot of the world's languages. This suggestion was rejected for several reasons. We should probably do the same here. -- Liliana • 13:57, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Translingual section deleted (replaced with the old English section). Latin section kept, because I assume it's used in New Latin, and New Latin is Latin for the purposes of L2 headers. - -sche (discuss) 06:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)