Talk:GI
Much of the text I just copied in came from w:G.I.. In order to preserve the attribution history (a requirement of GFDL), I am cutting-and-pasting that article's contribution history here.
- And now hiding it to save space. If you want to see the full attribution history, please follow [link]. Rossami 07:26, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
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I don't really know what to do with this. The main talking point is the misspelling of Gl, it's apparently a 'prefix' but a prefix would be GI- or Gl-. Is it really a misspelling? Perhaps a misreading because of the similarity between the lowercase l and the uppercase I in some fonts. Erm, help. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:57, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
- It's separated from the number by a space, so it's not a prefix in the strictest sense, but it's always immediately in front of the number: "Gl 1234". As for the misspelling part: given that ls and Is are often scannos for each other, and that they tend to look the same in most non-serif fonts, it's pretty hard to tell what the relationship is between Gl and Gi in actual use. It would be more accurate to call it a "common error", but I don't know how we handle such things. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:32, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
- Also G.I.. Do we want to split and initialism like this by etymology? In this case it would seem to be plausible, but in most cases, not. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:24, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
- Looks fine now --P5Nd2 (talk) 12:16, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
Tagalog[edit]
@Mlgc1998 Would you say this Tagalog entry satisfies Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion? --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 00:59, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Mlgc1998: This was an entry created almost 10 years ago, actually. The term is obviously only used within the Fil-Chi community, whether it should be English or Tagalog I think can be a source for discussion, even whether it should be in Wiktionary in the first place based on criteria of inclusion. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 01:02, 16 November 2021 (UTC)