Talk:Postumus the Younger

Iunior
When I first noticed "iunior" in the text, I went to change it to "Junior". Then I saw it was in the text three times, so it was clearly deliberate. Well I did some searching. It turns out that "Postumus Junior" (the name of the article) is far more common than "Postumus Iunior". It does seem that learned pedants prefer "Iunior". However, in all my web searching, every time I found "Postumus iunior" (small i) it was either a WikiClone or in some other language. Therefore I have changed the article to use the proper pedantic form "Postumus Iunior". — Randall Bart 18:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It's Latin. English-speaking pedants have adopted the (IMO) stupid convention that Latin's consonantal i should be written as i, whereas consonantal u should be written as v. The word simply means (and could perfectly well be rendered as) "the younger". We probably should do that, in the spirit of using English.
 * More troubling, however, is the way that the article obfuscates the very strong probability that Postumus the Younger is a fiction. Q·L·1968 ☿ 19:06, 6 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I have now moved the page from 'Postumus Junior' to 'Postumus the Younger', and rephrased the article to make it clear that this person probably did not exist. Q·L·1968 ☿ 19:20, 6 October 2013 (UTC)