Stafusa, I've never understood what it is for, but never looked into it. Could you elaborate on your reason? Come on, 1.2 lines is a question?! :)

@Jacinto But that's why I asked it in the first place! So that people can come in defense of it - if there is any. :-) If many vote for deletion and no counterargument comes up, then it really probably is just too specific to be useful - the same way a tag for the letter "a" would be.

The acusation should make a stronger case for deletion; deletion should proceed only if uselessness is proven beyond reasonable doubt.

@Jacinto I was going to say that the low usage rate was already a strong piece of evidence, but then verified that 6 in an universe of about 1500 questions is not that bad for a tag (it's actually more used than most tags). So I changed this question's tag from feature-request to discussion. It would in principle make more sense to make a clean up of unused/unnecessary tags in a systematic way (not for individual tags), following criteria established beforehand in a careful discussion by the community - but I actually don't thing Portuguese SE is ripe/big enough for that.

Yeah, I know that, about the ripeness :( Not sure we need to go about it in a systemmatic way. Does the tag "alphabet" add anything to the questions where it is used?

@Jacinto I elaborated a bit in the question, maybe it presents a better case now for doing away with the tag now. :) I don't really understand why this site isn't flooded by questions, Portuguese is spoken by so many people...

Oh, I remember well that question abou the name of the letter G. What would be the appropriate tags for that question? Yeah, but I doubt the tag "alphabet" will help people como across that question.

@Jacinto I'd say "pronúncia" covers that question well enough. We can of course imagine a scenario where someone is trying to learn everything they can about the Portuguese alphabet and then the tag (or a +/- equivalent one, such as "symbols" or "letters") would be useful.

But it's not quite "pronúncia". It's two differente words: gê and guê

That's how you see it? For the me word is "g", isn't it?

*for the me -> for me, the

No, it's guê (Aulete) and gê (Aulete agian)

I checked now in Priberam: it's both. You can see them as the pronunciations of "g" or as their names.

gê

But I agree, pronunciation isn't covering it well, actually.

The question clearly asks what's the name of the letter, not how its name is pronounced.

Yeah, I don't think it is pronunciation at all

It's more like "Lisboeta" and "Lisbonense" are two words meaning the same, not two pronunciations of the same word.

No, it isn't really (though it could be rephrased to be so).

A good tag might be precisely "nomes". What about that?

I thought of that

I wonder anyone would think of "nomes" to look for that question

But, anyway, do you ever look for question with a particular tag?

Here in Portuguese, not really, but in the larger Physics SE I do.

Let me ask a completely unrelated question: were you already very familiar with Camões, or did you have to research really hard in order to answer that translation question?

BTW, it was a Tour de Force, congrats!

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Thanks

I actually listened to the Lusíadas over the summer

You can get a free audiobook from livribox.org (read by a Brazilian guy)

but I didn't recognise those passages.

So I looked at the English translation, and then read throught the same sections of the Portuguese original

Ok. Yeah, seriously, I guess no one could have recognized those quotes by knowing the original.

You have to read the surrounding text

And those were not the most ourrageous liberties he took

I read somewhere he added a 300-verse naval battle that's not in the original at all

I like his iambic pentameter though

Anyway, thanks for the exchange.

As for the tag question, I hope someone else contributes.

Good night!

Any time

good night