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They have more than 7 reproductive organs?
Just like meese is the plural of moose
Plurals in English are always a bit of a roll of the dice…
No cheeses for us meeces :(
Or: Mouse - mice; house - hice
As a native greek speaker, I find anything other than “octopuses” to be silly. In greek we don’t say (any more) octopodes, we say “chtapodia” (the “ch” is the canonical (ELOT) transliteration of the letter χ).
Could you just clarify one thing? I was told that the plural wouldn’t be octopodes, but octopoda, similarly to what you used for modern Greek.
Level 10: all forms are valid as long as enough people use them. The currently most used forms are octopuses and octopi, both valid, but octopi is malformed, so octopuses is preferred. Octopussses and octopii and rare variants of those. Also correct, but rarely used.
Octopodes is also correct, but considered pedantic.Level 11: Just use what you are used to.
Level ATF&C: Glob
One of my favorite things in life is using Latin or Greek plurals on words that it makes absolutely no sense to use them on, and do not follow the rules of any language naturally involved.
I had steak and potati for dinner last night. Just one steak, though, I cannot eat multiple steakices
Reminds me of a joke:
A Roman soldier walks into a bar and says, “I’ll have a martinus”
Bartender says, “don’t you mean a martini?”
The Roman says. “if I wanted more than one I would’ve asked for it!”
I also do this! My personal top 3 are:
Jesus - Jesi
Bus - Bi
Penis - Penorum
Penis - Penorum
WROOOOONG! Now write the full declension table on that wall. And make sure to draw some pictures with it, so you never forget the word! :-p
It’s the genitive! Genitive! Which makes the plural… um! Penum! Penum! Romanorum penum amplitudines non magni sunt!
c===3, c===3, c===3.
Poetry was made today.
People called Romanes, they go, the house?!
I have a wealthy friend who has a penorium in their house.
Do you happen to have a picture? Asking for a friend.
Unfortunately the last time I was invited I got kicked out. Got a little too excited.
Also they don’t allow phones, so I couldn’t take a picture.
I can eat all the steak ices.
For decades now, my wife and I have used “Kleeni” as the plural of “Kleenex”.
Kleenex is Kneenes according to the rules of Latin, actually
But the plural of index is indices in Latin, so shouldn’t the plural of Kleenex under those rules be Kleenices?
It’s hard to tell because the deviating form in Latin is actually the nominative singular, which is why vocab lists include the genitive singular as well. All other forms have the same stem aside from Nom. Sg. A few examples are:
senex - senēs (elder)
rēx - rēgēs (king)
index - indīcēs (index)
So really anything could work as long as it ends on -ēs in plural and starts with kleen-.
Looks like you beat us to level 7
2π: two pi
π: one pus
I actually love octopods. Somehow sounds the least weird of them all.
Confused Squidward noises.
Your prof is Roger Moore?
Its whatever your heart is telling you.
Four Loko was the start and eventual downfall of many wild and ultimately regrettable times.
I tried it before they banned caffeinated alcohol here and holy fuck that shit was chaos in a can
Yeah, that is an accurate description. A couple four loko could make your evening into a Fear and Loathing style event worthy of legend.
Any mistake I make is actually just my dialect
Don’t bother correcting my English grammar, as I have no respect for this language <3
And if folks knew what you meant, it’s fine
That is what ‘descriptive’ in level 4 means
Octopodes nuts
I thought it was octopuxen?
American English: “All of the above are valid.”
“Even ‘octopussies?’”
American English: “…sure.”
Aham, there’s some precedent
There is a difference in Octopussys here. One is slippery, the other is not.
“even ‘octopussies’?”
american english:
Search engines: Sir, this is a work computer
Just researching adaptations of classic literature.
Y’all being too literal.
I always say ‘I saw some octopus’
Also, moose is plural for moose.
2 octopus = 1 hexadecipus
4 Quadropus = 8 bipus
