Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙

• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Level 3 includes level 1 in it, with the addition of a correct plural using the original language’s rules.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ot would only work the other way around. If english grammar dictates that a loan word’s original language grammar be used. Aka level 1 includes level 3

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    • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You cannot just throw some other languages grammar at english however you please

      … because English would steal said grammar by itself!

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of course you can, that’s why oxen, fungi, etc. exist.

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      • antonim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oxen is historically a 100% English plural, just like child-children, it wasn’t loaned. (I should check, but I’m pretty sure it’s the same -en as in German plurals: das Auge, die Augen.)

        Some of these Latin plurals can survive for technical terminology. But it’s pretty much only Latin ones, due to the historical prestige. Nobody talks of Soviet apparatchiki, it’s apparatchiks.

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• veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But see here’s the thing, English has no rules for plurals, so “accordingly” basically means “by vibes”.

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