Comment on đ Octopus is Octopus đ
samus12345@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠agoLevel 3 includes level 1 in it, with the addition of a correct plural using the original languageâs rules.
Comment on đ Octopus is Octopus đ
samus12345@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠agoLevel 3 includes level 1 in it, with the addition of a correct plural using the original languageâs rules.
Zwiebel@feddit.org â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Ot would only work the other way around. If english grammar dictates that a loan wordâs original language grammar be used. Aka level 1 includes level 3
Viceversa@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
⌠because English would steal said grammar by itself!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Of course you can, thatâs why oxen, fungi, etc. exist.
antonim@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Oxen is historically a 100% English plural, just like child-children, it wasnât loaned. (I should check, but Iâm pretty sure itâs the same -en as in German plurals: das Auge, die Augen.)
Some of these Latin plurals can survive for technical terminology. But itâs pretty much only Latin ones, due to the historical prestige. Nobody talks of Soviet apparatchiki, itâs apparatchiks.