Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoLevel 3 includes level 1 in it, with the addition of a correct plural using the original language’s rules.
Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoLevel 3 includes level 1 in it, with the addition of a correct plural using the original language’s rules.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month 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
Viceversa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
… because English would steal said grammar by itself!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Of course you can, that’s why oxen, fungi, etc. exist.
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.