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seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Don’t even get me started on whoever decided that through, trough, and though, don’t rhyme, but pony and Bologna do. I bet he was a colonel who kept a journal… Asshole…

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  • seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To be pedantic that’s not grammar but orthography (which in English is even weirder). English is just a mutant amalgamation of Germanic, Romance and Celtic languages and man, it shows.

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    • HaveYouPaidYourDues@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Three languages in a trench coat

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There’s very little Celtic in modern English. Germanic, Latin, and French (which is derived from Latin) are the biggest contributors.

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    • puppy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Don’t forget French.

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      • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        French is technically a romance language but it is very different from the others.

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      • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        What’s up with the +1 heart on this comment?

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Mashing together all the languages into a Frankenstein form of communication is English grammar.

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      • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Except for the reason why we have different words for ‘chicken’ while it’s alive, and ‘poultry’ after it’s been slaughtered.

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• stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re clearly a bit of a fellow word nerd. Do you have any feelings about the fact that none of that matters anymore if we all just agree that it doesn’t, which one could have an easy time arguing that we have? Sometimes, after spending a rousing five minutes explaining the MOST correct pluralization of ‘octopus’, the only answer I can give to the inevitable question of “why does it matter?” Is “it doesn’t”.

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you were trying to describe a mess of cables how would you use octopus in an adjective form?

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    • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thank you for your question.

      Option 1: “I’m not fixing your computer until you sort out the octopus bullshit going on behind your desk”

      Option 2: “The cable adapter you’re looking for is probably in this box, but it’s pretty octopussy in there.” Then hold firm, direct eye contact with a serious face until they respond.

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    • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Octopussian

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    All collective nouns should be replaced with the word “group”.

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  • seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t know if it “matters”, and I’m not a prescriptivist who wants to tell others how to talk, but it’s interesting.

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