Johnny Angel
Explorer
Gentlegamer said:Romani domum ite!
Dixi.
Sic tua mater altera nocte non dixit.
Gentlegamer said:Romani domum ite!
Dixi.
I'm confused. It's just opossums, just like you'd think it is.Huw said:Great pretentiousness trap: plural of "opossum". Any takers
I'm one who initially thought that analogy was pretty funny, but really... all languages do that. English has just been particularly good at it.Umbran said:English is not nice, comfy, orderly language. As others have noted - in dark alleys, it mugs other languages and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar. Do you think that after committing such molestation that English is going to be particularly prissy about where it sticks which plural?
Hobo said:I'm confused. It's just opossums, just like you'd think it is.
Hobo said:Besides, isn't opossum a loanword from some Algonquin word or something like that anyway? I don't think it's Greek or Latin. Not a lot of opossums in the Mediterranean region.
Well... let's not get carried away here.Huw said:Correct. You pass. You are not pretentious.
That's my happy place. I'll say "opossumak" from now on fer shur.Huw said:if you said "opossumak" you are pretentious and right.