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WCT Nov 2-6, 2009
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 02 Nov 2009, 23:17 ---The Dude's lucky it was Dora. If it had been Faye, it wouldn't be just the costume nailed to the wall.
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I'm not sure about that. Remember what she did to the district attorney?
slingstone:
--- Quote from: MamiyaOtaru on 02 Nov 2009, 16:00 ---
--- Quote from: Zombiedude on 01 Nov 2009, 22:50 ---How do you pluralize automaton?
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Automatons.
THIS. IS. ENGLISH!
It's perfectly acceptable to pluralize foreign origin words with an S. Knowledge of Greek or Latin grammar isn't a prerequisite for English. And it's a good thing too because we would fail; look how many people pluralize octopus as octopi (wrong wrong totally wrong: it's octopodes) or virus as virii (again wrong: virus was a mass noun with no plural form). So: octopusses, viruses and automatons! whoo!
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Automaton is not a foreign word that's been appropriated into english; it's an english word. Latin and greek a composite parts of english. Don't get butthurt about it.
It's completely different from applying an english pluralization to actually foreign words:
"Vodka" becomes "Vodkas" or "Guru" becomes "Gurus"
akronnick:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 Nov 2009, 00:19 ---I'm not sure about that. Remember what she did to the district attorney?
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District attorney? Please jog my memory.
I was refering to Faye's incident with the Racoon, if accosted by a furry, she's likely to to go into a dissaciative state and suspend his flayed corpse from the rafters, Lector style.
Dliessmgg:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 02 Nov 2009, 20:05 ---
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 02 Nov 2009, 01:42 ---What's the opposite of "newton"?
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Leibniz?
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Or the Royal Society? I guess there are too many.
snubnose:
Err... still no new comic ? Its getting weird and weirder.
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