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by Deepfake » Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:52 pm
Ace Mercury wrote:Also, octopi is INCORRECT. Latin "us" endings pluralize as "i", not Greek; the really honest and for true word is
OCTOPODES >:[
[size=-100]Wikipedia's dry humour states: "Fowler's Modern English Usage states that "the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses," and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic." and something about
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I've always remembering something about "octopods", and could never recall what context it was appropriate in. Must've been a mispronunciation of octopodes.
Irregardless, Octopuses is an acceptable word. If you're retarded.
I muttered 'light as a board, stiff as a feather' for 2 days straight and now I've ascended, ;aughing at olympus and zeus is crying
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by Deku Tree » Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:16 pm
I say pin number if it isn't clear from the context what I mean without it.
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by CaptHayfever » Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:33 pm
If it's not clear from the context, then you shouldn't be abbreviating in the first place.
And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"
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by DarkZero » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:10 pm
Just say PI number.
If it works, then you avoid being redundant, and you win. If it doesn't, then people will think you're a private investigator, and you also win.
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by Rainbow Dash » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:36 pm
re: plural of octopus
octopussies
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by Deku Tree » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:31 am
CaptHayfever wrote:If it's not clear from the context, then you shouldn't be abbreviating in the first place.
And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"
Psh. Like I'm gonna say "Personal Identification Number." I don't have all day, man!
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by Booyakasha » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:37 am
I like RPG games. You know, the ones where you and a friend or friends square off and fire rocket-propelled grenades at each other. Way better than TNT games (although those are [strike]the bomb[/strike] [strike]dynamite[/strike] [strike]a blast[/strike] rather enjoyable as well).
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by Zaden » Thu Dec 02, 2010 1:12 am
I even take this concept across the interlanguage barrier with "Mount Fuji-Yama".
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by CaptHayfever » Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:35 am
^"We now take you back to Mount Midoriyama in Japan for another heart-pounding round of Ninja Warrior!"
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by Deepfake » Thu Dec 02, 2010 7:58 am
Chunky Kong12345 wrote:octopussies
DR OCTAGONAPUS
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by Antisocial » Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:27 pm
In a thread about redundant language? AI, you sly dog.
TOO SCHOOL FOR COOL wrote:Irregardless, Octopuses is an acceptable word. If you're retarded.
You lost me on that first word.
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by Sim Kid » Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:46 pm
Ace Mercury wrote:This thread is pickled, man.
Is it pickled like a gherkin?
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by Ace Mercury » Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:06 pm
I see someone hasn't seen the "How To Swear in English" Korean lesson.
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by Sim Kid » Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:02 pm
Ace Mercury wrote:I see someone hasn't seen the "How To Swear in English" Korean lesson.
But it is quite amusing and fun to be ultra-reundant sometimes, occasionally.
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by CaptHayfever » Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:27 pm
^^I'll have to buy a copy & have the cashier scan the UPC Code.
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by Ace Mercury » Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:39 pm
I end all of my mathematics proofs with "QED demonstrandum".
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by VG_Addict » Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:57 pm
Department of Redundancy Department.