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| re: Script for GARY | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 10:13 pm EDT 06/27/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Script for GARY - Leon_W 05:44 am EDT 06/27/19 | |
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| Which does lead one to ask--what is the proper plural for penis? Penises (I think that's right), penii (I know, that's not right, but it is still fun)? I know that the plural of octopus is not octopi, but either octopuses or octopodes is acceptable (the latter would be the correct form in Attic Greek). What would the term be in venery? A plethora of penises? A preponderance of penises? |
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| re: Script for GARY | |
| Posted by: davei2000 09:12 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Script for GARY - BruceinIthaca 10:13 pm EDT 06/27/19 | |
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| Is this really a question? As a professor, you must have puzzled as I have over where people get the idea that 's makes a plural for anything... | |
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| re: Script for GARY | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 10:56 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Script for GARY - davei2000 09:12 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| No, it's not a question, just a bit of frivolity while I avoided watching the debate. And, yes, the misuse of the apostrophe in forming plural nouns drives me mad, but I thought it churlish to raise the issue and play grammar monitor with another poster, especially as I find autocorrect often makes me seem either illiterate or losing my cognitive powers. I don't assume that of the "penis's" poster, but it just got me thinking in a lighter mood--needed something to lift my spirits in the midst of the heat and humidity (both on the TV screen and outside). That's all, as Miranda Priestly would say. By the way, my students are as likely to omit apostrophe's in contractions or possessives as they are to insert them into plurals. Maybe there's some kind of law of conservation of punctuation--they give and take away in equal measure. Or they all seem like they are translating their writing from German (if only!). |
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| My favorite Miranda Priestly Quote | |
| Posted by: SamIAm 03:25 pm EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Script for GARY - BruceinIthaca 10:56 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| 'By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.' | |
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