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November 4th, 2009, 03:32 PM
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DOH!
LOL, fair enough, Theo! I concede.
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November 4th, 2009, 03:44 PM
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English is a living language, bud. And it's going to keep changing forever.
We could always do it the Japanese way. They don't have plurals at all. Words for groups of things, but no pluralizations.
Apparently pluralizations isn't a word (pluralization is). | 
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November 4th, 2009, 05:12 PM
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Oh, the irony of nounifying, plurarly no less, an adjectival!
Yes, my complaint makes me anti-American, doesn't it Whir. | |
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November 4th, 2009, 05:33 PM
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Why would it do that? ?_? | |
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November 6th, 2009, 03:09 PM
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"IS are investigating..."? Or should that be, "ARE is investigating..."?
I suppose it depends on what the definition of IS is.  | |
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November 6th, 2009, 05:40 PM
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I was in full agreement that I hate when people say "Microsoft are...." until I realized that we do the same thing all of the time with sports teams. The Yankees is World Series Champion?
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November 6th, 2009, 05:43 PM
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It is much more natural feeling with teams to me, perhaps because "there's no 'I' in 'TEAM'". Sports have always focused on the "operation as a team", not individual, aspect of existence.
But I will digress from my 'peevology', only to say I may forever find it awkward when single firms are referred to in plural form. That will just be my style. | |
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November 6th, 2009, 10:11 PM
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November 7th, 2009, 10:08 PM
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I totally love the gerunding. | |
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