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Re: Announcement: Andreas's Conlanging Pages

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 15:33
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> >In general, it may look uneducated not to use a foreign plural, but > >it can be downright bewildering to use one where a native plural is > >normal, e.g. "Her arms swung like pendula" (recte "pendulums"). > > I know, but trouble is, I don't always know what fomation is normal.
By "normal", I mean -s (or -es after s, z, sh, x), the regular plural ending. Much better to say "erratums" than "hoodla". :-) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <jcowan@...> "Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context. A telegram that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in 5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document as any, even sans digital signature." --me