Re: English is a crazy language
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 10:21 |
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On Tuesday 23 April 2002 19:23, you wrote:
> On 22 Apr 02, at 20:05, The Gray Wizard wrote:
> > Let's face it - English is a crazy language...
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> Though sometimes it helps to know some history.
> > If one mouse, 2 mice, then why not one house, 2 hice?
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> It is "2 hice" in my family ;) (At least jocularly.)
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> > One index, 2 indices?
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> It's not English's fault what foreign languages do to their nouns;
> English speakers could only be faulted, if at all, for retaining the
> inflection rather than naturalising it.
>
I played around circa early eighties with regularizing the parents' nominals
- eg, if Mother intimized to Mummy, what about intimizing Father to Fuffy?
Instead of to Daddy, which derives from Welsh.
It never caught on, though ;-)
> Cheers,
> Philip
Wesley parish
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