Re: Bad Latin 101: The Double-Plural of Neuter Nouns
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 6:09 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
> At least. The use for
> this unconventionalily in Latin would be to denote plurals of plurals, or
> more precisely, plurals of collectives.
Reminds me of a friend who had a sort of humorous "dialect" of English,
wherein plural was -i (/aj/) and "plural of plural" was -itices
(/'ItIciz/) - don't know where he got that second ending from, but an
examples he gave: "If you have more than one Lutheran, you have
Lutherani, and if you have a group of Lutherani over here, and a group
of Lutherani over there, then you have Lutheranitices"
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