Re: "Madam"/"Madame" Chair/man/person (was: Umlauts)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 31, 2003, 7:12 |
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On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 11:43 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> I think that "Madame" in English is solely a title. The brothelkeeper
> is
> a "madam", but she may be addressed as "Madame". In addition, English
> lacks plurals for its native titles Mister/Missus/Miz (though Miss has
> the
> plural Misses), and in excruciatingly correct style uses Messieurs and
> Mesdames, which latter sometimes gets semi-anglicized to Madames.
> (Better than pronouncing it [mEz'deimz].)
I thought the plural of Mr. is 'Misters' or 'Messers'. I don't
remember where i've seen them though.
To try and bring this back to Conlanging, anyone have titles in their
conlangs that can/can't get pluralized? That have no equivalents in
English or other natlangs?
-Stephen (Steg)
"An abundance of fungal filaments in sedimentary layers just above
those that mark the largest extinction of all time, at the end of the
Paleozoic Era, points to a sudden killing off of life across broad
regions of Earth: numerous fungi apparently were feasting on the
victims."
-- 'earth system history', a geology textbook
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