Grammar Issues (2 Viewers)

[therealjohnny]

Why do some people say "moneys"?

Not as in "money's too tight to mention"

but moneys as in "moneys were paid"

 

[Mitchum]

But what's the singular form of 'Weetabix'? This is among one of the most pressing concers of our age.

I reckon it's 'Weetabic'.


I sound like a student.

 

[Lord Damian]

Why do some people say "moneys"?

Not as in "money's too tight to mention"

but moneys as in "moneys were paid"

it's "monies"...like "funds".

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Why do some people say "moneys"?

Not as in "money's too tight to mention"

but moneys as in "moneys were paid"

I guess cause itsounds nice and officious

 

[Mormon Nailer]

But what's the singular form of 'Weetabix'? This is among one of the most pressing concers of our age.

I reckon it's 'Weetabic'.


I sound like a student.

I think it's Wheetabix for both singular and plural.

 

[therealjohnny]

I guess cause itsounds nice and officious

That's what I thought

They're just trying to soud all posh and clever

I hate them

 

[Mormon Nailer]

That's what I thought

They're just trying to soud all posh and clever

I hate them

Actually a bit of googling and it seems that if you were due money from different people it is correct to say "all monies were paid" as you are dealing with a couple of different collections of money.

 

[Mitchum]

That's what I thought

They're just trying to soud all posh and clever

I hate them

Nah 'moneys' is a synonym of 'sums of money'. I think.

 

[Lord Damian]

Actually a bit of googling and it seems that if you were due money from different people it is correct to say "all monies were paid" as you are dealing with a couple of different collections of money.

this makes sense.

actually, if you were still due money from different people, wouldn't it be "all monies are yet to be paid"?

 

[ratmonkey]

Could I just remind everyone that "data" is already plural. Cause that one annoys me.

This also applies to "criteria".

 

[therealjohnny]

Actually a bit of googling and it seems that if you were due money from different people it is correct to say "all monies were paid" as you are dealing with a couple of different collections of money.

I see

makes sense

I hate this thread

 

[Vinnie]

Both ma grammars is dead so I dont never got no issues. 'Cept I miss them some.

 

[desertedvillage]

Could I just remind everyone that "data" is already plural. Cause that one annoys me.

This doesn't bother me. I think it's natural since knowledge, information, learning, lore etc are all uncountable nouns in English. I know of no such excuse for using media as a singular though. Popular useage will make fools of us all eventually.

 

[jane]

Plural of anus in the Latin is ani. Unless you mean the fourth-declension word 'anus', also meaning 'old woman', probably because they're both puckered. Anyway, the plural of the old-woman anus is, um, anus. Because sher, don't you only need the one?

Grammar pedantry. Data, foci, fora, criteria, media (not referring to the industry, but to the general term that refers to methods used to communicate/display/whatever). Those I use. The rest, whatever sounds sensible and depending on the context.

 

[oh shit]

language is alive
all you fuckers trying to freeze it, you make me sick
an active philology considers only the will of the one who speaks
and what is the will of the one who speaks?
- the will to power
recognise, fools.

 

[Lord Damian]

language is alive
all you fuckers trying to freeze it, you make me sick
an active philology considers only the will of the one who speaks
and what is the will of the one who speaks?
- the will to power
recognise, fools.

Charles Schultz?

 

[therealjohnny]

- the will to power

Baby I love Your Way/Freebird/Lady singer just past her prime/ man singer with Mullet & Moustache Combo

this is what they mean when they say "greater than the sum of it's parts"

 

[theweeyin]

This also applies to "criteria".

What's the singular then?

 

[Mormon Nailer]

What's the singular then?

Criterium

 

[MDR]

Octopus - Octopodes or Octopusses

It depends on whether you pluralise it according to English or the parent language (Greek).

Another common mistake is to say that 'Liverpool have a good team'. This is incorrect on two points: it should be that 'Liverpool has a good team' and, more importantly, Liverpool are shite.