EPTthus explaining all the confusion
ahh i see i admit defeat with the nexus should have done more research into the word..
How to "correctly" say colossus - Page 7
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GGOda
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thus explaining all the confusion ahh i see i admit defeat with the nexus should have done more research into the word.. | ||
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wonderwall
New Zealand695 Posts
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Nemireck
Canada1875 Posts
Colloxen. | ||
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dUTtrOACh
Canada2339 Posts
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MechaCthulhu
United States136 Posts
But, luckily, since we're speaking English, we can go ahead and keep using the English pluralization. | ||
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ElvisWayCool
United States437 Posts
look at octopus/octopi and cactus/cacti colossus/colossi is the same way, and I was in latin too so it bugs me when people get it wrong too haha | ||
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SlapMySalami
United States1060 Posts
pizza = pizzas in english pizza = pizze in italian (according to google translate) the point being every language uses words from other languages but you dont translate the forms the same way like colossorum is actually the way you would say it in english | ||
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Poffel
471 Posts
On April 16 2011 12:26 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Apparently, Nexus is first, second, and fourth declension: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nexus#English Not that I know what the hell that means. Is that like the first generation of Pokemon vs. all the new ones? Keep arguing though, brb with popcorn. Actually GGOda is perfectly right. As a noun, nexus belongs only to the fourth declension - just as shown in the wiktionary page you posted (it also notes that it's a masculine noun btw). | ||
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Filosoraptor
United States21 Posts
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Rickilicious
United States220 Posts
It's that you linked wikipedia as a source of comparison. | ||
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Everhate
United States640 Posts
On April 16 2011 10:53 MajorityofOne wrote: Plural of colossus: Colossoraptors, obviously Totally going to have to start saying that, it's hilarious. Or go with the snoop approach, where the protoss death ball consists of stizzles, sentrizzles, zizzles, colizzles, and sometimes void rizzles...or vizzle rizzles...not really sure :p | ||
salle
Sweden5554 Posts
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nufcrulz
Singapore934 Posts
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Jarmam
Denmark140 Posts
"It says: Romans go home!" "... no it doesnt!" I will start calling it Colossorum when John Cleese starts threatening me with neutering by sword. | ||
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Captain Peabody
United States3135 Posts
This is very similar with how, for instance, Greek loan-words are rendered into Latin; they are modified to use Latin endings. And even Hebrew words, which are less easily rendered into Latin, usually become indeclinable rather than using their full Hebrew declinations. Because the thing is, English has only two cases, which are identical for all words except personal pronouns, unlike Latin, which has six; and it would be very incorrect and indeed grammatically nonsensical to use the Latin forms for cases which don't exist in the English language. Thus, we treat the word as an English one and use only one form, as is appropriate for English words. This is just the way language in general works; complaining about people not "pronouncing colossus right" (or rather, complaining about people not declining colossus right, which is rather different) is simply nonsensical from a linguistic perspective. Sure, it doesn't hurt people to be aware of the word's origin; but criticizing people for using it in the correct fashion for a Latin loan-word in the English language is linguistically incorrect and rather petty. TLDR: This thread makes no sense. Latin loan words in English, just like loan-words in general in almost every language under the sun, behave as English words grammar-wise. OR Sermo stultus est. Amo Colossos; amo lata crura Colossorum. Propter potentiam maximam, do gratias Colossis pro Protossis omnibus! | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46212 Posts
On April 16 2011 12:56 Rickilicious wrote: The best part about this isn't where you described everything in detail, or the word collosorum. It's that you linked wikipedia as a source of comparison. From five years ago: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html Wikipedia is about as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica. And Wikipedia has become much more accurate and better protected since then. I always roll my eyes when people immediately dismiss things that are referenced from Wikipedia, which typically has a plethora of sources documented at the bottom of the entry if you're actually skeptical of the claims. | ||
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jlim
Spain943 Posts
On April 16 2011 12:58 salle wrote: Can we move on to how some people say zEElots and not zEHlots and that it's a "nuclear freakin' missile" not a "nuclear freakin' bomb" and how people misuse meta-game to mean just current trends in strategies when it means anything outside of the core game itself? u hatin on day9 bro? | ||
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Shai
Canada806 Posts
If you want to debate etymology of every English word, you will never be done. However, since language is organic we may accept that the modern use is the correct use. | ||
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Befree
695 Posts
Anyways just so we have the truth in this thread as well: Colossus is an English word which comes from latin which comes from greek. There are two acceptable ways to pluralize it, colossuses and colossi. Other conjugations follow typical English grammar rules. | ||
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ClysmiC
United States2192 Posts
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