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I have NO IDEA what Blizzard is playing at, but here's the skinny:
In the campaign (no spoilers here): In a cutscene the character Hanson refers to "those nexus" which would indicate the plural is simply "nexus".
HOWEVER... in the same cutscene, in the very next line, Raynor refers to them as "nexi"... which actually makes more sense from a conformity perspective.
BUT... (Jesus blizz... come on...) In the text for the achievement "Carnage hall", it reads:
"Destroy four command centers, hatcheries, or NEXUSES in a single league game"...
Are you kidding me?
When speaking/writing about Starcraft, I try to speak English as well as I do elsewhere.. but they're making it hard.
I guess its like "mongeese/mongooses".. all are correct?
P.S. Casters, it is most definately "collossi", stop being dumb.
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To make a plural of any word you just add 'i' to it. I.e. colossi, nexi, sandwichi, etc.
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yeah i say Collossi when I cast, but plural for Nexus, I would say... Nexi 
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Octopus = Octopedes. uh oh!
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Colloxen no doubt about it.
Nexi for sure
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if plural for mouse is mice then Moose must be Meese?
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shit really?
I hate activision blizzard with all my heart.
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NukeTheStars talked about that in one of his videos.
I believe someone looked it up in the dictionary and it said "Nexuses" was the correct plural term.
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Really Nexuses is a word Nexi is not.
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Well nexus is latin. I don't know whether it's -u declination or not. Depending on that the plural would be nexi or nexus. In the latter case the "u" would be pronounced longer than in the singular. But Maybe Protoss call it completely differently and Nexus is just the Terran term for it and thus free for us to mess around with...
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On August 11 2010 05:37 apm66 wrote:
Octopus = Octopedes. uh oh!
This is only British English.
Octopuses and octopi, are both correct, but octopuses being more so.
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if Colossus are coloxen, why not Nexen?
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Nexus, Nexuses or Nexi? Pick yours, if blizzard didn't botter to make the teams define a common word for the plural of nexus (sounds like even whoever wrote the campaing wasn't very sure either... this or he wanted it to be spelled wrong on purpose by Hanson), why should we bother?
But for real, how it's used in campaing I can understand (nexus and/or nexi) but the carnage hall needs to be patched. "Nexuses" for god's sake...
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The plural of nexus is nexus, if you follow the strict Latin spelling. It is a fourth declension noun, so the nominative singular is "nexus" and the nominative plural is also "nexus." I believe "nexuses" is also correct in English, but "nexi" is absolutely wrong and would only be appropriate if it were a second declension Latin noun.
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the plural of nexus (since it is a real word) should be nexus or nexuses. While I say nexi, this is indeed incorrect.
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Nexus is the more correct, but nexuses is accepted also.
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On August 11 2010 05:42 TzTz wrote:
Well nexus is latin. I don't know whether it's -u declination or not. Depending on that the plural would be nexi or nexus. In the latter case the "u" would be pronounced longer than in the singular. But Maybe Protoss call it completely differently and Nexus is just the Terran term for it and thus free for us to mess around with...
hahaha it's not Latin. It's English!
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