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I as a Latin student get annoyed with how other people say colossus in different forms. When blizzard released that colossus was plural as colossi I thought this would stop the misuse of the word.
But then i thought of how people said things like "The colossi's lazer beams" which is completely wrong. As Colossus is considered a Latin word i thought I would educate the Starcraft 2 community on how to "Correctly" say colossus....
The following terms are used in this explanation....
Nominative- the noun doing noun e.g. subject
Genitive- the Way to show ownership e.g. Joey's
Dative- indirect object form
Accusative- Direct object form
Ablative- used with non action prepositions (all action prepositions used with accusative)
vocative- used as command e.g. colossus kill the zerglings
Now for the analysis
colossus is a masculine 2nd declension (way Latin uses to separate nouns) so....
Singular
Nominative- Colossus
Genitive- Colossi *i sounds like ee*
Dative- Colosso *long o*
Accusative- Colossum
Ablative- Colosso *long o*
vocative- Collosse *e like eh*
Plural
Nominative- Colossi *i sounds like ee*
Genitive- Colossorum
Dative- Colossis
Accusative- Colossos *Long o*
Ablative- Colossis
vocative- colossi *i sounds like ee*
Correct use of this would be as followed...
"The Colossorum lazer beams"
"The viking shot a missile at the Colosso"
et cetera et cetera
Thanks for reading and try to use the "Correct" way of saying Colossus...
and for those who think its a joke and don't believe me look at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension
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If people had trouble with colossi/colossuses, how do you expect them to remember 7 more ways of saying it?
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wheres the vocative case?
edit: much better
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On April 16 2011 10:09 Backpack wrote:
If people had trouble with colossi/colossuses, how do you expect them to remember 7 more ways of saying it?
doenst really matter - only important thing is: "Colossorum" is an awesome word
great 1st (troll?) post -haha
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Colloxn for every case should become the standard.
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Too much work and buildup for not enough laughs--I don't think this is a joke thread. But the alternative seems so ridiculous.
FYI: Colossus is an English word that comes from Latin. The plural is colossi. Everything else follows English rules, not Latin rules.
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I was thinking about quoting your entire original post, GGOda, and meticulously pointing out (and fixing) all of the grammatical errors and other semantics/ syntax flaws you made, to show you that nobody's perfect...
but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dick.
(Plus, I bet someone else could do it better.)
On a side note, we could also assume that this creature, Blizzard's "Colossus", does not necessarily abide by the rules of Latin (or any particular rules other than what Blizzard dictates). Yeah, it matches a pre-existing word, but it now exists in a new universe (the SC2 one), and so it may be the case that it runs under new linguistic rules and axioms.
::shrugs::
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I'd already be happy if they managed to stick with correct English consistently, which is to never use "Colossi" in Singular and to use always "Colossi" or "Colossuses" in Plural...
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I think I'll just stick to using Colloxen
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I've been trying to get people to realize there isn't an s at the end of "master" in master league. Good luck with this one, rofl.
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i think it is latin
protoss is based off of latin
Pro meaning first
toss meaning born
And praetor meaning leader in latin
so colossus is latin
this is not a joke thread and toussre thanks for reminding me about the vocative
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I'm going to start using the....
umm...
"Accusative" form of the word from now on.
Collosums.
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It would rate pretty high on the silly scale if we used all of the Latin declensions in English. Colossus, Colossi, Colosses should work. And either way, as long as people know what the caster is saying, it's okay.
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Marine comes from French, we should start pronouncing marines with a silent s.
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On April 16 2011 10:16 TUski wrote:
I'm going to start using the....
umm...
"Accusative" form of the word from now on.
Collosums.
I think the more common Accusative form of Colossus is:
"Those big ass Protoss ground units are OP."
That's what I hear from most people, anyway.
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On April 16 2011 10:15 Mohdoo wrote:
I've been trying to get people to realize there isn't an s at the end of "master" in master league. Good luck with this one, rofl.
there's not an s in masters leagues?
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On April 16 2011 10:18 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On April 16 2011 10:16 TUski wrote:
I'm going to start using the....
umm...
"Accusative" form of the word from now on.
Collosums.
I think the more common Accusative form of Colossus is: "Those big ass Protoss ground units are OP." That's what I hear from most people, anyway.
Well played rofl
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You created an account to discuss pronunciation of words..
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no and i wanted to create an account this account is long over do
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You know how if you say a word too many times it starts sounding weird? well I feel like that now.
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