October 20, 2005
Pluralism
Ever since my 7th grade English class I've had an interest in correct plurals. Even more than most English the rules for plurals seem arbitrary and confusing. I have one ox or maybe many oxen. Why then wouldn't I have one box and several boxen? Even seems to work, when you use it out loud. "I'm moving, so I need a some boxen," you might say. Even better, a herd of boxen, as a large group of boxen might be called.
This works for a lot of 'x' words. "We can't let the cat out, there's a herd of foxen living nearby."
"There go the lumber jacks into the woods with their herd or axen."
The danger here is from the 'l33t." They already speak glowingly of Hax0rs. The so called elite tend to plural any word that ends on a hard 'k' sound with the 'sor' sound. That sounds close enough to our boxen to be a problem.
Even if we can't have axen we can still get around some of the other plurals. I have one mouse, many mice, one die, many dice; why not one pie many pice or one trout many trice.
Self pluraled words really bother me. I don't want one sheep many sheep. Sheep sounds plural. Maybe I could have one Shoop, that paired becomes sheep. After all I can have one goose and many geese. Gets a little tricky here though. After all, one door many deer will give people the wrong idea. The concept of one moose many meese is okay, but somehow still a bit lackluster.
Fortunately, no plural of Duk is necessary, since there remains only one true Duk.
Posted by DjDuk at October 20, 2005 07:02 PM | TrackBack
I was doing some star wars related activity.... shut up matt..... and i came across an interesting spelling error somebody made. They referred to many jedi as jedis. That gave me pause. All the movie references you ever hear refer to plural jedi as just jedi.... much like bison, trout, fish, deer... etc. etc. Things that make you go huh... if you like star wars. Excuse the periods.
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