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grimwerk: I think you mean American's.
Technically you mean USAians :P
Post edited March 02, 2015 by Elmofongo
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JMich: You'd be surprised (or not) at how often I've seen criterias been written... Not to mention the forums and datas...
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Maighstir: Pluralising an already plural form and ignoring the singular form entirely, I'm not surprised in the least.
Well, I dare think it depends on the language. For instance I think in french we say 'many scenarios' and not 'many scenarii' because the latin word has been kind of adopted and is not considered a Latin word but a new french one. I really have to go check on that right now because I might be completely imagining things.


Edit : I am right but my example is stupid ->
un scénario (fr) = a sceanario
des scénarios (fr) = scenarii

But now the question is : which words have been adopted and which ones have not.
Post edited March 02, 2015 by Potzato
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JMich: *Groans*
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tinyE: Don't worry. In Sweden awesum (as he just spelled it) is a slang term for "sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls".
Not quite, but your translation is what I would expect of a movie with that title.
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JMich: *Groans*
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tinyE: Don't worry. In Sweden awesum (as he just spelled it) is a slang term for "sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls".
Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
This thread is now about English grammar.

"All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome" is a grammatically correct sentence. So is the following:
"The rat the cat the dog bit chased escaped".
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tinyE: Don't worry. In Sweden awesum (as he just spelled it) is a slang term for "sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls".
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Maighstir: Not quite, but your translation is what I would expect of a movie with that title.
Is the Swedish in this awesome song accurate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICKrtbT3PqE
It is a terrible disease. On other sites that allow a signature, I usually have some anti-apostrophe abuse slogans. The problem is that they are now teaching it in schools... The teachers are dumber than you can believe.
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yogsloth: The problem is that they are now teaching it in schools...
Now I know you're just trying to hurt me.
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tinyE: How come Canadians think "eh" is a fucking word!?
It *IS* a word! It's not a "fucking" word though. :)
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tinyE: How come Canadians think "eh" is a fucking word!?
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skeletonbow: It *IS* a word! It's not a "fucking" word though. :)
Sad thing is I live on the border and adore every Canadian I know, yet here I am giving you people shit. :P
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Paradoks: Criteria already is in plural form.
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JMich: You'd be surprised (or not) at how often I've seen criterias been written... Not to mention the forums and datas...
Addendum and erratum are another two, especially the latter. At my former company the words that ended up being used almost universally were "errata" to refer to a single software update (instead of the correct "erratum") and "erratas" to refer to multiple software updates (instead of the correct "errata"). Of course a small handful of us _always_ turned into "that guy" and corrected everyone who did this telling them it was like calling one update an "updates" and multiple updates "updateses".

Another pet peeve from back then was people using the word "deprecated" when they meant the actual word "depreciated" or vice versa either not knowing the actual meaning of the word they were using, or just spelling the wrong word.
This is the winner of Cracked's "If text messages could be sent to the past" contest.
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Starmaker: This is the winner of Cracked's "If text messages could be sent to the past" contest.
I was an English major and that took me a second. :P
Only you can make me feel so stupid Starmaker. XD
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Paradoks: Criteria already is in plural form.
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JMich: You'd be surprised (or not) at how often I've seen criterias been written... Not to mention the forums and datas...
I understand criterias and datas as "double plurals", but forums? Forum is singular form, fora is plural. Many dictionaries however accept forums as correct.
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Starmaker: This is the winner of Cracked's "If text messages could be sent to the past" contest.
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tinyE: I was an English major and that took me a second. :P
Only you can make me feel so stupid Starmaker. XD
I'm a minute into it and still confused. Text-culture is lost on me.