[Ads-l] hypercorrect pluralization of attributives

[Jonathan Lighter]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maddow-blog-trump-makes-curious-173011576.html :

I'm sure he was told before any of us that the driver was a 42 years old
Army veteran who was born in Texas.

JL


On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 8:43 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A few days ago CNN reported on a new AI program that provides lonely guys
> with hot-looking imaginary babe companions for all their parasocial needs.
>
> One described herself/itself as a "twenty-five-years-old photographer."
>
> Somehow that seems especially egregious. No second date for her.
>
> JL
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:59 AM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY
> RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > We'd like to hire her, but there's the two-body problem.
>> > (Actually, I've heard both "the two-body problem" and "the two-bodies
>> problem" to refer to the spousal/partner hiring dilemma in
>> > academia, as opposed to the physics problem it's a pun on.)
>> >
>>
>> In planetary dynamics, the "two-body" problem isn't a problem -- there
>> exist closed-form solutions for two bodies.  It's the three-body problem
>> that is really a problem, in that it is not solvable (and is often
>> chaotic).
>>
>> Extend the parallel to partners/spouses as you see fit.
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