LL-L "Morphology" 2003.03.12 (02) [E]

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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2003.03.10 (03) [D/E/German]

Actually, there is one stronghold where the Latin plural is practically
always used to this day, and that is crossword puzzles - regular or cryptic,
British, Irish or American.

So there is still hope...

Gabriele Kahn

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From: Stan Levinson <stlev99 at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2003.03.12 (01) [E]

Folks,
And as a cute little side note, by and large the
Romance languages which developed from Latin wound up
using the Accusative forms in their own plural
foundations, yielding...  "linguas francas" (allowing
for other sound changes per individual language).
Stan
>
> From: Allison Turner-hansen
> <athansen at arches.uga.edu>
> Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2003.03.11 (01) [E]
>
> > From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Morphology
> >
> > Gary (above),
> >
> > > Just looked up 'lingua franca' in my Concise
> Oxford
> > > Dictionary and it gives the plural as 'lingua
> francas'
> > > which would also be the form I would probably
> use,
> > > without having thought about the grammar - even
> though
> > > it probably irks many!
> >
> > My kneejerk reaction was "Egh!"  At second
> thought, though, it makes
> perfect
> > sense: in the absence of Romance morphology
> awareness the two parts have
> > been reanalized as one word, and plural /+s/ has
> been added to the end of
> > the sequence.  I guess I can live with that more
> comfortably than with the
> > state of limbo I described.  Thanks, Gary, as
> always.
>
> Dear All,
> Perhaps it *is* better for English speakers to
> simply use the
> regular English plural than mangle the Latin or
> Greek.  I have heard
> "octopi" as the plural for "octopus", when it should
> be "octopodes", or
> anglicized, "octopods".  People who have not studied
> these languages are
> not likely to know the stem types.
>
> Allison

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