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Pesce or Pesci

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  1. DerekTheMole

    DerekTheMole Well-Known Member

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    I went to the zoo and I saw hippopotamus-hippopotamus. Doesn't exactly flow off the tongue.
     
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    They often write it like this: Hippopotamus X2
     
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  3. JakartaToon

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    So then:
    Datum
    Radius
    Locus
     
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  4. DerekTheMole

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    Well they're not English.
     
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  5. DerekTheMole

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    But how would you say it, and doesn't that cause confusion of how many there were?
     
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  6. FosseFilberto

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    Fffyych (welsh) <whistle>
     
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  7. DerekTheMole

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    Thanks Matth.
     
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  8. JakartaToon

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    If you need to specify the number just use it - like English. But if you want to say I have many cars - Saya ada banyak mobil mobil. Now most people drop 2nd mobil as using word banyak indicates more than one.
     
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    South Walian ya peasant ... Matth is north Walian so it would be "Fishee-wishee(s)" ... in my opinion

    Now grow up
     
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    How about just adding 'es' in all such cases instead of fcking around changing the letters at the end.

    radii... radiuses
    loci... locuses
     
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  11. brb

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    Cwtch x
     
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  12. DerekTheMole

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    Man a man a mwnci.
     
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  13. brb

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    Might as well?
     
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  14. DerekTheMole

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    Yes. One of my favourite Welsh phrases
     
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    Lan Leni Dhe


    That means 'you all take cock'

    In Punjabi
     
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  16. brb

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    please log in to view this image
     
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  17. FosseFilberto

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    Welsh for Jellyfish (admittedly slang)

    Pysgod Wibli Wobli <laugh>
     
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