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I didn't say that they were the same usage rules. LiterateDog Send a noteboard - 02/06/2010 06:18:53 AM
However, if your usage rules are correct, it would be minutias anyway.


I simply said that those are more examples where modern American English does not pluralize properly and almost no one thinks anything about it because it's our language.

As for using stadia/stadiums and the others: I prefer stadia, too, and know that it is correct original language usage. But it would be pedantically insane to go around correcting others on it. We don't speak Latin or Greek or French here. We speak American English which of takes foreign words and makes them our own, sometimes changing them. Such is the case with the words mentioned in this post. If the title of the post had contained the word "stadiums", would you have corrected that?

I hate that people use "gender" in place of the word "sex". People do not have a gender, they have a sex. Words have genders. However, I've had to accept that our language does evolve. Grit your teeth like I've had to and get on the train. Otherwise, despite whatever you or I tell ourselves in our heads or how superior it might make us feel, we'll be nothing more than over-educated fussbudgets engaging in reactionary pedantry. :)
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Excruciatingly painful minutia of my life - 02/06/2010 12:00:19 AM 662 Views
It isn't funny without the actual details. - 02/06/2010 12:05:25 AM 425 Views
fair enough - 02/06/2010 12:09:12 AM 486 Views
Oh, c'mon! - 02/06/2010 12:13:22 AM 362 Views
It's "minutiae" - otherwise it's in the singular. *NM* - 02/06/2010 12:36:54 AM 177 Views
Not really. The English usage/spelling of the word is minutia. - 02/06/2010 12:44:06 AM 369 Views
~pulls up a lawn chair with cold drinks and popcorn and settles in~ *NM* - 02/06/2010 12:47:15 AM 178 Views
LOL - 02/06/2010 12:52:44 AM 368 Views
oh, pooh - 02/06/2010 12:55:13 AM 362 Views
I'd say "stadia" and "podia" if for some reason I were inclined to make those words plural. - 02/06/2010 05:00:53 AM 395 Views
I didn't say that they were the same usage rules. - 02/06/2010 06:18:53 AM 398 Views
Don't people have both gender (social construct) and sex (biological fact)? *NM* - 02/06/2010 11:25:36 PM 183 Views
No, people do not have a gender. - 03/06/2010 12:16:18 AM 367 Views
Re: No, people do not have a gender. - 03/06/2010 12:20:39 AM 367 Views
No, I know they aren't interchangeable. - 03/06/2010 04:24:36 AM 388 Views
I'm quite sure they decided to invent that construct. - 03/06/2010 04:35:03 AM 356 Views
The OED doesn't give any example of "minutia" being used as plural. *NM* - 02/06/2010 12:53:23 AM 160 Views
I didn't consult the OED. I feel sad for you that you felt the need to do so. - 02/06/2010 12:58:12 AM 575 Views
I think the point is that most people use "minutiae" and never use the singular. - 02/06/2010 01:02:22 AM 354 Views
Of course it has more entries. - 02/06/2010 01:12:31 AM 370 Views
let me see if I've got this.... - 02/06/2010 01:23:55 AM 558 Views
You won't be laughing when I release that licking sex picture to the mediums! - 02/06/2010 01:27:39 AM 387 Views
What will the mediums do? Commune with the ghost of Buddy Holly to get his opinion? *NM* - 02/06/2010 01:43:35 AM 171 Views
Psychic broadcast to the whole world I bet. - 02/06/2010 01:52:44 AM 348 Views
You leave Buddy Holly out of this! - 02/06/2010 03:02:19 AM 358 Views
Pronunciation in Latin - 02/06/2010 03:15:10 AM 383 Views
It's not the Latin pronunciation I was wondering about. - 02/06/2010 10:14:35 AM 360 Views
Yeah - 03/06/2010 12:23:33 AM 363 Views
I'm a classics student. Consulting dictionaries is beyond habit and approaching compulsion. - 02/06/2010 02:08:45 AM 384 Views
A sex addiction would be much more pleasurable compulsion, y'know. - 02/06/2010 02:32:51 AM 503 Views
The two aren't mutually exclusive, just kinky. *NM* - 02/06/2010 04:09:50 AM 166 Views
I think you should use the OED to find out the definition of kinky. - 02/06/2010 04:25:32 AM 389 Views
You don't think a dictionary fetish is kinky? Buddy, I don't think I'm the one needing the OED. *NM* - 02/06/2010 05:20:55 AM 178 Views
Bitch, that ain't kinky. It's just....odd. *NM* - 02/06/2010 06:28:25 AM 153 Views
Furries are also odd (but still kinky). *NM* - 02/06/2010 02:41:29 PM 175 Views
Odd is too normal a word to describe furries. *NM* - 02/06/2010 11:26:47 PM 180 Views
Kinky odd. *NM* - 02/06/2010 11:26:08 PM 173 Views

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