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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 688 Views
It isn't funny without the actual details. - 02/06/2010 12:05:25 AM 450 Views
fair enough - 02/06/2010 12:09:12 AM 511 Views
Oh, c'mon! - 02/06/2010 12:13:22 AM 384 Views
It's "minutiae" - otherwise it's in the singular. *NM* - 02/06/2010 12:36:54 AM 190 Views
Not really. The English usage/spelling of the word is minutia. - 02/06/2010 12:44:06 AM 395 Views
~pulls up a lawn chair with cold drinks and popcorn and settles in~ *NM* - 02/06/2010 12:47:15 AM 189 Views
LOL - 02/06/2010 12:52:44 AM 389 Views
oh, pooh - 02/06/2010 12:55:13 AM 384 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 428 Views
I didn't say that they were the same usage rules. - 02/06/2010 06:18:53 AM 421 Views
Don't people have both gender (social construct) and sex (biological fact)? *NM* - 02/06/2010 11:25:36 PM 196 Views
No, people do not have a gender. - 03/06/2010 12:16:18 AM 393 Views
Re: No, people do not have a gender. - 03/06/2010 12:20:39 AM 393 Views
No, I know they aren't interchangeable. - 03/06/2010 04:24:36 AM 417 Views
I'm quite sure they decided to invent that construct. - 03/06/2010 04:35:03 AM 375 Views
The OED doesn't give any example of "minutia" being used as plural. *NM* - 02/06/2010 12:53:23 AM 174 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 604 Views
I think the point is that most people use "minutiae" and never use the singular. - 02/06/2010 01:02:22 AM 376 Views
Of course it has more entries. - 02/06/2010 01:12:31 AM 396 Views
let me see if I've got this.... - 02/06/2010 01:23:55 AM 585 Views
You won't be laughing when I release that licking sex picture to the mediums! - 02/06/2010 01:27:39 AM 406 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 182 Views
Psychic broadcast to the whole world I bet. - 02/06/2010 01:52:44 AM 369 Views
You leave Buddy Holly out of this! - 02/06/2010 03:02:19 AM 383 Views
Pronunciation in Latin - 02/06/2010 03:15:10 AM 410 Views
It's not the Latin pronunciation I was wondering about. - 02/06/2010 10:14:35 AM 387 Views
Yeah - 03/06/2010 12:23:33 AM 390 Views
I'm a classics student. Consulting dictionaries is beyond habit and approaching compulsion. - 02/06/2010 02:08:45 AM 411 Views
A sex addiction would be much more pleasurable compulsion, y'know. - 02/06/2010 02:32:51 AM 534 Views
The two aren't mutually exclusive, just kinky. *NM* - 02/06/2010 04:09:50 AM 182 Views
I think you should use the OED to find out the definition of kinky. - 02/06/2010 04:25:32 AM 411 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 192 Views
Bitch, that ain't kinky. It's just....odd. *NM* - 02/06/2010 06:28:25 AM 161 Views
Furries are also odd (but still kinky). *NM* - 02/06/2010 02:41:29 PM 187 Views
Odd is too normal a word to describe furries. *NM* - 02/06/2010 11:26:47 PM 194 Views
Kinky odd. *NM* - 02/06/2010 11:26:08 PM 184 Views

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