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.

"I'll blow whomever I want, whenever I want, as long as I can still breathe and kneel."
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This message last edited by LiterateDog on 02/06/2010 at 06:37:44 AM
Excruciatingly painful minutia of my life
02/06/2010 12:00:19 AM
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It's "minutiae" - otherwise it's in the singular. *NM*
02/06/2010 12:36:54 AM
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Not really. The English usage/spelling of the word is minutia.
02/06/2010 12:44:06 AM
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~pulls up a lawn chair with cold drinks and popcorn and settles in~ *NM*
02/06/2010 12:47:15 AM
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LOL
02/06/2010 12:52:44 AM
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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
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I didn't say that they were the same usage rules.
02/06/2010 06:18:53 AM
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Don't people have both gender (social construct) and sex (biological fact)? *NM*
02/06/2010 11:25:36 PM
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No, people do not have a gender.
03/06/2010 12:16:18 AM
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The OED doesn't give any example of "minutia" being used as plural. *NM*
02/06/2010 12:53:23 AM
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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
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I think the point is that most people use "minutiae" and never use the singular.
02/06/2010 01:02:22 AM
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Of course it has more entries.
02/06/2010 01:12:31 AM
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let me see if I've got this....
02/06/2010 01:23:55 AM
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You won't be laughing when I release that licking sex picture to the mediums!
02/06/2010 01:27:39 AM
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What will the mediums do? Commune with the ghost of Buddy Holly to get his opinion? *NM*
02/06/2010 01:43:35 AM
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No, the Big Bopper. You know it's him when he says "Hello, baby!" *NM*
02/06/2010 05:16:57 AM
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Pronunciation in Latin
02/06/2010 03:15:10 AM
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I'm a classics student. Consulting dictionaries is beyond habit and approaching compulsion.
02/06/2010 02:08:45 AM
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A sex addiction would be much more pleasurable compulsion, y'know.
02/06/2010 02:32:51 AM
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The two aren't mutually exclusive, just kinky. *NM*
02/06/2010 04:09:50 AM
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I think you should use the OED to find out the definition of kinky.
02/06/2010 04:25:32 AM
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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
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Bitch, that ain't kinky. It's just....odd. *NM*
02/06/2010 06:28:25 AM
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Re: I'm a classics student. Consulting dictionaries is beyond habit and approaching compulsion.
02/06/2010 04:58:28 AM
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It may surprise you to learn that not all of my friends are classics students.
02/06/2010 05:21:24 AM
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The other thing is that people don't know how to pronounce the difference between the two.
02/06/2010 03:12:10 AM
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