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Jesī *NM* Praziquantel Send a noteboard - 01/11/2011 10:06:29 PM
If in an alternate reality you were confronted by a mob of Jesus clones, and you wanted to say, "Oh shit, look at all those ________!", what would you use besides "Jesuses"? After all, I'm fairly certain other names follow a similar form. "There are a lot of Guses in this town." "Did you see all those Samuses at that cosplay convention?" Unless Jesus as a name has a special grammatical convention for plurality? Such as Jesu or something? Or perhaps it is like a moose and you would simply say, "Look at all those Jesus!" That seems potentially grammatically vague. Surely you don't mean to imply that it should be converted like a Latin word and be Jesi? I would have thought that would not apply to proper names. Though that is a good question. If Claudius were cloned, would you say, "Holy shit, look at all those Claudii!"?

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Jesī *NM* - 01/11/2011 10:06:29 PM 175 Views
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The source? Any good Latin grammar should do. *NM* - 02/11/2011 05:06:31 PM 103 Views
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