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He is singular in nature Isaac Send a noteboard - 01/11/2011 10:08:43 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!"?

These are the things I think about when the world is cold and dark.


In event of an attack by many people dressed as Jesus, for instance, one might say "A bunch of Jesus Impersonators" as one might say Elvis Impersonators. And I think cloning Jesus, even if His DNA were available, would probably be blasphemous, and thus not a matter for serious discussion
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The source? Any good Latin grammar should do. *NM* - 02/11/2011 05:06:31 PM 165 Views
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