• stoicmaverick@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You’re clearly a bit of a fellow word nerd. Do you have any feelings about the fact that none of that matters anymore if we all just agree that it doesn’t, which one could have an easy time arguing that we have? Sometimes, after spending a rousing five minutes explaining the MOST correct pluralization of ‘octopus’, the only answer I can give to the inevitable question of “why does it matter?” Is “it doesn’t”.

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      4 months ago

      If you were trying to describe a mess of cables how would you use octopus in an adjective form?