What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"
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- Syllabuses, not syllabi
- Matrixes, not matrices
- Indexes, not indices
- Cactuses, not cacti
Standardize plurals!
Also, the plural of "octopus" is "assholes." Trust me, I'm a squid.
Okay Imma pick a fight here. Your suggestion is the opposite of pedantic. It advocates for a "vulgarisation" of Latin loanwords (in the sense of "making them more like common words").
I want to go back to pluralising more words in line with their Greek or Latin roots. I want to reverse the perfectly natural and reasonable linguistic shift you're proposing and instead restore or retain that piece of linguistic anachronism as long as possible.
This is the way.
I think you mean "Greek or Latin rootices".
I got out-pedanted? Impossibile!
Bene factum
As someone who regularly works with matrices, please, no. I'm kinda ok with the indexes though
Better idea: Make them superplurals.
E.g. fish (singular), fish (plural), fishes (superplural)