As seen on LJ:
Since we had Part 1,487,369 of the English vs American spelling and grammar wars on an unnamed LJ, I though it might be amusing to link to a pluralization guide. This is written by the highly amusing Benito Cereno1, who is exactly one half on the creative team behind HECTOR PLASM: De Mortuis (click to see preview) coming in March on Image Comics.
The pluralization guide is particularly useful for those slash fan girls out there, trying to figure out what the plural of penis is, and more importantly, WHY. It's also very uplifting if you ever sat through Latin class yet can no longer remember a single bit of it, because of the shivers of familiar terror you will experience when Benito utters the word: declensions.
A brief sample:
...I don't mean to be particularly crass, but an example sentence of two of the words whose pluralizations I most often see misused would be:
"Among the group, there were four peni and six clitori."
The words in italics above are wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I am now about to engage in a long rant about plurals and how to form them. If you would like to skip the rant, I will sum up the information in two points:
a) When in doubt, just add an s or, when appropriate, es.
b) As difficult as this may be for you to believe, there are languages other than English in existence on this planet.
Now, if you are actually a human being who deserves to live, you will continue reading....
Read the rest at: benitocereno
1. No, I don't think it's his real name, either. Though it's possible that a parent somewhere in the world chose to name their innocent boy child after the title character from a Melville novel. One never knows. I'm sure, once upon a time, some tender-souled woman was moved to name her son Heathcliff after the Jane Eyre character, too.
The pluralization guide is particularly useful for those slash fan girls out there, trying to figure out what the plural of penis is, and more importantly, WHY. It's also very uplifting if you ever sat through Latin class yet can no longer remember a single bit of it, because of the shivers of familiar terror you will experience when Benito utters the word: declensions.
A brief sample:
...I don't mean to be particularly crass, but an example sentence of two of the words whose pluralizations I most often see misused would be:
"Among the group, there were four peni and six clitori."
The words in italics above are wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I am now about to engage in a long rant about plurals and how to form them. If you would like to skip the rant, I will sum up the information in two points:
a) When in doubt, just add an s or, when appropriate, es.
b) As difficult as this may be for you to believe, there are languages other than English in existence on this planet.
Now, if you are actually a human being who deserves to live, you will continue reading....
Read the rest at: benitocereno
1. No, I don't think it's his real name, either. Though it's possible that a parent somewhere in the world chose to name their innocent boy child after the title character from a Melville novel. One never knows. I'm sure, once upon a time, some tender-souled woman was moved to name her son Heathcliff after the Jane Eyre character, too.