• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    The “i” as a plural is only for words taken straight from Latin.

    Sure, but we use it. We adopted those words without altering that form. You said we don’t use it in English, full stop, so I gave 13 counterexamples.

    I don’t place any value on youtube videos made by people speaking outside their expertise.

    I don’t think my eyes can roll any harder.

    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      We don’t use it in English. We just retain the latin plural for Latin words. We don’t use Latin plurals for Greek words that use a different standard for pluralization.

      You made an appeal to authority when you provided the Steven Fry video. Fry is not by any standard an expert on the English language or linguistics. He is an actor and he has written non-academic pieces that are not on linguistics.

      There’s no reason to roll your eyes when someone rejects your non-expert source as it is an appeal to authority.