Right. Got it.

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/15/2020 at 15:29 • Filed to: None

While writing an aviation post, I wondered if there was a difference between the plural spelling of “plus.” This helpful !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! cleared it all up for me.

DISCUSSION (30)

For Sweden > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 15:33

Ban English tbh

ttyymmnn > For Sweden
10/15/2020 at 15:33

It really is a stupid language.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 15:34

Kinja'd!!!

facw > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 15:35

That’s what makes it great! It’s so stupid and irregular that any dumb mistakes you make really won’t matter.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 15:38

What’s the adjective form for my running sore on my arm oozing pus?

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 15:39

it’s beautiful for driving the speakers of well-architected languages insane, however...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 15:39

By the space after “is”, I can only assume there is some special character-work supposed to be going on there that got eaten.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 15:41

I’m nonplussed.

lone_liberal > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 15:42

That’s what happens when you take French, German and Latin and shake them all together with some odd Norse and Celtic thrown in. You get a mess.

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 15:43

Kinja'd!!!

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > For Sweden
10/15/2020 at 15:45

Oi m8 yo’ gou t a loiscence f’r tha’ ‘ pinion?

ttyymmnn > facw
10/15/2020 at 16:02

Probably why school teachers don’t bother correcting spelling any more.

fhrblig > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 16:07

Also in English:

‘Buses’ is the plural for ‘bus’. ‘Busses’ is plural for ‘buss’, or ‘a kiss’.

ClassicDatsunDebate > For Sweden
10/15/2020 at 16:09

50/50 chance this will happen in 2 generations anyway

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
10/15/2020 at 16:12

“What is pustulant?”

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
10/15/2020 at 16:13

I am disgruntled. Is there some way I can be regruntled?

ttyymmnn > lone_liberal
10/15/2020 at 16:14

The head music librarian at UT, who was on my doctoral committee, was fond of complaining about how useless the letter C is in English. “We’ve got S, we’ve got K, why do we need C?”

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 16:17

Or returbed, perhaps?

ttyymmnn > fhrblig
10/15/2020 at 16:18

One of my favorites. People get this wrong all the time.

Kinja'd!!!

Bus

Kinja'd!!!

Buses

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
10/15/2020 at 16:20

Perhaps. I just want to be gruntled.

Also, if we redouble our efforts, are we now quadrupling our original efforts?

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 16:22

We should just drop the “dis” from that word...”gruntle” really isn’t a word that sounds like it has a positive connotation.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 16:22

beepboopbeepboopboopbeep

Yeah, that checks out.

ttyymmnn > ZHP Sparky, the 5th
10/15/2020 at 16:28

Kinja'd!!!

The verb disgruntle , which has been around since 1682, means “to make ill-humored or discontented.” The prefix dis - often means “to do the opposite of,” so people might naturally assume that if there is a disgruntle , there must have first been a gruntle with exactly the opposite meaning. But dis - doesn’t always work that way; in some rare cases it functions instead as an intensifier. Disgruntle developed from this intensifying sense of dis - plus gruntle , an old word (now used only in British dialect) meaning “to grumble.” In the 1920s, a writer humorously used gruntle to mean “to make happy”—in other words, as an antonym of disgruntle . The use caught on. At first gruntle was used only in humorous ways, but people eventually began to use it seriously as well. ( Webster’s )

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > ttyymmnn
10/15/2020 at 16:29

Haha wow, that’s what I get for googling “gruntle” and realizing that supposedly it’s a real word without knowing the back story. DisCrazy!