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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by Anon4Now on Friday September 18, 2020 @12:51PM (#24519070)
I don't know, but I kind of like "i" being the plural of "us". It makes all my decisions seem unanimous.
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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by thunderbong on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:24PM (#24519466)
Shouldn't that be unanimi?
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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by chrisweekly on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:32PM (#24519559)
unanimoi?

(pronounced "yew-nan-i-mwa" as in French "me")

;)

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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by blnqr on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:51PM (#24519788)
unanimata
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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by toolslive on Saturday September 19, 2020 @07:35AM (#24526721)
sometimes the plural of a word ending on 'us' ends on 'i'. Sometimes it does not. Even if the origin is Latin, it varies (lupus vs fructus). However when borrowing words from another language, things become interesting and subject to ignorance and fashion (not necessarily in that order).

Pro tip: Pizza Pepperoni (Italy vs US)

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