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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by grose on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:33AM (#29303122)
I know this is a joke, but this is an actual thing in linguistics called reduplication. For example, hito (人) in Japanese means person, and hitobito (人人) means people, more or less. Japanese isn't the best example since they don't have "real" plurals but I think it's a fascinating phenomenon.
Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by efitz on Monday November 22, 2021 @04:09AM (#29304379)
Same in Thai. “Child” is “dek”, children is “dek dek”.