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Shadowfax 08-01-2002 07:45 PM

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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
The illiad city? Does Achilles live there? Or do you mean the illithid city. Many illithid live there. Not illithids, but illithid. One sheep, two sheep. One fish, two fish. One illithid, two illithid. The jury is out on the plural form of Kuo-Toa. Anyone know for sure?
Kuo-Ti? =p Platypus, Platipodi... don't ever let anyone tell you that it's platypuses, because that is strictly not true.

LennonCook 08-01-2002 08:02 PM

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Originally posted by Shadowfax:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
The illiad city? Does Achilles live there? Or do you mean the illithid city. Many illithid live there. Not illithids, but illithid. One sheep, two sheep. One fish, two fish. One illithid, two illithid. The jury is out on the plural form of Kuo-Toa. Anyone know for sure?

Kuo-Ti? =p Platypus, Platipodi... don't ever let anyone tell you that it's platypuses, because that is strictly not true.</font>[/QUOTE]<font color="lightblue">It isn`t platipodi either ;) Just platipi [img]smile.gif[/img]
Same with cactus/cacti, rhinocerus/rhinoceri, and radius/radii...

PLural of Kua-Toa is Kuo-Tua. Just like Illithid, and sheep.
However, you CAN have one fish, many fish; or one fish, many fishes. Fish implies creatures, fishes implies species. Some whiting and baramundi in the same tank (a feat in itself ;) ) could be described as fishes; whereas two carp would be two fish. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Also, in the other thread to do with this, someone mentioned Samarai and Ninja to be in the same category as sheep, Illithid, and Kuo-Tua... Samarai is; Ninja is strictly "Ninjas" for plural. [img]smile.gif[/img]

*end pedant mode*</font>

Freakytim 08-02-2002 08:00 AM

By my reckoning;
1 Illithid, 2 Illithii
1 Kuo Toa, 2 Kuo Toae

Tim.


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