• adarza@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    whew. at least they aren’t up to calling-up the squadrons of geese.

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      2 months ago

      Cross that border and you’ll get frostbite … and if it’s warm outside, you’ll be swarmed by mosquitos and black flies

      • mitchty
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        2 months ago

        Please don’t release the geese, followed by the meese.

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          lol … I always love explaining this. I’m Indigenous Canadian, 100% Ojibway from northern Ontario and I fluently speak my Indigenous language, it’s my first language before English.

          The Ojibway word for moose is … moose … (it’s an Indigenous word that hasn’t changed)

          The Ojibway word for the plural of moose is … moosuk

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            2 months ago

            I really like this, and I think moosuk really encapsulates the feeling of stumbling across more than one moose in the wild, but the last thing English needs is another standard for pluralization.

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            2 months ago

            I will die on meese is plural hill. It’s my fetch, I’m gonna make it happen.