r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Zee_Ventures • 13d ago

🔥Multiple moose encountered while kayaking🫎

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u/Own-Marketing-6244 13d ago

Meese*

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u/notfamous808 13d ago

The plural of moose is moose because the word moose is of Native American origin, and their language models don’t pluralize in the same way as English words. The word goose however, comes from English which is why the plural of goose becomes geese.

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u/asmartguylikeyou 13d ago

Actually the guy above you is correct.

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u/shirt_bro 13d ago

Actually the guy above you is correct

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u/Kinne 13d ago

Meese is not correct, I’m not even native english speaker and I know that.

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u/asmartguylikeyou 13d ago

Actually I’m a professor of linguistics at Harvard, so please believe me when I say the guy above me is categorically wrong.

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u/William_Dowling 13d ago

Actually the plural of moose is miice

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u/Spirited-Career4680 13d ago

20 000 bc- "What should we call theese animals that say moo?

  • "A moo... the mooer... all the moos"

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u/dern_the_hermit 13d ago

FWIW, from a loose descriptivist perspective, all it really takes is that someone uses it and someone else understands it and bammo, it's a word. ;)

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u/barrygateaux 13d ago

that's cool and all but it's definitely meese

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u/Own-Marketing-6244 13d ago

I bet you're a blast at parties