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kirkoman@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 个月前

The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices.

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The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices.

kirkoman@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 个月前
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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    I call them “tissues.” Calling all tissue Kleenex is like my mom calling all video games Nintendo.

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      FWIW, I just learned that escalator and kerosene started as trademarked brand names.

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        So did Frisbee

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          Xerox machine

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            Cellophane

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              Dumpster

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      insisting on calling all tissues kleenex is how the company loses the rights to the name

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    My parents do say kleenices, but they’re massive nerds. And linguists. Dad has bad allergies so “Did you take the kleenices out of your pockets?” was a common laundry time question. They also pluralized pizza as “pizzot”.

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      Fun fact! Pizza is already plural. The singular is a piz, which is where we get the English word “piece”, because pizza come pre-portioned. The word “peace” also comes from the same derivation, because it is impossible to go to war while enjoying a piz of pizza.

      /s

  • SolidShake@lemmy.world
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    Kleenex is the name of the brand, not the tissues

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      Brands are nouns and can (and are) thus genericized.

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    According to the internet the -ex to -ices is a dead suffix for specifically latin borrowed words

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      is a dead suffix

      sure, if you go with that attitude!

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    Kleenpodes!

    Yes, I know its unrelated. I’m just trying to force in the whole octopi problem.

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    What if the singular of Kleenex was a Kleenek.

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      Gah you fuggin beat me to it!

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    Kleeni (long i)

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      I think that would be the plural of Kleenus.

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      [kliːniː]

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    Furthermore, it should be pronounced like it was a Greek philosopher.

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      Κληνίσης

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    Kleenussies

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    Kleeneges.

    Tap for spoiler

    rex -> reges

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      regex → regeges?

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        Lateges, googolpleges, apeges, indeges, Wesseges and Susseges, the two seges. Latin is super easy.

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    Obviously pronounces “Clean-eh-keys” right?

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      As a crazy person that took 5 semesters of Latin, absolutely, but it’s a battle in which I’ve admitted defeat, much like “as per.”

      If English made any sense, “matrices” would be the normal plural and pronounced with the italianized soft c. But then “indexes” is over there being irksome.

      I think the correct plural here is simpler: a zero plural, i.e Kleenex. Probably because we just elide the entire word “tissues.”

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    You must struggle with nouns like ‘deer’ and ‘mail’.

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    I thought Kleenex was the plural. I use one Kleeni at a time.

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    What other word follows this?

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      index -> indices matrix -> matrices codex -> codices appendix -> appendices

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        Ah, I forgot about index and didn’t know about codices.

        I’ll continue to use the plural “tissues”, though! Lol

        It’s funny to me to see someone simultaneously prescriptively linguistic enough to use a Latin pluralization but not pedantic enough to use the proper non-genericized term for tissues, haha

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    What should the plural of Lego be?

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      Leggos

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        My eggos

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      Lesgo?

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