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[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 15 points 6 days ago

German plurals are neutral evil now, eh?

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 8 points 6 days ago

Depends on whether the question is "How do you pluralise this word" or "Wie bildet man den Plural von diesem Wort".

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

No word spoken in German could be evil

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

Because "evil" is not a German word, indeed.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 points 6 days ago

Inbegriff des Bösen, vielleicht?

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's a German term, yes. It is not "evil" though because it is spelt and pronounced differently.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 points 6 days ago

Yes I know.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

My Manga disagrees.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 1 points 6 days ago

Well this is about grammar and German is mostly quite consistent (compared to English anyway) so I'd be inclined to call it Lawful Evil. Except plurals aren't super consistent and plenty of times they add '-en' or even just tack on '-s' like in English so besides knowing the gender you kind of have to know whether or not the word is Germanic in the first place. So maybe neutral evil is correct in this case lol

[-] farmgineer@nord.pub 8 points 6 days ago
[-] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

This is getting out of hand!

[-] farmgineer@nord.pub 2 points 6 days ago

The intonation of the second "there are two of them" can drastically change the mood. Surprise, terror, confusion... the wug's your oyster!

[-] djmikeale@feddit.dk 6 points 6 days ago

Where's the Australian one - Woogies?

[-] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

It's not one wug, two wugayn, three awaag?

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

You know that CN would've replied "Beans", c'mon. 🤪

[-] Jakylla@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago

Lawful neutral when there are 5 wug : Wugwugwugwugwug !

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