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Poll: ATLAI OR NOT!?! YOU DECIDE! (994 member(s) have cast votes)

Atlai or Atlases

  1. Voted ATLAI (517 votes [49.57%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 49.57%

  2. Voted ATLASES (526 votes [50.43%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 50.43%

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#61 SakuranoSenshi

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:03 PM

Led, Skadi, led. :-)

#62 Deceptor

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:03 PM

you mean their hand :)

#63 Skadi

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:04 PM

View PostDeceptor, on 01 August 2012 - 10:03 PM, said:

you mean their hand :)

Indeed, we, atlai, as a whole most conclude it, not a lone atlas can bear such a deed.

#64 Itchypantz

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:09 PM

ATLASES for the WIN!
I am pretty sure it would be "ALTLI" anyway.

#65 Gendou

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:09 PM

View PostSakuranoSenshi, on 01 August 2012 - 09:58 PM, said:

While your post was quite reasonable, you're wrong about Atlantes. It's arguably the 'proper' plural but for the fact that we educated all these plebs but without teaching them the classical languages, so they don't know better than to add -s or -es as if it were some sort of English word. ;-)

Not to be pedantic, but Atlantes is the pluralization of atlant (also known as atlas), which is a pillar in the form of a man.
It's an architectural term, and using the pluralization of atlant for the proper noun Atlas is still incorrect.

So how do we pluralize a proper name like Atlas? The answer is debatable because no prior usage exists.
Ultimately Atlases wins out because it's grammatically correct in both English and Greek.

#66 Weapon X

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:10 PM

What is this blasphemy?

Atlases of course. Pretty sure that's even in the canon somewhere..

#67 Otto Cannon

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:11 PM

View PostWeapon X, on 01 August 2012 - 10:10 PM, said:

What is this blasphemy?

Atlases of course. Pretty sure that's even in the canon somewhere..


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#68 SakuranoSenshi

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:12 PM

View PostGendou, on 01 August 2012 - 10:09 PM, said:

Not to be pedantic, but Atlantes is the pluralization of atlant (also known as atlas), which is a pillar in the form of a man.
It's an architectural term, and using the pluralization of atlant for the proper noun Atlas is still incorrect.

So how do we pluralize a proper name like Atlas? The answer is debatable because no prior usage exists.
Ultimately Atlases wins out because it's grammatically correct in both English and Greek.


No, sorry, you're not being pedantic, you're being wrong. It's the plural and that's because the stem of Atlas is Atlant-. In any case but the nominative and vocative, it adds the case ending to that stem.

That plural works in English, not in (Ancient) Greek.

"A little knowledge..." ;-)

Edited by SakuranoSenshi, 01 August 2012 - 10:13 PM.


#69 Skadi

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:12 PM

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#70 Mattrixx

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:16 PM

Fine, I will forever calla a group of Atlas as Atlas from now on. :D

If someone feels it is not enough why then you are always welcome to view the numbers first hand in the battlefield and see for your self. :D

#71 SakuranoSenshi

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:17 PM

Steiner Scout Lance is accepted group noun, I think.

#72 Otto Cannon

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:19 PM

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#73 Damocles

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:21 PM

None of the above.
The plural of Atlas is Atlas.

What is the plural of Abrams (tank)?

One Abrams. Two Abrams.

One Atlas. Two Atlas.
Two Dire Wolf
Two Timberwolf
Two Hunchback
Thirty Five Thunder Hawk

Edited by Damocles, 01 August 2012 - 10:21 PM.


#74 Skadi

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:22 PM

View PostDamocles, on 01 August 2012 - 10:21 PM, said:

None of the above.
The plural of Atlas is Atlas.

What is the plural of Abrams (tank)?

One Abrams. Two Abrams.

One Atlas. Two Atlas.
Two Dire Wolf
Two Timberwolf
Two Hunchback
Thirty Five Thunder Hawk

Abrai

#75 Damocles

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:24 PM

Haha
YES

no wait NO

NO?

#76 Gendou

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:24 PM

View PostSakuranoSenshi, on 01 August 2012 - 10:12 PM, said:

No, sorry, you're not being pedantic, you're being wrong. It's the plural and that's because the stem of Atlas is Atlant-. In any case but the nominative and vocative, it adds the case ending to that stem.

First of all, Atlantes seems to be using a Latin pluralization rather than Greek.
Second, how is this not the nominative case? I guess I could see arguing accusative if we were talking about piloting the Atlases...

#77 Marketh

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:29 PM

None of the above!

It's Atlas'


the ' denoting plural

#78 Otto Cannon

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:30 PM

View PostMarketh, on 01 August 2012 - 10:29 PM, said:

None of the above!

It's Atlas'


the ' denoting plural


You wrote the i too small, and forgot to remove the s.

#79 Deceptor

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:30 PM

Don't worry as I'm sure one day you will all be lined up and asked one by one at the end of a plasma rifle.

#80 Damocles

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Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:31 PM

View PostDeceptor, on 01 August 2012 - 10:30 PM, said:

Don't worry as I'm sure one day you will all be lined up and asked one by one at the end of a plasma rifle.

One can dream





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