Atlai Or Atlases? Vote Now!
#81
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:37 PM
#82
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:42 PM
Gendou, on 01 August 2012 - 10:24 PM, said:
Second, how is this not the nominative case? I guess I could see arguing accusative if we were talking about piloting the Atlases...
It's not nominative SINGULAR. As for the other part, did you actually do any study? Serious question. If you did, do you remember the thrid declension?
#83
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:44 PM
SakuranoSenshi, on 01 August 2012 - 10:42 PM, said:
It's not nominative SINGULAR. As for the other part, did you actually do any study? Serious question. If you did, do you remember the thrid declension?
There is a time and a place for this argument, but it is not here, for this thread is for the atlai.
#84
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:45 PM
#85
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:45 PM
#87
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:48 PM
SakuranoSenshi, on 01 August 2012 - 10:42 PM, said:
Do study on what, exactly?
And while it's been almost twenty years, yes, I remember my Greek declensions.
#88
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:51 PM
Gendou, on 01 August 2012 - 10:48 PM, said:
And while it's been almost twenty years, yes, I remember my Greek declensions.
I was asking if you'd studied (ancient) Greek, otherwise talking about declensions would probably mean nothing to you. Since you did, you already have the answer and it should have jogged your memory. :-)
#89
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:51 PM
#90
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:53 PM
#91
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:54 PM
SakuranoSenshi, on 01 August 2012 - 09:32 PM, said:
Wrong in every way possible, first for taking this as SRS BSNS, then because they are all the same word and for related reasons, next because neither of your choices are remotely in the running for the 'real' one and finally because it's Atlases. In English, which is what the novels used (and actually did use). Incidentally, definitive canon is the rulebooks and supplements over the novels. Just saying.
Atlai.
Therefore your argument is invalid
#93
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:56 PM
#95
Posted 01 August 2012 - 10:58 PM
#96
Posted 01 August 2012 - 11:01 PM
SakuranoSenshi, on 01 August 2012 - 10:56 PM, said:
But the novels and rules all thought that giant walking tanks piloted by people with personality disorders wearing nothing but pants, vest and a silly helmet would be the logical way of making war in the future. I don't think we can trust those sources on linguistics either.
#97
Posted 01 August 2012 - 11:01 PM
SakuranoSenshi, on 01 August 2012 - 10:51 PM, said:
Okay, I will allow as how a plural Atlas is properly Atlantes in Greek because it's third declension.
(see, this is where my education fails me - I was unaware that Atlas was third declension because my seminary education was not in Classical Greek but in Biblical Greek)
However, I can still make the argument that Atlases is correct in this context because it's a proper name that has been borrowed into English.
Therefore, pluralizing it as if it were an English word is appropriate, as we do with other proper names borrowed into English.
The debate continues!
#98
Posted 01 August 2012 - 11:04 PM
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