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[Hawkeye 72]

[MossDog]

I voted Atlai.

[TripleHex]

Mason West, on 01 August 2012 - 09:17 PM, said:

ATLAI ALL THE WAY!

and in some cases Jennai.

Mason, you're running a Jenner... you don't GET a vote in this one!!!

[Thundercles]

It's an emergent MWO meme. Additionally, Atlai is more fun to say.

[Skadi]

TripleHex, on 02 August 2012 - 12:12 PM, said:

Mason, you're running a Jenner... you don't GET a vote in this one!!!

Jennai*

[McScwizzy]

Its Atlai!

[Locan Ravok]

It is ok to TK your team members that refers to your mechs as Atlai.

[Mycael]

When there is more than one Atlus then it is called a Scout lance.....a Stiener Scout Lance

[Spectre Six]

Atlas... Octopus.

Octopi... Atlasi.

[Skadi]

Fl3tcher, on 02 August 2012 - 02:46 AM, said:

It's "Atlases" pure and simple. Don't they teach English in High School anymore?

Yes, but aparently they dont teach anything about humor.

[Thundercles]

Step 1... getting it on the radar.
Step 2... figuring out how to make "Atlai" work like "Buffalo" ...

[Morashtak]

I Demand a Recount! Someone is Stealing this Election! It's all a Charade!

<puts on his tinfoil hat and climbs in the fall-out bunker>

[Skadi]

Morashtak, on 02 August 2012 - 01:22 PM, said:

I Demand a Recount! Someone is Stealing this Election! It's all a Charade!

<puts on his tinfoil hat and climbs in the fall-out bunker>

I will haft to look into this!
indeed something dose not seem right here, i fear Atlases has thrown the poll!

[Scytale]

Incunabulum, on 02 August 2012 - 05:51 AM, said:

All right Mr. Smartypants - what's the root of atlas?

Funny you should ask. The original form of the word turned up as Atlai (see the writings of Insanicus, 400BC), which was already a plural. The debate to what the singular should be was quite pronounced, though eventually they decided on Atlas, with the retroactively assigned root of "Steiner". Needless to say, this stuck.

[SakuranoSenshi]

Suskis, on 02 August 2012 - 09:21 AM, said:

both wrong. It's Latin version of greek god àtlas and it is spelled:

Atlas
Atlantis
Atlanti
Atlantem, Atlanta
Atla
Atlante

and IT HAS NO PLURAL. guess why? it's a GOD and there is only one of them

It's not, it's perfectly good (ancient) Greek and I can assure you, it pluralizes just fine, like all nouns do in both Latin and Greek. Rarely does context call for it but I gave a simplistic example of English doing just that: "I saw the two Jennifers, yesterday". So, no.

[Scytale]

SakuranoSenshi, on 02 August 2012 - 02:05 PM, said:

It's not, it's perfectly good (ancient) Greek and I can assure you, it pluralizes just fine, like all nouns do in both Latin and Greek. Rarely does context call for it but I gave a simplistic example of English doing just that: "I saw the two Jennifers, yesterday". So, no.

That's the second time I've seen that example from you =P You're such a stalwart!

[chaz706]

Atlases.

Because Atlases.

[Jeremy Hunter]

Skadi, on 02 August 2012 - 12:18 PM, said:

Jennai*

Am I doin' it right?

[Xathanael]

Spectre Six, on 02 August 2012 - 12:28 PM, said:

Atlas... Octopus.

Octopi... Atlasi.

Atlas... Moose
Moose... Atlases

[BertyBargo]

I guess the important thing is... can we make a company of all the different Atlai and their variants? It's nearly the perfect machine. Between lrm boats and close range brawlers, we could make things happen..