Kevin Smith | Ambiguous -s (was: Summing up?)

• Autor: Kevin Smith (“kevinbsmith”)
• Tema: Ambiguous -s (was: Summing up?)
• Data: 2002-09-21 17:01
• Mesaje: 176 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 12:00, George Boeree wrote:
> plural -s

There are also many words that end with -s that are not plural, which
makes them ambiguous. This does not bother me as much as the verb
problem that I described earlier, but it is still annoying.

Here is a list of non-plural -s LFN words. I have put a star (*) after
each one that is actually ambiguous, where the word is both a plural
noun AND has some other meaning. There are several others that are
almost the same as a plural noun, and which could be quite confusing.

Based on this, I guess I would argue that either -s should not be used
for plurals, or all the non-plural -s words should be changed to avoid
ending with -s.

Kevin

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adres
ambos
ananas
bus
capas
cortes *
crefis
crus *
des
dudes
enerjios
famos
fas *
felis
gas
glorios
gras
gris
imprecis
incortes
infelis
jelos
joios
lus
lusos
mais
mas *
materas
mus
nas
nervos *
nos *
numeros *
orgulos
pais
palais
pas
perdis
perilos
polis
pos
precis
presis
radis
ris
ses
sipres
sircus
suprafas
tas *
tedios
tenis *
valis
ves
virus
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