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The 20 Line Challenge / [DBC] Pluraliser!

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Libervurto
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Posted: 1st Nov 2007 22:55
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Is it possible to have a comprehensive pluraliser for all words in the English language?
Or is it just too screwed up?
please comment any interesting pluralisations and I'll try to add them in.
I don't think my method is very good, it doesn't work for mouse because you'd have to check all the way back to m! I can't think of any other words that end in "se" that aren't pluralised to "ses"



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gbark
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It might be possible to come up with a function to pluralize every word, but I'd imagine it would be kinda hard to set up all the rules in just 20 lines.

Mouse, as you said, is a weird case, but there are other weird words as well, like "Goose - Geese" or even "Fish - Fish"... You'd almost have to have a list of basic rules for most words, but have a seperate list for all the weird words that don't seem to follow any of the rules.
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Libervurto
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ahh screw it. you pay peanuts; you get monkies (subtle joke there )
well at least i've got vertices, matrices and virii covered

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pcRaider
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English plural
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural
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aluseus GOD
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words edning with um turn into ending with a.
words ending with us turn into ending with i.
words ending with s turn into ending with ses.
wierd words have their own rules.
Every other word ends with s.

examples:
datum-> data
cat-> cats
radius-> radii

etc.

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n008
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Posted: 14th Nov 2007 22:57
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...The plural of Virus is Viruses. Not Virii.

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n008
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Hehe, it is... for noobs who like leet speak. Hackers tended to use virii as the plural form as well, back in the good old days."

Hahahahah!

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Libervurto
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It turns out n008 is right!
some people think it is "virii" because that's the Latin way of pluralising ("radius" -> "radii"), but that doesn't work as it would have to be "virius" to begin with.
It's viruses

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aluseus GOD
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did you look this up obese, because im 99.9% sure virus pluralised is virii. actually viri.
radi+us -> radi+i -> radii
vir+us -> vir+i -> viri

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Quote: "The form virii would not have been a correct plural, since the ending -ii only occurs in the plural of masculine and feminine words ending in -ius. For instance, take radius, plural radii: the root is radi-, with the singular ending -us and the plural -i. Thus the plural virii is that of the nonexistent word virius. The form viri would also be incorrect in Latin. The ending -i is normally used for masculine or feminine nouns, not neuter ones such as virus; moreover, viri (albeit with a short i in the first syllable) is the plural of vir, and means "men.""


From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus

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Posted: 16th Nov 2007 05:18
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wikipedia! (gets holy water and burns)

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Libervurto
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I think this can be locked now

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n008
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Why does it need to be locked? I think this program's pretty cool, maybe someone could come fix up the rules to make it more accurate? I can't, though. I am in the middle of my own project .

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By your code,
Random--->Rands
Frog----->Frgs
Apopoleptic---->Apoplepts


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Libervurto
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Posted: 20th Nov 2007 00:18
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Really?
I've disowned it anyway

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n008
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Posted: 20th Nov 2007 01:15
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Apopoleptic <-- Is this some kind of version of Epileptic?

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 20:47
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It means
RARGH!!!!!!!!!!!DHSFGHDFHDFHDH!!!!

Basically immense frustration/anger.


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n008
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Oh, well then his pluralizer is right, because you don't pluralize verbs .

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aluseus GOD
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@WindowsKiller
1. Yes, I don't trust wikipedia. Sue me.
2. Viruses comes up so often because that is the way most people think you have to spell it.
3. I suppose virus is one of those words that has a normal plural, but people used a different plural for so long, it became completely integrated and official.

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n008
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Posted: 24th Nov 2007 05:53 Edited at: 24th Nov 2007 05:54
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No, not at all. If you had read the article you would have found why Virus is never pluralised in that way.

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Quote: "Oh, well then his pluralizer is right, because you don't pluralize verbs "

Apopoleptic is an abjective...


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n008
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Posted: 24th Nov 2007 17:01 Edited at: 24th Nov 2007 17:02
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Nevermind

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I am aware...
I wasn't arguing that you can't pluralise it, I was arguing that it's not a verb.


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Has anyone talked about programming at all since post 4?
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no offence but every single word i typed in came out wrong.


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Libervurto
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Quote: "no offence but every single word i typed in came out wrong."

umm yeah that's because its about 30 lines long, the english language is very complicated.
I gave up on this a long time ago
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and you can't pluralise adjectives either
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