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I'm reminded of my quest for the plural of "status". -us being a Latin singular suffix... There ought to be a plural out there besides "statuses", which may be
by __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
I'm reminded of my quest for the plural of "status". -us being a Latin singular suffix... There ought to be a plural out there besides "statuses", which may be technically correct but gives no hint about the character of a status. Not like a "murder" of crows does.
I think it sort of branches out in three directions:
- state (all statuses at a single moment)
- gamut (a range of possible (mutually exclusive?) statuses)
- story (all statuses for a single object)
I'm not sure what's the use of such thoughts, but my mind enjoys thinking them: words as elements in a topological space.
I suppose it's handy for naming variables, but my coworkers don't typically like the names I come up with. I had a dict mapping strings to size-limited deques containing timestamps the other day which I called an AmnesicChronology. Didn't survive review.
- throwaway290 3y agoAmnesicChronology is a great name!
- liotier 3y agoThe plural of status is lifecycle.
- Ringz 3y agoI always thought "statii"? /s
- cryptos 3y ago"statii" doesn't exist. It is "status" (with a long u) or "statuses".
- dylan604 3y agoI've used statusii as a var name holding the status of several things. Just because naming things is hard, and I felt spunky at the time.
- jimmaswell 3y agostatodes
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoOf course, Greek! I should have seen it. Presumably pronounced to rhyme with Parmenides and Octopodes.
- kbenson 3y agoWouldn't that I ply all the statuses over time for something, but not necessarily a slice of those statuses? Like if we're taking about the plural of continent, we're looking for "continents", not necessarily "world", right ?
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoAh, I'll add that right next to "story" depending on if it encompasses all time or just a slice of it.