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The only time I ever see these group nouns being used is in articles about obscure group nouns.
by hrnnnnnn 3y ago
The only time I ever see these group nouns being used is in articles about obscure group nouns.
- this_is_not_you 3y agoI am almost sure they were invented so that people can randomly interject a conversation with "Did you know a group of X is called Y".
- unsupp0rted 3y agoExactly. It's interesting only to monolingual people or (needlessly) concerned language-learners. "Did you know a group of sofas is called a"... just stop it. Use "group" and call it a day.
- mavhc 3y agoDo you know what the name for a baby cow is? It's: baby cow and a male cow is called: a male cow
- Symbiote 3y agoSeparate words for male and female animals, and adult or infant ones, were (and are) useful for people who work with them — farmers and so on.
- mavhc 3y agoIndeed, but no need for everyone to care about such technical terms Also who's farming crows?
- dgfitz 3y agoI might be missing the point you're making, but isn't a baby cow called a calf, and a male cow called a bull? Unless castrated, in which case the bull is instead known as a steer.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoWhat's the word for a group of baby cows? What about a group of male cows that have been castrated? Let's use "group" and leave it at that.
- mavhc 3y agoOnly technical people need to know such things though, in this case, farmers
- gherkinnn 3y agoYou can also make them up as you go along. A struggle of trees for a few scraggly trees clinging on to a rock way above the tree line. A knob of nudists for, well, for a group of nudists.