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3. “Octopuses” sounds like what a child or English as Second Language speaker would say. Not sure what is stilted about being a novice to the language.
by iwontberude 2y ago
3. “Octopuses” sounds like what a child or English as Second Language speaker would say. Not sure what is stilted about being a novice to the language.
- banannaise 2y agoAnd a child or ESL speaker will often use constructions that sound stilted. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. "Stilted" is a bit of a judgy word, but it's not a value judgment of anyone else's intelligence. Some English speech sounds stilted. So it goes. That's why I don't prefer that pluralization in my own speech. Lord knows I sound weird enough at times; I'm not here to throw stones from glass houses.
- thfuran 2y agoOctopuses sounds like a proper English pluralization, not that nonsense about sticking other languages' grammar rules into English.