What's the plural of curriculum?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Feb 05, 2007 6:46:56 am PST #8265 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Kat - Feb 05, 2007 6:50:06 am PST #8266 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
curricula.
Dana - Feb 05, 2007 6:51:37 am PST #8267 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, I was afraid of that.
But it looks like Merriam Webster allows me to use "curriculums", and that way, I won't have to explain what "curricula" are.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 05, 2007 6:51:41 am PST #8268 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hippo Birdies, Victor (and Micole and Aidan)!
Jesse - Feb 05, 2007 6:52:49 am PST #8269 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And the description of the pug insemination is Disturbing.
This is what I'm saying. The whole article was creepy in several different ways, really.
When I knew people who had cockapoos in high school, they knew it was just a cute name for a mutt.
Jesse - Feb 05, 2007 6:53:35 am PST #8270 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana, I think it's safe to say you can always use the English-language plural of a common word in English.
Nutty - Feb 05, 2007 6:56:34 am PST #8271 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I remember there was some PBS thing about dog breeds a couple years ago, and aside from falling over laughing at the inbred tendency of some small breed of dog (mini Pinschers? Something that considered itself fierce) to come down with narcolepsy, the main thing I brought away from that discussion was how stupid it is to breed a pet for looks.
Show dogs aren't exactly pets, I mean -- if you are sticking your finger regularly in your pet's cooter, I don't want to know about it -- and pets seem to be a side effect of show dogs, rather than their own niche in the world of dogs.
But, like, who out there will breed a critter for health and behavior, and not give a shit what it looks like? This pretty much already happens with cats, inasmuch as nobody expects good behavior from a cat.
amych - Feb 05, 2007 6:58:58 am PST #8272 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Every show dog I know is a pet. (And they're bred with a whole hell of a lot more attention to health and temperament than a lot of breedings.)
shrift - Feb 05, 2007 7:01:28 am PST #8273 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am bored and cold and bored.
sumi - Feb 05, 2007 7:01:44 am PST #8274 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
We always just called these beagle-bassets and they were pretty common where I grew up mainly because our extended family had both beagles and bassets and they'd occasionally be mixy.
You could collect them and sell them for 10s of 1000s of dollars!
I have to say that every showdog I know is a pet and has alot more basic obedience and attention paid to it than most other dogs. (People I know who show their dogs have them living in their house and tend to have higher standards for manners in their dogs than the average person. They also tend to have several dogs so manners are that much more important.)