This makes perfect sense to me, though I can't think of any similar plural abbreviations.
I'd say anything else you abbreviate in the plural would keep the 's'. The abbreviation of gymnasiums isn't just gym, for instance.
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billytea - Dec 10, 2010 7:35:37 pm PST #9117 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2010 7:47:19 pm PST #9118 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think the difference is that people don't think of mathematics as plural, because no one talks about mathematic. So to an American, it's just a word ending in s. The abbreviation of gymnasiums is the plural of the abbreviation of gymnasium.
billytea - Dec 10, 2010 8:37:37 pm PST #9119 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think the difference is that people don't think of mathematics as plural, because no one talks about mathematic.
Sure, and using Math instead of Maths doesn't really ping me. I notice, but just in an "oh yeah, American" kind of way. It is, however, anomalous, strictly speaking.
Jars - Dec 11, 2010 2:01:49 am PST #9120 of 9843
I still don't know what 'safe' is supposed to mean though.
It's a stand-in for 'okay' or 'wicked' or maybe cool. Except I don't think any chav would ever be heard using the word 'cool'.
So you'd hear people saying "Yeah, aright, safe" at the end of conversations or if they're agreeing with something. Saying "Safe, blud" is a greeting too, sometimes...
Fiona - Dec 15, 2010 9:30:38 am PST #9121 of 9843
Well, I really enjoyed that one. (Got to it a little late, but....).
What with caring about what happened to Kelly, and being genuinely happy for Simon, our Nathan seems to be in danger of turning into a regular, or at least a not-permanently-irritating, guy.
(He still managed to say, "What's a gorilla doing in a gorilla suit?" though, and for that I am grateful).
ETA: Misfits Christmas Special is this coming Sunday, E4, 10 pm.
Jon B. - Dec 15, 2010 9:37:25 am PST #9122 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Misfits Christmas Special is this coming Sunday, E4, 10 pm.
And the series finale is tomorrow, right?
Fiona - Dec 15, 2010 9:39:56 am PST #9123 of 9843
Right, the usual time and place.
Jon B. - Dec 15, 2010 9:43:30 am PST #9124 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Excellent! t /Mr. Burns
le nubian - Dec 15, 2010 10:09:40 am PST #9125 of 9843
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yes, I'm really looking forward to both. I might have to save them up and mainline them over the weekend. I'm supposed to be grading.
Jars - Dec 16, 2010 11:47:43 am PST #9126 of 9843
Okay, I've caught up on Misfits, just in time for the finale in... fifteen minutes. Woo!
My response to the rest of series two was pretty much "Simon. Simon? Simon! Siiiiiiiimoooooooon!!! Gorilla? Simon."