Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Feb 2 11:06:50 EST 2015

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On 02/02/2015 04:47, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>> In article <54ceda0b$0$12977$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
>>   Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>
>>> What is the plural of octopus?
>>
>> It's a trick question.  Octopus is already plural.  Monopus is singular.
>
> People is already plural, too, but you can talk about all the peoples
> of the world. Also, I can use "people" as the subject and "is" as the
> verb, just to completely destroy any chance of a simple grammar parser
> being able to cope with English.
>
> ChrisA
>

I'm simple and I cope (somehow) with English.

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Mark Lawrence

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