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Originally Posted by Videri
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How is the usage of "gears" to refer to "gear" slang? It's not like pronouncing "garbage" with a soft g as in the classic dad joke. "Garbazh."
Anyway, people who are learning English and people who just don't know any better will be led astray by misuse of the word "gears" to refer to "gear," which is already a kind of plural noun just like "armor" and "water" and "equipment."
Oh man, "loots" is also misused...painfully. hehe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] If you got one item, you got loot. If you got two items, you got loot. Only bards should be talking about lutes! |
English never met a word it didn't like. It's highly mutable, and sometimes those words escape and go elsewhere.
I
to this day will call Incoming when a restaurant server is bringing food to my table.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll