@slaughtermouse to No Stupid [email protected] • 3 months agoWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"?message-square6arrow-up116arrow-down10
arrow-up116arrow-down1message-squareWhy isn't it "multiple scleroses"?@slaughtermouse to No Stupid [email protected] • 3 months agomessage-square6
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•3 months agoi think they know that. if you pluralized ‘sclerosis’, you’d expect to get ‘scleroses’. just like pluralizing ‘thrombosis’ gets you ‘thromboses’.
minus-squareEm Adespotonlinkfedilink1•3 months agoScleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.
i think they know that. if you pluralized ‘sclerosis’, you’d expect to get ‘scleroses’. just like pluralizing ‘thrombosis’ gets you ‘thromboses’.
The disease isn’t a plural. Which i already said.
Scleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.