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CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 23rd, 2017, 9:40 pm
by Saka
A place to discuss the language of CA and it's grammar. This thread arised from a discussion of what the plural form of "SMOS" (Spaceship Made up of Other Spaceships) should be:
Saka, in the unrecognised CA thread wrote:We must discuss. SMOSsae? Oh god no not methusynthesae SMOSs? SMOSa? SMOSen? SMOae? SMOce? SMOves? SMeese?
Gamedziner, in the unrecognised CA thread wrote:SsMOS, since the acronym stands for "Spaceship Made of Other Spaceships." That's my opinion, at least.
Also, we need a few words that describe certain CA things, like an adjective for this ship that describes that it makes lots of still lifes and stuff:
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x = 3, y = 16, rule = B3aijn5e8/S2-i3ijnqr4-aijk5aceqr6-e7c8
bo$2bo$3o11$3o$2bo$bo!
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 24th, 2017, 2:53 am
by Macbi
The -os ending suggests that it's a Greek word, so I would say the plural was SMOI.
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 24th, 2017, 3:07 am
by drc
what about SMOSMOS
spaceships made of spaceships made of spaceships?
And then SMOSMOSMOS. And SMOSMOSMOSMOS.
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 24th, 2017, 5:06 am
by Saka
Macbi wrote:The -os ending suggests that it's a Greek word, so I would say the plural was SMOI.
Hmm, interesting. So the "I" sound is correct:
SMOi (Smo-eye)
SMOi (SMO-ee)
SMye
Any other good potential plurals?
drc wrote:what about SMOSMOS
spaceships made of spaceships made of spaceships?
And then SMOSMOSMOS. And SMOSMOSMOSMOS.
SMOSMOS have not been achieved yet, but you can help by running Nasvadi's rule range script on all the SMOSes (since we dont have a good plural yet...) found so far and finding which works in most rules.
Anyway, for objects/rules like the ship in the OP, what about Essell? (Pun on SL)
And Cloudy for rules that expand into random "clouds"?
See my page
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Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 24th, 2017, 6:35 am
by Gamedziner
Saka wrote:
Hmm, interesting. So the "I" sound is correct:
SMOi (Smo-eye)
SMOi (SMO-ee)
The problem with that is the acronym becomes "Spaceship Made of Other i."
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 24th, 2017, 7:09 am
by Saka
Gamedziner wrote:Saka wrote:
Hmm, interesting. So the "I" sound is correct:
SMOi (Smo-eye)
SMOi (SMO-ee)
The problem with that is the acronym becomes "Spaceship Made of Other i."
So now we need a pronunciation.
(Id ont know the IPA symbols)
SMOS: O as in
smosh
Let's see your submission
SsMOS: Ez-MOS? S'MOS? S-SMOS (- is a short break)
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 24th, 2017, 8:48 pm
by 83bismuth38
or why not just MSMOS for Multiple Spaceships Made Of Spaceships? it doesn't have to me grammatical rocket science.
Also for the other thing, why not just DSMOS for Dirty Spaceship Made Of Spaceships?
EDIT: rough pronunciations: (MŬS-mōs) and (DŬZ-mōs)
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 25th, 2017, 7:13 am
by Apple Bottom
Saka wrote:A place to discuss the language of CA and it's grammar. This thread arised from a discussion of what the plural form of "SMOS" (Spaceship Made up of Other Spaceships) should be:
Saka, in the unrecognised CA thread wrote:We must discuss. SMOSsae? Oh god no not methusynthesae SMOSs? SMOSa? SMOSen? SMOae? SMOce? SMOves? SMeese?
SMOSen, definitely, in analogy with "boxen", "VAXen" and so on.
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 25th, 2017, 7:48 am
by Macbi
Apple Bottom wrote:Saka wrote:A place to discuss the language of CA and it's grammar. This thread arised from a discussion of what the plural form of "SMOS" (Spaceship Made up of Other Spaceships) should be:
Saka, in the unrecognised CA thread wrote:We must discuss. SMOSsae? Oh god no not methusynthesae SMOSs? SMOSa? SMOSen? SMOae? SMOce? SMOves? SMeese?
SMOSen, definitely, in analogy with "boxen", "VAXen" and so on.
But SMOS doesn't end -x?
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 25th, 2017, 8:57 am
by Apple Bottom
Macbi wrote:But SMOS doesn't end -x?
Details!
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 25th, 2017, 4:28 pm
by Gamedziner
Hold on guys, the origin of SMOS is in the title "Spaceships made up of other spaceships (SMOS)" and contains the plural of spaceship. Therefore, SMOS is already in plural form! I guess this is a case where the singular and plural forms of a word are identical, as in "glasses."
Re: CA Grammar/Language Thread
Posted: September 25th, 2017, 5:22 pm
by 83bismuth38
Gamedziner wrote:Hold on guys, the origin of SMOS is in the title "Spaceships made up of other spaceships (SMOS)" and contains the plural of spaceship. Therefore, SMOS is already in plural form! I guess this is a case where the singular and plural forms of a word are identical, as in "glasses."
...makes complete sense and is very simple. but have you even looked at ANYTHING in CA? you're in the wrong neighborhood to be 'simple.'
pun intended