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The bafflement of angels over plurals
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When the angels arrived on Earth, they were vaguely familiar with the idea of pants: a leg covering which splits between the legs. They personally hadn't worn pants in Heaven, having always preferred a sort of knee-length utility kilt, called a gothal (<ipa> tag error: 'DUAF' is not a valid language code.). One thing angels struggled with when first communicating in English was understanding which words were plural and which were not. For the angels, "pants" is a singular term. They always heard it used to refer to a single garment, even if it appears to be plural in English. As a result, angels usually pluralize pants into pantsim and many when speaking English will refer to "a pants" rather than a pair of pants. The same is true of words like scissors.
In reverse, the Duafric word for sky, shamayim (<ipa> tag error: 'DUAF' is not a valid language code.) is always given in the plural form. Thus, sometimes angels will say in English "many sky," without pluralizing it. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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