Plural of Wose

[Dragon Master]

Wosen sounds like the past tense of the verb Wose. I don't know what this unexisting verb does, but I think "You got wosen, sucks doesn't it?"

Whats wrong with Wose for singular and plural?

[Silence of Echo]

how about wice? If you think about it...it makes sense....

"And the elf sitting lonely on his wosen bust spoke only that one word,
as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Quoth the elf:
Wosenmore!"
-Edgar Allen Poe (altered....slightly)

Im a wice, youre a wice, EVERYBODY WICE NOW!

[joshudson]

In order of popularity:
Wosen
Woses
Wose
Wice

I'd just go with wosen right now if it weren't for the fact that most people won't understand it. Most people are just not well-enough familiar with the only other transistions of this type to make the connection:

ox -> oxen
child -> children
vax -> vaxen

[La_vie_en_Wose]

but I don't think Woses really have a place in Wesnoth, and they never really did; especially not one that would lead to them being allied with the Rebels. So I've always been opposed to Woses in Wesnoth.)

La_vie_en_WORTH !

[irrevenant]

In order of popularity:
Wosen
Woses
Wose
Wice

You forgot "weese".

[La_vie_en_Wose]

In order of popularity:
Wosen
Woses
Wose
Wice

You forgot "weese".

You also forgot the dead Wose : The WAS !

[xtifr]

I really don't see the need for any silly weird, obscure plural forms here. Whatever the Angles or Saxons may have done, the fact is that in Modern English, only a tiny handful of words retain the "-en" plural form. Any native English speaker, seeing the word "Wose" will assume that the plural is "Woses", and indeed, if you browse the forums, you will find "Woses" univerally used as the plural everywhere but in this thread.

As far as I can see, the only possible benefit to choosing some peculiar plural form is so that those "in the know" can flame and/or make fun of those who naïvely assume a simpler and more obvious plural--and frankly, I don't see this as a real benefit; I see it as a drawback.

As for those who argue that this or that obscure, silly plural form is "cool", allow me to remind you: you are sitting at your computer, browsing an online forum and discussing obscure linguistic details of a fantasy video game. A video game which, moreover, owes much of its popularity to the fact that it works with UNIX! Nothing you say or do in this thread has any chance of ever resembling coolness!

[turin]

As for those who argue that this or that obscure, silly plural form is "cool", allow me to remind you: you are sitting at your computer, browsing an online forum and discussing obscure linguistic details of a fantasy video game. A video game which, moreover, owes much of its popularity to the fact that it works with UNIX! Nothing you say or do in this thread has any chance of ever resembling coolness!

Depends on your definition of "cool".

In my experience, some people say that "cool" means "obscure"... the more obscure, the cooler. So that would mean wesnoth is the epitome of cool.

[scott]

As for those who argue that this or that obscure, silly plural form is "cool", allow me to remind you: you are sitting at your computer, browsing an online forum and discussing obscure linguistic details of a fantasy video game. A video game which, moreover, owes much of its popularity to the fact that it works with UNIX! Nothing you say or do in this thread has any chance of ever resembling coolness!

At least we're using real languages. Despite some attempts, no one has managed to come up with the rest of the Wesfolk language and/or determine the translation of "wose" into that "language."

[xtifr]

In my experience, some people say that "cool" means "obscure"... the more obscure, the cooler.

Well, then, I propose that the plural of "Wose" should be...Glibwol! Hard to get much more obscure than that!

[Cuyo Quiz]

We should obviously make every species into an Easter Egg, adn then change the names of the weapons to some fitting anagram. Saurians would be Neolings, for example.

Oh yeah, ++ (postcount+1).

[Flametrooper]

Jeez. Some people really need lives.

[La_vie_en_Wose]

We're then in the Wose Who.

[Liminiality2]

In order of popularity:
Wosen
Woses
Wose
Wice

You forgot "weese".

Weese, it pwns and you cannot question pwnage for it is the gamer term for "cool"

P.S. Cuyo Quiz idea pwns

[La_vie_en_Wose]

Wose is cool