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Colossuses isn't recognized by my web browser's dictionary. Colossuses may be a word, however it is (Like cactuses,funguses) discouraged from being used.

A cactus is (plural: cacti)

Octopuses is fine, though.

Edit: English sucks, because you can have an argument over something that isn't right or wrong. Such as this.

Most people will say

Everyone should grab their paper.

When in actuality it should be: Everyone should grab his or her paper.
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AppleQueso wrote:funfact: no game that's ever treated "like it was the second coming of Christ" will ever meet those expectations. If you seriously expected such a mindblowing experience, then that's your problem, you were asking too much of it.


But Shadow of the Colossus IS the second coming of Christ.

Yomomma1 is just a blasphemous heathen.
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yomomma1 wrote:Colossuses isn't recognized by my web browser's dictionary. Colossuses may be a word, however it is (Like cactuses,funguses) discouraged from being used.

Discouraged by whom, exactly? The difference between colossuses and colossi is a difference between the rules of the languages English is incorporated from. The English plural is adding -s or -es. The Latin plural replaces -us with -i.

If we're speaking of the proper intention of the words, it's also worth mention that nomenclature has made it acceptable to use words like "criteria" as a singular, when in fact it's the Ancient Greek plural (-on to -a, thus "criterion" being the singular).

And honestly, using your browser's spell check as evidence of proper grammar is a very poor place to start.
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Ah no. Spellcheck is about spelling, not Grammar, or did you forget they are two DIFFERENT things. I wasn't ever taught to use Cactuses Because it isn't right.
While we are at it.

Colossus Is the plural form of Colossus! (If you want to get technical)

Hell, if we want to get REAL basic

Colossuss is the Plural form of Colossus.
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Hell, we could use this in the other topic. Spelling is indeed incorporated in grammar, but that doesn't mean that spelling = grammar! How about that? Grammar is the set of structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any given natural language. Grammar and orthography are typically separated in linguistics, but that doesn't make spelling any less a part of grammar. And in fact, this very topic is proof of that. Plurals are most certainly a part of grammar and it's the spelling of such plurals that's in question!
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Re: Team Ico

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Damn, that is a run on sentence.
Starting a sentence with and, why would you do that? Jeez go back to skool.

edit: My (other) disagreement with you is different. The reason for this is because Grammar and Spelling aren't companies.
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Don't be an ass. It's perfectly acceptable to start a sentence with a conjunction if used sparingly and effectively (such as drawing attention to the sentence).
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Hmmm.... "Looks in big book of english(first published in the late 8th century) Nope, not an exception. It is hard for me to let that go, when you criticize over something more minuet.

Anyway the first guy(not you crux) I had the disagreement with, I never said I didn't like Ico. I was only talking of SOTC. Don't lump Ico in with SOTC.
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You're honestly using the fact that it was first published in the late 8th century to help prove your point?

R.W. Burchfield:

There is a persistent belief that it is improper to begin a sentence with And, but this prohibition has been cheerfully ignored by standard authors from Anglo-Saxon times onwards. An initial And is a useful aid to writers as the narrative continues.
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I still get it marked down if I turn in an essay like that. (for your pleasure) And, we need to stop talking about this.
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