Is this clever...Or wrong ?

Started by Techno, 03 July 2015, 08:27:55 AM

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Techno



I struggle with corvids...
Any ornithologists on the forum ?
I mean.....Would you really put a ring on a crow ?
(A raven, I could understand.)

Cheers - Phil


FierceKitty

There's a nursery rhyme, isn't there? Ring-a ringa crowsies....
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FierceKitty

Alternately, one is saying to the other "You know nuthin', John Crow."
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Ithoriel

From the beak shape I'd say those are ravens.

Which makes that an attempted unkindness :)
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FierceKitty

Then the tag is "You are stark, raven mad."
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barbarian

Can someone explains this to me ?
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Ithoriel

Barbarian - the picture appears to be of two ravens.

However the caption refers to the collective name for crows - a murder of crows.

Two crows probably don't count as a group, hence "attempted murder"

However the collective name for ravens is an unkindness of ravens.

I'm sure you're not the only one wondering!!

What did I say about the difficulty even native English speakers sometimes have on this (and many another) forum? :D
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fsn

Wot's da kolletive wossname for wargamers?

A table?
A base? (though we'd all disagree about that.)
A sabot?
A sprue? (Na! mogglers!)
A charge?
A disagreement? (Friendly, of course.)
A discord?
A bombast?


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Techno

Quote from: fsn on 03 July 2015, 02:51:25 PM
Wot's da kolletive wossname for wargamers?

An Oik ?  ;)
Cheers - Phil

Ithoriel

A quick shufti on the interwebz suggests that the collective noun for wargamers is either "an argument" or "a pontification."

Personally I'd go with a weirdness of wargamers :)
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