BrokenEye3 t1_j6m0mwg wrote
Reply to comment by Dodaddydont in TIL that between 1895 and 1908 the population of the Belgian Congo declined by between 2 and 13 million due to colonial brutality and diseases caused by colonialism. by hetkleinezusje
*censuses or censusses or census
CanadianGurlfren t1_j6m5ea8 wrote
Censi
BrokenEye3 t1_j6m6hcf wrote
Yeah, I assumed that would be it too, but I checked and for reasons I'm not highly educated enough to understand, the Latin plural of "census" is "census" (unless its in the genitive case, in which case the plural is "censuum", which seems pretty rad but not strictly relevant to this usage) and thus in English the rarely used "proper" plural is too. Maybe it wasn't originally considered a countable noun? That'd be kind of ironic.
BowzersMom t1_j6opd7u wrote
In the fourth declension nominative cases are the same for singular and plural. But which words are 4th declension and how can you tell? If I knew I might have scored better on my AP Latin exam 16 years ago.
CanadianGurlfren t1_j6m6ms6 wrote
It isn't countable because Latin borrowed it from Japanese
jusmellow t1_j6np7ie wrote
Sensei
Dom_Shady t1_j6melhp wrote
Cersei
FaceOfThePLanet t1_j6mk6y6 wrote
The Land of Censi
_dirty_lew_ t1_j6n4ac6 wrote
That smelly wax shit?
stelythe1 t1_j6m63w9 wrote
censussy ඞ
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