David J Prokopetz

Going to start making every school of grammarian equally annoyed by pluralising "penis" as "penoi".

#idk as a grammatical anarchist it's funny (via @kintatsujo)

Going to start annoying the grammatical anarchists by framing a prescriptivist argument for the correctness of "penoi".

as a linguist and conlang appreciator, I want to know what your etymology for this would be

I haven't put a great deal of thought into working out the particulars just yet, but I'd probably start with spuriously asserting that the word "penis" derives from the Ancient Greek φαλλός (note: it absolutely does not) and go from there.

"Grimm's law goes both ways."

Going to start making every school of grammarian equally annoyed by pluralising "penis" as "penoi".

#idk as a grammatical anarchist it's funny (via @kintatsujo)

Going to start annoying the grammatical anarchists by framing a prescriptivist argument for the correctness of "penoi".

as a linguist and conlang appreciator, I want to know what your etymology for this would be

I haven't put a great deal of thought into working out the particulars just yet, but I'd probably start with spuriously asserting that the word "penis" derives from the Ancient Greek φαλλός (note: it absolutely does not) and go from there.

Going to start making every school of grammarian equally annoyed by pluralising "penis" as "penoi".

#idk as a grammatical anarchist it's funny (via @kintatsujo)

Going to start annoying the grammatical anarchists by framing a prescriptivist argument for the correctness of "penoi".

Tumblr is the greatest social media platform because this is literally the only site where I can casually imply that the proper plural of "Spider-Man" is "Spiders-Men" and get absolutely zero pushback.

Nah I'll push back against that, you can't pluralise it twice. It's obviously Spiders-Man!

The fun thing about pluralising only "Spiders" is that it implies "Spider-Man" is a French style trailing-adjective construction, like "surgeons general", and hence that "spider" is the noun, and "man" the adjective.