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Yeah, you could keep usual moderators as the basis and ultimate arbiters, but it would be, at the very least, interesting to try your approach. E.g., anyone can check the mod queue and be randomly assigned to moderate a recently reported post, and to avoid abuse or mistakes it could require 2 or 3 people agreeing on how to resolve something.

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In the case of English, it's because of the knowledge of and prestige of Greek (and Latin). The higher more educated classes, who were traditionally taught classical languages, preferred to stick to the original declension, and they could spread this preference through grammars, dictionaries and schooling - but only to a certain degree. So it's a somewhat artificial phenomenon, and it tends to have only a limited spread outside of those who were taught Latin and Greek (so people do spontaneously say octopuses, and sometimes they try to make a classical plural that is nonetheless "wrong": octopi).

Similar stuff happens in some other European languages, I could list a few examples from my native Croatian where Latin grammar is supposed to be used, according to the wishes of some classical philologists, even when it clashes with all rules of native grammar (and, as expected, the latinate grammar is not used by anyone outside of a handful of academics).

At worst, such usage could be interpreted as social signalling of superiority (class + education). Obviously, nobody expects people to use "original purals" in cases such as gulag-gulagi, or wunderkind-wunderkinder, because Russian and German aren't all that sexy, even though German is much closer to English than Latin or Greek are.

But there are more natural cases of loaning inflectional morphemes, in communities with a very high degree of bilingualism. I'll admit I could only copy-paste some passages from books regarding this, I don't have much knowledge of languages outside of Slavic and English.

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.

You take the right one – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the left one – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes

foot -> feet is ablaut, changing the vowel in the root, also in break-broke, etc.

-i is a non-native plural suffix, e.g. cactus-cacti, octopus-octopi (from Latin), it's very unusual to loan these purely grammatical elements (morphemes)

Alternatively, labubu-labibi is a case of a changed transfix (singular: u_u, plural: i_i), or of vowel harmony. Either way, all very exotic for English standards :D

Wtf, they made a gay language??

Interesting, a combination of native Germanic ablaut and loaned inflection!

So... the impact will be gligible?

I've never heard of Hecataeus, he appears to be much less known than Ibn Batuta. And who "celebrates" these people, what does that even mean? Herodotus is studied because he provided some indispensable insight into a period with otherwise not a terrific amount of historical records, and writing the first book on history. The length of his travels (which were definitely much smaller than Ibn Batuta's) is hardly relevant to his notability. He's also from a completely different time period from Ibn Batuta.

As far as I see, he hasn't discovered and reported things that reshaped people's understanding of the world, or exploited and/or committed a genocide upon the people he came across, enriching himself and his country. So, he doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. 🤷‍♂️

Lemmy has been chock-full of these memes critical of the dems since the election. How much more of this "good start" is needed before people move on to the next step (whatever it might be)?