[Jeff Vader]

Mjolnir is a widely accepted form because the original one has been progressively phased out.

No doubt. I know Scandinavia is insignificant from an Italian point of view, but we still write it as "Mjöllnir".

That's weird since Mjöllnir is not an American English word. Why would the "non-Americans" complain in the first place?

Why would you apply your grammar to a word that has nothing to do with it? You should rather adapt.[/mobius]

You should adapt. Everyone else is OK with the varying plural forms of Sathanas. You're the only one who keeps weeping about it.

Conform or be butt-****ed.

[Mobius]

No doubt. I know Scandinavia is insignificant from an Italian point of view, but we still write it as "Mjöllnir".

What does Italy have to do with it?

Oh, and are you forgetting the fact that most western languages, especially English, have no "ö"? How do you expect people to use the original Scandinavian spelling?

You should adapt. Everyone else is OK with the varying plural forms of Sathanas. You're the only one who keeps weeping about it.

Conform or be butt-****ed.

You don't get the point.

FreeSpace's English is to reflect multiple Terran cultures and not only the modern British/American ones. What's fun in denying canon evidence? Any plural form would be a neologism.

Using "Sathanas Juggernauts" is ok, possibly the best option, but creating weird plural forms like "Sathani" and "Sathaneses" from nothing and then pretend them to be correct is a bad thing.

[Pred the Penguin]

I don't what the point of all this bickering is...
I was just trying to say that it would better of us to respect other languages instead of just dismissing.
But sometimes (actually most of the time) it's hard to send those feelings over the web.
Seeing as the original topic is already dead, I think we should drop this.
But if you want to continue then by all means start a new thread in General Discussion.

[Mobius]

I was just trying to say that it would better of us to respect other languages instead of just dismissing.

Let one of those languages be Greek, since it's much more complex than English.

Well, the subject has been discussed enough. Let's end the OT now.

[GTSVA]

The juggies were like a kajillion clicks awai lol.

[S-99]

Well i would apply my grammar to a word that has nothing to do with it because i speak english which means i will apply english grammar to words even if they aren't english words. It's just a given.

[Mobius]

Just don't pretend to adapt words like Sathanas to your needs. has circumvented the problem, I don't see why you shouldn't.

[Snail]

I can't wait for one of these:



To appear next to this thread's name.

[Droid803]

"Mjöllnir" is not used in FreeSpace because FS doesn't support the character "ö", I would presume, so just went with the anglicized version or something...

[Nuclear1]

"NOBODY EXPECTS THE GRAMMAR INQUISITION! Our chief weapon is...nevermind that, to business!

The plural of the Greek word Sathanas is Sathanes. Got that? Good. AWWWAAYYYY!"

"Well, that was different, but not surprising..."

[S-99]

NOBODY expects a speaker of a language to adopt a foreign language's pluralization system if they don't speak this foreign language and especially already has a system for plurals with their own language.

The plural of the Greek word Sathanas is Sathanes. Got that? Good. AWWWAAYYYY!"

The plural and the singular word sound exactly the same, or sathanes is pronounced sathanees?

[GTSVA]

So then...imagine 9 Sathanes dukin it out against each other! Cool. OR! Better still! Someone could renact the Battle of Deneb! (Out of topic I know) 

[S-99]

So it is pronounced sathanees then. That totally makes a group of them sound like pussies
It'd make a pilot think sathanees were panties.

[GTSVA]

lol

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Sathanases
Sathani
Sathanae

Which one was it again?

[blowfish]

Sathanas Juggernauts

[Droid803]

Saths

So much shorter.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Sathanas Juggernauts

How could I forget?

[Mongoose]

And another perfectly serviceable thread gets destroyed thanks to mindless nitpicking.  Well-played, folks.