that's right, we just had a 5+ minute conversation about the specificity levels of rectangles, squares, quadrilaterals, parallelograms, and rhombuses.
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You covered a lot of territory.
Yeah that sounds like an action packed five minutes.
anisoptera: we need video of this meeting so we can replace the audio track with us doing 6 million dollar man sound effects.
Rhombi?
If not, it should be
Shteevie
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that's one of those 'pretending Greek words are Latin' things. Or is it the other way around?
EvilCouch
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Rhombus is totally Greek in origin.
pluralization was covered as well, although likely not correctly.
Morskittar
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does Greek actually use "-us"?
Morskittar
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apparently both rhombi and rhombuses are considered correct. Greek would have been Romanized as "rhombos".
Morskittar
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I gather rhombi would be what Romans would say and rhombuses our modernized pseudo-Latin.
Morskittar
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kind of where it always ends up.
Morskittar
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so technically if we're rolling Greek it should be ῥόμβος
Morskittar
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English: no rules, only suggestions
rhombiiiiii
You have to destroy the brain.