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[–] double_oh_walter@feddit.nu 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Two dingi don’t make a right. Or something.

[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dingi.

Pronounced ding eye? Dingii? Ding gee eye?

My brain hurts now.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But thats just a single dinghy.

If you pluralize that its either dinghies or dingii?

Meh, my autistic brain gets stuck on weird stupid shit like this.

Its like... If you have a donut, then a second donut, you have two donuts.

You can say two donut to be cutesy i guess?

Very hard for me to tell when being cutesy is appropriate.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

If the root singular word is dingus, this makes sense.

If the root singular word is dinghy, as I guess I have always said, then it does not.

Well at least I partially understand my own confusion now, thanks!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Don't they cancel each other out?

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately they multiply instead of cancel

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

i times i is -1, though. Imagine that!

[–] darkecho@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

That's too complex for me.

[–] double_oh_walter@feddit.nu 3 points 11 months ago

Hmm. They might. Hadn’t thought of that.

This requires more research. You must buy one - for science! And, I guess, for “science “.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No, if you touch two dingii together you still have two dingii.

Two sexy, sexy dingii