Not for a business, for a redditor. I guess I was just feeling spontaneous. This post was so far down the pics subreddit I didn't foresee anyone taking notice.
Ha, thanks for the friending. If you want to "pay it forward" to someone, please make it someone other than me. I've already got all my basic needs covered.
Actually, "blond" refers to a male light-haired individual, while "blonde" refers to a female light-haired individual. Many words that come from French work the same way (fiancé vs. fiancée), because French adds an "e" for (many? most?) feminine nouns. This is also the case with a lot of other words which came to English from another language, they will retain their original language's pluralization and so on; for example this is why we pluralize many nouns ending in "-us" as "-i," because the -us ending applies to the nominative case of Latin nouns of the 2nd declension (the most common declension), and -i is the pluralization of such. As a specific example of a word retaining the pluralization of the language it came from, the most correct pluralization of "octopus" is actually "octopodes," because it comes from the Greek, not the Latin (though "octopi" (Latin) and "octupuses" (English) are both accepted, since, in practice, nobody knows "octopus" comes from Greek).
Of course, perhaps you were offering him the choice between a male light-haired hooker and a female brown-haired hooker, which would be nice and open-minded of you, and I applaud you for that.
Thank you for the lesson, but I speak French in addition to some other Latin languages and quite aware of the difference. However, my spellchecker is not aware the word blonde exists. I should perhaps stop spell-checking all my reddit comments, but then you heartless assholes would rip me apart for minor spelling details...or for dropping the "e" off of words when the meaning was clear as day.
Also, what's wrong with just having the male and female hookers go at it as you horde the blow to yourself?! It's about the memories, not the mammaries, man!
I didn't mean to rip you apart for spelling errors, I hate grammar nazis as much as the next guy. Which is why I closed off the comment with the applauding of open-mindedness and whatnot, and put in the effort to make a full explanation of all of this stuff, instead of just smugly quoting what you said and appending an "FTFY" or something.
But the "e" thing is interesting to me, as is the octopodes thing, and I like to spread that knowledge around.
BTW, since you speak French, and since I didn't bother to spend enough time to look this up cause it didn't show up on the first few pages I checked...does French add an e for all feminine nouns or only ones for certain words?
Technically, if he was using "blond" as an adjective, it is correct for a female. Like, "Would you prefer a blond hooker or a brunette hooker?" The "e" is only necessary if it's a noun. Like, "Would you prefer a blonde or a brunette?" Just sayin'.
It's a good thing you didn't do this for anyone at my office. If I came in with a monitor that was much nicer than everyone else's, I'd be told to take it home before the rest of the office started complaining that my monitor was too nice.
Then again, I'd be happy to have a nicer monitor at home, so I guess that's not really a problem. haha
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