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Current mission on Indy:

 

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The singular is "hell scorpious".  I'm not sure what the plural of scorpious is, but I'm guessing it probably isn't "scorpiouss".  ?

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Would it be Scorpiodes (skor-pee-odes) or Scorpii (skor-pie)? ?

 

Need a linguist in here! 

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If derived from Latin, which the word essentially is, it would have to be Scorpii. 

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I may be wrong but my guess is the code has something like Kill _____ (number) ________s

So any subject that cannot be made plural by the simple addition of "s" will come out wrong

 

 

Sheeps

Bisons

Wolfs

Calfs

Deers

Octopuss

 

 

Maybe they have a code that catches words where you don't pluralize with an "S", but I would be surprised. 

Otherwise they need to rewrite something that looks for problem words and replaces them.


They probably consider a fix to be more trouble than the benefit it gives, since it might be a long long time until Scorpius pop up again as a mission target.

 

 

 

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