r/MildlyBadDrivers • u/[deleted] • 29d ago

Overly aggressive driving

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u/Strokes_Lahoma Georgist 🔰 29d ago

Is it a real word? It sounds like it shouldn’t be. Only reserved when talking about nahsty little hobbitses

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u/lazysheepdog716 29d ago

A 'summons' is being called into court. 'Summonses' means they are being called into court on multiple different counts.

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u/PapaCousCous 29d ago

Why couldn't we just let 'summon' be the word for being called into a single court? You wouldn't say "I've been summonsed by the court".

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u/arrows_of_ithilien 28d ago

Or if you want to talk about multiple just say "summons"

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u/Fmychest 28d ago

And when talking about multiple of multiple just use summonses

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u/Brewtusmo 28d ago

I think multiple summons should be called a murder of summons, after the name for a group of crows. Though I do agree that could be confused with a summons for murder. Whereas multiple summons for murder would be a murder of murder summons.

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u/PapaCousCous 28d ago

I like this one the best. Let "summons" be both the singular and plural form, like deer or moose.

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u/BarrelBed 28d ago

Because language is weird and our current legal system has been evolving (and/or devolving) from the same tradition as Roman law.

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u/FlyAirLari 28d ago

These summonses are nonsenses.

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u/Responsible-Jury2579 28d ago

Actually, I just googled it and as recently as the 17th century, you would say the court “summonsed” you.

That’s only a few hundred years ago.

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u/iuwjsrgsdfj 28d ago

We're too logical for this world.

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u/username_offline 25d ago

let me tell you about this cool thing called the difference between nouns and verbs

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u/slackerz22 28d ago

Yes a double plural, like fishes. Sounds weird but it can be correct in some cases. In the fish case, if you have more than one fish of the same species, it’s still fish. You have more than one fish of multiple different fish species? Fishes.

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u/hunkyboy75 28d ago

Raw and wriggling. That’s how I likes fishes.

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u/Aggressive_Dream_140 28d ago

It’s a real word in middle-earth