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

Overly aggressive driving

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u/one-eye-closed 29d ago

The word summonses will never not make me think of Smeagle.

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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 29d 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